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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: 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: 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: 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: Oil and Gas
Geography: Headquartered in Norway, with operations worldwide
Goal: To standardise from seven Unix variants to Linux, thereby cutting costs and increasing efficiency across the organization
Solution: Platform: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, versions 2.1 and 3
Hardware: Intel and AMD
Applications: Oracle Database, BEA WebLogic, Schlumberger Eclipse, Landmark drilling software
Benefits: 50% cost savings as compared to Unix. Performance increase by a factor of 10-40.
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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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Financial Services
Challenges: Handle highly volatile user traffic and accomodate rapid growth. Seamlessly migrate from legacy UNIX-RISC environment. Improve network performance, while simultaneously reducing costs. Eliminate downtime
Solution: Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Oracle 9i Database & Order Routing System
Benefits: Enterprise Linux on x86 servers generate 10 times more performance than the earlier UNIX-RISC infrastructure. Linux’ inherent security provides a hassle free solution.
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Industry: Manufacturing
Challenges: Use technology to reduce manufacturing costs. Integrate ERP with legacy infrastructure. Eliminate server compromises. Seamlessly migrate key legacy components to the latest platform
Solution: Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Oracle E business suite & Red Hat Cluster Suite
Benefits: ERP project completed in a record time of under six months. Complete freedom to add multiple applications to infrastructure. Enterprise Linux & Red Hat Cluster Suite deliver continuous uptime with zero maintenance issues.
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Industry: Oil and Gas
Geography: Spain, South America
Challenge: To simplify their multi-platform IT environment. To create a highly-scalable yet cost-effective environment in support of corporate-wide goal for massive growth. To quickly improve performance of mission-critical data warehouse system
Solution: Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Oracle 9i RAC, SAP BW, SAP SEM
Benefits: Reduced response time for user queries from minutes to seconds. Reduced total cost of ownership (TCO) by a 4x factor. Reduced price per transaction by a 10x factor. Increased data warehouse performance as much 5,214%.
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