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Industry: Retail
Geography: France
Goal: To deploy a highly-available platform with long-term support for a critical sales and customer services tool called Caméléon
Solution: Platform: Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES, v 2.1
Hardware: Dell Poweredge 2650
Applications: Camaon, Oracle
Systems Management: Red Hat Network Satellite
Benefits: High availabiliy and reliability for critical software. Long-term support. Easy, fast installation. No proprietary lock-in.
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Industry: Retail
Geography: Europe
Opportunity: Due to the mass and complexity of information and commercial activity handled in each store, system reliability and availability are essential prerequisites for the IT system at Kingfisher. When Kingfisher knew that support would soon end for their UNIX and NT servers, they were faced with the challenge of renewing a vast IT architecture for their 240 Castorama and Brico Dépôt stores in France, Italy, Poland, Spain and Russia.
Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Applications: Vision64, Time Navigator, Interpel, Dollar Universe, Oracle AS10G, with an Oracle 9i database and WEBFORMS
Hardware: HP ProLiant ML 370 G4 with 8Gb memory, Dual-core-processors, 5X140 Gb disk in RAID
Benefits: The Kingfisher Group is in the process of equipping 240 of its European outlets with Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Red Hat has enabled the Group to cut the number of servers it requires in half and make a return on its investment in just eight months, while delivering a ten-fold increase in performance. In Red Hat Enterprise Linux, the Kingfisher Group found a solution that allowed all of its requirements to be satisfied with a single server, and the ability to run both production tools and infrastructure services on the same box. This has translated into large cost-savings and even faster deployments and updates.
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Fiat Auto is transforming distribution to suit customers’ needs with Fiat Link, an innovative sales support/customer relationship management (CRM) solution. Customers can now configure and buy their Fiat of choice with Fiat Link, which sales people access from wireless HP Tablet PCs. Fiat Link will integrate and enhance sales and service across 5,800 retailers in Europe by 2005. HP Services consultants developed Fiat Link’s three-tier, Red Hat Enterprise Linux-based infrastructure, powered by an Oracle9i Real Application Clusters database on HP Integrity servers equipped with 64-bit Intel Itanium 2 processors.
Orbitz, a leading online travel company, is known for offering leisure and business travelers the widest selection of low airfares, as well as deals on lodging, car rentals, cruises, vacation packages, and other travel. In fact, Orbitz returns 20% more choices per search than their closest competitor*, and they do so with a significantly smaller financial base and fewer resources.
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Industry: Consumer, e-commerce
Geography: Park City, Utah
Challenge: To keep up with the rapid yearly growth in a busy e-commerce business and to obtain an application that fosters innovation and easy self-management.
Solution: Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 and 4, Red Hat Network, Fedora™ Core 5
Hardware: IBM, Dell 2650s, HP
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To solidify its market-leading status, AutoTradeCenter (ATC), a top Internet-based business-to-business automotive remarketing company, turned to Red Hat and HP for help constructing a reliable, stable and responsive e-commerce site (99.99 percent or “four nines” availability).
Messe Munchen International (Munich International Trade Fai–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 fi ve subsidiary companies abroad, global trade fairs and 75 foreign branches dealing with 89 countries, MMI has a very strong worldwide network.
MMI is clearly set for further growth, and, as the business expands, so must the IT infrastructure. This need became apparent by the middle of 2005; the existing infrastructure for providing web services was no longer fully able to cope with the increased requirements. Further scaling of the system would have involved great expense. At that time, the web services were based on a Linux cluster using the NFS fi le system; the operating system used on the cluster nodes was Debian.
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Industry: Telecommunications
Industry: Technology (ASP, Hosting and E-Business)
Geography: The Netherlands
Challenge: To build a standardized, high-availability application-, web- and database-server environment that would ensure security, interoperablity with multiple database systems, and cost efficiency for a growing customer base.
Solution: Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS Premium Edition, Red Hat Network Satellite Server, Red Hat Technical Account Manager (TAM)
Hardware: HP Proliant DL380, HP BL20, Dell PowerEdge 1850, Dell PowerEdge 2850s servers
Benefits: Increased performance and availability of applications on a standardized platform. Simplified maintenance and support. ISO 17799 compliance.
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Industry: Website hosting
Geography: Austin, Texas
Opportunity: To gain better control over system availability and provide consistently high quality of service to a growing customer base.
Solution: 150 Dell servers running Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Applications: Roaring Penguin CanIt-PRO
Hardware: Dell 860s to Dell 2950s
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