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SAKONNET - 2008 JBOSS INNOVATION AWARD WINNER

Category: Migration
Winner: Sakonnet
Submitted by: David Renton, Vice President, Product Delivery at Sakonnet
Industry: Oil and Gas
Geography: New York, London, Rio de Janeiro

Overview
Used JBoss Application Server and Red Hat Enterprise Linux to develop a scalable, performance-driving, well-supported solution that provided ease-of-use, cost savings, and transparency for Sakonnet’s energy-trading solutions. With JBoss Application Server, Sakonnet discovered a solution that combined low-cost, quality software and reliable support to fit into its Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) strategy of frequent application upgrades and top-notch support.
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Filed under Oil and Gas, Latin America, Dell, EMEA, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, North America, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, JBoss Consulting, Global Support Services, JBoss Innovation Awards, BEA WebLogic, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Microsoft Windows on March 7th, 2008 | No comments »

STATOIL migrates from UNIX to Red Hat Enterprise Linux and achieves 50% cost savings

Industry: Oil and Gas
Geography: Headquartered in Norway, with operations worldwide
Goal: To standardise from seven Unix variants to Linux, thereby cutting costs and increasing efficiency across the organization
Solution: Platform: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, versions 2.1 and 3
Hardware: Intel and AMD
Applications: Oracle Database, BEA WebLogic, Schlumberger Eclipse, Landmark drilling software
Benefits: 50% cost savings as compared to Unix. Performance increase by a factor of 10-40.
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Filed under Oil and Gas, AMD, Intel, Oracle, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, North America on October 16th, 2007 | No comments »

The Gas Natural Group

Leading Natural Gas Distributor Achieves Impressive Performance Increase with Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Industry: Oil and Gas
Geography: Spain, South America
Challenge: To simplify their multi-platform IT environment. To create a highly-scalable yet cost-effective environment in support of corporate-wide goal for massive growth. To quickly improve performance of mission-critical data warehouse system
Solution: Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Oracle 9i RAC, SAP BW, SAP SEM
Benefits: Reduced response time for user queries from minutes to seconds. Reduced total cost of ownership (TCO) by a 4x factor. Reduced price per transaction by a 10x factor. Increased data warehouse performance as much 5,214%.
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Filed under Oil and Gas, Latin America, Oracle, EMEA, Red Hat Enterprise Linux on October 15th, 2007 | No comments »