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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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Fiserv Investment Support Services (Fiserv ISS), one of the largest trustees of self-directed retirement plans in the U.S., recently adopted an Itanium 2-based HP Integrity server platform equipped with the Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system and an Oracle®Database 10g with Oracle Real Application Clusters to process its customers’ financial data. Nearly five times as fast as the company’s former mainframe-based RISC platform, the Integrity server environment enables Fiserv ISS to exceed ever faster and more complex client service-level agreement (SLA) requirements and enhance the quality, agility, and efficiency of its services while reducing hardware and software costs.
Fiat Auto is transforming distribution to suit customers’ needs with Fiat Link, an innovative sales support/customer relationship management (CRM) solution. Customers can now configure and buy their Fiat of choice with Fiat Link, which sales people access from wireless HP Tablet PCs. Fiat Link will integrate and enhance sales and service across 5,800 retailers in Europe by 2005. HP Services consultants developed Fiat Link’s three-tier, Red Hat Enterprise Linux-based infrastructure, powered by an Oracle9i Real Application Clusters database on HP Integrity servers equipped with 64-bit Intel Itanium 2 processors.
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: 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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Industry: State and Local Government
Solution: Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Applications: Oracle9i Database, Legato backup solutions, HP MSL Tape Library
Hardware: HP DL580 G2
Benefits: Up to 3x performance improvement, lower server procurement and maintenance costs, increased hardware options
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Industry: FinancialGeography: North Quincy, Massachusetts (also New Jersey, Florida, and Australia)
Challenge: CitiStreet faced increasing volume on its Web applications, both from an expanding client base and increased utilization of the Web by the plan participants they service. An earlier migration-from a C-based solution to Enterprise Java-had been successful but now required ongoing improvement. CitiStreet needed to future-proof its Web infrastructure and stay on budget.
Solution: Software: JBoss Application Server 3.2, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, Sun Java Virtual Machine 5.0
Hardware: HP ProLiant DL series servers (DL 580s and DL 360s)
Services: JBoss Consulting, JBoss On-site Training, JBoss Platinum Subscription, Red Hat Professional Services, Red Hat Support delivered through HP
Benefits: Significantly increased hardware resources without incurring any software licensing costs. Hundreds of thousands of dollars in additional cost savings per year with subscriptions to Red Hat Network and JBoss Operations Network. Improved performance and user experience on CitiStreet website. A resilient, highly-available, secure infrastructure to support long-term business growth. High-quality and responsive 24×7x365 support from knowledgeable, technical staff.
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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).
Messe Munchen International (Munich International Trade Fai–MMI), which organizes about 40 trade fairs for capital goods, consumer goods, and new technologies is one of the world’s leading trade fair companies. Over 30,000 exhibitors representing more than 90 countries and two million visitors from about 180 countries take part in the events in Munich every year. With fi ve subsidiary companies abroad, global trade fairs and 75 foreign branches dealing with 89 countries, MMI has a very strong worldwide network.
MMI is clearly set for further growth, and, as the business expands, so must the IT infrastructure. This need became apparent by the middle of 2005; the existing infrastructure for providing web services was no longer fully able to cope with the increased requirements. Further scaling of the system would have involved great expense. At that time, the web services were based on a Linux cluster using the NFS fi le system; the operating system used on the cluster nodes was Debian.
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Industry: Telecommunications
Industry: Technology (ASP, Hosting and E-Business)
Geography: The Netherlands
Challenge: To build a standardized, high-availability application-, web- and database-server environment that would ensure security, interoperablity with multiple database systems, and cost efficiency for a growing customer base.
Solution: Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS Premium Edition, Red Hat Network Satellite Server, Red Hat Technical Account Manager (TAM)
Hardware: HP Proliant DL380, HP BL20, Dell PowerEdge 1850, Dell PowerEdge 2850s servers
Benefits: Increased performance and availability of applications on a standardized platform. Simplified maintenance and support. ISO 17799 compliance.
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