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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 ERP, Oracle 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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Customer: Sentry Data Systems
Industry: Healthcare
Deployment Country: United States
Solution: Information Infrastructure, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Server Consolidation, Virtualization
Business Partner: IBM
Business Need: Sentry’s core infrastructure required substantial computing power and high-speed storage. Four difficult-to-administer racks of large servers supported the company’s day-to-day business processes, costing much energy, effort and money to run. Sentry wanted to accommodate its growing business while simplifying the design and administration of its underlying IT infrastructure.
Solution: Sentry began by consolidating on an IBM BladeCenter® H chassis that supports 14 IBM BladeCenter HS21 servers running Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The new solution greatly simplifies system administration by enabling the company to access and manage all hardware remotely from a single console. All cabling is integrated within the BladeCenter technology, reducing the amount of wires previously needed for power and remote access.
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“Besides consolidating our servers, we reduced our cabling significantly. Out of the box, the IBM BladeCenter required just a few uplinks—power, Ethernet and fiber channel—and immediately all 14 servers were connected.”
– Sentry Data Systems
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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 would position ETS for evolution into cloud models.
Migration Path: SUN Solaris to Red Hat Enterprise Linux and IBM WebSphere to JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JBoss Enterprise Middleware technologies
Hardware: Intel x86 systems
Benefits: Reduce costs and boost competitiveness by moving to a stable and secure x86-based platform for developing and delivering new assessment products to market more quickly. Easy transition of applications into cloud provider environments in the future.
“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 was the obvious choice.”
– Harikumar Rajappan, enterprise IT architect for applications at ETS
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Industry: Financial Services
Geography: Hong Kong
Business Challenge: Rapid business growth and the expansion of its service portfolio made it necessary to replace website with an efficient financial information portal, and to leverage virtualization technology to reduce hardware footprint and increase operational flexibility
Migration Path: Microsoft Windows and UNIX to Red Hat Enterprise Linux AP with integrated virtualization
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 with integrated virtualization, Red Hat Satellite, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, Hibernate
Hardware: Intel Xeon based servers
Services: Red Hat Consulting
Benefits: High-performance, flexible IT infrastructure delivered through the integrated virtualization technology in Red Hat Enterprise Linux and 50-70% Reduction in software and hardware costs
“Previously, in the financial services industry, companies were forced to rely on proprietary vendors. We are using Red Hat because of our confidence in the company to meet our very high levels of availability, performance and security that are essential in our business. The use of Red Hat and JBoss has enabled us to save approximately 50-70% overall on the entire project costs and even more in annual costs.”
-Philip Choi, Head of Technology for Quam Limited
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Industry: Information Technology
Geography: Australia
Business Challenge: CVSDude required a platform that was affordable, bullet-proof, and ensured scheduled release cycles
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
Hardware: 24 x AMD and Intel servers, up to quad code 2.5GHz
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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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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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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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Industry: Car rental
Geography: EMEA
Business Challenge: To replace Avis’ costly proprietary software with reliable open source solutions to reduce acquisition and ongoing costs for the organization’s IT department
Migration Path: Proprietary Sun hardware with Solaris and Weblogic-based application server platforms to a more cost-effective and flexible platform based on JBoss Enterprise Application Platform running on Windows Server 2003
Hardware: Wintel environment incorporating Dell hardware, Intel-based dual-CPU, quad-core machines with 8-16Gigs of RAM, Windows Server 2003 32bit and 64bit
Software: JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, Hibernate framework
Benefits: Experienced significantly reduced TCO of at least 50 percent from reduced maintenance costs, as well as increased licensing flexibility and reconfigurability and decreased server load
“Avis has absolute trust in JBoss and its mission-critical enterprise applications. We are very satisfied with the results that we’ve achieved since migrating to JBoss solutions.”
–Jens Utech, Director Revenue and Fleet Applications at Avis.
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Industry: Media
Geography: India
Challenge: To transform existing legacy infrastructure into a future-ready solution, while protecting existing investments, and giving the group the foundation to accelerate cost effectively
Migration Path: Novell Netware 3.12 OS to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 with Oracle 10g Database
Hardware: Dell PowerEdge 1900, 2800 and 2900 Server series, 64-bit Intel Xeon processors
Benefits: The implementation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 has given Indian Express a highly available, secure, and reliable platform with freedom from vendor lock-in, and the ability to scale cost-effectively without subsequent investments in hardware.
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Industry: Government
Geography: Italy
Challenge: One of the top fifteen software and services companies in Italy, CSI-Piemonte has been promoting the modernization of the local public administration for thirty years. Its specific objective was to develop an open source platform for the supply of business applications which offered a real competitive advantage for companies in Piedmont.
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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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Company: Daiwa Securities America Inc.
Industry: Financial Services
Geography: New York
Opportunity: Build an utterly reliable, high-performance portal using open source to speed application development while reducing costs
Migration Path: Proprietary application server and portal solutions to JBoss Enterprise Application and Portal Platforms.
Software: JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform and JBoss Rules Framework. Databases: Sybase SQL (transactional), Sybase IQ (data warehousing for production environment), Microsoft SQL (training data), Alfresco Software for enterprise content management (ECM).
Operating System: Windows 2000
Hardware: Intel dual-core Intel Xeon HP servers
Benefits: Established a reliable platform with no unplanned downtime, sped time-to-market by cutting application development time in half, dramatically improved application performance, and saved $300,000 in licensing and hardware costs
Daiwa Trusts JBoss: “If our portal were to go down today, it would be catastrophic. JBoss Enterprise Application and Portal platforms have been extremely reliable and stable. JBoss is a worry-free solution that helps us sleep better at night.” —Steve Dunstan, Enterprise Systems Architect and Vice President, Information Technology, Daiwa Securities America Inc.
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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
Industry: Education
Geography: Switzerland
Opportunity: Replace two obsolete OpenLDAP servers to guarantee a greater level of reliability
Migration Path: Fedora to Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Directory Server
Hardware: Three servers with 3 GHz Intel Dual Core Xeon processors, each with 4 GB RAM and each with 2 x 76 GB SAS hard disk drives, distributed to two server rooms.
Benefits: Increased reliability, ensured stability at peak access times, enabled monitoring and failover functionality, enabled the modification of configuration during operation
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Industry: Telecommunications
Geography: Chile, with operations throughout Latin America and offices in Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico
Opportunity: Sixbell looked for a flexible solution that would provide interoperability with a greater number of hardware providers and would encourage the incorporation of innovative technological solutions from different market leaders. The ideal solution would be based on a standard and open operating system and have excellent support.
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Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
Hardware: HP Proliant DL servers, Intel X86 servers, Sun Galaxy servers
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Industry: Business equipment supply and distribution
Geography: Australia
Challenge: To deliver an efficient service to customers, Corporate Express required a solution that was stable and secure, yet also flexible enough to support its bespoke online ordering application, NetXpress.
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Network Satellite
Hardware: Approximately 14 Intel blade servers
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Industry: Electricity and natural gas trading
Geography: New Jersey and Pennsylvania
Opportunity: Build an internal infrastructure to provide maximum development flexibility and high-system reliability and performance for fast-paced trading business
Solution: Hardware: IBM Power PCs with Intel Dual P5 Processors, IBM xSeries with Intel Dual Xeon Processors
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux versions 3, 4 and 5, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform , MySQL databases, SESCO database application
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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: Federal Government
Challenge: Provide low cost, yet fast and reliable access to Personnel Electronic Records Management System
Solution: Platform: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Hardware: HP ML350
Applications: PERMS database with Web interface
Benefits: Improved price/performance, Global access to critical records
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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: Education
Geography: Scotland, United Kingdom
Challenge: To significantly improve performance of legacy UNIX systems, while creating a compelling cost/benefit case for new systems.
Solution: Platform: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Software: SAP Enterprise R/3 with SAP HR/Payroll Public Sector version 4.70 on Oracle Database 9.2.0.5
Hardware: HP Proliant DL380, HP Integrity Servers (rx4640 and rx2600) based on Intel 1.3GHz Itanium 2 processors.
Benefits: Three-fold improvement in system performance. Lower project costs (as much as half the previous system costs). Multi-platform support. Impressive reliability and stability.
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Industry: Construction
Geography: United Arab Emirates
Challenge: Outsourced email servers provided poor performance, increased costs, and security concerns.
Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux on an HP Intel Xeon architecture with SCSI hard disk driver and RAID hardware.
Benefits: A five-fold performance gain and dramatically reduced costs.
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Industry: Oil and Gas
Geography: Headquartered in Norway, with operations worldwide
Goal: To standardise from seven Unix variants to Linux, thereby cutting costs and increasing efficiency across the organization
Solution: Platform: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, versions 2.1 and 3
Hardware: Intel and AMD
Applications: Oracle Database, BEA WebLogic, Schlumberger Eclipse, Landmark drilling software
Benefits: 50% cost savings as compared to Unix. Performance increase by a factor of 10-40.
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