Success stories: 'Red Hat Innovation Awards' category

Optimized Systems

Winner: Infoplex

Submitted by: Sean Kaye

Vertical: Information Technology

Geography: Australia

Website: www.infoplex.com.au

Company Background

Infoplex is one of Australia’s fastest growing and most dynamic IT managed service providers. Based in St. Leonards, Australia, it specializes in delivering an innovative and diversified range of services to both private and public sector clients. Offerings include on-demand storage, disaster recovery, and collocation services as well as software as a service (SaaS). Currently, the Infoplex Group has 55 employees in the firm’s three functional divisions: Infoplex Managed Services, Infoplex Procurement Services, and ThinkSecure Security Consulting. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of Leighton Holdings Limited, the publicly listed parent company of Australia’s largest project development and contracting group.

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Superior Alternatives

Winner: Booz Allen Hamilton

Submitted by: Christopher Dale

Vertical: Government

Geography: US

Website: www.boozallen.com

Booz Allen Hamilton, a strategy and technology consulting firm with more than 18,000 employees serving government clients from more than 80 offices and has been recognized by major publications as a best place to work. Integrating the full range of consulting capabilities, Booz Allen is the one firm that helps government clients solve their toughest problems with services in strategy, operations, organization and change, and information technology. Booz Allen is committed to delivering results that endure. » Read more

2008 Red Hat Innovator of the Year

Creative Use Winner: IBM and Raytheon
Submitted by: Keith Bright

Vertical: Information Technology and Government

Geography: US

Websites: www.ibm.com, www.raytheon.com

Company Background

Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN), with 2007 sales of $21.3 billion, is an industry leader in defense and government electronics, space, information technology, technical services, and business and special mission aircraft. With headquarters in Waltham, Mass., Raytheon employs 72,000 people worldwide. Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems (IDS), a wholly owned subsidiary of Raytheon, is a leader in joint battlespace integration. It serves as the prime mission systems integrator for all electronic and combat systems for the DDG 1000 Zumwalt Class Destroyer program.

IBM is the world’s largest information technology services and consulting services organization, with 2007 revenue of $98.7 billion. As a business, IBM delivers innovation that matters for its clients. As a global enterprise, it values innovation that matters for itself and for the world, addressing some of society’s most complex problems with game-changing business and technology innovation. IBM’s collaboration with Raytheon is one example of its innovative approach to addressing challenges facing government and commercial organizations alike. » Read more

Enhanced Security Winner: Likewise Software

Submitted by: Rosie Hausler

Vertical: Information Technology

Geography: US

Website: www.likewisesoftware.com

Company Background

Likewise Software is a privately-held company that provides audit and authentication solutions designed to improve security, reduce operational costs, and help demonstrate regulatory compliance for enterprises with mixed network environments. Its product, Likewise Open, which has been certified by the company to run on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, is an open-source enterprise-class solution that addresses the authentication needs of organizations with heterogeneous network infrastructures, by easily and quickly joining virtually all enterprise platforms to common directories such as Microsoft Active Directory. Likewise Open is a great starting point for companies that are grappling with homegrown solutions to solve their authentication challenges. Likewise’s premier offering, Likewise Enterprise, which has been certified to run on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, provides enterprises with significant added value by addressing the authentication, audit, and reporting needs of companies running multiple operating systems in their networks. By providing an easy upgrade path for customers that have installed Likewise Open, Likewise Enterprise allows enterprises to use group policies to manage their mixed environments as well as their audit capabilities. Located in Bellevue, Washington, Likewise currently has 50 employees. » Read more

Delivered Value Winner: Nortel

Submitted by: Ernest Szeideman

Vertical: Telecommunications

Geography: International

Website: www.nortel.com

Company Background

By linking hundreds of millions of users the world over, Nortel is a recognized leader in delivering the communications capabilities that make its promise of “business made simple” a reality. Based in Toronto, Nortel provides enterprises and service providers in more than 150 countries with the next-generation technologies they need to support their multimedia and business-critical network applications. Nortel technologies help eliminate barriers to efficiency, speed, and performance by simplifying networks and connecting people to their information-whenever and wherever they need it. » Read more

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: Emerging and Leading Edge Technologies
Submitted by: John Brzozowski, Architect and Principle Engineer
Vertical: Broadband services
Location: Philadelphia, PA
Website: http://www.comcast.com

Overview

Selected for ther use of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 virtualization capabilities to create a cost-effective, highly efficient testing and certification environment to support the corporate IPv6 initiative.
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Submitted by: Michael Simpson, CTO
Industry: Healthcare
Geography: Louisville, CO
Website: http://www.mckesson.com

Overview

Selected for being the first company to employ the Red Hat Enterprise Healthcare Platform to integrate its varied healthcare software applications on one unified platform, saving approximately one million dollars in combined software and hardware costs and allowing the company to provide a more robust and enterprise-ready solution for patient care.
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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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Category: Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
Submitted by: Sanjay Sen, Senior Director, Digital Properties; Aled Davies, Architect; Brian Compton, Architect
Industry: Entertainment
Geography: New York, NY
Website: http://www.wmg.com

Overview

Selected for implementing JEMS to create a customer asset management system with a Service-Oriented Architecture that enables efficient website data management and maximum scalability across WMG’s rapidly growing extended enterprise.
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Category: Joint Red Hat / JBoss Deployment

Winner: DST Health Solutions

Submitted by: Gary Krasovic

Industry: Health Information Systems

Geography: Birmingham, Alabama

Overview

Selected for their use of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JEMS to build a consumer-directed healthcare solution that was first-to-market, yielding immediate customer traction, increased market visibility, thus reflective of corporate leadership and success.
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