InfoJobs.net Selects Red Hat and JBoss Solutions For Critical Business Platform

Spanish Employment Portal Relies on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JBoss Enterprise Application Platform for key architecture deploymentRaleigh, NC– June 30, 2009

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Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that InfoJobs.net, one of the leading employment websites in Spain, has migrated its critical web business platform to Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JBoss Enterprise Application Platform with the help of Essi Projects, a Red Hat Premier Business Partner.

Infojobs.net now fully leverages JBoss Application Platform 4.2.0 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux for its application servers, indexing subsystem and database servers. Established ten years ago, InfoJobs.net runs a high-traffic web portal and has experienced significant growth. More than 5,500 users register their curriculum vitae through the InfoJobs.net web portal each day. With over 100,000 employment vacancies listed, Infojobs.net must meet the high-volume demand required by its users. Because of Red Hat’s significant value and fast run-times the IT department at InfoJobs.net migrated to Red Hat Enterprise Linux for all its environments and JBoss Enterprise Application Platform for its web and satellite servers.

 

“Red Hat and their partner, Essi Projects, provide the greatest value for our business model. They provide superior on-demand support which is exactly what we need,” said Gabriel Prat, IT manager, InfoJobs.net.

Essi Projects, a Red Hat Premier Business Partner, designed and implemented an automated procurement environment for the various development, production and pre-production, QA and testing environments. In addition, Essi Project engineers performed analysis for each of the InfoJobs.net systems creating personalized profiles for the installation and configuration, automated and unattended environments. One of the most significant improvements has been a reduction of the time necessary to prepare a server for operations, a task that now requires only a few minutes.

“The challenge of operating a website with completely dynamic content is enormous. Through open source technology we can offer our users smooth browsing with constant response time,” said Prat.

By leveraging Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, InfoJobs.net now has a scalable platform with full integration between application servers and the infrastructure level. Additionally, the deployment and maintenance tasks for new nodes have been simplified by adding a standard hardware wrapping, based on blade servers; the operations department can operate the application server infrastructure at full speed.

“We have a highly-skilled group of technicians and developers that enjoy working with Red Hat and the open source community,” added Gabriel Prat. “With the open source development model and Red Hat’s world class support we will be able to quickly resolve any issues that might arise.”

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About InfoJobs.net
InfoJobs.net is the leading private employment website in Spain and Europe. Created in 1998, it employs a team of 200 professionals.

The portal offers 100,000 job opportunities in 10,000 companies and serves more than 180 million page views per month, according to last year’s OJD details. According to Nielsen/Netratings, InfoJobs.net was the leading employment portal in Spain in November 2008 with a 54% visitor share.
InfoJobs.net belongs to the Anuntis group, the Spanish leader in all online classified advertising segments: Employment (InfoJobs.net), Real Estate (fotocasa.es), Motor (coches.net) and classified (segundamano.es). It owns 27 Internet portals.

Anuntis is owned by the Nordic group Schibsted (76%) and the founders of Anuntis (24%).

About Essi Projects S.A.
Essi Projects is an Information Technology and Communications Engineering company, specialized in application infrastructure and system integration projects. It primarily develops its activities in the Iberian Peninsula. The company focuses on the execution of system infrastructure projects, specifically in the areas of operating environments (servers, storage, Unix/Linux systems), application infrastructure (databases, application servers and frameworks), information and collaboration systems (communication tools, portals), software architecture (J2EE) and security.

Essi Projects has on various occasions won awards from manufacturers and wholesalers for its work in the market. Some of these awards include the one received recently from Red Hat as Best Infrastructure Partner of the Year FY08 for EMEA (Europe, Middle East & Africa), highlighting the work of Essi Projects as a Red Hat Premier Partner and JBoss Premier Partner.

About Red Hat, Inc.
Red Hat, the world’s leading open source solutions provider, is headquartered in Raleigh, NC with over 65 offices spanning the globe. CIOs ranked Red Hat as one of the top vendors delivering value in Enterprise Software for five consecutive years in the CIO Insight Magazine Vendor Value survey. Red Hat provides high-quality, affordable technology with its operating system platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, together with applications, management and Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) solutions, including JBoss Enterprise Middleware. Red Hat also offers support, training and consulting services to its customers worldwide. Learn more: www.redhat.com.

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