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Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
AVEPA, the Veneto Agency for Agriculture Payments, began moving their
claims-handling process to an online solution in 2002. Demand for the
system grew more than exponentially, and AVEPA required a new IT system
that could handle the current demand, and would be extensible enough to
accommodate future increase — while meeting strict requirements for
security and reliability. With the deployment of Red Hat Enterprise
Linux, AVEPA realized immense improvements in reliability and stability,
flexibility for future expansion, and has enjoyed open source's inherent
cost-savings and value.
Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Airtel is India's largest GSM mobile services provider. The telecommunications giant has setup the nation's largest televoting system on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, which handles millions of SMSes generated by viewers of popular reality TV shows - Kaun Banega Crorepati & Indian Idol. Whenever an open contest is aired on KBC and Indian Idol, millions of viewers send an SMS in a short span of just 3-4 minutes. The Enterprise Linux servers have been handling this mission critical SMS load for ten months at a stretch without a single instance of slowdown or downtime. The servers have outperformed all throughput tests turning many UNIX fans at Airtel into strong Open Source believers.
Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
AIS now ranks first in the wireless communications business and remains the leading mobile phone operator and network system provider in Thailand. AIS prides itself as a pioneer in technology innovation-an essential competitive edge for maintaining its dominant market share and growth position.
Solution: 150 Dell servers running Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Founded in 1999, Apollo Hosting is an award winning web hosting company whose services and packages consistently receive the highest rankings in the industry. The company uniquely offers total hosting solutions that enable customers to build, market, and maintain their websites, whether they contain a few simple informational pages or require the most complex e-commerce capabilities. Dedicated to providing the best levels of support to its customers, Apollo was one of the first hosting companies to offer 24/7/365 Live Technical Support Chat and toll-free phone support. With so much to offer, it's no surprise that this privately-owned, Austin-based company began turning a profit since its inception. Today, Apollo Hosting services 30,000 customers worldwide.
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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 GFS
Messe Munchen International (Munich International Trade Fair--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 five subsidiary companies abroad, global trade fairs and 75 foreign branches dealing with 89 countries, MMI has a very strong worldwide network.
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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 HPProLiant 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® 3 and 4, Red Hat® Network, Fedora™ Core 5
Backcountry.com is an online retailer that sells high-end outdoor gear for hard-core recreational enthusiasts and athletes. The company is dedicated to being the most successful online retailer of the best-built outdoor and backcountry gear in the world. Born out of the founders' love of skiing and the Internet, Backcountry.com now works with over 385 brands and 100,000 skus. Founded in 1996 with just $2,000 of the co-founders' own money, Backcountry.com had net sales revenue of $52 million in FY05. The company has operated out of a 207,000 square foot warehouse in Salt Lake City, Utah since August 2005.
Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
UK-based Baylis Logistics is an established third-party distribution company operating a nationwide network of seven depots covering in total just under one million square feet of storage space. Baylis lorries move food, liquor, and consumable goods to supermarkets across the country.
Baylis Logistics' legacy IT environment was based on a number of discrete networks at each depot location, with hardware and software duplicated across the seven warehouse facilities. At each depot, operations staff used Windows PCs to access browser-based and telnet applications. When its aging Microsoft Windows and SCO Unix-based IT infrastructure needed replacing, Baylis Logistics turned to LinuxIT and Red Hat to implement a new infrastructure based on a thin client architecture running Red Hat Enterprise Linux and centrally managed by Baylis Logistics' own IT support team.
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.
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
Canara Bank's TBA modernization project marks the largest deployment of Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the Indian BFSI segment till date. Red Hat Enterprise Linux will power mission critical banking services on approximately 1,000 servers and 10,000 desktops in Canara Bank's branches across the country. In migrating its TBA application from a legacy Novell Netware environment to Enterprise Linux, Canara Bank has managed to improve system performance by more than 8 times.
Solution: Red Hat GFS
CD-adapco is a global leader of engineering and modeling services for a wide spectrum of businesses that include automotive and aerospace industries. With offices spanning the globe and clients demanding advanced computation-based engineering, CD-adapco must quickly and efficiently create cutting-edge solutions that meet the exacting standards of these highly technical industries. Large amounts of computing power and storage are essential requirements to carry out this mission-critical function.
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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
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, JBoss Application Server
In 2001, CitiStreet first realized its Web infrastructure may not support its growing business and migrated from a C-based system to Enterprise Java, which would be less expensive, more responsive, and more scalable. CitiStreet chose BEA WebLogic as its runtime application platform. At the same time, CitiStreet also made the decision to move off Sun Solaris to Red Hat Advanced Server 3.0 (now known as Red Hat Enterprise Linux), for their DNS servers.
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 Linux has a strong reputation within
Magisterial Department 14 in the city of Vienna. In many ways, its use
of open source is exemplary of other public institutions and
enterprises. From the early 1990s, the city of Vienna has been running
Linux servers. At the start, these were mainly systems with FreeBSD.
However, as the City of Vienna looked to the future and the migration of
mission-critical systems to Linux, a reliable Linux platform, developed
and supported by a professional vendor, was needed.
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Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
COIG is a major outsourcing company and independent software vendor
(ISV) in Poland, responsible for managing several major IT contracts.
Among these contracts, COIG maintains the IT infrastructure for Poland's
entire coal mine network. An 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. After looking at all the major Linux
distributions and holding an intensive evaluation session, COIG opted
for Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
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
Eveready, India's leading manufacturer of dry cell batteries and flashlights, has built a mission critical resource system to automate all functionalities of its day-to-day business using Oracle E-Business Suite running on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux platform. To ensure maximum uptime and optimal hardware utilization, the implementation has been enabled through the Red Hat Cluster Suite.
Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
As the government agency responsible for regulating and overseeing all aspects of civil aviation within the United States, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) accomodates more than two million passengers on domestic airlines every day. With roughly 8,000 airplanes in the air at any given time, the successful execution of the FAA's mission largely depends on the highly complex Traffic Flow Management (TFM) infrastructure and its real-time Enhanced Traffic Management System (ETMS).
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
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, Oracle 9i RAC, SAP BW, SAP SEM
There are now a variety of systems within The Gas Natural Group running on Enterprise Linux, including one of the most business critical systems: a corporate data warehouse powered by Oracle® Database 9i RAC and SAP Business Information Warehouse (BW), and another system running SAP Strategic Enterprise Management (SEM). The overall TCO (total cost of ownership) of their IT infrastructure has been reduced by a 1:4 factor and performance gains in their data warehouse have been as high as 5,214% in some queries.
Solution: Red Hat® Enterprise Linux®, Red Hat Cluster Suite, Red Hat Global File System, Fibre Channel SCSI
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.
Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SAP
Heritage Propane Partners distributes propane to more than 650,000customers in the US. Until 2003, Heritage ran a DOS-based accountingsystem; however, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and short deadlines forcompliancy quickly rendered these systems out of date. Heritage is acost-conscious company and had always found the value proposition ofopen source software very compelling. Given the project's large scaleand short timelines, choosing the right solutions and knowledgablevendors was critical. They chose SAP ERP Financials, MySQL MaxDB, andRed Hat Enterprise Linux, and had the solution live in three months.
Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Hikal's mission critical Oracle ERP project running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux is a testimony to the robustness, performance, scalability and security of the Linux operating system. Red Hat's commitment towards providing a single point of support for enterprise deployments coupled with the high reliability factor of Enterprise Linux has given Hikal the required confidence to bank its entire business on the Open Source platform.
Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Cluster Suite, Red Hat support services
Host Europe develops and markets Internet services for private and commercial customers in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. The company provides customers with a fail-safe infrastructure, a comprehensive range of scalable and high-quality Internet services, as well as customer-focused support. In order to make this range of services available, Host Europe focuses on partnerships with experienced technology companies. Over 25% of companies quoted on the German stock exchange, DAX, use services provided by Host Europe.
Solution: High Performance Red Hat Enterprise Linux clusters
One of India's premier academic institutions, IIT Kanpur is today globally recognized for its pioneering research projects. The secret? A state of the art research facility that is open to both students and faculty round the clock. By scaling out from a SMP-UNIX based environment to High Performance Red Hat Enterprise Linux clusters, IIT Kanpur has managed to reduce costs and improve performance and management. The two Enterprise Linux clusters have contributed significantly to cutting edge projects.
Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Indiabulls is India's leading retail financial services company. With approximately 8,000 concurrent investors logged on to the Indiabulls online share trading network at any given time, there is absolutely no room for error. During peak loads, the Oracle 9i database receives approximately 1,500,000 queries per minute. In migrating this mission critical application and database infrastructure from HP Tru64 to Red Hat Enterprise Linux running on x86 servers, Indiabulls has achieved 10 times more performance at less than half the cost.
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
The International Bank of Azerbaijan is Azerbaijan's leading financial institution. When they needed to upgrade their email and Internet servers, they chose Red Hat Enterprise Linux because of its reliability, security, and cost.
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
With 331 B&Q stores and brands such as Trade Depot and Screwfix Direct in the UK, 102 Castorama and 73 Brico Dépôt stores in France, 26 Castorama stores in Italy, 30 in Poland, 7 Brico Dépôt stores in Spain, and two in Russia, the British Kingfisher Group is the European leader in the home improvement and DIY market. The Kingfisher Group is also present in Turkey with the Koçta stores and in Asia with B&Q China, B&Q Taiwan and B&Q Korea, and has a major stake in Hornbach, the German leader in DIY Retail. The Kingfisher Group is the world's third-largest retailer in the DIY sector.
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).
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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The Banche Popolari Unite Group (BPU) is the seventh largest banking group in Italy and the largest co-operative credit bank. They chose Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Desktop because they received a hands-on approach from Red Hat and guaranteed reliability, robustness, and efficiency from Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Desktop.
Solution: Red Hat ® Enterprise Linux 4 ; Red Hat Global File System.
The Liberty University IT Development and Engineering Department is responsible for serving the technology needs of Liberty's constantly growing community by providing services to its faculty and staff, as well as both residential and distance learning students.
Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and Fedora
As the name behind Australia's favourite rewards programs, FlyBuys and MYERone, the Loyalty Pacific Pty Ltd joint venture between Coles Group Limited and National Australia Bank was created in 1994 to establish and manage customer loyalty development and fulfillment initiatives. Today, more than 2.8 million Australian households actively use their FlyBuys cards each month.
Solution: Red Hat Desktop, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Network
LVM is a nationwide insurance company, operating in the private sectorand represented by 2,100 agencies throughout Germany. After using anin-house Linux solution for years, they needed an enterprise Linux OSthat could provide low total cost of ownership, ease of management,stability, security, reliability, and flexibility. Their solution: RedHat Enterprise Linux on their servers and Red Hat Desktop on their desktops.
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The Town Council in Marsala created its first computer-based infrastructure 1981 and has been a pioneer in offering online services to its citizens. With increasing user numbers and the need for advancedresources, it looked for a solution to help control costs related to upgrading and maintenance without reducing the number of services available to its citizens.
The Marsala Town Council now has a highly advanced IT department,equipped with very high-tech servers where Red Hat Enterprise Linux plays the central role. All the services provided by the Town Council, both in the office and online, are based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Access to the online services is now easier and quicker for citizens, with no risk to the reliability and security of the Town Council's IT structure.
Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
The Government of Maharashtra case study illustrates why Linux and other open source programs are gaining popularity with governments, the world over. The use of Linux, open source software and commodity hardware has helped GoM provide "Anytime, Anywhere, Anyhow," access to more than one million citizens while keeping a tight leash on administrative expenses. Various e-governance initiatives like Treasury Management, Citizen Facilitation Centers, Document Journey Management System and the Land Records Management System have been deployed on the Red Hat Linux platform. With the amazing success of these Open Source projects, as a policy, the Government has decided to develop all new applications on Linux.
Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
McKesson Provider Technologies wanted to create a comprehensive underlying architecture for its clinical information systems that support a full range of patient care and administrative processes within a healthcare organization. Working with Red Hat, McKesson became the first company to adopt the Red Hat Enterprise Healthcare Platform, a new solution featuring Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), Red Hat Network, and JBoss Enterprise Middleware Suite.
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Solution: Two Dell servers running Red Hat Enterprise Linux and multiple open source software solutions
The growing number of consumers who are using camcorders, video-capable digital cameras, and camera phones to capture video clips and pictures means that there is a corresponding demand for ways to share these digital experiences. However, video editing tools on the market mostly cater to a minority of video production professionals, and are often too complex, time-consuming, and expensive for everyday use. Singapore based muvee Technologies addresses the growing need for consumer video creation with its flagship autoProducer PC software, which enables anyone to instantly turn videos and pictures into compelling, professional-quality productions in hundreds of different styles. muvee automatically adds themed visual effects to video highlights in sync with the user's chosen music to create an emotionallyengaging, finished production that is ready for sharing. Each production is created in seconds--literally thousands of times faster than using conventional video editing tools. With global partners including Hewlett-Packard, Warner Music Group, Sony, Nikon, LG, and Olympus, the company is currently an internationally recognized leader in this new field of 'Instant Personal Video'.
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Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
NetCreations, a world leader in opt-in e-mail direct marketing, replaced two existing Alpha servers with an IBM eServer® xSeries systems running Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS. The result: $100,000 annual savings on infrastructure costs and licensing fees; 78% decrease in processing time for select applications; and enhanced responsiveness to customers - just to name a few.
Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 and 4, Oracle Application Server 10g and Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition
New Zealand Post is internationally recognised as one of the most efficient providers of inexpensive postal services in the world.
Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
The Judicial Branch of Peru is an autonomous service-oriented institution whose purpose is to confront the legal challenges of the future with judges committed to the process of change, transformation, and modernization. Their work translates into juridical security and inspires confidence in the judicial system among citizens. The Judicial Branch relies on appropriate technological and administrative support to accomplish its goals. Its mission is "to administer justice through its jurisdictional bodies, pursuant to the Constitution and laws; to guarantee juridical security and jurisdictional protection; and to contribute to the state of law, social peace, and national development.
Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
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.
Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
The Province of Gelderland is a Dutch governmental body that coordinates policy implementation by local councils, water boards, and other agencies.
All IT facilities for the Province's staff are accommodated in its DS/IT department with a staff of 50.
As with other Dutch government organizations, the Province of Gelderland is required to find cost-effective solutions and provide in-house IT facility services at market-standard rates.
The Province also needed to migrate a heterogeneous infrastructure based on Unix and MPE/iX to a standardized environment while maintaining or improving the functionality and level of its IT performance.
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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, 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
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, Red Hat Cluster Suite, Red Hat Application Server, Red Hat Network
Arpa Piemonte, Italy's Environmental Protection Agency for the Piedmont region, will provide the weather service to the 2006 Winter Olympic Games in Turin, Italy. The system configuration being used is a reliability cluster based on two servers running Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES 3, Red Hat Cluster Suite, and Red Hat Application Server.
Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Denkavit's primary objective was to build a standardized, easy-to-manage system that maintained all current functionality, safeguarded the continuity of all processes, and ensured a flexible future-proof IT environment. The company's calculations also show that its Red Hat Enterprise Linux solution will-overall-be less expensive by a factor of four than some of the other solutions that were under consideration.
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.
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Platform: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Directory Server, Red Hat Network, Red Hat Satellite Server
Hardware: JuTzu, Race servers, HPDL rat mouse server
Highmark Inc. is Pennsylvania's largest health insurance company by membership. It was created in 1996 by the consolidation of two Pennsylvania licensees of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association - Pennsylvania Blue Shield (now Highmark Blue Shield) and Blue Cross of Western Pennsylvania (now Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield). They are now one of the largest health insurers in the United States.
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Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, JBoss Application Server
Priceline.com regularly sees millions of page views and thousands of bookings per day. As an Internet-based travel service provider, downtime and outages are not an option. The company decided to shift to Red Hat and open source solutions in order to provide the highest-performing services and applications possible and to realize cost savings. Priceline.com also evaluated JBoss due to the company's predisposition toward developing in Java and to potentially generate further savings based on the open source model.
Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux with Rackspace Web Hosting
French automobile manufacturer Renault is the most popular vehicle brand in Europe and is among the top three in the United Kingdom. Offering distinctive, clever design and value for money, its vehicles are considered among the safest in the world. Renault relies on websites strategically tailored for each market as a primary information source for customers. The reconfiguration of the company's UK micro sites to a managed web hosting solution running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux maximizes commercial gain by ensuring the consistent availability of online information for existing and future customers.
Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Secure-24 provides information security and managed hosting solutions for companies who need a reliable, high-quality hosting alternative to in-house solutions. High performance and high availability are paramount to the success of Secure-24. This is why they chose Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat GFS on Dell servers with Intel 64-bit processors when they began building out their IT infrastructure.
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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.
Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, version 3
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.
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SMHI is Sweden's meteorological and hydrological institute and the country's expert authority on meteorology, hydrology, and oceanography, as well as a resource for many types of environmental work. Many public and private companies rely on SMHI to deliver reliable information on time.
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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 5 with virtualization, Red Hat Cluster Suite, Red Hat Satellite Server, JBoss Application Server, IBM Blade servers
Swisscom IT Services, a strategic subsidiary of the Swisscom Group, the largest Swiss telecommunications provider, needed to create a standardized and stable operating system environment to host outsourced services for its customers. The company also wanted to simplify the provisioning and allocation of new servers by creating an automated staging infrastructure. Under the name "Simply Managed Linux" (SIMLUX), Swisscom decided to work with Red Hat to develop a highly flexible and effective infrastructure for its data centres.
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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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 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
Arabtec Construction LLC (Arabtec) is the leading construction company in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Established in 1975, the company has undertaken a substantial program of construction projects, including high rise developments, hotel interiors, residential complexes, office blocks, airport developments, offshore oil and gas installations, cinemas, and entertainment facilities. The construction company's current projects include the Dubai Tower (the tallest tower in the world), The Dubai International Finance Centre, and the Conference Palace in Abu Dhabi.
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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 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
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 with Red Hat Cluster Suite
When UTI Bank decided to setup a state of the art call center, it was looking for a robust platform that could guarantee high availability of services and ensure uninterrupted call traffic. By selecting Red Hat Enterprise Linux to power its infrastructure on low cost Intel servers, UTI Bank has received immense freedom to dynamically scale up its resources as the call volume expands. It has been one year since the call center has been up and running, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux together with Red Hat Cluster Suite have delivered 99.99% uptime so far, handling volumes of over 7000 calls per day.
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.
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
AVEPA, the Veneto Agency for Agriculture Payments, began moving their
claims–handling process to an online solution in 2002. Demand for the
system grew more than exponentially, and AVEPA required a new IT system
that could handle the current demand, and would be extensible enough to
accommodate future increase—while meeting strict requirements for
security and reliability. With the deployment of Red Hat Enterprise
Linux, AVEPA realized immense improvements in reliability and stability,
flexibility for future expansion, and has enjoyed open source's inherent
cost–savings and value.
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Among a full range of IT-solutions, WM-data offers a specific server outsourcing service called "Capacity on Demand", which enables its customers to rent server capacity instead of buying server hardware. The existing service used servers running on proprietary operating systems, but WM-data was receiving increasing demand from its customers for a similar service running on Linux. Red Hat's status as leading Linux distributor, assured WM-data's customers of a reliable, quality and cost-efficient solution with high accessibility and flexibility meeting with SLA-demands.
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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.