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“The multi-master replication was a huge issue for us previously. Red Hat Directory Server has solved that completely. Students, faculty and staff are our end users and this solution gives them the ability to make password changes effectively and securely so they can focus on their work.”
- Michael Pettinicchio, Systems Administrator, Dartmouth College
Industry: Higher Education
Geography: New Hampshire
Opportunity: Experiencing major issues and frustration with password replication that caused headaches for end users and IT staff
Migration Path: Sun ONE Directory Server to Red Hat Directory Server
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Directory Server
Benefits: Eliminated replication issues and increased security in seamless transition
“Red Hat training is a big reason why we’ve been able to keep things running smoothly.
The best compliment from our average end user is nothing at all and that is what we’ve heard since the RHEL deployment.”
Jon Cutler, Director of Systems Administration, Marshall University
Industry: Higher Education
Geography: West Virginia
Opportunity: Running on a slow and expensive older system caused frustration for many at Marshall
Migration Path: SunGard Banner on HP AlphaServer with Open VMS to Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Software: SunGard Banner on RHEL
Hardware: Dell
Benefits: Enjoying increased performance, improved speed, and enhanced hardware options in a simplified environment
Category: Certified Service Provider
Winner:Amentra
Submitted by: Amentra Team
Industry: Amentra = Technology / La Petite Academy = Education
Geography: Virginia
Overview
Selected for helping enterprises deploy mission-critical business systems on JEMS through a formal, experience-proven mentoring and software development program.
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Category: Ecosystem
Winner: Rivet Logic Corporation
Submitted by: Mike Vertal, CEO/President/Owner
Industry: Rivet = Technology Partner / Kaplan = Education
Geography: Reston, VA
Overview
Rivet Logic, a provider of professional services focused on open source solutions, and Kaplan Test Prep and Admissions, a premier provider of educational and career services for individuals, schools and businesses, were selected for their use of Alfresco’s content management platform in support of the upgrade of Kaplan’s online presence from a legacy system to a JBoss-centric solution. The teams employed JBoss Seam (and Facelets), JBoss Application Server, Hibernate and jBPM to create a next-generation platform for the www.kaptest.com site that can deliver personalized applications and dynamic, targeted content. The results include a 26x performance improvement over the legacy content authoring/delivery system, much faster page load times and a “fresher” web presence for Kaplan Test Prep and Admissions.
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Industry/Solution: Higher Education
Challenge: Quick deployment of servers in an ever-growing network
Solution: Platform: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Academic Edition with Red Hat Network; Hardware: IBM xSeries servers; Software: Oracle 9i Enterprise Database Server, Oracle 9i RAC, Oracle 10g RAC, Oracle 9i AS (J2EE), Blackboard Course Management System 6.1, Several custom-developed applications
Benefits: Quicker deployment of servers and increased security and performance on mission-critical applications within budget requriements.
Category: Increased Return on Investment
Submitted by: Andrea Zissler: Director, Information Technology
Industry: Education and Information Technology
Geography: Ann Arbor, MI
Website: http://www.proquest.com
Overview
An innovative approach to drive out cost and achieve measurable ROI as a result of implementing a Red Hat solution. Results could include financial return or percentage increase in productivity, yield, efficiency, quality, or uptime performance.
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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: Public Sector/Education
Challenge: Keeping costs to a minimum
Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
Benefits: Better efficiency, reliability and enhanced cost savings
Website: http://www.ycusd.k12.ca.us/
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Industry: Higher Education
Challenge: Regain top notch performance
Solution: Platform: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Academic Edition with Red Hat Network
Hardware: HP DL-series servers
Software: Oracle 9i Enterprise Database Server, Oracle 9i RAC, Oracle 10g RAC, Oracle 9i AS (J2EE), Blackboard Course Management System 6.1, Several custom-developed applications
Benefits: 60% cost savings over comprable HP-UX solution. Higher performance to keep pace with data storage needs increasing by 1000% annually. Easy transfer of strong Unix skills.
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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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