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Fast Facts:
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: 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
Experiences heightened flexibility, stability, cost savings and ease of management with Red Hat solutions
RALEIGH, NC – 3 December 2008 – Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Scania, the leading Swedish manufacturer of heavy trucks and buses, has expanded its use of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform with integrated server and storage virtualisation capabilities. The company utilises the Red Hat Enterprise Linux platform for its critical systems, including specific infrastructure services, databases, applications and high-performance computing (HPC) servers to leverage the solution’s compelling benefits, including cost savings, stability, flexibility and ease of management.
Online bank selects JBoss Enterprise Application Platform for web applications
MILAN, ITALY, 10 February 2009 – Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that IWBank, an organization focused on financial services and online banking, has selected JBoss Enterprise Application Platform and the JBoss Operations Network to improve the efficiency of its web-banking applications.
IWBank is committed to providing integrated online financial services that guarantee high efficiency, safety and transparency levels, in addition to offering competitive terms and excellent service to its customers. In late 2008, IWBank decided to extend its collaboration with Red Hat, which provides the bank with open source solutions, by adopting the JBoss Enterprise Application Platform to develop its web applications.
FAST FACTS
Company: Covad Communications Group Inc.
Industry: Telecommunications
Geography: San Jose, California
Business Challenge: Transition from inflexible and costly proprietary middleware software and hardware to JBoss Enterprise Middleware to cut costs while speeding new broadband/VoIP products to market
Software: JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, JBoss Operations Network
Hardware: x86 system
Benefits: Reduce costs by more than $500,000 annually in hardware and software support; enabled cost-effective modernization of service-oriented architecture (SOA); improved performance of existing systems; reduced time-to-market of new products.
“In the current challenging economic situation, it is all the more important for Covad to retain its edge in automated Operations Support Systems while reducing the software support costs. We needed to modernize our SOA and roll out new products, all the while doing a new software rollout every six weeks and maintaining 99.9% uptime. That’s why we love JBOSS – it allows us to do more with less.”
- Unmesh Kulkarni, Director of Software Architecture and Delivery, Covad Communications Group, Inc.
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Companies: Advent Conferencing and CITYTECH
Industry: Conferencing/ Services/Technology
Geography: Chicago
Business Challenge: Needed to differentiate itself from the competition in a commodity marketplace.
Software: JBoss Enterprise Application Platform Including: JBoss Seam Framework, JBoss Messaging and JBoss Cache, JBoss jBPM Framework
Benefits: Increased sales by offering a more flexible and customized service; Boosted customer satisfaction by improving provisioning and billing procedures; streamlined internal processes and cut operational costs through integrating customer relationship management, business process management, and accounting systems.
“With an award-winning organization like Red Hat behind us, and world-class technology like JBoss to leverage for our solutions, we are primed for success,” said Matt Van Bergan, chief technology officer, CITYTECH.
“CITYTECH listens to my needs, and is very creative about coming back with ideas, they speak in terms that make me confident they understand my business, and are completely focused on making Advent successful.” – Mike Swimelar, president, Advent Conferencing
See CITYTECH in the Press: Enterprise Management Quarterly
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Customer: University of Sydney
Industry: Education
Business Challenges: Quickly and cost-effectively develop a high-availability platform to support a web-based file repository, enabling the University to comply with new Government regulations
Migration Path: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 and 4 to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Advanced Platform
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Advanced Platform with integrated virtualization, Red Hat Cluster Suite, Red Hat Network (RHN) Satellite, Red Hat Consulting, DSpace (web-based file repository)
Hardware: 2 x HP ProLiant DL380 G5 servers, 2 x Dual Core CPUs, HP EVA SANs
Benefits: Achieved quick deployment, cost savings, high availability, reliability, and scalability
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FAST FACTS
Industry: Education
Geography: Singapore
Opportunity: To implement a cutting-edge, reliable, and affordable solution that scales with growing business needs, and to leverage virtualization technology to reduce hardware footprint and increase operational flexibility.
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2 with integrated virtualization, Red Hat Network
Hardware: HP Proliant G5 servers
Services: Red Hat Consulting
Benefits:
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“We trust Red Hat virtualization because it delivers immediate, real benefits to U21Global. With Red Hat Enterprise Linux we met our goals for a high-performance virtualization implementation that is stable, reliable, scalable, and secure,” said Caven Yip, systems engineer at U21Global.
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Company: KSH Holdings
Industry: Construction
Geography: Singapore
Challenge: Needed a reliable, scalable, and cost-effective solution to monitor project budgets and ensure timely data reports for use by the KSH Holdings management team
Migration Path: Paper-based reporting system to a Progress Claims System (PCS) running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, PHP, and Apache
Hardware: Dell 2850 with 2 GB RAM and 1 x Processor
Benefits: Developed a scalable Progress Claims System (PCS) that offered access to real-time financial data, reduced manual input errors, and enabled expedited reimbursement processes for subcontractors
“We handle a lot of data input on a daily basis and require something stable and capable of handling the load. That’s why we chose Red Hat.”
-Tony Tang, Chief Financial Officer of KSH Holdings.
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Partner: Tapasol Solutions
Customer: ServusNet Informatics
Industry: Technology
Geography: Cork, Ireland
Business Challenge: Simplify the deployment of ServusNet Informatics’ Red Hat Enterprise Linux-based Process Driven Operations & Maintenance solution at remote customer sites using Tapasol’s provisioning engine based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Migration Path: Solaris to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 with integrated virtualization on Dell x86 servers
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 with built-in virtualization, JBoss Application Server, Liferay Portal, Oracle DB
Hardware: Dell x86 servers
Benefits: Increased deployment speed of ServusNet Informatics’ Process Driven Operations & Maintenance solution; reduced costs of implementing virtualization technology; continuing enhancement to the productivity of developers working on leading-edge Red Hat Enterprise Linux-based software products
“Red Hat Enterprise Linux with integrated virtualization capabilities was easy and more cost-effective to implement than other solutions on the market. We reduced the effort it took to provision a server by 92 percent. As the engine underlying both our and Tapasol’s solutions, Red Hat Enterprise Linux is making a significant contribution to our ability to offer a competitive product.””
-Sean Condon, Director of Product Development, ServusNet Informatics
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Company: AutoTrader.com
Industry: Automotive information and sales
Geography: Atlanta
Business Challenge: Rock-solid support needed to move to a service-oriented architecture (SOA) based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and off-the-shelf applications
Solution: Subscribe to Red Hat’s Technical Account Management (TAM) service, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Network (RHN) Satellite
Benefits: Smooth migration to a new IT infrastructure. Immediate response to questions and issues regarding Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Direct access to senior Red Hat technical expertise. Improved productivity of internal IT support staff.
“Any company that has anything important running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux would benefit from a TAM. Even in times like these, when additional expenditures are difficult to justify, the TAM service is worth every penny. It more than pays for itself in the time it saves and the competitive edge it provides.”
–Mark Juliano, UNIX Systems Manager, AutoTrader.com
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FAST FACTS
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: Finance/banking
Geography: New Zealand
Business Challenge: Address environmental and space issues in the datacentre and achieve the corporate goal of becoming carbon neutral by 2010
Migration Path: From distributed Intel and SUN SPARC servers to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 running under z/VM on IBM z9 and z10 mainframes
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, Red Hat Network (RHN) Satellite, Oracle database, WebSphere Application Server, ESB, Process Server, TX and MQ
Hardware: 1x IBM z9 and 1x IBM z10 mainframe (with 3 x IFL engines in each)
Benefits:
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Australian University Carves out Costs and Improves Stability with Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Network Satellite
RALEIGH, N.C.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that CQUniversity, an Australian university with ten campuses and more than 21,00 students and staff, has migrated its critical IT systems to Red Hat solutions. CQUniversity implemented Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Network (RHN) Satellite and has since realized significant cost savings, increased performance, ease of management and reliable, ongoing support.
CQUniversity offers a wide range of undergraduate and postgraduate courses on-campus and through distance education. The University relies heavily on the reliability and stability of its IT environment on a daily basis. Its technology powers critical finance, human resources and student-administration systems. With campuses and students located across various time zones, CQUniversity requires an infrastructure that supports standard operation at all hours of the day.
Industry: Marketing services
Geography: Global
Business Challenge:
To increase the speed, scalability, and cost-effectiveness of the business’ high-performance grid computing environment, which now records more than one trillion transactions per month
Migration Path: UNIX to Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, Red Hat Network
Hardware: x86 Servers
Benefits: Standardizing its grid computing environment on Red Hat Enterprise Linux helped Acxiom achieve 100-fold performance gains and unmatched scalability while also reducing costs and increasing flexibility
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FAST FACTS
Company: Mentor Graphics
Industry: Technology
Geography: Wilsonville, Oregon
Business Challenge: Facilitate use of Red Hat Enterprise Linux to deliver mission-critical electronic design automation (EDA) software and hardware designs to market
Solution: Subscribe to Red Hat’s Technical Account Management (TAM) service, Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Benefits: Immediate response to questions and issues regarding Red Hat solutions. Direct access to senior Red Hat technical staff. Increased return on investment (ROI) of deploying Red Hat solutions. Improved time-to-market.
“For any company that needs an additional level of support above the standard offering, Red Hat’s TAM service is the answer. In addition to providing us with a great opportunity to build a deeper relationship with Red Hat, it enables us to leverage Red Hat products for greater competitive advantage.”
–Laurent Rochette, alliance manager, independent software vendors (ISVs), Mentor Graphics
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HOPS is a leading provider of data analytic tools and products, utilizing its unique data analysis engine to quickly get clients to places they have never been before. The HOPS data analysis engine is an innovative solution for maintaining and analyzing massive amounts of data—hundreds of terabytes and greater. Combining unparalleled speed, compression and sorting capabilities, HOPS is one of the fastest data analysis tools ever produced blasting through the scalability issues that limit traditional database solutions. What’s more, HOPS is delivered using a software-as-a-service (SaaS) model, enabling customers to gain all the benefits of a high-performance, highly secure data center that’s accessible 24×7, without incurring the capital and operating expenses associated with such an environment.
Approach
Deploy HOPS data analysis engine on HP Integrity rx6600 server with Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Business technology improvements
• Increased the speed of database scan by 97 percent
• Ensured high system availability and reliability
• Gained Linux training and certifications to easemigration from UNIX
Business outcomes
• Enabled dynamic reporting on billions of data records
• Met highly demanding service-level agreements (SLAs)
• Gained eight times the performance at one quarter the cost
The key to delivering blazing-fast data analysis results over the web is running HOPS on a high-performance and highly reliable infrastructure. For years, HOPS relied on a RISC-based HP AlphaServer system with Tru64 UNIX. As this system approached end of life, the company searched for a new system that could take HOPS to a whole new level. After a thorough evaluation of leading systems, HOPS chose HP Integrity servers and Red Hat Enterprise Linux
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Company: Tribune Company
Industry: Media
Geography: Chicago
Business Challenge: Reduce costs and time-to-market of new interactive products by moving to a virtualized environment based on x86 machines and open source Linux
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Network (RHN) Satellite
Hardware: Commodity Dell and IBM x86 systems
Benefits: Cut capital as well as ongoing operational infrastructure costs, and boost competitiveness by flexibly bringing new products to market more quickly
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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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FAST FACTS
Company: CQUniversity Australia (Central Queensland University
Industry: Higher Education
Geography: Australia
Opportunity: To migrate from an HP Tru64 Unix environment to a cost-effective and performance-boosting platform within Central Queensland University’s budget
Migration Path: HP Tru64 Unix to Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Satellite Server on HP 7000c Blade and BL460c Blade Servers
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Network Satellite, Oracle 10g RAC, PeopleSoft Enterprise Applications (Finance & Student Administration), Talent2 Works (HR)
Hardware: HP 7000c Blade System and BL460c Blade Servers
Benefits: Experienced increased cost savings, performance, ease of management, and reliable ongoing support
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“Red Hat has always been known as a leader in reliability and performance, and we’re pleased to see that recognition reflected in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 adoption in cutting-edge environments like Blackboard,” said Brian Stevens, CTO, Red Hat.
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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 Consulting, 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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FAST FACTS
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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Bank PHB improves flexibility, reliability and performance with Red Hat solutions
Dubai, GITEX – October 23, 2008 – Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Bank PHB, one of Nigeria’s top ten banks, has migrated its core mission-critical banking applications to Red Hat Enterprise Linux and the JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform. Bank PHB migrated to Red Hat’s open source solutions to achieve the next step in scalability, performance and the ability to handle heavy workloads and achieve cost reduction more effectively than with other proprietary software platforms.
