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Industry: Global Call Center/Customer Support Services
Challenge: Cost effectively increase performance of centrally managed data and applications.
Solution: Use Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS and Oracle 9i running on Dell to build out databases and call center applications in each of the company’s geographically remote call centers. Remotely manage systems with Red Hat Network Satellite.
Platform: Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS
Hardware: Dell PowerEdge 2650
Applications: Oracle 9i Database, TantaComm Digital Voice Capture
Benefits: Stability and reliability necessary for remote sites; increased system uptime; and increased customer service agent productivity all achieved at a significantly lower price point than the comparable UNIX alternative.
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Industry: Hosting
Challenge: To build fully-supported high-performance infrastructure with all the benefits of open source solutions – rapid innovation, choice, and cost-effectiveness.
Solution: Platform: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Hardware: Dell with Intel 64-bit processors, EMC Storage
Software: Red Hat GFS, MySQL; Systems Management Red Hat Network
Benefits: A single point-of-interface and full support for critical components of solutions stack. Low TCO. Flexibility of open source.
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Industry: Automotive Manufacturing
Challenge: To reconfigure and consolidate Renault’s UK micro-site hosting requirements
Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Web Hosting Implementation: Rackspace
Benefits: Consolidated all UK micro-sites on a single platform. Reduced on-going costs. Guaranteed improved customer experience. Enhanced scalability, and increased control.
Industry: Travel services
Geography: United States
Opportunity: Priceline.com regularly sees millions of page views and thousands of bookings per day. As an Internet-based travel service provider, downtime and outages are not an option. The company decided to shift to Red Hat and open source solutions in order to provide the highest-performing services and applications possible and to realize cost savings. Priceline.com also evaluated JBoss due to the company’s predisposition toward developing in Java and to potentially generate further savings based on the open source model.
Solution: Today, Priceline.com has about half of the infrastructure converted over to a mixture of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Network Satellite Server, and JBoss Application Server with Tomcat and Apache web servers.
Hardware: Sun V20z servers with AMD Opteron, HP ProLiant DL385 servers with AMD Opteron, and HP ProLiant DL380 with Intel Xeon.
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Network Satellite Server, and JBoss Application Server with Tomcat and Apache web servers.
Benefits: The combination of Red Hat and JBoss has been a win-win for Priceline.com. Priceline.com’s application availability runs >99.97 percent and hits 100 percent for most quarters. With Red Hat Enterprise Linux, the company has realized reduced security patching requirements than with some proprietary application servers. Through a series of initiatives, like the company’s JBoss implementation, Priceline.com IT has been successful in proportionally reducing its relevant domestic operational IT budgets for this type of infrastructure, despite increases in product complexity and product unit volumes. Forward-looking, Xen support and virtualization technologies are extremely attractive to Priceline.com. The company has been testing Xen in its development environments to reduce hardware costs and lower TCO.
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Customer: Highmark Healthcare
Industry: Healthcare
Geography: US: Pennsylvania
Business Challenge: To maintain secure health records for over 4.1 million insured customers through a manageable and cost-effective system.
Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Directory Server, Red Hat Network, Red Hat Network Satellite
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.
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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: Food manufacturing
Geography: Netherlands, Germany, Italy, France
Challenge: To replace an outdated custom-built system with a standard Intel-based IT environment using proprietary software. Providing all functionality required for the highly specialized animal feeds market.
Solution: First European implementation of Oracle® EnterpriseOne on Red Hat® Enterprise Linux®.
Platform: Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS
Hardware: HP® DL380 and DL580 multi-way Intel® Xeon-based servers
Benefits: Simplified management of a standards-based solution. Migration to a single integrated ERP system for all European branches. Ended dependency on IT staff.
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Industry: Services
Geography: Italy
Goal: To provide fast, reliable weather forecasting for the 2006 Winter Olympic Games
Solution: Platform: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 ES
Software: Red Hat Cluster Suite, Red Hat Application Server
Systems Management: Red Hat Network
Benefits: Reliable and secure. Solid support. Simple systems management.
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Industry: Healthcare and Government
Geography: Argentina
Goal: To create a centralized database for organ transplant coordination. To allow multiple groups access to that information.
Solution: Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Distributor: LatinSource Technology
Benefits: Cost-effective solution. Reliable, timely communication throughout theorgan donation process.
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Rackspace Managed Hosting, the leading managed service provider, entrusts thousands of its customers’ Web servers to Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Network. Founded in 1998 on the premise that Web hosting requires great service in addition to great technology, Rackspace initially deployed the legacy Red Hat Linux operating system. Now Rackspace has one of the largest install bases of Red Hat technology in the world – more than 5,000 servers.
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Industry: Temporary and contract staffing
Challenge: To centralize and consolidate a disparate administrative, invoicing, payroll and workforce planning system. To ensure system stability, reduce the administrative burden, but most important; make the system more flexible.
Solution: Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS and AIX;
Hardware: IBM eServer pSeries servers IBM eServer Bladecenter servers
Benefits: Simplified architecture. Dramatically faster server provisioning. Centralization of data. Better disaster recovery. Reduced administration and physical infrastructure.
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Industry: Government
Geography: Netherlands
Opportunity: The Dutch government must provide in-house IT facility services at market-standard rates. Requiring it to find cost-effective solutions. The Province needed to migrate a heterogeneous infrastructure based on Unix and MPE/iX to a standardized environment too. It also wanted to maintain or improve the functionality and level of its IT performance.
Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS, Oracle, MySQL databases, VMWare ESX server, Nagios, and Galaxy Commvault, Twelve HP-Intel32 and four BL45 blade servers
Benefits: The Province’s IT management was drastically simplified as a result of selecting a single operating system. Red Hat Enterprise Linux provided the Province with flexibility and choice with the ability to tweak and optimize processes. The Province enjoyed a reduction of its total cost of ownership by four times. Including hardware, software, maintenance, and expansion costs.
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Industry: Government
Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES
Benefits: Secure, national communication through Virtual Private Networks (VPNs)
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Industry: Government State Owned Enterprise
Geography: New Zealand
Opportunity: New Zealand Post needed to drive the operating costs of an Oracle database environment down by 50%, improve performance, increase capacity and reduce the time to market.
Solution: Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 and 4, Oracle Application Server 10g and Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition
Hardware: IBM XSeries Servers, T42 laptops and M52 PCs
Benefits: 2000% performance increase 70% reduction in operating investment 90% smaller data centre footprint Instant scalability
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Industry: Entertainment
Geography: Singapore
Opportunity: Create a scalable, high-performance IT infrastructure supporting a rapidly growing, innovative startup while minimizing system administration resources and hardware costs
Solution: Two Dell servers running Red Hat Enterprise Linux and multiple open source software solutions
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Network, Samba, MySQL, virtual Windows, various tracking and management software, and Intranet, email, and FTP applications
Hardware: Dell x86 servers
Benefits: Gained tremendous flexibility in developing an infrastructure that accommodates continuous growth and innovation while optimizing resources and improving performance to virtually zero downtime
Industry: Healthcare
Geography: San Francisco, CA
Opportunity: Integrate disparate software applications on one unified platform to provide a comprehensive solution to improve patient care
Solution: Software: Red Hat Enterprise Healthcare Platform: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Network, JBoss Enterprise Middleware Suite, and Hibernate
Applications: McKesson healthcare solutions, Oracle RAC
Hardware: Intel dual and quad-core Xeon server platforms
Benefits: Gained huge efficiencies, saved customers up to one million dollars in total cost of ownership, and provided a reliable, enterprise-ready solution that helps provide high-quality patient care
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Industry: Financial Services, Insurance
Geography: Germany
Goal: Find a Linux-solution backed by enterprise-level support while retaining vendor-independence
Solution: Clients: Red Hat Desktop and IBM ThinkPad notebook computers.
Servers: Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Fujitsu Siemens, Sceneo & Futro hardware.
Systems Management: Red Hat Network
Benefits: Cost-effective client and server solution from a trusted vendor. Easy, quick deployment and on-going systems management. On-going confidence via Open Source Assurance program.
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Industry: Retail
Geography: Australia
Opportunity: As a rapidly expanding business, Loyalty Pacific needed a future-proof technology platform that was secure, reliable and efficient with a low Total Cost of Ownership (TCO), ease of administration and minimal maintenance
Solution: Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and Fedora
Hardware: 21 Intel Xeon servers
Benefits: 100 per cent system uptime. 80% less time required for set up. 70% less time required for maintenance. Strong support capabilities. Timely release cycles.
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Industry: Academic
Challenge: Increasing manageability of Web servers and storage
Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, Red Hat Global File System
Benefits: Reduced complexity and increased consistency across the web server cluster. Consolidated storage configuration.
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Industry: Financial Services
Geography: Italy
Challenge: Cut costs and grow revenue. Create a cohesive IT infrastructure following massive merger.
Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Desktop
Benefits: Escape from vendor lock-in. Lower costs with high reliability and performance. Simplified systems management.
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Industry: Retail
Geography: France
Goal: To deploy a highly-available platform with long-term support for a critical sales and customer services tool called Caméléon
Solution: Platform: Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES, v 2.1
Hardware: Dell Poweredge 2650
Applications: Camaon, Oracle
Systems Management: Red Hat Network Satellite
Benefits: High availabiliy and reliability for critical software. Long-term support. Easy, fast installation. No proprietary lock-in.
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Industry: Retail
Geography: Europe
Opportunity: Due to the mass and complexity of information and commercial activity handled in each store, system reliability and availability are essential prerequisites for the IT system at Kingfisher. When Kingfisher knew that support would soon end for their UNIX and NT servers, they were faced with the challenge of renewing a vast IT architecture for their 240 Castorama and Brico Dépôt stores in France, Italy, Poland, Spain and Russia.
Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Applications: Vision64, Time Navigator, Interpel, Dollar Universe, Oracle AS10G, with an Oracle 9i database and WEBFORMS
Hardware: HP ProLiant ML 370 G4 with 8Gb memory, Dual-core-processors, 5X140 Gb disk in RAID
Benefits: The Kingfisher Group is in the process of equipping 240 of its European outlets with Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Red Hat has enabled the Group to cut the number of servers it requires in half and make a return on its investment in just eight months, while delivering a ten-fold increase in performance. In Red Hat Enterprise Linux, the Kingfisher Group found a solution that allowed all of its requirements to be satisfied with a single server, and the ability to run both production tools and infrastructure services on the same box. This has translated into large cost-savings and even faster deployments and updates.
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Industry: ICT service provider
Geography: Switzerland
Opportunity: Highly scalable, flexible solution for storage and retrieval of large quantities of data
Solution: Diskless Shared Root Cluster
Hardware: HP ProLiant BL20p Blades, IBM BladeCenter, HP EVA 3000, aiming for full consolidation on Intel chips
Benefits: Open source storage cluster that allows IP-Tech to respond quickly and economically to any demand from its customers; no competition from proprietary vendors.
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Industry: Financial Services
Geography: Azerbaijan
Challenge: An overloaded email system. An IT system that didn’t deliver the reliability or security needed for modern e-banking.
Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux on Fujitsu-Siemens RX200 servers; a Cistron RADIUS server, BIND (DNS) and VPN routing.
Benefits: An increase in email users from 120 to 700. An improved IT infrastructure with servers that support new functionality, such as the VPN-channels that now branch throughout Europe.
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