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Industry: Education
Geography: Switzerland
Opportunity: Replace two obsolete OpenLDAP servers to guarantee a greater level of reliability
Migration Path: Fedora to Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Directory Server
Hardware: Three servers with 3 GHz Intel Dual Core Xeon processors, each with 4 GB RAM and each with 2 x 76 GB SAS hard disk drives, distributed to two server rooms.
Benefits: Increased reliability, ensured stability at peak access times, enabled monitoring and failover functionality, enabled the modification of configuration during operation
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Industry: Food Manufacturing
Geography: Italy
Opportunity: Ensure the fast processing of customer orders by reducing system response times and maintaining consistent performance levels, even during peak periods
Solution:
Benefits: Maintain response times calculating to under one second, efficiently manage various databases with over 24 gigabytes of data and simplify communication among operating systems through use of XML within the mainframe
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Industry: Finance
Region: Germany
Opportunity: Migration and automation of core business application
Solution: JBoss Application Server
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Industry: Online retail
Geography: Argentina & Chile
Opportunity: deRemate.com wanted to create a portal through which any person with an email account could transfer money. The portal would enable the payment of purchases generally completed through the company’s transactional sites in several countries including Argentina, Chile, Colombia, and Mexico. The service was previously provided to deRemate.com by a third party, but the company looked to discover a solution that allowed the action to take place in-house and would eliminate outsourcing. » Read more
Industry: Digital advertising
Challenge: DoubleClick faced the challenge of developing an infrastructure that is reliable, cost-effective, and most importantly, flexible, in providing choice with hardware vendors in order to avoid vendor lock-in.
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS, Red Hat Network, Acronis True Image Server for Linux, Solaris, Windows, Red Hat Global Learning Services - Red Hat Certified Engineer training
Hardware: AMD, Intel, HP
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Industry: Financial Services
Challenge: SNS Bank’s IT systems handle 500,000 daily transactions produced by various applications on 3,300 workstations. The bank’s front-end system was reaching its technical and economical limit and was reducing the opportunity for innovation and scalability within the organization. The SNS IT team, responsible for cost savings, looked for a solution that was flexible, stable, and scalable.
Solution: Software: JBoss Application Server
Hardware: 8 IBM X-series servers
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Industry: Education
Geography: Scotland, United Kingdom
Challenge: To significantly improve performance of legacy UNIX systems, while creating a compelling cost/benefit case for new systems.
Solution: Platform: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Software: SAP Enterprise R/3 with SAP HR/Payroll Public Sector version 4.70 on Oracle Database 9.2.0.5
Hardware: HP Proliant DL380, HP Integrity Servers (rx4640 and rx2600) based on Intel 1.3GHz Itanium 2 processors.
Benefits: Three-fold improvement in system performance. Lower project costs (as much as half the previous system costs). Multi-platform support. Impressive reliability and stability.
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Industry: Construction
Geography: United Arab Emirates
Challenge: Outsourced email servers provided poor performance, increased costs, and security concerns.
Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux on an HP Intel Xeon architecture with SCSI hard disk driver and RAID hardware.
Benefits: A five-fold performance gain and dramatically reduced costs.
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Industry: Services
Geography: Switzerland
Opportunity: Swisscom IT Services needed to create a standardised 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.
Solution: Hardware: IBM Blade servers
Software: Simple Managed Linux (SIMLUX) including Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 with virtualization, Red Hat Cluster Suite, Red Hat Satellite Server, JBoss Enterprise Application Server
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Industry: Meteorology, hydrology, and oceanography
Geography: Head office in Norrköping, Sweden with offices all over Sweden
Aim: To standardize from VMS, Tru64, SGI, and Solaris to Linux, cutting costs and enhancing efficiency within the organization
Solution: Platform: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Hardware: Intel
Applications: Include JBoss, MySQL, J2EE applications developed in-house
Advantages: Substantial reduction in costs and simpler operation compared to proprietary operating systems
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Industry: Construction
Geography: Sweden
Goal: Reduce hardware costs and improve performance
Solution: Platform: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, version 3
Hardware: Dell PowerEdge servers, including 6650s
Applications: Oracle E-Business Suite 11i, Oracle10g RAC
Benefits: Estimated 30% cost reduction. Noticable performance increase.
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Industry: Automobile/Consumer
Challenge: To reconfigure and consolidate Renault’s UK micro-site hosting requirements
Solution: Platform: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Web Hosting Implementation: Rackspace
Benefits: Consolidated all UK micro-sites on a single platform. Reduced on-going costs. Guaranteed improved customer experience. Enhanced scalability, and increased control.
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Industry: Media
Geography: Germany
Goal: Migrate to Linux from UNIX and Windows NT in order to reduce costs and increase stability and performance
Solution: Platform: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Software: SAP Applications & SAP Database
Hardware: Dell multiprocessor servers
Benefits: Lower cost. Impressive stability. Central systems management. Professional support.
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Industry: Food manufacturing
Geography: Netherlands, Germany, Italy, France
Challenge: To replace an outdated custom-built system with a standard Intel-based IT environment using proprietary software. Providing all functionality required for the highly specialized animal feeds market.
Solution: First European implementation of Oracle® EnterpriseOne on Red Hat® Enterprise Linux®.
Platform: Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS
Hardware: HP® DL380 and DL580 multi-way Intel® Xeon-based servers
Benefits: Simplified management of a standards-based solution. Migration to a single integrated ERP system for all European branches. Ended dependency on IT staff.
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Industry: Services
Geography: Italy
Goal: To provide fast, reliable weather forecasting for the 2006 Winter Olympic Games
Solution: Platform: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 ES
Software: Red Hat Cluster Suite, Red Hat Application Server
Systems Management: Red Hat Network
Benefits: Reliable and secure. Solid support. Simple systems management.
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