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Company: Victoria University of Wellington
Industry: Higher Education
Geography New Zealand
Business Challenge: Replacing an end-of-life proprietary system with a stable and reliable platform that would facilitate lower-cost hardware and ongoing savings on platform maintenance
Migration Path: From Sun Solaris SPARC to Red Hat Enterprise Linux on Intel Xeon Processor-based Dell servers
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Banner (student administration application by Sungard Higher Education)
Hardware: 4 x Dell 2850 servers with Intel Xeon processors
Benefits: Reduced annual maintenance fees, realized cost savings of 75 percent related to hardware, increased application performance, improved security, stability, and reliability
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Company: CME Group
Industry: Financial Exchange
Geography: Global
Business Challenge: To migrate from a cost-inhibitive proprietary UNIX platform to a Linux alternative in order to reduce costs and increase performance, reliability, scalability, and agility of the systems on which its critical trading platforms handle billions of derivatives trades per year, worth more than a quadrillion in notional value
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, Red Hat Technical Account Manager (TAM), Red Hat Training
Hardware: 4,000 x86 quad-core servers
Migration Path: Sun Solaris on SPARC servers to Red Hat Enterprise Linux on x86-based servers
Benefits: Achieved reduced latency, expanded flexibility, heightened performance, ease of migration and management, and increased scalability while providing cost savings for the systems responsible for processing CME Group’s millions of daily transactions
“Our technology partnership with Red Hat is key to us staying competitive in the market. We look to Red Hat for technology leadership through updates and support that help us to improve our tuning so that we can give our customers the best possible experience.”
–Joe Panfil, managing director of Enterprise Technology Services at CME Group.
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Company: National City Corporation
Industry: Financial services
Geography: North America
Business Challenge: Reengineering the datacenter infrastructure with a cost-effective and scalable platform that provided mission-critical reliability and superior performance to accommodate fast-paced business expansion
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, Oracle DB
Hardware: 600 Intel Xeon Processor-based x86-based physical and virtual HP ProLiant DL580 servers
Migration Path: From UNIX systems, including Sun Solaris, running on proprietary RISC machines to Red Hat Enterprise Linux running on Intel Xeon Processor-based HP ProLiant servers
Benefits: Reduced IT operating costs down to two cents per transaction which has the potential to save millions over the life of the systems, provided the ability to scale for business growth, and reegineered datacenter without unscheduled business interruptions
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“In addition to its ability to scale, Red Hat Enterprise Linux has rock-solid reliability and has been extremely stable. Our decision to standardize on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux infrastructure was key to enabling rapid business growth while maintaining customer service levels.” – Thomas McGinnis, platform engineer, PNC (formerly National City Corporation)
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Customer: Healthplan Services (HPS)
Geography: North America
Industry: Healthcare
Migration Path: Sun Solaris 9 to Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform; Sun SPARC servers to virtualized Linux instances on HP ProLiant DL380 servers
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform with built-in Red Hat Cluster Suite and Red Hat Global File System (GFS), Red Hat Network, Apache webserver, MySQL databases, IBM DB2
Hardware: HP ProLiant DL380 servers
Benefits: Increased performance, usability and convenience; enhanced support, and reduced cost with a Solaris to Red Hat Enterprise Linux migration on HP ProLiant servers
“The speed is going to increase: we’ll see people working faster, and we’ll be able to process more claims, all by switching an operating system. I can’t believe it was that cut and dry.”
– Adam Atkinson, UNIX administrator at Healthplan Services
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Oil and Gas Leader Reduced Costs and Increased Performance with Red Hat Enterprise Linux with Integrated Virtualization on Intel® Xeon® processor-based Servers
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Company: YPF SA
Industry: Oil and Gas
Geography: Argentina
Business Challenge: Renovate proprietary infrastructure with the goal of reducing costs and boosting performance with open source solutions
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 with integrated virtualization, Red Hat Network, SAP Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), 10g DB, Red Hat Consulting
Hardware: Intel Xeon Processor-based IBM System x 346, 366, 3650, 3850 servers
Migration Path: From SUN Solaris, HP-UX, and IBM AIX to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 with virtualization on Intel Xeon Processor-based IBM System x servers
Benefits: Reduced capital and operational costs, boosted performance and efficiency of administrators, increased internal customer satisfaction by reducing implementation time, increased scalability and agility, and expanded flexibility
“Now, more than 80 percent of our Oracle databases and 90 percent of our SAP applications run on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 with integrated virtualization on Intel Xeon Processor-based servers and is the choice for our SAP and Oracle implementations.”
–Adriana Marisa Vázquez, responsible for the UNIX administration group at YPF.
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Customer: Aviza Technology
Industry: Electronics
Deployment Country: United States
Solution: Enterprise Resource Planning
Business Partner: IBM
Migration Path: Sun Solaris to Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Sun SPARC to IBM System x
Business Need: When end-of-life issues on the company’s existing Sun hardware began impacting the availability of Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS), Aviza sought a cost-effective systems solution from IBM.
Solution: Aviza implemented a two-tier Oracle configuration, with Oracle EBS v11.5.10 on one IBM System x3850 4-socket server and Oracle Database 10g on one IBM System x3950 16-socket server—both running Red Hat Enterprise Linux. IBM System Storage N5200 provides 2.4 TB of data storage. The development environment has six test instances running on five x3850 servers, with a second N5200 providing 7.2 TB of data storage.
Benefits: Aviza Technology achieved a multifold increase in solution performance, enabled new levels of systems scalability and flexibility across the company’s global IT infrastructure, and better positioned the company to meet unforeseen IT system challenges.
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Company: Educational Testing Service (ETS)
Industry: Education
Geography: International
Business Challenge: Roll out new, competitively priced educational products and services more swiftly while cutting costs. Build applications upon a base of infrastructure software technology that will position ETS for evolution into cloud models.
Migration Path: Vertically scalable platform to commodity software and hardware platform and proprietary application server technology to Open source technology
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, JBoss Enterprise Web Platform, JBoss Developer Studio, Red Hat Consulting
Hardware: Intel x86 systems
Benefits: Reduce costs and boost competitiveness by moving to a stable, secure x86-based platform for developing and delivering new assessment products to market more quickly.
With Red Hat products, ETS achieves the following benefits (metrics are based on the current server-hardware and OS support service cost at ETS:
“We performed extensive in-house performance testing, talked to industry analysts and considered all other aspects of the operating system and application server, including the quality of support, market share and the software and hardware ecosystem. Once we took all these things into consideration, Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JBoss from Red Hat with support subscription were the obvious choice at that time.”
– Harikumar Rajappan, enterprise IT architect for applications at ETS
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Company: Wall Street Systems
Industry: Financial Services – Software
Geography: Global
Business Challenge: Create new revenue streams by responding to customer demands for treasury and financial management software available as a service 24/7. Cut costs and improve reliability and scalability of internal systems. Ensure market competitiveness by reducing the infrastructure investment required by customers.
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Advanced Platform with integrated virtualization, WebSphere, WebLogic, Apache Tomcat, Oracle DB
Hardware: Intel® Xeon® based x86 servers
Migration-Path: Solaris on SPARC Servers to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Advanced Platform with integrated virtualization on Intel Xeon based servers
Benefits: Created new revenue opportunities and maintained its industry leadership position; Cut costs and boosted operational efficiencies and system reliability
“Our clients see that Red Hat Enterprise Linux is reliable. They are completely comfortable knowing that they can run their largest, most critical systems on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and that they’ll get enterprise-class support.”
– Mark Tirschwell, chief technology officer, Wall Street Systems
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Partner: Tapasol Solutions
Customer: ServusNet Informatics
Industry: Technology
Geography: Cork, Ireland
Business Challenge: Simplify the deployment of ServusNet Informatics’ Red Hat Enterprise Linux-based Process Driven Operations & Maintenance solution at remote customer sites using Tapasol’s provisioning engine based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Migration Path: Solaris to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 with integrated virtualization on Dell x86 servers
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 with built-in virtualization, JBoss Application Server, Liferay Portal, Oracle DB
Hardware: Dell x86 servers
Benefits: Increased deployment speed of ServusNet Informatics’ Process Driven Operations & Maintenance solution; reduced costs of implementing virtualization technology; continuing enhancement to the productivity of developers working on leading-edge Red Hat Enterprise Linux-based software products
“Red Hat Enterprise Linux with integrated virtualization capabilities was easy and more cost-effective to implement than other solutions on the market. We reduced the effort it took to provision a server by 92 percent. As the engine underlying both our and Tapasol’s solutions, Red Hat Enterprise Linux is making a significant contribution to our ability to offer a competitive product.””
-Sean Condon, Director of Product Development, ServusNet Informatics
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Industry: Technology
Geography: Headquartered in Seoul, Korea
Challenge: Replace former centralized system with a flexible and affordable solution that enables the ability to scale with website traffic spikes
Migration Path: Sun servers and EMC storage to Red Hat Enterprise Linux on Dell PowerEdge servers
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Oracle databases
Hardware: Dell PowerEdge servers
Benefits: Experienced reduced costs, enhanced performance, and greatly expanded scalability that enables easy deployment of additional servers to handle heightened website capacity
“We’ve really benefited from our new Linux-based system – the solution is less expensive, but displays the same high levels of performance. We have added more effort around IT management, but we’re also able to provide more quality services to our users with the enhanced speed and scalability that we now have access to.” — Pyon Dae-bum, Deputy Manager at Chosun.com
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Airport migrates servers and desktops to Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Cluster Suite and Red Hat Network
Raleigh, NC – August 6, 2008 – Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Munich Airport, recognized for three consecutive years as Europe’s “Airport of the Year” by air transport research company Skytrax, has migrated a large portion of its UNIX servers and desktops to Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The Airport has since realized heightened performance, cost savings and reliable support.
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Sector: Public Administration
Geographic location: Spain
Opportunity: Replace mixed proprietary IT environment to simplify management and improve system performance and availability
Migration Path: Sun Solaris and IBM z/OS to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 virtualization, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, Tomcat
Hardware: HP, Dell, and Fujitsu Siemens servers
Benefits: Achieved simplified system management and improved system availability, performance, reliability, stability, and platform flexibility
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Apoteket migrates its existing server platform, in-house developed ERP-system ATS, from SPARC-based Solaris servers to new Intel hardware running Red Hat Enterprise Linux to reduce cost of ownership/TCO
Raleigh, NC — September 18, 2007 — Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Apoteket (The Swedish State Pharmacy), Sweden’s largest state-owned pharmacy chain, has chosen to replace all of its servers at approximately 900 pharmacies with Red Hat Enterprise Linux running on Intel hardware. » Read more
Swedish pharmaceutical association experiences cost savings and increased performance for medicines portal
Raleigh, NC — September 5, 2007 — Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that FASS.se, the main medicines portal run by the Swedish Association of the Pharmaceutical Industry, LIF, has migrated its servers from Sun Solaris to Red Hat Enterprise Linux. With Red Hat solutions, FASS.se is experiencing approximately 40 percent cost savings and has seen its new operational environment double functions on all levels. » Read more
Migrating business-critical store applications to Red Hat solutions means simplified maintenance and freedom from vendor lock-in
Raleigh, NC – June 18, 2007 – Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Specsavers, the UK’s most trusted optician, is migrating all of its servers, desktops and tills from Microsoft Windows 2000 to Red Hat Enterprise Linux in its 830 stores in the UK, Republic of Ireland, the Netherlands, Scandinavia and Spain. Specsavers selected Red Hat solutions for its Linux open standard strategy because they enabled the company to standardize applications on a Java platform without vendor lock-in. Since migrating to Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Specsavers has experienced a stable and future-proof platform, in addition to enjoying a reduced need for maintenance and increased reliability. » Read more
Industry: Financial Trading
Geography: Global
Challenge: To integrate varied trading platforms to produce a high-speed, low-cost platform that offers the reliability and flexibility necessary to produce the rapid performance results demanded by the expanding financial trading industry
Migration Path: HP UX, IBM AIX, and SUN Solaris to Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Network
Hardware: 200 HP ProLiant DL585 four-processor servers, 400 ProLiant BL 685c blades, AMD dual-core Opteron processors
Benefits: Implemented a reliable, secure, and cost-effective solution that provided flexibility, freedom from vendor lock-in, and the ability to handle heavy workloads while producing fast-paced performance results
“Red Hat is extremely strategic and without it, most of our computers wouldn’t be running,” said Steve Rubinow, Chief Information Officer at NYSE Euronext.
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Industry: e-commerce
Geography: Seattle, Washington
Website:: www.go2marine.com
Opportunity: Determine a reliable, high-performing, and affordable platform on which to base its e-commerce website
Migration Path: Sun Solaris to Red Hat Linux 7 to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Network
Hardware: Dell 1950 servers, Web/application servers quad core single CPU, Database servers dual core single CPU
Benefits: Realized reliability, high performance, cost savings, ease of installation and configuration, and enhanced security.
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Category: Innovation in Government
Submitted by: Douglas Babb
Vertical: Government
Geography: Hill Air Force Base, UT
Website: http://www.hill.af.mil
Overview
Selected for use of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 to greatly reduce or eliminate system crashes, simplify a complicated operating environment and have minimal user disruption.
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Category: Increased Return on Investment
Submitted by: Andrea Zissler: Director, Information Technology
Industry: Education and Information Technology
Geography: Ann Arbor, MI
Website: http://www.proquest.com
Overview
An innovative approach to drive out cost and achieve measurable ROI as a result of implementing a Red Hat solution. Results could include financial return or percentage increase in productivity, yield, efficiency, quality, or uptime performance.
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Industry: Digital advertising
Challenge: DoubleClick faced the challenge of developing an infrastructure that is reliable, cost-effective, and most importantly, flexible, in providing choice with hardware vendors in order to avoid vendor lock-in.
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS, Red Hat Network, Acronis True Image Server for Linux, Solaris, Windows, Red Hat Global Learning Services – Red Hat Certified Engineer training
Hardware: AMD, Intel, HP
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Industry: Telecommunications
Challenge: Increase performance and reliability of billing system to ensure timely payments from growing customer base.
Solution: Platform: Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS
Software: Oracle Database
Hardware: HP
Benefits: Increased processing speed by 400% over legacy Sun Solaris environment. Cut costs by nearly 50%. Met TransACT’s ‘zero fault tolerance’ policy.
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Industry: Financial Services
Geography: Italy
Challenge: Cut costs and grow revenue. Create a cohesive IT infrastructure following massive merger.
Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Desktop
Benefits: Escape from vendor lock-in. Lower costs with high reliability and performance. Simplified systems management.
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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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Industry: State and Local Government
Solution: Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Applications: Oracle9i Database, Legato backup solutions, HP MSL Tape Library
Hardware: HP DL580 G2
Benefits: Up to 3x performance improvement, lower server procurement and maintenance costs, increased hardware options
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