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Category: Joint Red Hat / JBoss Deployment
Winner: DST Health Solutions
Submitted by: Gary Krasovic
Industry: Health Information Systems
Geography: Birmingham, Alabama
Overview
Selected for their use of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JEMS to build a consumer-directed healthcare solution that was first-to-market, yielding immediate customer traction, increased market visibility, thus reflective of corporate leadership and success.
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Industry: Hosting services
Geography: St. Louis, MO
Opportunity: Build a hosting business providing excellent value, support, and low prices; implement scalable backup and restoration solution that could support phenomenal growth rates
Migration Path: Novell Linux Enterprise SUSE to Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux; Red Hat Global File System and Cluster Suite; Red Hat Network; JBoss Enterprise Application Platform and Hibernate; MySQL, Oracle, and Postgres databases; BakBone NetVault: Backup
Hardware: Dell PowerEdge Series servers
Benefits: Helped achieve phenomenal customer growth rates by facilitating sales and customer support and supporting scalability of new backup and restoration system
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: Travel
Geography: Australia
Challenge: Microsoft-based infrastructure could not scale to match Wotif.com’s 100% growth rate.
Solution: Platform: Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS
Software: Oracle10g Standard Edition, Java 1.5
Hardware: AMD Opteron
Systems Management: Red Hat Network
Benefits: Increased performance upto 500% peak load. Lower TCO. Simplified systems administration
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Industry: Entertainment
Challenge: To quickly and cost-effectively add email communications to their existing CRM solution.
Solution: Platform: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Software: StrongMail Enterprise; Oracle
Benefits: Deployment complete three months ahead of schedule. Significantly reduced project cost due to fewer required resources. Strong delivery rates. Increased control.
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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
Benefits:
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: Global Call Center/Customer Support Services
Challenge: Cost effectively increase performance of centrally managed data and applications.
Solution: Use Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS and Oracle 9i running on Dell to build out databases and call center applications in each of the company’s geographically remote call centers. Remotely manage systems with Red Hat Network Satellite.
Platform: Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS
Hardware: Dell PowerEdge 2650
Applications: Oracle 9i Database, TantaComm Digital Voice Capture
Benefits: Stability and reliability necessary for remote sites; increased system uptime; and increased customer service agent productivity all achieved at a significantly lower price point than the comparable UNIX alternative.
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Industry: Hosting
Challenge: To build fully-supported high-performance infrastructure with all the benefits of open source solutions - rapid innovation, choice, and cost-effectiveness.
Solution: Platform: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Hardware: Dell with Intel 64-bit processors, EMC Storage
Software: Red Hat GFS, MySQL; Systems Management Red Hat Network
Benefits: A single point-of-interface and full support for critical components of solutions stack. Low TCO. Flexibility of open source.
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Industry: Travel services
Geography: United States
Opportunity: Priceline.com regularly sees millions of page views and thousands of bookings per day. As an Internet-based travel service provider, downtime and outages are not an option. The company decided to shift to Red Hat and open source solutions in order to provide the highest-performing services and applications possible and to realize cost savings. Priceline.com also evaluated JBoss due to the company’s predisposition toward developing in Java and to potentially generate further savings based on the open source model.
Solution: Today, Priceline.com has about half of the infrastructure converted over to a mixture of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Network Satellite Server, and JBoss Application Server with Tomcat and Apache web servers.
Hardware: Sun V20z servers with AMD Opteron, HP ProLiant DL385 servers with AMD Opteron, and HP ProLiant DL380 with Intel Xeon.
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Network Satellite Server, and JBoss Application Server with Tomcat and Apache web servers.
Benefits: The combination of Red Hat and JBoss has been a win-win for Priceline.com. Priceline.com’s application availability runs >99.97 percent and hits 100 percent for most quarters. With Red Hat Enterprise Linux, the company has realized reduced security patching requirements than with some proprietary application servers. Through a series of initiatives, like the company’s JBoss implementation, Priceline.com IT has been successful in proportionally reducing its relevant domestic operational IT budgets for this type of infrastructure, despite increases in product complexity and product unit volumes. Forward-looking, Xen support and virtualization technologies are extremely attractive to Priceline.com. The company has been testing Xen in its development environments to reduce hardware costs and lower TCO.
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