Industry: Healthcare Geography: Boston, MA

Opportunity: Migrate core clinical applications to stable, secure operating environment and create new disaster-recovery system with higher availability

Migration Path: HP Unix to Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux; Red Hat Global File System and Cluster Suite; Intersystems Caché; proprietary Triple A, utility, and security applications

Hardware: HP DL385 with AMD dual-core processors

Benefits: Realized $200,000 in annual cost savings, decreased annual downtime from 20 hours to near zero—furthering leading-edge patient care
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Industry: Food Manufacturing
Geography: Italy
Opportunity: Ensure the fast processing of customer orders by reducing system response times and maintaining consistent performance levels, even during peak periods
Solution:

• Software: 6 virtualized instances of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 running on IBM z/VSE and z/VM, DB2/Udb database, Ware Place and Tomcat
• Hardware: IBM zSeries 9 Business Class mainframe

Benefits: Maintain response times calculating to under one second, efficiently manage various databases with over 24 gigabytes of data and simplify communication among operating systems through use of XML within the mainframe
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Industry: Finance
Region: Germany
Opportunity: Migration and automation of core business application
Solution: JBoss Application Server
Benefits:

• Flexible and high-performance platform
• Fast, standardised development
• Lower total cost of ownership

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Industry: Hosting services

Geography: St. Louis, MO

Opportunity: Build a hosting business providing excellent value, support, and low prices; implement scalable backup and restoration solution that could support phenomenal growth rates

Migration Path: Novell Linux Enterprise SUSE to Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux; Red Hat Global File System and Cluster Suite; Red Hat Network; JBoss Enterprise Application Platform and Hibernate; MySQL, Oracle, and Postgres databases; BakBone NetVault: Backup

Hardware: Dell PowerEdge Series servers

Benefits: Helped achieve phenomenal customer growth rates by facilitating sales and customer support and supporting scalability of new backup and restoration system

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Industry: Telecommunications

Geography: Chile, with operations throughout Latin America and offices in Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico

Opportunity: Sixbell looked for a flexible solution that would provide interoperability with a greater number of hardware providers and would encourage the incorporation of innovative technological solutions from different market leaders. The ideal solution would be based on a standard and open operating system and have excellent support.

Solution:
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
Hardware: HP Proliant DL servers, Intel X86 servers, Sun Galaxy servers

Benefits:

• Heightened flexibility with the ability to offer its solutions through a broader array of technological alternatives.
• Increased cost savings and enhanced performance after migrating from proprietary solutions to Red Hat solutions.
• Fast, reliable support.

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Industry: Business equipment supply and distribution
Geography: Australia
Challenge: To deliver an efficient service to customers, Corporate Express required a solution that was stable and secure, yet also flexible enough to support its bespoke online ordering application, NetXpress.
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Network Satellite
Hardware: Approximately 14 Intel blade servers
Benefits:

• High availability/reliability
• Scalability
• Security
• Low administration costs
• Flexibility and agility

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Industry: Electricity and natural gas trading

Geography: New Jersey and Pennsylvania

Opportunity: Build an internal infrastructure to provide maximum development flexibility and high-system reliability and performance for fast-paced trading business

Solution: Hardware: IBM Power PCs with Intel Dual P5 Processors, IBM xSeries with Intel Dual Xeon Processors
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux versions 3, 4 and 5, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform , MySQL databases, SESCO database application

Benefits:

• Facilitated the creation of a high-performance infrastructure that supports rapid database growth; flexible application development and high levels of Red Hat support translate into huge cost-savings and a competitive advantage

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Industry: Online retail

Geography: Argentina & Chile

Opportunity: deRemate.com wanted to create a portal through which any person with an email account could transfer money. The portal would enable the payment of purchases generally completed through the company’s transactional sites in several countries including Argentina, Chile, Colombia, and Mexico. The service was previously provided to deRemate.com by a third party, but the company looked to discover a solution that allowed the action to take place in-house and would eliminate outsourcing.

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Industry: Digital advertising
Challenge: DoubleClick faced the challenge of developing an infrastructure that is reliable, cost-effective, and most importantly, flexible, in providing choice with hardware vendors in order to avoid vendor lock-in.
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS, Red Hat Network, Acronis True Image Server for Linux, Solaris, Windows, Red Hat Global Learning Services – Red Hat Certified Engineer training
Hardware: AMD, Intel, HP
Benefits:

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux provided DoubleClick with flexibility and power of choice in selecting a hardware vendor to avoid lock-in.
• Using Red Hat solutions helped DoubleClick save over $500,000 in hardware costs. DoubleClick now has the ability to handle more work load with fewer CPUs, as it ported 112 CPUs to 64 CPUs.
• With the help of Acronis solutions, DoubleClick enjoyed an easy and quick migration from RHEL 3 to RHEL 4 in one hour.

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Industry: Financial Services

Challenge: SNS Bank’s IT systems handle 500,000 daily transactions produced by various applications on 3,300 workstations. The bank’s front-end system was reaching its technical and economical limit and was reducing the opportunity for innovation and scalability within the organization. The SNS IT team, responsible for cost savings, looked for a solution that was flexible, stable, and scalable.

Solution: Software: JBoss Application Server
Hardware: 8 IBM X-series servers

Benefits:

• SNS Bank was able to rapidly deploy its new system onto 3,300 workstations in nine months.
• The bank experienced reduced licensing costs and overall cost savings after migrating to JBoss solutions.SNS Bank also experienced a reduction in hardware demands following the implementation of its new system.
• Increased stability and reliability of the organization’s production platform was enjoyed following its migration.

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Industry: Public Sector/Education
Challenge: Keeping costs to a minimum
Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
Benefits: Better efficiency, reliability and enhanced cost savings
Website: http://www.ycusd.k12.ca.us/
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Industry: State and Local Government

Challenge: Create a scalable, three-tier, web-based architecture under shrinking budget.

Solution: Platform: Red Hat Enterprise Linux with Red Hat Network

Hardware: Dell servers
Applications: Oracle8i database, Juvenile Tracking System (custom, Oracle-based)

Benefits: Increased price/performance and stability at one-third the cost of legacy UNIX solutions
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Everything to gain and little to lose with Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Industry: Higher Education

Challenge: Regain top notch performance

Solution: Platform: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Academic Edition with Red Hat Network

Hardware: HP DL-series servers

Software: Oracle 9i Enterprise Database Server, Oracle 9i RAC, Oracle 10g RAC, Oracle 9i AS (J2EE), Blackboard Course Management System 6.1, Several custom-developed applications

Benefits: 60% cost savings over comprable HP-UX solution. Higher performance to keep pace with data storage needs increasing by 1000% annually. Easy transfer of strong Unix skills.
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Industry: Banking
Challenges: Customize CRM to a high degree. Handle a rapidly scaling call workload without any disruption in services. Allow call center agents to have an “always connected” view of the database
Solution: Platform: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Software: Oracle 11i E-business Suite, Oracle 9i Database & Red Hat Cluster Suite
Benefits: Servers handle close to 7,000 calls a day with 99.99% uptime.
System can accomodate massive growth in call volumes over the next two years.
Complete freedom from viruses and security related risks.
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Industry: Federal Government

Challenge: Provide low cost, yet fast and reliable access to Personnel Electronic Records Management System

Solution: Platform: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Hardware: HP ML350
Applications: PERMS database with Web interface

Benefits: Improved price/performance, Global access to critical records
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Industry: Manufacturing

Geography:Latin America

Challenge: Minimize operating costs and overhead without sacrificing data security or system reliability

Software:Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Sybase

Hardware: Intel-based servers from HP and IBM

Benefits: Cost savings in excess of 70% per server and a 4x performance increase after migrating from legacy UNIX to Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

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Industry: Education

Geography: Scotland, United Kingdom

Challenge: To significantly improve performance of legacy UNIX systems, while creating a compelling cost/benefit case for new systems.

Solution: Platform: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Software: SAP Enterprise R/3 with SAP HR/Payroll Public Sector version 4.70 on Oracle Database 9.2.0.5
Hardware: HP Proliant DL380, HP Integrity Servers (rx4640 and rx2600) based on Intel 1.3GHz Itanium 2 processors.

Benefits: Three-fold improvement in system performance. Lower project costs (as much as half the previous system costs). Multi-platform support. Impressive reliability and stability.
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UAE’S LEADING CONSTRUCTION COMPANY MIGRATES TO RED HAT ENTERPRISE LINUX

Industry: Construction

Geography: United Arab Emirates

Challenge: Outsourced email servers provided poor performance, increased costs, and security concerns.

Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux on an HP Intel Xeon architecture with SCSI hard disk driver and RAID hardware.

Benefits: A five-fold performance gain and dramatically reduced costs.
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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: Telecommunications

Challenge: Increase performance and reliability of billing system to ensure timely payments from growing customer base.

Solution: Platform: Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS
Software: Oracle Database
Hardware: HP

Benefits: Increased processing speed by 400% over legacy Sun Solaris environment. Cut costs by nearly 50%. Met TransACT’s ‘zero fault tolerance’ policy.
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Industry: Entertainment

Challenge: To quickly and cost-effectively add email communications to their existing CRM solution.

Solution: Platform: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Software: StrongMail Enterprise; Oracle

Benefits: Deployment complete three months ahead of schedule. Significantly reduced project cost due to fewer required resources. Strong delivery rates. Increased control.

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Ticketmaster is the world’s leading ticketing company, selling more than 98 million tickets and serving more than 9,000 venue, promoter, sports team, and event clients worldwide in 2004. Ticketmaster scheduled eight months to add high-performance email to its existing CRM solution. It was operational in one month with StrongMail and Red Hat Enterprise Linux providing them unprecedented speed, delivery and control.

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