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Industry: Telecommunications
Geography: Chile, with operations throughout Latin America and offices in Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico
Opportunity: Sixbell looked for a flexible solution that would provide interoperability with a greater number of hardware providers and would encourage the incorporation of innovative technological solutions from different market leaders. The ideal solution would be based on a standard and open operating system and have excellent support.
Solution:
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
Hardware: HP Proliant DL servers, Intel X86 servers, Sun Galaxy servers
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Industry: Digital advertising
Challenge: DoubleClick faced the challenge of developing an infrastructure that is reliable, cost-effective, and most importantly, flexible, in providing choice with hardware vendors in order to avoid vendor lock-in.
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS, Red Hat Network, Acronis True Image Server for Linux, Solaris, Windows, Red Hat Global Learning Services - Red Hat Certified Engineer training
Hardware: AMD, Intel, HP
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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: 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: Mining
Geography: Mexico
Challenge: Minimize operating costs and overhead without sacrificing data security or system reliability
Solution: Platform: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Hardware: Intel-based servers from HP and IBM
Applications: Sybase and other infrastructure functions
Benefits: Cost savings in excess of 70% per server and a 4x performance increase after migrating from legacy UNIX to Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
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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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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: Telecommunications
Challenge: Increase performance and reliability of billing system to ensure timely payments from growing customer base.
Solution: Platform: Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS
Software: Oracle Database
Hardware: HP
Benefits: Increased processing speed by 400% over legacy Sun Solaris environment. Cut costs by nearly 50%. Met TransACT’s ‘zero fault tolerance’ policy.
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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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Industry: Food manufacturing
Geography: Netherlands, Germany, Italy, France
Challenge: To replace an outdated custom-built system with a standard Intel-based IT environment using proprietary software. Providing all functionality required for the highly specialized animal feeds market.
Solution: First European implementation of Oracle® EnterpriseOne on Red Hat® Enterprise Linux®.
Platform: Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS
Hardware: HP® DL380 and DL580 multi-way Intel® Xeon-based servers
Benefits: Simplified management of a standards-based solution. Migration to a single integrated ERP system for all European branches. Ended dependency on IT staff.
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Industry: Temporary and contract staffing
Challenge: To centralize and consolidate a disparate administrative, invoicing, payroll and workforce planning system. To ensure system stability, reduce the administrative burden, but most important; make the system more flexible.
Solution: Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS and AIX;
Hardware: IBM eServer pSeries servers IBM eServer Bladecenter servers
Benefits: Simplified architecture. Dramatically faster server provisioning. Centralization of data. Better disaster recovery. Reduced administration and physical infrastructure.
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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: Retail
Geography: Europe
Opportunity: Due to the mass and complexity of information and commercial activity handled in each store, system reliability and availability are essential prerequisites for the IT system at Kingfisher. When Kingfisher knew that support would soon end for their UNIX and NT servers, they were faced with the challenge of renewing a vast IT architecture for their 240 Castorama and Brico Dépôt stores in France, Italy, Poland, Spain and Russia.
Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Applications: Vision64, Time Navigator, Interpel, Dollar Universe, Oracle AS10G, with an Oracle 9i database and WEBFORMS
Hardware: HP ProLiant ML 370 G4 with 8Gb memory, Dual-core-processors, 5X140 Gb disk in RAID
Benefits: The Kingfisher Group is in the process of equipping 240 of its European outlets with Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Red Hat has enabled the Group to cut the number of servers it requires in half and make a return on its investment in just eight months, while delivering a ten-fold increase in performance. In Red Hat Enterprise Linux, the Kingfisher Group found a solution that allowed all of its requirements to be satisfied with a single server, and the ability to run both production tools and infrastructure services on the same box. This has translated into large cost-savings and even faster deployments and updates.
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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: 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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