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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.
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
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
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
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: Diskless Shared Root Cluster
IP-Tech AG is one of the largest full service providers in Switzerland. The company offers its customers hosting, voice-over IP, and application services. It was founded in 2000, grew rapidly, and now manages more than 25,000 domains for web and mail services. The company's IT infrastructure had expanded over the years to more than 30 servers, each with its own operating system and storage device. In view of this heterogenous environment, the indications at IP-Tech were for standardization and consolidations.
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 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
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
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, 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
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
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 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.
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.