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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, 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, 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, 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.