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Industry: Local Government
Geography: The Netherlands
Opportunity: Renew part of the city’s IT infrastructure and create a future-proof platform for its heterogeneous environment
Migration Path: Windows and Unix with small amounts of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, including virtualization and clustering
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 with virtualization, Red Hat Global File System, Red Hat Satellite Server, Red Hat Consulting, Basis Registratie Systeem (BRS)
Hardware: 6 Dell 1750, 1850, 1950, and 2950 servers
Benefits: Run more applications with less hardware, enable cost- and space-savings, provide scalability, offer capacity to support future growth and deliver disaster-recovery capabilities
“One of the key benefits of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 with virtualization is that we can install and roll out a new application in 60 minutes to all of our systems, compared to four hours per system previously.”
– Hennie Stam, Senior System Administrator, DS+V Division at City of Rotterdam.
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Company: MedQuist Inc.
Industry: Clinical Documentation Workflow Solutions
Geography: Mount Laurel, New Jersey
Business Challenge: Enabling a rapidly growing, high-volume, 24×7 business, through the creation of an agile and highly productive development environment for building and running mission-critical applications.
Software: JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Hardware: x86 servers
Migration Path: From many database centric Windows platform components towards a SOA enterprise architecture providing service orchestration, platform independence and loose coupling of coarse-grained application modules. The latter allows for an evolutionary approach to re-platforming of a very large enterprise system without a large up-front cost and significant business risk.
Benefits: A highly productive, flexible and robust application development environment that enables MedQuist to proficiently produce innovative functionality for customer-facing solutions and to quickly take advantage of newly acquired applications by efficiently integrating them into its DocQment Enterprise Platform.
“Our applications are mission critical and absolutely need to be available 24×7. Red Hat’s JBoss and Red Hat Enterprise Linux products just work, enabling us to focus on building industry-leading software, which in turn helps our customers reduce their costs and improve patient care.”
– Dan Garnett, Vice President of Product Development, MedQuist.
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Company: Sensei, Inc.
Industry: Healthcare
Geography: US
Software: JBoss Enterprise Middleware platforms and frameworks including; JBoss Enterprise Application Platforms, JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform, and JBoss ESB, jBPM, Hibernate, Cache and RichFaces; all components of the JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform and JBoss Enterprise Portal Platforms, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Pentaho Business Intelligence, MySQL, and Alfresco.
Migration Path: Open source middleware projects from JBoss.org to JBoss Enterprise Middleware Solutions and Microsoft Windows to Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Benefits: Lowered infrastructure and development costs; more flexibility when deploying applications; greater scalability; enhanced standards and support.
“With a proprietary solution, trying to grow our product line would be painful, both in terms of man-hours and integrating additional software. But with the cost-effectiveness of JBoss Enterprise Middleware, we are able to reallocate resources to scale our I.T. infrastructure.”
-Tim Dion, Chief Information Officer, Sensei Inc.
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Company: Discount Tire Company
Industry: Consumer – Automotive Retail
Geography: Scottsdale, Arizona
Business Challenge: Support the rapidly growing e-commerce side of the business while keeping costs contained and complying with strict PCI security standards
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Satellite, Apache, WebLogic, IBM Lotus Domino Server
Hardware: 50 Dell x86 servers
Migration Path: Microsoft Windows to Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Benefits: Provided an easily managed, secure, and utterly reliable platform for Discount Tire’s e-commerce business. Enabled compliance with PCI security standards. Increased IT staff productivity and contained costs due to the ability to easily provision, maintain, and manage servers.
“I’ve been in the IT industry for about 20 years now, and Red Hat is far and above any other company I’ve ever worked with. Not only are its products of the highest caliber, but it is incredibly responsive to all our needs. Red Hat support is top-of-the-line, and the Red Hat phone number is on my phone’s speed dial, and it is going to stay there.”
– Will Darton, senior server support administrator, Discount Tire.
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Company: Sherwin-Williams Company
Industry: Paint and Coatings
Geography: Global
Business Challenge: To develop and deploy functionally rich Web applications using a standards-based platform supported by a single vendor for both home office and field use
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, JBoss Enterprise Middleware
Migration Path: HP/UX and Windows to Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Hardware: x86 servers
Benefits: Improve time to market of mission-critical applications. Increase staff productivity and efficiency using JBoss Enterprise Middleware. Higher-quality applications.
“JBoss has been a great fit for solving our primary business and technical challenges. We’ve accelerated the process of getting developers trained and up to speed. We’ve managed to get our arms around a vast set of web technologies by limiting our scope while providing our business users with the applications they need to be successful.”
-Alan Flowers, manager of the Java-Web-Integration Services team at Sherwin-Williams
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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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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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Industry: Consumer Retail: Wellness
Geography: Singapore
Migration Path: Microsoft Windows to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Business Challenge: SK-II Boutique needed a customisable spa management system that enables realtime sharing of data and generates timely reports
Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and JBoss 4 Java Application Server running mobySPA, a web-based Spa Management System. It was developed based on mobyClinic, a Clinic Management System, used by more than 100 users.
Benefits: Gained a customisable solution that delivers real-time reports and ensures timely commission payment
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Industry: Food and beverage
Geography: Singapore
Migration Path: Microsoft Windows to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Business Challenge: Develop a reliable system to run its customer loyalty programme
Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and JBoss 4 Java Application Server running mobyLoyalty, a loyalty application developed in Java
Benefits: Achieved a reliable loyalty programme offering rewards points to customers
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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: 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
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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: Transport
Geography: Australia
Business Challenge: To support Europcar’s focus on customer service by delivering a desktop solution that could affordably meet a range of user requirements
Migration Path: Windows to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Desktop
Solution:
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Desktop, customised TelNet booking application
Benefits: Experienced decreased TCO and increased ROI, performance, flexibility, and ease of management
“Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Desktop immediately solved our licensing issues and certainly decreased our licensing costs. It also met 100 percent of our users’ needs. In fact, the Red Hat desktop solution has enabled us to adopt a new hardware policy that ensures that we maximise our hardware ROI.”
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Industry:Local government
Geography: Florida
Business Challenge: Running on a costly AIX server that required an expensive maintenance contract and was close to end-of-life, frustrating OCPS’s IT department and draining taxpayer money
Migration Path: SAP on AIX to SAP on Red Hat Enterprise Linux; Domain Name Server on Windows to Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Software: SAP running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Hardware: HP Superdome and HP BL460s and BL860s
Benefits: Deploying Red Hat Enterprise Linux to run business-critical SAP solutions gave OCPS a cost-effective, stable operating system that requires less maintenance and increases security
“Deploying Red Hat alleviated our concern about viruses and the number of penetration points, allowing us to focus on more productive IT initiatives. Running SAP on Red Hat Enterprise Linux has given us the more secure and scalable operating system that we needed to stay within budget without sacrificing performance”
-Thomas McNabb, assistant director, device management, Orange County Public Schools
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CSI-Piemonte, Iride Energia and City of Marsala implement Red Hat Enterprise Linux, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform and additional Red Hat solutions
Raleigh, NC — October 23, 2007 — Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that three leading Italian organizations, including CSI-Piemonte, one of the top fifteen software and services companies in Italy, Iride Energia, a leading thermal and electric energy provider in Italy and the City of Marsala have found success with Red Hat solutions. Each has experienced heightened performance, cost-savings and increased reliability with solutions including Red Hat Enterprise Linux, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, Red Hat Cluster Suite and Red Hat Support. » 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
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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Industry: Travel
Geography: Australia
Challenge: Microsoft-based infrastructure could not scale to match Wotif.com’s 100% growth rate.
Solution: Platform: Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS
Software: Oracle10g Standard Edition, Java 1.5
Hardware: AMD Opteron
Systems Management: Red Hat Network
Benefits: Increased performance upto 500% peak load. Lower TCO. Simplified systems administration
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Industry: Media
Geography: Germany
Goal: Migrate to Linux from UNIX and Windows NT in order to reduce costs and increase stability and performance
Solution: Platform: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Software: SAP Applications & SAP Database
Hardware: Dell multiprocessor servers
Benefits: Lower cost. Impressive stability. Central systems management. Professional support.
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Industry: State & Local Government
Challenge: Increase performance despite sharply decreased budget
Solution: Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Application: Oracle11i, GenaWare’s GenaMap
Integration provider: Mascon IT
Benefits: Dramatically improved performance. Lowered maintenance and support costs. Delivered project within budget.
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Industry: Banking
Geography: India
Central Bank of India is one of the largest banks in India. Established in 1911, it was the first Indian commercial bank to be wholly owned and managed by Indians. Sir Sorabji Pochkhanawala, founder of the Bank proudly declared on its establishment that Central Bank was the ‘property of the nation and the country’s asset.’ The bank’s customer base of 25 million is among the largest in the industry and it has 3115 branches spread across the vast geography of India. Progressive management and far-sighted leadership have ensured that the bank has maintained its status as an asset for the country.
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Industry: Banking
Geography: India
Challenges: Automate more than 1000 branches across the country. Modernize branch automation. Retain existing hardware. Seamlessly migrate a custom designed TBA package to the latest platform.
Solution: Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Application: Integrated Branch Banking Software (IBBS)
Benefits: Improvement in system performance by more than 8 times. Significant TCO reduction by eliminating the need for purchasing new hardware and software licenses
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Industry: Telecommunications
Industry: Technology (ASP, Hosting and E-Business)
Geography: The Netherlands
Challenge: To build a standardized, high-availability application-, web- and database-server environment that would ensure security, interoperablity with multiple database systems, and cost efficiency for a growing customer base.
Solution: Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS Premium Edition, Red Hat Network Satellite Server, Red Hat Technical Account Manager (TAM)
Hardware: HP Proliant DL380, HP BL20, Dell PowerEdge 1850, Dell PowerEdge 2850s servers
Benefits: Increased performance and availability of applications on a standardized platform. Simplified maintenance and support. ISO 17799 compliance.
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