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Industry: Real Estate and Movie Exhibition Corporation
Challenge: With a growing online customer base, Decurion’s ArcLightCenmas.com looked to fix issues with its ticket sales website, previously based on Microsoft’s .NET framework.
Migration Path: .NET framework to JBoss Enterprise Applciation Platform
Solution: JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Global File System
Benefits: Enhanced support and increased performance, scalability and cost-effectiveness.
Geography: Los Angeles, CA
“JBoss Enterprise Middleware helps us accelerate solution delivery because it provides the beneficial features associated with open source solutions, combined with easy deployment and impressive customer service and support.”
Brad Bahmanpour, Enterprise Systems Architect at Decurion
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: 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: 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
Industry: Banking
Challenges: Customize CRM to a high degree. Handle a rapidly scaling call workload without any disruption in services. Allow call center agents to have an “always connected” view of the database
Solution: Platform: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Software: Oracle 11i E-business Suite, Oracle 9i Database & Red Hat Cluster Suite
Benefits: Servers handle close to 7,000 calls a day with 99.99% uptime.
System can accomodate massive growth in call volumes over the next two years.
Complete freedom from viruses and security related risks.
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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
Benefits:
Industry: Hosting
Challenge: To build fully-supported high-performance infrastructure with all the benefits of open source solutions - rapid innovation, choice, and cost-effectiveness.
Solution: Platform: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Hardware: Dell with Intel 64-bit processors, EMC Storage
Software: Red Hat GFS, MySQL; Systems Management Red Hat Network
Benefits: A single point-of-interface and full support for critical components of solutions stack. Low TCO. Flexibility of open source.
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Industry: Services
Geography: Italy
Goal: To provide fast, reliable weather forecasting for the 2006 Winter Olympic Games
Solution: Platform: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 ES
Software: Red Hat Cluster Suite, Red Hat Application Server
Systems Management: Red Hat Network
Benefits: Reliable and secure. Solid support. Simple systems management.
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Industry: Academic
Challenge: Increasing manageability of Web servers and storage
Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, Red Hat Global File System
Benefits: Reduced complexity and increased consistency across the web server cluster. Consolidated storage configuration.
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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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