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Industry: Government
Geography: Sweden
Opportunity: To replace costly proprietary software with reliable open source solutions to reduce acquisition and ongoing costs for the organization’s IT department.
Migration Path: Proprietary software and hardware, including Hewlett Packard PA-RISC chip-architecture, HP-UX Unix operating system, Oracle database and BEA WebLogic Server, to open source solutions, including JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
Solution:
Hardware: HP Blade System C-class servers with 300 AMD Opteron Dual Core CPUs
Operating System Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10
Application Server: JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 4.2
Database: MySQL Enterprise Server 5
Benefits: Experienced reduced TCO, increased reliability, enhanced performance, freedom from vendor lock-in, and expects estimated cost savings of approximately €20 million Euros over the next five years
BACKGROUND
Swedish National Police Board (SNPB) is the law enforcement agency for the country of Sweden. The Police Board consists of the 21 Police authorities in Sweden, in addition to the National Laboratory of Forensic Science. The Police Board employees 25,000 staff, including 16,900 policemen and 535 IT department workers.
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Industry: Government
Solution: Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES 4, Red Hat Cluster Suite
Hardware: Two quad-core servers in clusters for production; one SAN; one ISA server; one mail server; one web server; one server backup (NAS); one backup tape drive
Benefits:
The Marsala Town Council saw significant cost reductions after migrating to Red Hat solutions. Its IT infrastructure experienced improved service performance levels too. Systems security and reliability have significantly increased with the adoption of Red Hat. » Read more
Category: Innovation in Government
Submitted by: Douglas Babb
Vertical: Government
Geography: Hill Air Force Base, UT
Website: http://www.hill.af.mil
Overview
Selected for use of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 to greatly reduce or eliminate system crashes, simplify a complicated operating environment and have minimal user disruption.
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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: State and Local Government
Challenge: Create a scalable, three-tier, web-based architecture under shrinking budget.
Solution: Platform: Red Hat Enterprise Linux with Red Hat Network
Hardware: Dell servers
Applications: Oracle8i database, Juvenile Tracking System (custom, Oracle-based)
Benefits: Increased price/performance and stability at one-third the cost of legacy UNIX solutions
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Industry: Federal Government
Challenge: Provide low cost, yet fast and reliable access to Personnel Electronic Records Management System
Solution: Platform: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Hardware: HP ML350
Applications: PERMS database with Web interface
Benefits: Improved price/performance, Global access to critical records
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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: Healthcare and Government
Geography: Argentina
Goal: To create a centralized database for organ transplant coordination. To allow multiple groups access to that information.
Solution: Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Distributor: LatinSource Technology
Benefits: Cost-effective solution. Reliable, timely communication throughout theorgan donation process.
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Industry: Government
Geography: Netherlands
Opportunity: The Dutch government must provide in-house IT facility services at market-standard rates. Requiring it to find cost-effective solutions. The Province needed to migrate a heterogeneous infrastructure based on Unix and MPE/iX to a standardized environment too. It also wanted to maintain or improve the functionality and level of its IT performance.
Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS, Oracle, MySQL databases, VMWare ESX server, Nagios, and Galaxy Commvault, Twelve HP-Intel32 and four BL45 blade servers
Benefits: The Province’s IT management was drastically simplified as a result of selecting a single operating system. Red Hat Enterprise Linux provided the Province with flexibility and choice with the ability to tweak and optimize processes. The Province enjoyed a reduction of its total cost of ownership by four times. Including hardware, software, maintenance, and expansion costs.
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Industry: Government
Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES
Benefits: Secure, national communication through Virtual Private Networks (VPNs)
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Industry: Government State Owned Enterprise
Geography: New Zealand
Opportunity: New Zealand Post needed to drive the operating costs of an Oracle database environment down by 50%, improve performance, increase capacity and reduce the time to market.
Solution: Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 and 4, Oracle Application Server 10g and Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition
Hardware: IBM XSeries Servers, T42 laptops and M52 PCs
Benefits: 2000% performance increase 70% reduction in operating investment 90% smaller data centre footprint Instant scalability
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Industry: Government
Geography: Germany
Goal: Replace obsolete technology.
Solution: Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Applications: Nivadis; BEA WebLogic
Hardware: HP Integrity Servers (IA-64) and Fujitsu Primergy Servers
Systems Management: Red Hat Network Satellite Server
Benefits: Low-cost solution for high-performance systems. Central, secure IT management. Professional support with open source flexibility.
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Industry: Government
Solution: Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Hardware: HP and Dell
Benefits: Executed a major system modernization in one-third the original scheduled time. Achieved tenfold increase in processing capacity and 30 percent more in operational efficiency. Cut IT costs by 50 percent, saving the federal government more than $15 million in datacenter operating and upgrading costs.
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Industry/Solution: State and Local Government
Challenge: Regain control of ineffective and fragile network infrastructure
Solution: Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux with Red Hat Network
Applications: Backup, Security, Monitoring, Authentication, E-mail, Web Access, Internet Services, Scripting, Databases, Storage and VoIP
Hardware: Dell PowerEdge Servers
Benefits: Increased reliability and control of a distributed infrastructure at a significantly lower cost.
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Industry: City administration
Geography: Austria
Opportunity: Cost-effective server operating system with high stability and performance, integrated system administration, deployment and supervision, that’s flexible and independent of manufacturers, with a wide selection of certified software and hardware. This coupled with reasonably-priced and high-performance industry standard hardware.
Solution: Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES and AS
Applications: Red Hat Satellite Server with Provisioning Module (Upgrade to monitoring module planned)
Hardware: HP Proliant Servers and Blade Servers
Benefits: Subscription model provides maximum freedom, simple system administration and provisioning with Red Hat Network, extremely reliable, high security due to Satellite Server.
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