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Start-up shortens time-to-market, gains industry recognition Industry: Sales 2.0
Geography: Pittsburgh, PA
Opportunity: Build a high-availability Saas solution that could support product evolution, a growing subscriber base, and integration with multiple technologies
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, JBoss Application Server, Hibernate, Oracle 10g RAC cluster solution
Applications: Landslide (a Sales Workstyle Management Solution)
Hardware: Dell, Cisco Gigabit switches, Cisco Gigabit firewalls
Benefits: Expedited time-to-market, optimized resources to improved product development, and delivered a highly secure, reliable solution that’s recognized by the industry » Read more
Industry: IT Solutions Provider
Solution: Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, VMWare
Hardware: IBM Bladecenter HS20, HS40 and HP BL45p
Benefits:
Rapid scalability of on-demand systems
Reduction in time spent managing and maintaining systems » Read more
Category: Emerging and Leading Edge Technologies
Submitted by: John Brzozowski, Architect and Principle Engineer
Vertical: Broadband services
Location: Philadelphia, PA
Website: http://www.comcast.com
Overview
Selected for ther use of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 virtualization capabilities to create a cost-effective, highly efficient testing and certification environment to support the corporate IPv6 initiative.
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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: Data Center Services, Internet Operations
Geography: Austin, Texas
Opportunity: Implement a cost-effective and reliable standard Linux-based platform with the ability to support varied architectures
Migration Path: FreeBSD to Red Hat Linux to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Hardware: HP ProLiant DL 100, 300, 500 servers
Benefits: Experienced hardware flexibility, cost savings, reliable support, and extended lifecycle of software
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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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Rackspace Managed Hosting, the leading managed service provider, entrusts thousands of its customers’ Web servers to Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Network. Founded in 1998 on the premise that Web hosting requires great service in addition to great technology, Rackspace initially deployed the legacy Red Hat Linux operating system. Now Rackspace has one of the largest install bases of Red Hat technology in the world - more than 5,000 servers.
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Industry: Automatic video editing
Geography: Singapore (HQ), USA
Opportunity: Create a scalable, high-performance IT infrastructure supporting a rapidly growing, innovative startup while minimizing system administration resources and hardware costs
Solution: Two Dell servers running Red Hat Enterprise Linux and multiple open source software solutions
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Network
Applications: Samba, MySQL, virtual Windows, various tracking and management software, and Intranet, email, and FTP applications
Hardware: Dell
Benefits: Gained tremendous flexibility in developing an infrastructure that accommodates continuous growth and innovation while optimizing resources and improving performance to virtually zero downtime
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Industry: ICT service provider
Geography: Switzerland
Opportunity: Highly scalable, flexible solution for storage and retrieval of large quantities of data
Solution: Diskless Shared Root Cluster
Hardware: HP ProLiant BL20p Blades, IBM BladeCenter, HP EVA 3000, aiming for full consolidation on Intel chips
Benefits: Open source storage cluster that allows IP-Tech to respond quickly and economically to any demand from its customers; no competition from proprietary vendors.
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Industry: Internet services
Geography: Germany, Austria, and Switzerland
Opportunity: High-availability hosting services at a competitive price;high-quality support
Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Cluster Suite, Red Hat support services
Benefits: Stable online applications for customers. Consistent performance. Data security.
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Industry: Technology, specializing in mining companies
Geography: Poland
Challenge: Outdated and disjointed IT infrastructure created performance and maintenance issues for Polish coal mines. COIG needed to renew the aging IT infrastructure based on SCO Unix across 50 remote locations, while increasing functionality and reducing maintenance downtime.
Solution: Centralized server, hosted at single location and containing shared database.
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Applications: Oracle database, SZYK and SAP ERP applications, Apache Web server and Zope application server
Benefits: The move to Red Hat Enterprise Linux delivered reduced maintenance and purchase costs, greater functionality, simpler system management, and increased and faster performance.
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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).