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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
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 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 An outdated and disjointed IT infrastructure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 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
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
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 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 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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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
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 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 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
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."
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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