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Migration from Microsoft Exchange to Lotus Notes
ARMONK, N.Y., May 21 — IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced Gruppo Amadori, a wholesale distributor of quality food products in Italy, is rolling out Red Hat Enterprise Linux-based desktops running IBM email, word processing, spreadsheet and presentation software to select employees.
About 1,000 of the company’s 6,000 employees access PCs to help manage the production, processing, and delivery logistics of its poultry products for customers within Italy and internationally. In 2009, some of these employees will move to a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop client operating system and IBM Lotus Symphony, open standards-based word processing, spreadsheets, and presentations.
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Experiences heightened flexibility, stability, cost savings and ease of management with Red Hat solutions
RALEIGH, NC – 3 December 2008 – Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Scania, the leading Swedish manufacturer of heavy trucks and buses, has expanded its use of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform with integrated server and storage virtualisation capabilities. The company utilises the Red Hat Enterprise Linux platform for its critical systems, including specific infrastructure services, databases, applications and high-performance computing (HPC) servers to leverage the solution’s compelling benefits, including cost savings, stability, flexibility and ease of management.
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Company: KSH Holdings
Industry: Construction
Geography: Singapore
Challenge: Needed a reliable, scalable, and cost-effective solution to monitor project budgets and ensure timely data reports for use by the KSH Holdings management team
Migration Path: Paper-based reporting system to a Progress Claims System (PCS) running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, PHP, and Apache
Hardware: Dell 2850 with 2 GB RAM and 1 x Processor
Benefits: Developed a scalable Progress Claims System (PCS) that offered access to real-time financial data, reduced manual input errors, and enabled expedited reimbursement processes for subcontractors
“We handle a lot of data input on a daily basis and require something stable and capable of handling the load. That’s why we chose Red Hat.”
-Tony Tang, Chief Financial Officer of KSH Holdings.
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Industry: Semiconducting
Geography: Worldwide
Opportunity: Replace aging, deficient UNIX-based system with a Linux solution that could deliver reduced costs, expanded flexibility, and heightened stability
Migration Path: RISC-based UNIX servers to Red Hat Enterprise Linux on Dell x86 servers
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Network
Hardware: Dell x86 servers
Benefits: Reduced costs by 60 percent, enabled the sharing of data through flexible support of Network File System (NFS) protocols, gained flexibility in vendor selection, and increased work efficiency by more than four times
“We were also very satisfied with the choices that we were presented with once we deployed Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Before, if we wanted to use an alternative operating system, we were locked in with a specific vendor. Now, we’re able to select vendors based on quality and stability and not brand.” – Seok-Ho Choi, Researcher at Fairchild Semiconductor.
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Industry: Food Manufacturing
Geography: Italy
Opportunity: Ensure the fast processing of customer orders by reducing system response times and maintaining consistent performance levels, even during peak periods
Solution:
Benefits: Maintain response times calculating to under one second, efficiently manage various databases with over 24 gigabytes of data and simplify communication among operating systems through use of XML within the mainframe
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Industry: Mining
Geography: Mexico
Challenge: Minimize operating costs and overhead without sacrificing data security or system reliability
Solution: Platform: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Hardware: Intel-based servers from HP and IBM
Applications: Sybase and other infrastructure functions
Benefits: Cost savings in excess of 70% per server and a 4x performance increase after migrating from legacy UNIX to Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
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Industry: Automotive Manufacturing
Challenge: To reconfigure and consolidate Renault’s UK micro-site hosting requirements
Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Web Hosting Implementation: Rackspace
Benefits: Consolidated all UK micro-sites on a single platform. Reduced on-going costs. Guaranteed improved customer experience. Enhanced scalability, and increased control.
Industry: Food manufacturing
Geography: Netherlands, Germany, Italy, France
Challenge: To replace an outdated custom-built system with a standard Intel-based IT environment using proprietary software. Providing all functionality required for the highly specialized animal feeds market.
Solution: First European implementation of Oracle® EnterpriseOne on Red Hat® Enterprise Linux®.
Platform: Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS
Hardware: HP® DL380 and DL580 multi-way Intel® Xeon-based servers
Benefits: Simplified management of a standards-based solution. Migration to a single integrated ERP system for all European branches. Ended dependency on IT staff.
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Industry: Manufacturing
Challenges: Use technology to reduce manufacturing costs. Integrate ERP with legacy infrastructure. Eliminate server compromises. Seamlessly migrate key legacy components to the latest platform
Solution: Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Oracle E business suite & Red Hat Cluster Suite
Benefits: ERP project completed in a record time of under six months. Complete freedom to add multiple applications to infrastructure. Enterprise Linux & Red Hat Cluster Suite deliver continuous uptime with zero maintenance issues.
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Industry: Manufacturing
Challenge: Converting a closely interwoven and complex distribution model into a unified solution to automate the sales &
distribution backbone.
Solution: Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Oracle E-Business Suite 11i.5.9
Benefits: Simplified management and complete freedom to scale up using low cost commodity hardware. Significant TCO reduction by saving on unnecessary licensing fees. Installing security patches and conducting routine server hardening checks reduced to a bare minimum.
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