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A world leader in the construction industry, Skanska aims to keep the quality high, the costs low, and customer experience at the world-class level. Efficient and reliable technology plays a major role in achieving this goal, and when it was time to upgrade, Skanska chose to migrate from Sun Solaris to Red Hat Enterprise Linux on Dell for Oracle11i and Oracle10g RAC.
Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Instituto Nacional Central Unico Coordinador de Ablacione Implante
(INCUCAI) is a decentralized body of the Department of Health in
Argentina that regulates and oversees the procurement and transplant of
organs and tissues throughout the country. In 2003, they started
renovating the IT environment, replacing outdated systems, and creating
a large modular system based on web applications. The underlying
operating system had to offer the highest levels of reliability,
support, and security. In January 2005 the system was updated Red Hat
Enterprise Linux.
Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Faced with obsolete technology and a decentralized network, IZN migrated the Lower Saxony Police Department's critical IT systems to Red Hat Enterprise Linux and HP Integrity servers, based on 64-bit technology. The result is a low-cost, high-performance, centralized architecture easily managed with Red Hat Network Satellite Server.
Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
For the City of Bloomington, Indiana (pop 70,000), a declining budget offered a big opportunity. An aging UNIX infrastructure was experiencing significant performance problems along with increasing maintenance costs. When budget cuts were delivered, the city had to find another solution. By migrating to Red Hat Enterprise Linux, the city increased performance and flexibility in their most mission-critical systems while chalking up significant savings.
Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
One of the most well known cities in the United States, Chicago prides itself
on finding a better way to do things—from strengthening public education
to inventing Cracker Jacks, lowering crime to building the first skyscraper.
In the same spirit, this year they've begun migrating their IT systems
to Red Hat Enterprise Linux to improve performance and save costs.
Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Network
When Pottawattamie County migrated mission-critical tasks from Microsoft
Windows to Red Hat Enterprise Linux, it saw increased reliability and
control at a significantly lower cost. "From a technical standpoint, we've
found that Red Hat Enterprise Linux and other open source solutions could
almost always meet the business needs and performance of proprietary alternatives," said
Thomas Broniecki, Director of IT.
Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Managing and retrieving personnel records for 1.2 million U.S. Army soldiers requires an enterprise solution that delivers quick and reliable access to those records. Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS meets those requirements, and soldiers stationed around the globe can now access their records reliably and securely anytime, any place.
Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Having outgrown its legacy UNIX platform, the Virginia Department of Juvenile Justice needed to upgrade its Oracle-based Juvenile Tracking System to a scalable, Web-based architecture. By migrating to a Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Dell solution, the Department was able to upgrade its Oracle-based tracking system at one-third the cost while realizing tremendous gains in performance and scalability.
Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Yuba County Unified School District (YCUSD) in northern California migrated from a mainframe environment to one built around Red Hat Enterprise Linux and other open source solutions. As a result, they've increased efficiency and reliability, all while saving money.
Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
With over 9000 students and 2000 staff member, human resources and
payroll are critical systems at Stirling University. When its systems
began to lag, it turned to Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Intel Itanium 2-
based systems. Not only did Stirling University more than triple its
performance, it also cut costs by 50%.
Solution: Red Hat Academy
Brigham Young University Hawaii (BYU Hawaii) is home to nearly 2,500 students and consistently ranking as one of U.S. News and World Report's top-tier universities. When companies in the Pacific Rim became increasingly interested in Linux experience, BYU Hawaii wanted their computer technology graduates to be highly qualified. So in fall 2003, BYU Hawaii became a Red Hat Academy, making them the first American university to do so. It is predicted that graduates with knowledge from Red Hat Academy, and especially those who pass the Red Hat Certified Technician (RHCT) exam, will command better starting salaries and advance more rapidly in the early stages of their careers.
Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Academic Edition, Red Hat Network, and Red Hat Training
Consistently ranked as a top U.S university, Vanderbilt takes as much
pride in it's technology and research programs as in its renowned
medical center. Maintaining their role as a technology leader permeates
every decision, so when data storage needs began multiplying by 1000%
per year and their UNIX infrastructure clearly couldn't keep up,
Vanderbilt looked at Linux. After migrating to Red Hat Enterprise
Linux, Vanderbilt reports lower TCO in three areas: hardware
acquisition, software licensing, and system administration.
PLUS Finanzservice GmbH in Wiesbaden, Germany is a subsidiary of Scandinavian giants IKEA and IKANO. The IT core of PLUS Finanzservice is the Card Management System. Their new card management cluster solution on Red Hat Enterprise Linux is highly fail-safe, yields 30% cost reduction, and give PLUS Finanzservice hardware-independence.
The more trades the futures exchange can complete per day, the more money it makes. This is exactly what happened when CME initiated its migration from Sun Solaris to Red Hat Enterprise Linux in early 2004. Their number of daily trades more than doubled, resulting in a significant revenue spike. Red Hat Enterprise Linux also delivered a twofold increase in performance and enabled CME to save 50% on overall hardware costs in calendar year 2004.
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When regulations mandated that Indian banks be fully computerized by December 2004, Central Bank of India knew it must find a solution optimized for scalability and focused on ease of support and maintenance. After some testing, Linux was clearly the best choice, with Red Hat as the partner. CBI has now implemented the Red Hat solution across 1,115 branches, with 1,770 additional branches planning to deploy Linux in 2004.
Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
As one of the largest independent trust companies for self-directed retirement
plans, First Trust Corporation handles millions of dollars per day, a number
that continues to increase. A new transaction system built on HP's Itanium
2-based servers, Oracle9i RAC, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux resulted in
a threefold performance improvement to accommodate for their rapid growth.
Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Located in Canberra, Australia, TransACT Communications builds and operates a fibre optic broadband network for 60,000 homes and 5,000 businesses. As their customer base continues to grow, TransACT will need increased processing power in their critical billing data system--if the system is down, TransACT won't get paid! They recently chose to migrate to Red Hat Enterprise Linux on HP servers, a decision that cut processing time by 400%, decreased cost by nearly 50%, and met TransACT's stiff 'zero fault tolerance' criteria.
Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Network Satellite Server, Red Hat Technical Account Manager
With two highly resilient A-class datacenters in Amsterdam, ASP4All a variety of hosting services to companies and governments across the Netherlands. They've chosen Red Hat Enterprise Linux with Red Hat Network Satellite Server as their Linux standard, providing stability, security, and high-availability for their customers.
Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Network, and Red Hat Training
Rackspace Managed Hosting, the leading managed service provider, entrusts thousands of its customers' Web servers to Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Network. And 90% of their support team are Red Hat Certified Engineers, allowing Rackspace customers to focus on core business issues with the confidence that their servers are in good hands.
Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 3
One of Australia's largest transportation companies, Patrick Corporation
has utilized Red Hat Enterprise Linux to increase efficiency and lower
costs.
Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS, Oracle10g Standard
Edition, Java 1.5, AMD Opteron, Red Hat Network
Wotif.com, founded in 2000, is Australia's leading last-minute accommodations website and the global specialist in its field. In
2002, Wotif.com was essentially a Microsoft shop. Wotif.com was having
enormous issues with performance, scalability, and system availability
because of 80-100% yearly growth. They decided that Wotif.com's overall architecture needed a solution that was scalable, open source, and
UNIX-like. Buy-in and support from tier-one vendors like Oracle was also
essential. The platform that best met these needs was Red Hat Enterprise
Linux.
Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Network Satellite Server, Red Hat Professional Services
Lapeyre is a leading manufacturer and distributor of home
improvement products in Europe. As they prepared to upgrade their
critical sales and services application to Oracle9i, they
needed an operating platform that ensured stability, availability, and
full compatibility with their existing environment. So they migrated to
Red Hat Enterprise Linux combined with Red Hat Network Satelite Server.
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Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
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, but was operational in one month with StrongMail
and Red Hat Enterprise Linux, providing them unprecedented
speed, delivery, and control.
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Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SAP
Heritage Propane Partners distributes propane to more than 650,000
customers in the US. Until 2003, Heritage ran a DOS-based accounting
system; however, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and short deadlines for
compliancy quickly rendered these systems out of date. Heritage is a
cost-conscious company and had always found the value proposition of
open source software very compelling. Given the project's large scale
and short timelines, choosing the right solutions and knowledgable
vendors was critical. They chose SAP ERP Financials, MySQL MaxDB, and
Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and had the solution live in three months.
Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS As a leading internet-based automotive company, Auto Trade Center knows that their competitive edge depends on technology--their e-commerce site must be reliable, stable, and responsive with at least 99.99% availability. Red Hat Enterprise Linux with Oracle9i RAC on HP ProLiant servers exceeds their needs. Now Auto Trade Center customers can sell their vehicles online in 1/5 the time it would take via the typical offline process. The company has seen a big boost in revenue, which allows them to pass savings onto their customers.
Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Impressed with the high-performance, low-cost capabilities of their Linux front end, Orbitz began to look for other areas in which to leverage those benefits. The first place they looked was in the application layer. They compared price and performance per instance using BEA WebLogic on both Sun Solaris and Red Hat Linux, and found that Linux would allow significant cost savings with no sacrifice in performance. They decided to migrate.
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Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
The Chronicle Herald is the biggest independently-owned newspaper in Canada and boasts a daily readership of 333,000. As a thoroughly automated newspaper operation, The Chronicle Herald requires a highly available server and operating system to keep operations moving 24x7. It recently migrated from a Sun Enterprise 3000 environment to IBM eServer BladeCenter with Red Hat Enterprise Linux, a decision that saves CA$14,000 (US$10,500) over three years in maintenance costs alone. Additionally, The Chronicle Herald uses Samba and Sendmail for file system and e-mail software rather than Microsoft® Windows NT® and Microsoft Exchange, creating a savings of CA$25,000 (US$18,800).
When Juan Quesada's company, a leading home builder, began considering Linux in 2001, Juan turned to Red Hat for instructor-led training. Early the following year he became a Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) and is now the Linux "go-to guy." "Experience is important," Juan notes, "but the RHCE proved to my company that I had the knowledge needed to carry out the Linux deployment with confidence and within time constraints."
Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Peñoles looked to Intel-based hardware solutions as a way to significantly
and quickly cut costs. Because their IT employees had a UNIX background,
Linux quickly emerged as the most viable solution. Peñoles ran several
performance tests with multiple Linux distributions, but, according to Pedro
Luis Sanchez Armas, IT Research Manager for the mining division, none matched
the results they achieved with Red Hat. "It simply tested better," says Sanchez
Armas. "We knew after our testing that it would meet our needs of cutting
costs while maintaining high levels of security and reliability."
Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS
Faced with commodity-style competitors, Fiat Auto needed a way to distinuish it's brand above and beyond quality cars. They instituted Fiat Link, a three-tier sales support and customer relationship management (CRM) tool based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Oracle9i RAC on HP Integrity Servers with 64-bit Intel Itanium 2 processors. Now Fiat dealers have instant access to real-time CRM, dealer, and vehicle information, creating a streamlined buying process while lowering the cost of each sale. Fiat Link will be in use across 5,800 retailers in 17 countries by 2005.
Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Lithonia Lighting, one of the largest industrial and commercial lighting manufacturers in the world, migrated from single, processor-based database servers to clustered servers running Oracle® 9i RAC on Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS. The result: Low costs and improved productivity.
Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Technical Account Manager
As an early adopter of Linux for enterprise applications,
Statoil has learned many lessons and seen great benefits. As one of the
world's largest operators for offshore oil and gas activities, Statoil
realized in the late 1990's that they needed to standardize their IT
infrastructure. Since then, they've migrated from seven UNIX variants to
Red Hat Enterprise Linux. In the process, they've experienced a 50% cost
savings, increased performance, and built the largest super-computer in
Norway.
Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS
With more than 2,000 offices and 12,000 employees across the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Poland, and the US, Randstad Holding is one of the largest temporary and contract staffing companies in the world. Randstad needed to centralize and consolidate a disparate administrative as well as ensure system stability and flexibility. Randstad and Red Hat worked together to implement a solution in an "incredibly short" time frame, according to Hidde Fennema, ICT project manager at Randstad.
Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SAP, Dell
Gruner + Jahr is faced with the challenge of achieving greater performance with fewer resources. Attracted by the low-cost and high-performance of Linux, they have migrated numerous business-critical applications away from UNIX and Windows NT to Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Solution: Red Hat Desktop, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Network
LVM is a nationwide insurance company, operating in the private sector
and represented by 2,100 agencies throughout Germany. After using an
in-house Linux solution for years, they needed an enterprise Linux OS
that could provide low total cost of ownership, ease of management,
stability, security, reliability, and flexibility. Their solution: Red
Hat Enterprise Linux on their servers and Red Hat Desktop on their desktops.
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Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
In order to meet the insurance industry's need for realtime access to claims and account information, LOSSRUNS needed to created an on-demand service built upon a secure, reliable platform: Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS on IBM's eServer® xSeries 342 systems.
Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
With over 70 call centers in over 20 countries, SITEL provides global call center and customer support services to major corporations around the world. When it came time to rethink its IT infrastructure, SITEL chose Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS running on Dell to build out databases and applications in its geographically remote call centers. The Result: Stability and reliability necessary for remote sites.