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HP Customer Success Story:
Company: FarmaLink
Industry: Healthcare: Prescription Drug Administrator
At a Glance: Datacenter transformation using HP Integrity server blades and Red Hat Enterprise Linux for databases; evaluation, prescription administration and analysis system
Objective: Establish a flexible, adaptable infrastructure that can continue operating while handling the exponential growth in the volume of information administered and accommodating the most dynamic business conditions. Maintain system availability in real time during all types of working situations. Increase redundancy and business continuity.
Solution: The core architecture of the Farmalink system is made up of mission-critical HP Integrity server blades with Intel processors running Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux platform connected to an HP StorageWorks 4000 Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA4000).
Hardware: 4 HP Integrity BL860c server blades, HP BladeSystem c7000 Enclosure, HP StorageWorks 4000 Enterprise Virtual Array, 3 HP ProLiant server blades
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC), Oracle 10g Database
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“HP Integrity BL860c server blades with Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Oracle allow us to offer highly reliable services in real time.”
− Pablo Giraud, Systems Manager, Farmalink
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Company: ITI Neovision
Industry: Broadcast media
Geography: EMEA, Poland
Business Partner: Atom-Tech, Red Hat Advanced Business Partner in Poland recommended Red Hat Enterprise Linux as the solution
Business Challenge: ITI Neovision looked to replace its enterprise platform solution, with a virtualized environment that could be supported by local teams.
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform with integrated virtualization and Red Hat Cluster Suite
Hardware: HP BladeSystem BL460c
Migration Path: Gentoo Linux to Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Benefits: ITI Neovision has deployed a stable, reliable and officially supported platform which ensures availability of the company’s broadcast services. Red Hat Enterprise Linux with virtualization has significantly improved hardware management in terms of full utilization of available servers. Red Hat virtualization can easily scale to accommodate the demand for new servers. The company has also achieved significant cost savings and obtained all the required components in one solution.
“With Red Hat we obtained everything we needed – operating system, virtualization, firewall etc. – in one package whereas with proprietary vendors we would have to buy everything separately. We have achieved significant cost savings by selecting the Red Hat solution.”
- Maciej Hajduk, IT Infrastructure Manager, ITI Neovision.
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2009 RED HAT INNOVATION AWARD WINNER: MANAGEMENT EXCELLENCE AND INNOVATOR OF THE YEAR
COMPANY: Whole Foods Market
CATEGORY: Management Excellence
INDUSTRY: Consumer
GEOGRAPHY: North America
BUSINESS CHALLENGE: Needed a cost-effective operating platform and complementary management solution that would scale with the company’s growth while increasing the security, manageability, and availability of business-critical applications
SOFTWARE: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Cluster Suite, Red Hat Global File System (GFS), Red Hat Satellite, Red Hat Consulting
HARDWARE: 75 HP x86 servers, 16 virtual servers
BENEFITS: Obtained an easy-to-use and reliable systems management solution that enabled increased productivity and reduced costs by increasing system administrator efficiency; Experienced increased performance and internal-user satisfaction of homegrown applications, including order processing applications.
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COMPANY: Union Bank, N.A.
CATEGORY: Superior Alternatives
INDUSTRY: Financial Services
GEOGRAPHY: Headquarters: San Francisco, CA
BUSINESS CHALLENGE: An aging and costly IT infrastructure was impeding the ability of Union Bank to scale to growth and respond agilely to changing market dynamics
MIGRATION PATH: UNIX™ on high-end RISC machines to Red Hat Enterprise Linux running on Intel Xeon based HP servers; Websphere to JBoss Enterprise Application Platform.
SOFTWARE: Red Hat Enterprise Linux™, Red Hat Network Satellite, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform™, JBoss Seam, JBoss Hibernate, Red Hat Consulting
HARDWARE: More than 150 Intel™ Xeon™ processor-based HP ProLiant servers
BENEFITS: Improve reliability and scalability, cut costs, and deliver new financial services and products to market faster
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COMPANY: Verizon Communications Inc.
INNOVATION AWARD CATEGORY: Optimized Systems
INDUSTRY: Telecom; Broadband, Wireless, Wireline
GEOGRAPHY: North America
BUSINESS CHALLENGE: Needed a reliable and cost effective solution for its SAP and PeopleSoft Enterprise Resource Planning applications that would scale with its growing computing infrastructure
MIGRATION PATH: UNIX-based SMP platform to Red Hat Enterprise Linux
SOFTWARE: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform, Red Hat Network Satellite, SAP, PeopleSoft, Oracle RAC
HARDWARE: 300 Dell and HP servers
BENEFITS: Reduced costs, improved performance, increased ability to scale and prepared for future growth, increased energy conservation efforts
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Australian Insurance Company Saves $500,000 by Migrating from Windows and WebSphere to Red Hat Platform and JBoss Middleware Solutions, Gains Increased Flexibility, Scalability and Freedom
COMPANY:Allianz Australia Insurance Limited (Allianz)
CATEGORY: Carved Out Costs
INDUSTRY: Insurance
GEOGRAPHY: Australia
BUSINESS CHALLENGE: Rebuild Allianz’s IT infrastructure based on a flexible and scalable platform that could leverage new virtualisation technology to generate hardware and support savings, and reduce its underlying software and operations costs for several strategic business application projects
MIGRATION PATH: Windows and Intel-based infrastructure to Red Hat Enterprise Linux on IBM System z10 mainframe and from Websphere to JBoss Enterprise Middleware on Intel processor based HP ProLiant servers.
SOFTWARE: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Network Satellite, JBoss Enterprise Middleware, JBoss Operations Network, Red Hat Consulting
HARDWARE: IBM System z10 mainframe, HP ProLiant servers
BENEFITS: Significant reduction in middleware software and support costs, reallocation of IT budget from software licensing to staff and resources, resolution of data centre power limitations with new capacity for growth, superior workload management and operational efficiency, reduced carbon footprint, increased flexibility, scalability, and freedom from vendor lock-in
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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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Company: ANSYS Japn K.K.
Industry: Software: CAE
Business Challenge:Provide support for complex analytical simulations: address customer requirements for more advanced CAE technologies, investigate emerging processor technologies, increase productivity
Solution: Deployed the HP ProLiant DL785 G5 server running Red Hat Enterprise Linux and selected AMD Opteron™ processors, which are scalable up to 8-processors/32-cores and widely employed in the CAE
Hardware: HP ProLiant DL785 G5, 8-processor, 32-core, Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ processors, 256GB DRR2 memory
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, ANSYS, Fluent and other CAE software solutions from ANSYS, Inc.
Benefits: The server runs continuously and stably under high loads. Found a highly manageable way of leveraging the power of the new server, like a cluster in a single box. Achieved a significant reduction in power consumption, making it possible to add additional servers. Provides customers with simulation results more rapidly, addresses customer challenges more flexibly, contributes to higher IT ROI
Overview: US-based ANSYS Inc. has taken a global leadership role in the field of CAE software, an integral and indispensable part of many manufacturing processes. ANSYS Japan K.K., the Japanese arm of ANSYS Inc., has deployed the HP ProLiant DL785 G5 server running Red Hat Enterprise Linux to keep pace with customer demand for complex engineering simulations. The company appreciates the benefits of the HP ProLiant DL785 G5 server with Red Hat Enterprise Linux, including its stability under high loads and significantly reduced power consumption.
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Industry: Construction & Engineering
Geography: Headquarters and global operations is based in the Principality of Liechtenstein
Business Challenge: To migrate all SAP® business-critical applications from a
discontinued legacy UNIX environment to a scalable and reliable platform and to eliminate vendor
lock-in
Migration Path: HP Tru64 UNIX on Alpha Servers to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 on x86_64
commodity based hardware
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, Red Hat Cluster Suite, Red Hat Global File System
(GFS), ATIX Open-Sharedroot Extension, SAP applications including SAP Business Suite, SAP ERP and SAP Customer Relationship Management (SAP CRM), and the SAP NetWeaver® technology platform
Hardware: 185 HP ProLiant servers, the largest machines have 32 CPUs with 128GB RAM
Benefits: Eliminated vendor lock-in; achieved an estimated 50 percent overall cost reduction; increased performance by more than 100 percent; provided ease of management and reliable uptime; reduced electricity costs and carbon footprint; and provided the company with a long-term platform strategy that will help retain expert knowledge and enable the team to be highly responsive to the increasing requirements of a global manufacturing, sales and service organization
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“We migrated to SAP applications on Red Hat Enterprise Linux on HP ProLiant servers after evaluation and testing. Since migrating, we have have experienced increased performance of more than 100 percent. We also reduced IT costs with a commoditized architecture. Having a tight level of integration between Red Hat and SAP support organizations gives us the confidence to continue along this path and further reduce our costs by migrating all of our SAP environment to Red Hat Enterprise Linux.”
– Martin Petry, CIO at Hilti
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Industry: Manufacturing
Geography: Republic of Korea
Challenge: Migrate to a flexible platform to achieve cost savings for server consolidation in the data center project
Migration: UNIX to Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Oracle Database
Hardware: IBM xSeries, HP BladeSystem
Benefits: Reduce server operating costs; achieve reliable and flexible system operation
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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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Industry: Education
Geography: United Kingdom
Business Challenge: To launch an extranet service that would be available to its external users of more than 35,000 examiners and moderators
Migration path: Proprietary, closed solution to a more cost-effective and flexible platform based on JBoss Enterprise Application platform
Solution:
Hardware – HP ProLiant Servers
Software – JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Alfresco ECM, Enterprise DB
Benefits: Reduced total cost of ownership (TCO), including cost and efficiency savings of £250,000 per year, and freedom from vendor lock-in
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Company: SPH Search
Industry: Information technology
Geography: Singapore
Business Challenge: SPH Search needed a reliable and secure solution to drive its new search engine services, Rednano,sg
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, Red Hat Cluster Suite, Red Hat Global File System (GFS), Red Hat Network (RHN) Satellite
Hardware: HP Intel Xeon-based servers
Benefits: Established a robust, reliable, and secure search engine with the confidence of enterprise-level support
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Customer: University of Sydney
Industry: Education
Business Challenges: Quickly and cost-effectively develop a high-availability platform to support a web-based file repository, enabling the University to comply with new Government regulations
Migration Path: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 and 4 to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Advanced Platform
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Advanced Platform with integrated virtualization, Red Hat Cluster Suite, Red Hat Network (RHN) Satellite, Red Hat Consulting, DSpace (web-based file repository)
Hardware: 2 x HP ProLiant DL380 G5 servers, 2 x Dual Core CPUs, HP EVA SANs
Benefits: Achieved quick deployment, cost savings, high availability, reliability, and scalability
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Industry: Education
Geography: Singapore
Opportunity: To implement a cutting-edge, reliable, and affordable solution that scales with growing business needs, and to leverage virtualization technology to reduce hardware footprint and increase operational flexibility.
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2 with integrated virtualization, Red Hat Network
Hardware: HP Proliant G5 servers
Services: Red Hat Consulting
Benefits:
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“We trust Red Hat virtualization because it delivers immediate, real benefits to U21Global. With Red Hat Enterprise Linux we met our goals for a high-performance virtualization implementation that is stable, reliable, scalable, and secure,” said Caven Yip, systems engineer at U21Global.
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Industry: Government, tax collection
Geography: Ecuador
Challenge: To develop a technology solution on a stable, secure, and affordable platform for an Internet-based tax return project.
Migration Path: From proprietary software to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, and from JBoss Application Server 2.4 to JBoss Enterprise Application Platform.
Software: Red Hat Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform.
Hardware: HP blades with dual-core AMD processors and quad-core Intel processors on a 64-bit architecture
Benefits: To promote and enable Internet-based tax return filing by taxpayers to reduce processing times and avoid increasing the customer service infrastructure at its own counters and bank tellers.
SRI’s experience with open source has been successful. The organization has achieved an efficient, reliable, scalable and affordable platform. The access to Red Hat’s source code has allowed the company to customize the functionality of the products in terms of business needs. The success achieved with Red Hat solutions has encouraged the organization to explore open source solutions for other areas of the business.
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HOPS is a leading provider of data analytic tools and products, utilizing its unique data analysis engine to quickly get clients to places they have never been before. The HOPS data analysis engine is an innovative solution for maintaining and analyzing massive amounts of data—hundreds of terabytes and greater. Combining unparalleled speed, compression and sorting capabilities, HOPS is one of the fastest data analysis tools ever produced blasting through the scalability issues that limit traditional database solutions. What’s more, HOPS is delivered using a software-as-a-service (SaaS) model, enabling customers to gain all the benefits of a high-performance, highly secure data center that’s accessible 24×7, without incurring the capital and operating expenses associated with such an environment.
Approach
Deploy HOPS data analysis engine on HP Integrity rx6600 server with Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Business technology improvements
• Increased the speed of database scan by 97 percent
• Ensured high system availability and reliability
• Gained Linux training and certifications to easemigration from UNIX
Business outcomes
• Enabled dynamic reporting on billions of data records
• Met highly demanding service-level agreements (SLAs)
• Gained eight times the performance at one quarter the cost
The key to delivering blazing-fast data analysis results over the web is running HOPS on a high-performance and highly reliable infrastructure. For years, HOPS relied on a RISC-based HP AlphaServer system with Tru64 UNIX. As this system approached end of life, the company searched for a new system that could take HOPS to a whole new level. After a thorough evaluation of leading systems, HOPS chose HP Integrity servers and Red Hat Enterprise Linux
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Industry: Real Estate
Geography: Germany
Business Challenge: Dramatically reduce energy use and operating costs while improving overall performance and manageability of servers and maintaining zero downtime
Migration Path: 32-bit Windows server environment to 64-bit server environment based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform with built-in virtualization technology
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform with integrated virtualization, Red Hat Cluster Suite, Red Hat Network (RHN) Satellite, Red Hat Global Support Services
Hardware: HP Blade Systems
Benefits: Reduced energy usage by 25 percent and hardware cost per server by 60 percent, carved out operations costs by 10 percent with streamlined systems management, achieved full return on investment for the project within three months, and maintains consistent zero downtime
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Company: CQUniversity Australia (Central Queensland University
Industry: Higher Education
Geography: Australia
Opportunity: To migrate from an HP Tru64 Unix environment to a cost-effective and performance-boosting platform within Central Queensland University’s budget
Migration Path: HP Tru64 Unix to Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Satellite Server on HP 7000c Blade and BL460c Blade Servers
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Network Satellite, Oracle 10g RAC, PeopleSoft Enterprise Applications (Finance & Student Administration), Talent2 Works (HR)
Hardware: HP 7000c Blade System and BL460c Blade Servers
Benefits: Experienced increased cost savings, performance, ease of management, and reliable ongoing support
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Industry: Tourism and hospitality
Geography: Spain
Challenge: Provide greater performance and stability for the company’s web platform with the fundamental objective to increase online sales
Migration Path: Oracle Application Server to JBoss Enterprise Application Server running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES v4, and JBoss Operation Network
Software: JBoss Enterprise Application Server 4.2 and Red Hat Enterprise ES Linux 4.0
Hardware: 3 + 2 servers, 2 for Application Server, 1 for JBoss ON, 2 servers for Oracle database on HP-UX.
Benefits: Improved performance, stability, and scalability of the platform, while also enhancing architecture control
“The continuous increase in online sales made through the web means the priority of the Corporate IT department must be to seek maximum availability and performance of the technology platform. Red Hat solutions have proven to exceed expectations for the the current and future needs of our platform.”
– Ricardo Mardomingo, IT Manager of NH Hoteles.
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Company: CSS Corp.
Industry: Information Technology
Geography: Global, headquartered in San Jose, California
Opportunity: To reduce IT costs and increase user productivity by improving the performance and eliminating downtime of Lotus Notes and Domino applications being used throughout the worldwide enterprise.
Migration Path: Microsoft Windows to Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Satellite Server, Lotus Notes, Lotus Domino.
Hardware: 64 servers, divided between Dell 2950s, HP DL380s, and IBM X3650s and desktops.
Benefits: Dramatically improved application performance for users, improving their productivity while freeing up IT resources to focus on more strategic issues for the business.
“Because of the difference in performance and reliability running Lotus Notes and Domino on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, we are going back to our customers who run Notes and Domino applications and convincing them to switch as well. The IBM-Red Hat partnership is a win-win situation for all concerned.”
– S.Pranatharthi Haran Practice Head – IBM Services, CSS Corp.
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Industry: Utility
Geography: Italy
Opportunity: Combine varied IT systems following the merger of two companies, while modernizing obsolete equipment, reducing costs, and ensuring compatibility with existing solutions
Migration Path: AIX Unix and Microsoft Windows to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Solution:
Benefits: Increased performance levels, system stability, and continuity, while simplifying usage, reducing overhead, and combining two radically different IT systems
“In addition to providing us with reliable support, Red Hat Enterprise Linux represents a strategic choice for us. By moving to the new platform, performance improved and systems became more stable, thus allowing us to greatly increase productivity.”
– Roberto Ganio Mego, Iride Energia’s system administrator
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Industry: Travel
Geography: Global
Business Challenge: To increase performance, reduce costs, and expand scalability for a mission-critical, rapidly evolving IT architecture requiring 100 percent uptime
Migration Path: Unix to Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Hardware: HPx86 and Intel
Benefits: Achieved system reliability, 90 percent cost savings, 3x performance gains, and unmatched scalability, while standardizing its IT infrastructure on Red Hat Enterprise Linux
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Industry: Consumer
Geography: International
Business Challenge: To establish an open source platform to support Centrebet’s OpenBet online betting application and provide the reliability demanded by a 24×7x365 business
Migration Path: Mixture of heterogeneous systems to Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Network Satellite
Solution:
Benefits: Experienced increased performance results, lowered costs with the elimination of licensing costs and easy-to-manage maintenance for its solution
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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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