Industry: Government

Geography: Germany

Goal: Replace obsolete technology.

Solution: Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Applications: Nivadis; BEA WebLogic
Hardware: HP Integrity Servers (IA-64) and Fujitsu Primergy Servers
Systems Management: Red Hat Network Satellite Server

Benefits: Low-cost solution for high-performance systems. Central, secure IT management. Professional support with open source flexibility.
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Industry: Financial Services

Challenges: Handle highly volatile user traffic and accomodate rapid growth. Seamlessly migrate from legacy UNIX-RISC environment. Improve network performance, while simultaneously reducing costs. Eliminate downtime

Solution: Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Oracle 9i Database & Order Routing System

Benefits: Enterprise Linux on x86 servers generate 10 times more performance than the earlier UNIX-RISC infrastructure. Linux’ inherent security provides a hassle free solution.
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32 node and 96 node clusters power national research projects

Industry: Academia

Challenges: Modernize and scale proprietary, SMP-UNIX infrastructure. Set up a high performance computing environment that can handle cutting edge research projects. Simplify management and system administration.

Solution: Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Hardware: AMD64 and Intel 32-bit servers

Benefits: Improvement in performance and overall computation time through 64-bit x86 servers. Significant TCO reduction by eliminating the need for proprietary licenses and RISC based hardware. Freedom to modify and work with the source code

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Industry: Internet services

Geography: Germany, Austria, and Switzerland

Opportunity: High-availability hosting services at a competitive price;high-quality support

Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Cluster Suite, Red Hat support services

Benefits: Stable online applications for customers. Consistent performance. Data security.
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Hikal powers mission critical ERP project with Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Industry: Manufacturing

Challenges: Use technology to reduce manufacturing costs. Integrate ERP with legacy infrastructure. Eliminate server compromises. Seamlessly migrate key legacy components to the latest platform

Solution: Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Oracle E business suite & Red Hat Cluster Suite

Benefits: ERP project completed in a record time of under six months. Complete freedom to add multiple applications to infrastructure. Enterprise Linux & Red Hat Cluster Suite deliver continuous uptime with zero maintenance issues.
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Healthcare provider migrates cardiology application to Red Hat with zero downtime.

Industry: Healthcare
Geography: Brevard County, Florida
Opportunity: Create a storage network system to provide consistently high performance and availability.
Solution: Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Cluster Suite, Red Hat Global File System, Fibre Channel SCSI
Applications: Cardiology PACS
Hardware: IBM SAN, DVD jukeboxes, SATA hard drives
Benefits: Dramatically increased network performance and availability, resulting in substantially increased uptime, high speed for high-definition video streaming, and improved clinical application access for those performing patient care.
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Leading Natural Gas Distributor Achieves Impressive Performance Increase with Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Industry: Oil and Gas

Geography: Spain, South America

Challenge: To simplify their multi-platform IT environment. To create a highly-scalable yet cost-effective environment in support of corporate-wide goal for massive growth. To quickly improve performance of mission-critical data warehouse system

Solution: Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Oracle 9i RAC, SAP BW, SAP SEM

Benefits: Reduced response time for user queries from minutes to seconds. Reduced total cost of ownership (TCO) by a 4x factor. Reduced price per transaction by a 10x factor. Increased data warehouse performance as much 5,214%.
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Fiserv Investment Support Services (Fiserv ISS), one of the largest trustees of self-directed retirement plans in the U.S., recently adopted an Itanium 2-based HP Integrity server platform equipped with the Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system and an Oracle®Database 10g with Oracle Real Application Clusters to process its customers’ financial data. Nearly five times as fast as the company’s former mainframe-based RISC platform, the Integrity server environment enables Fiserv ISS to exceed ever faster and more complex client service-level agreement (SLA) requirements and enhance the quality, agility, and efficiency of its services while reducing hardware and software costs.

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Fiat Auto is transforming distribution to suit customers’ needs with Fiat Link, an innovative sales support/customer relationship management (CRM) solution. Customers can now configure and buy their Fiat of choice with Fiat Link, which sales people access from wireless HP Tablet PCs. Fiat Link will integrate and enhance sales and service across 5,800 retailers in Europe by 2005. HP Services consultants developed Fiat Link’s three-tier, Red Hat Enterprise Linux-based infrastructure, powered by an Oracle9i Real Application Clusters database on HP Integrity servers equipped with 64-bit Intel Itanium 2 processors.

FAA saves $15 million by migrating to Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Industry: Government

Solution: Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Hardware: HP and Dell

Benefits: Executed a major system modernization in one-third the original scheduled time. Achieved tenfold increase in processing capacity and 30 percent more in operational efficiency. Cut IT costs by 50 percent, saving the federal government more than $15 million in datacenter operating and upgrading costs.
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Industry: Manufacturing

Challenge: Converting a closely interwoven and complex distribution model into a unified solution to automate the sales &
distribution backbone.

Solution: Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Oracle E-Business Suite 11i.5.9

Benefits: Simplified management and complete freedom to scale up using low cost commodity hardware. Significant TCO reduction by saving on unnecessary licensing fees. Installing security patches and conducting routine server hardening checks reduced to a bare minimum.
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County government regains control of IT infrastructure by migrating from Windows to Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Industry/Solution: State and Local Government
Challenge: Regain control of ineffective and fragile network infrastructure
Solution: Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux with Red Hat Network
Applications: Backup, Security, Monitoring, Authentication, E-mail, Web Access, Internet Services, Scripting, Databases, Storage and VoIP
Hardware: Dell PowerEdge Servers
Benefits: Increased reliability and control of a distributed infrastructure at a significantly lower cost.
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IT management simplified at Polish coal mines

Industry: Technology, specializing in mining
companies

Geography: Poland

Challenge: Outdated and disjointed IT infrastructure created performance and maintenance issues for Polish coal mines. COIG needed to renew the aging IT infrastructure based on SCO Unix across 50 remote locations, while increasing functionality and reducing maintenance downtime.

Solution: Centralized server, hosted at single location and containing shared database.
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Applications: Oracle database, SZYK and SAP ERP applications, Apache Web server and Zope application server

Benefits: The move to Red Hat Enterprise Linux delivered reduced maintenance and purchase costs, greater functionality, simpler system management, and increased and faster performance.
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City of Vienna deploys Red Hat

Industry: City administration

Geography: Austria

Opportunity: Cost-effective server operating system with high stability and performance, integrated system administration, deployment and supervision, that’s flexible and independent of manufacturers, with a wide selection of certified software and hardware. This coupled with reasonably-priced and high-performance industry standard hardware.

Solution: Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES and AS
Applications: Red Hat Satellite Server with Provisioning Module (Upgrade to monitoring module planned)
Hardware: HP Proliant Servers and Blade Servers

Benefits: Subscription model provides maximum freedom, simple system administration and provisioning with Red Hat Network, extremely reliable, high security due to Satellite Server.
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Finding a better way with Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Industry: State and Local Government
Solution: Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Applications: Oracle9i Database, Legato backup solutions, HP MSL Tape Library
Hardware: HP DL580 G2
Benefits: Up to 3x performance improvement, lower server procurement and maintenance costs, increased hardware options
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City of Bloomington increases performance while trimming budget

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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Bank expects to save $1 million over two years after adopting Linux as its infrastructure platform.

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: Fluid dynamics software

Geography: New York and London

Goal: Scalable, cost-effective storage management

Solution: Red Hat Global File System (GFS)
Cluster size (nodes, storage): 32 nodes, 8 Terabytes
Storage hardware specifics: GNBD block sharing to 32 servers
Applications/Software: STAR-CD, STAR-CCM+

Benefits: Scalable IO performance, reduced complexity via data sharing

Special GFS features exploited: GNBD
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux to power mission critical banking services on approximately 1,000 servers and 10,000 desktops. Largest deployment of Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the Indian BFSI segment till date

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: Healthcare

Geography: Boston, Massachusetts
The healthcare industry faces serious challenges associated with the demand for reliable and secure IT infrastructures that must fit within budget constraints. Dr. John Halamka, MD, MS understands these demands as he serves as Chief Information Officer of Harvard Medical School, Chief Information Officer of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Chairman of the New England Health Electronic Data Interchange Network (NEHEN) , Chief Information Officer of the Harvard Clinical Research Institute (HCRI), and an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

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Industry: Consumer, e-commerce

Geography: Park City, Utah

Challenge: To keep up with the rapid yearly growth in a busy e-commerce business and to obtain an application that fosters innovation and easy self-management.

Solution: Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 and 4, Red Hat Network, Fedora™ Core 5
Hardware: IBM, Dell 2650s, HP

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Messe Munchen International (Munich International Trade Fai–MMI), which organizes about 40 trade fairs for capital goods, consumer goods, and new technologies is one of the world’s leading trade fair companies. Over 30,000 exhibitors representing more than 90 countries and two million visitors from about 180 countries take part in the events in Munich every year. With fi ve subsidiary companies abroad, global trade fairs and 75 foreign branches dealing with 89 countries, MMI has a very strong worldwide network.

MMI is clearly set for further growth, and, as the business expands, so must the IT infrastructure. This need became apparent by the middle of 2005; the existing infrastructure for providing web services was no longer fully able to cope with the increased requirements. Further scaling of the system would have involved great expense. At that time, the web services were based on a Linux cluster using the NFS fi le system; the operating system used on the cluster nodes was Debian.
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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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Web hosting company improves quality of service

Industry: Website hosting

Geography: Austin, Texas

Opportunity: To gain better control over system availability and provide consistently high quality of service to a growing customer base.

Solution: 150 Dell servers running Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Applications: Roaring Penguin CanIt-PRO
Hardware: Dell 860s to Dell 2950s

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“We’ve been up and running with Red Hat Enterprise Linux since 2004, and we’ve received absolutely no complaints. Thanks to Red Hat, uptime is 99.999%.” – Don Mcleman, Vice President of Operations, Apollo Hosting

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