Red Hat Innovation Awards
An annual award competition, the Red Hat® Innovation Awards celebrate the innovations powering the future of technology for organizations globally.
There are seven various categories for customers and partners to submit their innovative use of Red Hat technology. A panel of judges, including Lee Congdon, CIO, Red Hat; Maureen Fleming, program vice president, BPM & Middleware, IDC; Sean Michael Kerner, senior editor, InternetNews.com; Scott Merrill, TechCrunch contributor; Craig Muzilla, vice president and general manager, Middleware, Red Hat; Stephen O'Grady, principal analyst & cofounder, RedMonk, will recognize one winning project in each of the seven categories.
From these category winners, a Red Hat Innovator of the Year will be selected by the community through online voting and announced at a special awards ceremony at the 2013 Red Hat Summit in Boston, MA June 10-14, 2013.
The 2013 Red Hat Innovation Award Winners include:
Optimized Systems Category
Booz Allen Hamilton - The Department of Defense (DoD) hired technology consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton to transform its aging and inflexible architecture into one that supports elasticity and flexibility during spikes in user demand. Using Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat JBoss Middleware, and Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, Booz Allen Hamilton created a private cloud and elastic infrastructure that is forecast to save over $5 million through fiscal year 2015 and has increased agility and flexibility.
Next Generation Business Application Category
Nación Servicios S.A. - The Argentina-based government set out to improve its population’s quality of life with a new transportation project, the Joint Electronic Ticket System (SUBE). This online service provides Buenos Aires citizens the ability to purchase bus, subway, and train transportation via an electronic payment card. The company used Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform as the foundation for the new system, which currently supports more than 11 million customer cards online.
Outstanding Open Source Architecture
Cigna - As health care reform introduced new regulations that demanded greater business and IT agility, one of the largest health service companies in the world embarked on a company-wide business transformation project to evolve its internal Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) strategy. By utilizing Red Hat's enterprise Linux, middleware, and virtualization solutions, Cigna has successfully designed and built a self-service provisioning component to develop frameworks and solutions that will be used to transform Cigna IT, while also rapidly responding to new health care regulations.
Superior Alternatives
Roche - The European research-based healthcare company needed to revamp its middleware platform infrastructure for shared environments worldwide. Roche looked to open source technology as the foundation for its migration. Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, Red Hat JBoss Data Services, and Red Hat JBoss Operations Network has provided the framework for Roche to drastically improve its application delivery time from three weeks to three days.
Extensive Partner Ecosystem
Stylmark, Inc. - A leading provider of customized aluminum structures, lighting, graphic displays and framing systems in retail, grocery and hospitality environments for companies seeking to create or update spaces to allure and engage their customers. A long-time Red Hat customer, the company selected Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization as a key IT infrastructure component, which has influenced the company to use additional open source solutions to enhance its own product portfolio. By using Red Hat technology, the company’s IT staff can now spend more time on new applications to enhance business, while gaining a more competitive edge.
Best Middleware Implementation
Spin Systems, Inc. - Asked to develop a healthcare data collection and aggregation system by a U.S. Department of Defense agency, Spin Systems used Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat JBoss Middleware to build a system that has collected more than 1.2 billion records a day from medical diagnostic devices, electronic medical records, information kiosks, and a broad range of other sources. In addition to reducing costs and improving efficiency, with the new solution, DoD professionals can now access healthcare records in minutes.
Best Storage Implementation
Intuit, Inc. - Data and storage management is vital to Intuit’s business, and a high level of performance is required, especially during peak periods for its TurboTax suite of tax preparation offerings. Red Hat Storage provides Intuit with innovative file systems that scale, improving application performance and high availability for applications across multiple datacenters. By partnering with Red Hat, Intuit has become a pioneer in moving forward with cutting edge technology and experienced a breakthrough in scalability, all while reducing cost.
See how the 2012 Red Hat Innovation Awards Winners Transforms
The 2012 Red Hat Innovation Awards winners spanned various industries and countries worldwide. From these category winners, UNE EPM Telecommunications was recognized as the 2012 Red Hat Innovator of the Year. Read more about this prestigious honor.
Want to learn more about the 2012 Red Hat Innovation Awards winners that are transforming their IT infrastructures with Red Hat solutions? Get the details below.
UNE EPM Telecommunications
- Company:
- UNE EPM Telecommunications
- Winning category:
- Optimized Systems
- Red Hat solutions:
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Directory Server
- Geography:
- LATAM
- Innovation summary:
- UNE EPM Telecommunications is Colombia's leading provider of IT and communication services. High-quality services based on cutting-edge technology has given UNE a competitive advantage in the Latin American market, helping create a customer base of more than 5 million. During the past three years, UNE standardized on Red Hat solutions. Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Director Server's reliability and high-availability has provided UNE with a comprehensive platform for its entire IT infrastructure, reducing recovery time by 95 percent, operational costs by 50 percent, and laying the foundation for the company to provide relevant, innovative technologies to its customers base.
Toll Global Logistics
- Company:
- Toll Global Logistics
- Winning category:
- Next Generation Business Application
- Red Hat solutions:
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Enterprise MRG, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform and JBoss Enterprise BRMS
- Geography:
- APAC
- Innovation summary:
- Toll Global Logistics is one of Asia's leading providers of integrated logistics, operating an extensive network of more than 1,200 sites in 55 countries with 45,000 employees. In order to address critical issues within its core transport tracking system, Toll Global Logistics sought an innovative solution that could provide real-time, effective interpretation of vendor data feeds against its internal transport system. By developing a middleware architecture based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Enterprise MRG, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform and JBoss BRMS, Toll Global Logistics revolutionized its operations, and, for the first time, enabled users to visually track packages across multiple modes of transport.
State Street Corporation
- Company:
- State Street Corporation
- Winning category:
- Outstanding Open Source Architecture
- Red Hat solutions:
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Network Satellite, JBoss Enterprise Web Server
- Geography:
- North America
- Innovation summary:
- State Street is a leading financial services provider with operations in 29 countries that serves the world's most sophisticated institutions, offering a flexible suite of services that span the investment spectrum, including investment management, research and trading, and investment servicing. State Street embarked on a transformation initiative to accelerate new IT application development and business innovation with an enterprise-wide Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) framework built on Red Hat solutions in its private cloud environment. State Street's PaaS unifies the latest advancements in technology to achieve the company's strategic objectives, including faster time-to-market, strengthened security and improved overall IT operations.
Sprint Nextel
- Company:
- Sprint Nextel
- Winning category:
- Superior Alternatives
- Red Hat solutions:
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, JBoss Operations Network, Red Hat Consulting, Red Hat Training
- Geography:
- North America
- Innovation summary:
- Sprint Nextel is a publicly traded Fortune 100 telecommunications company with more than 40,000 employees and more than 56 million subscribers. Tired of paying exorbitant licensing and maintenance fees for proprietary middleware, Sprint Nextel deployed the JBoss Enterprise Application Platform and, at the same time, significantly cut costs while delivering enhanced flexibility and agility to the company's mission-critical business applications. With millions of dollars in cost savings from Red Hat solutions, Sprint Nextel can fund more IT projects to spur business-driven functionality, growth and innovation. Sprint Nextel's key successes also include improved developer productivity, reduced time-to-market for key Sprint products, and improved automation of crucial business processes.
Appcelerator
- Company:
- Appcelerator
- Winning category:
- Extensive Partner Ecosystem
- Red Hat solutions:
- Red Hat OpenShift
- Geography:
- North America
- Innovation summary:
- A private company with approximately 140 employees, Appcelerator worked closely with Red Hat on their flagship platform, Titanium. One of the leading enterprise-grade, cross-platform development solutions on the market, Titanium counts more than 300,000 mobile developers in its worldwide ecosystem. Appcelerator integrated Red Hat's OpenShift PaaS into its Titanium platform, enabling developers to push and auto-scale the backend of their mobile development processes. This integration gives Titanium developers the ability to create, deploy, and manage their mobile applications, and then push these applications to Red Hat's OpenShift PaaS with just a single click.
Allianz Group
- Company:
- Allianz Group
- Winning category:
- Best Middleware Implementation
- Red Hat solutions:
- JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, JBoss SOA Platform, JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform, JBoss Operations Network, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Network Satellite Server, Red Hat Consulting
- Geography:
- EMEA
- Innovation summary:
- Together with its customers and sales partners, Allianz is one of the strongest financial communities. Around 78 million private and corporate customers rely on Allianz's knowledge, global reach, capital strength and solidity to help them make the most of financial opportunities and to avoid and safeguard themselves against risks. In 2011, around 142,000 employees in some 70 countries achieved total revenue of 103.6 billion euros and an operating profit of 7.9 billion euros. The solutions provided by Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JBoss Enterprise Middleware played an important role in re-architecting Allianz's IT environment to a private cloud. Allianz also highly values Red Hat's Consulting and Support Services, which provides the company with an efficient and smooth usage of its Red Hat platforms.
Cornell University
- Company:
- Cornell University
- Winning category:
- Best Storage Implementation
- Red Hat solutions:
- Red Hat Storage
- Geography:
- North America
- Innovation summary:
- Founded in 1865, Cornell University is the largest university in the Ivy League with more than 20,000 students from around the world. Located in the heart of New York's Finger Lakes region, Cornell has more than 100 interdisciplinary research organizations and three national research centers that serve broad scientific communities and reflect the strong partnership between academia, government, and industry. Cornell University Center for Advanced Computing (CAC) conducts research on current and emerging technologies to enhance the capabilities of high-performance computing. Cornell's Institute for Biotechnology and Life Science Technologies turned to the technical staff at CAC to identify and deploy a storage solution for its department to help manage data-intensive research technologies such as DNA sequencing, proteomics and imaging. Red Hat Storage's flexibility and reliability, coupled with Red Hat's community-driven approach to innovation has enabled the Institute to achieve the growth needed to continue its critical research programs.
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