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Industry: Media
Geography: Atlanta
Opportunity: Build a technology infrastructure for growing the Atlanta Journal Constitution’s online user base and implement system redundancy to achieve 100 percent uptime of applications
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, Red Hat Cluster Suite, MySQL
Hardware: 19 servers – both IBM Blades and commodity hardware
Benefits: Achieved previously unmatched flexibility, reliability, and cost savings by developing an infrastructure that accommodates rapid growth while optimizing resources and improving performance with virtually no downtime
Industry: Healthcare
Geography: Orlando, Florida
Opportunity: Design a new disaster-recovery system that would ensure seamless business continuity for the hospital
Migration Path: IBM AIX 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; MySQL, Oracle, Caché, FoxPro, and Postgres databases; proprietary applications for reporting and management of patient data and for mail, security, and virus protection
Hardware: HP and IBM servers
Benefits: Streamlined disaster recovery and gained higher system availability and resource efficiencies that translate into better patient care
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Industry: Transportation
Geography: Sweden
Opportunity: Build a new development platform to rapidly deliver integrated IT projects across the business
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform (JBoss AS 4.2, ESB 4.2, JBoss Messaging 1.4), EnterpriseDB
Hardware: 2 IBM xSeries 346 servers
Benefits: Increased time-to-market of services for customers, increased ROI and interest in rail travel, eliminated licensing costs for the platform, integrated IT systems, and avoided vendor lock-in
BACKGROUND
Swedish Railways (SJ AB), the national railway operator in Sweden, travels between 350 stations and carries 100,000 passengers per day. The company maintains approximately 3,500 employees and boasts a yearly revenue of 1.3 billion dollars.
OPPORTUNITY
In May 2006, SJ AB recognized the need to upgrade its internal software delivery system in order to provide a shared platform for all of its IT systems. The integration of the IT systems is essential for SJ AB as it uses a diverse range of applications relevant to human resources, sales, and other departments. Each applications needs to be accessed across a range of interfaces from PCs to PDAs. A new department called the Integration Competence Centre (ICC) was established within SJ AB with assistance from Redpill. The ICC is responsible of establishing the Integration platform and deliver service based integration solutions and new service according to SJ AB requirements.
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Industry: Food Manufacturing
Geography: Italy
Opportunity: Ensure the fast processing of customer orders by reducing system response times and maintaining consistent performance levels, even during peak periods
Solution:
Benefits: Maintain response times calculating to under one second, efficiently manage various databases with over 24 gigabytes of data and simplify communication among operating systems through use of XML within the mainframe
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Industry: Electricity and natural gas trading
Geography: New Jersey and Pennsylvania
Opportunity: Build an internal infrastructure to provide maximum development flexibility and high-system reliability and performance for fast-paced trading business
Solution: Hardware: IBM Power PCs with Intel Dual P5 Processors, IBM xSeries with Intel Dual Xeon Processors
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux versions 3, 4 and 5, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform , MySQL databases, SESCO database application
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Industry: Financial Services
Challenge: SNS Bank’s IT systems handle 500,000 daily transactions produced by various applications on 3,300 workstations. The bank’s front-end system was reaching its technical and economical limit and was reducing the opportunity for innovation and scalability within the organization. The SNS IT team, responsible for cost savings, looked for a solution that was flexible, stable, and scalable.
Solution: Software: JBoss Application Server
Hardware: 8 IBM X-series servers
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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: 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
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Industry: Government State Owned Enterprise
Geography: New Zealand
Opportunity: New Zealand Post needed to drive the operating costs of an Oracle database environment down by 50%, improve performance, increase capacity and reduce the time to market.
Solution: Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 and 4, Oracle Application Server 10g and Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition
Hardware: IBM XSeries Servers, T42 laptops and M52 PCs
Benefits: 2000% performance increase 70% reduction in operating investment 90% smaller data centre footprint Instant scalability
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Industry: Financial Services, Insurance
Geography: Germany
Goal: Find a Linux-solution backed by enterprise-level support while retaining vendor-independence
Solution: Clients: Red Hat Desktop and IBM ThinkPad notebook computers.
Servers: Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Fujitsu Siemens, Sceneo & Futro hardware.
Systems Management: Red Hat Network
Benefits: Cost-effective client and server solution from a trusted vendor. Easy, quick deployment and on-going systems management. On-going confidence via Open Source Assurance program.
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