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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: Transportation
Geography: The Netherlands
Business challenge: Maintaining an uninterrupted rail service. Realizing an uptime of 100 percent.
Migration Path: Migrating existing applications, including those that suffered problems with the performance of BEA Weblogic on OpenVMS. Building new applications on Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Network Satellite, Red Hat Global File System with cluster environment, Red Hat Directory Server, Red Hat Network
Provisioning Module, Red Hat Certificate System, Red Hat Global Professional Services and Red Hat Training and Certification.
Benefits: Easy update policy, stable system, 100 percent uptime in the first quarter of 2008
”We wanted a stable, robust, yet flexible infrastructure and finally chose Red Hat Enterprise Linux. We also selected Red Hat Enterprise Linux for most new projects as the Red Hat operating system best suits our requirements and objectives for future business plans.”
– Mike Bos, infrastructure manager, ProRail
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“The multi-master replication was a huge issue for us previously. Red Hat Directory Server has solved that completely. Students, faculty and staff are our end users and this solution gives them the ability to make password changes effectively and securely so they can focus on their work.”
- Michael Pettinicchio, Systems Administrator, Dartmouth College
Industry: Higher Education
Geography: New Hampshire
Opportunity: Experiencing major issues and frustration with password replication that caused headaches for end users and IT staff
Migration Path: Sun ONE Directory Server to Red Hat Directory Server
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Directory Server
Benefits: Eliminated replication issues and increased security in seamless transition
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: Healthcare
Geography: Pennsylvania, USA
Challenge: To maintain secure health records for over 4.1 million insured customers through a manageable and cost-effective system.
Solution: Platform: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Directory Server, Red Hat Network, Red Hat Satellite Server
Hardware: JuTzu, Race servers, HPDL rat mouse server
Benefits: Approximately 30% savings in hardware/software licensing costs. An almost 50% reduction in hardware (78 CPUs to 42). More than $470,000 long-term savings through the directory server ($500,000 + future costs estimate from Sun versus one-time $30,000 cost from Red Hat). Higher performance and security. Readily available support.
