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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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Category: New Generation Technology
Winner:Lexicon Genetics
Submitted by: Buckley Kohlhauff, Mark Ma, Jason Williams
Industry: Biotechnology
Geography: The Woodlands, Texas
Overview
Selected for their use of JBoss Seam to glue together Hibernate, JSF, EJB3, and JBoss jBPM to dramatically simplify their development process and create a robust platform that can deploy mission-critical applications for the Texas Institute of Genomic Medicine.
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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: Government
Geography: Sweden
Opportunity: To replace costly proprietary software with reliable open source solutions to reduce acquisition and ongoing costs for the organization’s IT department.
Migration Path: Proprietary software and hardware, including Hewlett Packard PA-RISC chip-architecture, HP-UX Unix operating system, Oracle database and BEA WebLogic Server, to open source solutions, including JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
Solution:
Hardware: HP Blade System C-class servers with 300 AMD Opteron Dual Core CPUs
Operating System Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10
Application Server: JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 4.2
Database: MySQL Enterprise Server 5
Benefits: Experienced reduced TCO, increased reliability, enhanced performance, freedom from vendor lock-in, and expects estimated cost savings of approximately €20 million Euros over the next five years
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BACKGROUND
Swedish National Police Board (SNPB) is the law enforcement agency for the country of Sweden. The Police Board consists of the 21 Police authorities in Sweden, in addition to the National Laboratory of Forensic Science. The Police Board employees 25,000 staff, including 16,900 policemen and 535 IT department workers.
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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
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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: e-commerce
Geography: Seattle, Washington
Website:: www.go2marine.com
Opportunity: Determine a reliable, high-performing, and affordable platform on which to base its e-commerce website
Migration Path: Sun Solaris to Red Hat Linux 7 to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Network
Hardware: Dell 1950 servers, Web/application servers quad core single CPU, Database servers dual core single CPU
Benefits: Realized reliability, high performance, cost savings, ease of installation and configuration, and enhanced security.
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Industry: Telecom
Geography: Phoenix, AZ
Opportunity: Integrate service delivery systems with communications providers’ back office systems to automate network allocation and subscriber provisioning processes
Migration Path: Proprietary Software running on an AS400 to JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform
Software: Windows and Linux operating systems; JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform; Oracle and MySQL databases
Hardware: Dell PowerEdge Blade Server, AIX Server, SUN enterprise SAN.
Benefits: Automate the allocation of network resources in support of customer order processing, network resource management and service fulfillment.
Background
Founded in 1985, CADTEL Systems is a premier provider of integrated Operational Support Systems software that helps communications providers manage network resources efficiently. Automating many of the complex tasks involved in delivering next-generation products and services to subscribers, CADTEL’s solution offerings enable communications providers to improve response time to customer demands while lowering operational costs.
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Industry: Research
Geography: Arkansas, Tennessee, New York
Opportunity: Replace outdated IT solutions with an affordable, reliable, and performance-boosting solution for mission-critical applications
Migration Path: HP 3000 series to Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Server on HP Xenon dual-processors
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Server
Hardware: HP Xenon 380 dual-processors
Benefits: Reduced IT costs by approximately one-third, experienced high performance, enjoyed ease of installation
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: Education
Geography: Switzerland
Opportunity: Replace two obsolete OpenLDAP servers to guarantee a greater level of reliability
Migration Path: Fedora to Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Directory Server
Hardware: Three servers with 3 GHz Intel Dual Core Xeon processors, each with 4 GB RAM and each with 2 x 76 GB SAS hard disk drives, distributed to two server rooms.
Benefits: Increased reliability, ensured stability at peak access times, enabled monitoring and failover functionality, enabled the modification of configuration during operation
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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: Healthcare Geography: Boston, MA
Opportunity: Migrate core clinical applications to stable, secure operating environment and create new disaster-recovery system with higher availability
Migration Path: HP Unix to Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux; Red Hat Global File System and Cluster Suite; Intersystems Caché; proprietary Triple A, utility, and security applications
Hardware: HP DL385 with AMD dual-core processors
Benefits: Realized $200,000 in annual cost savings, decreased annual downtime from 20 hours to near zero—furthering leading-edge patient care
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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: Hosting services
Geography: St. Louis, MO
Opportunity: Build a hosting business providing excellent value, support, and low prices; implement scalable backup and restoration solution that could support phenomenal growth rates
Migration Path: Novell Linux Enterprise SUSE 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 and Hibernate; MySQL, Oracle, and Postgres databases; BakBone NetVault: Backup
Hardware: Dell PowerEdge Series servers
Benefits: Helped achieve phenomenal customer growth rates by facilitating sales and customer support and supporting scalability of new backup and restoration system