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Industry: Retail
Geography: Australia
Opportunity: As a rapidly expanding business, Loyalty Pacific needed a future-proof technology platform that was secure, reliable and efficient with a low Total Cost of Ownership (TCO), ease of administration and minimal maintenance
Solution: Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and Fedora
Hardware: 21 Intel Xeon servers
Benefits: 100 per cent system uptime. 80% less time required for set up. 70% less time required for maintenance. Strong support capabilities. Timely release cycles.
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Industry: Financial Services
Geography: Azerbaijan
Challenge: An overloaded email system. An IT system that didn’t deliver the reliability or security needed for modern e-banking.
Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux on Fujitsu-Siemens RX200 servers; a Cistron RADIUS server, BIND (DNS) and VPN routing.
Benefits: An increase in email users from 120 to 700. An improved IT infrastructure with servers that support new functionality, such as the VPN-channels that now branch throughout Europe.
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Industry: Financial Services
Challenges: Handle highly volatile user traffic and accomodate rapid growth. Seamlessly migrate from legacy UNIX-RISC environment. Improve network performance, while simultaneously reducing costs. Eliminate downtime
Solution: Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Oracle 9i Database & Order Routing System
Benefits: Enterprise Linux on x86 servers generate 10 times more performance than the earlier UNIX-RISC infrastructure. Linux’ inherent security provides a hassle free solution.
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Industry: Academia
Challenges: Modernize and scale proprietary, SMP-UNIX infrastructure. Set up a high performance computing environment that can handle cutting edge research projects. Simplify management and system administration.
Solution: Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Hardware: AMD64 and Intel 32-bit servers
Benefits: Improvement in performance and overall computation time through 64-bit x86 servers. Significant TCO reduction by eliminating the need for proprietary licenses and RISC based hardware. Freedom to modify and work with the source code
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Industry: Manufacturing
Challenges: Use technology to reduce manufacturing costs. Integrate ERP with legacy infrastructure. Eliminate server compromises. Seamlessly migrate key legacy components to the latest platform
Solution: Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Oracle E business suite & Red Hat Cluster Suite
Benefits: ERP project completed in a record time of under six months. Complete freedom to add multiple applications to infrastructure. Enterprise Linux & Red Hat Cluster Suite deliver continuous uptime with zero maintenance issues.
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Industry: Manufacturing
Challenge: Converting a closely interwoven and complex distribution model into a unified solution to automate the sales & distribution backbone.
Solution: Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Oracle E-Business Suite 11i.5.9
Benefits: Simplified management and complete freedom to scale up using low cost commodity hardware. Significant TCO reduction by saving on unnecessary licensing fees. Installing security patches and conducting routine server hardening checks reduced to a bare minimum.
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Industry: FinancialGeography: North Quincy, Massachusetts (also New Jersey, Florida, and Australia)
Challenge: CitiStreet faced increasing volume on its Web applications, both from an expanding client base and increased utilization of the Web by the plan participants they service. An earlier migration-from a C-based solution to Enterprise Java-had been successful but now required ongoing improvement. CitiStreet needed to future-proof its Web infrastructure and stay on budget.
Solution: Software: JBoss Application Server 3.2, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, Sun Java Virtual Machine 5.0
Hardware: HP ProLiant DL series servers (DL 580s and DL 360s)
Services: JBoss Consulting, JBoss On-site Training, JBoss Platinum Subscription, Red Hat Professional Services, Red Hat Support delivered through HP
Benefits: Significantly increased hardware resources without incurring any software licensing costs. Hundreds of thousands of dollars in additional cost savings per year with subscriptions to Red Hat Network and JBoss Operations Network. Improved performance and user experience on CitiStreet website. A resilient, highly-available, secure infrastructure to support long-term business growth. High-quality and responsive 24×7x365 support from knowledgeable, technical staff.
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Industry: Banking
Geography: India
Central Bank of India is one of the largest banks in India. Established in 1911, it was the first Indian commercial bank to be wholly owned and managed by Indians. Sir Sorabji Pochkhanawala, founder of the Bank proudly declared on its establishment that Central Bank was the ‘property of the nation and the country’s asset.’ The bank’s customer base of 25 million is among the largest in the industry and it has 3115 branches spread across the vast geography of India. Progressive management and far-sighted leadership have ensured that the bank has maintained its status as an asset for the country.
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Industry: Banking
Geography: India
Challenges: Automate more than 1000 branches across the country. Modernize branch automation. Retain existing hardware. Seamlessly migrate a custom designed TBA package to the latest platform.
Solution: Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Application: Integrated Branch Banking Software (IBBS)
Benefits: Improvement in system performance by more than 8 times. Significant TCO reduction by eliminating the need for purchasing new hardware and software licenses
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Industry: Telecommunications
Geography: Southeast Asia
Opportunity: Thailand offers a unique opportunity for prepaid phone services. Unfortunately, traditional telecommunication protocols that allow for easy implementation and usage tracking of such services are both lacking and expensive.
Solution: AIS developed its own Value-added Service Control Point (VSCP), providing the functionality needed to launch new mobile services to the postpaid market. The system was developed using Internet-based technologies, and runs on a redundant cluster of 200 Red Hat Enterprise Linux servers over three locations linked via X.500 connections. VSCP accounts for $32.5 million dollars of revenue each year.
Benefits: Reduced maintenance and purchase costs. Greater functionality. Simpler system management. And increased and faster performance. » Read more
Industry: Telecommunications
Geography: India
Challenges: Design a failproof televoting system to manage millions of SMSes. Conform servers to a peak load requirement in excess of 4000 messages per second. Ensure faster processing of votes and eliminate any window for performance delays. Build a system that can handle highly volatile SMS traffic. Ensure security of servers from viruses and attacks
Solution: Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Hardware: Intel Xeon
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