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EsSalud utilizes virtualization capabilities in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Raleigh NC – November 28, 2007 – Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that EsSalud, a state-owned insurance and service provider in Peru offering medical and economic benefits that cover eight million regularly insured parties and successors, has experienced success with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. With the solution’s virtualization capabilities, the company has stabilized its organization-wide systems through a swift, transparent and cost-effective implementation project. » Read more
CSI-Piemonte, Iride Energia and City of Marsala implement Red Hat Enterprise Linux, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform and additional Red Hat solutions
Raleigh, NC — October 23, 2007 — Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that three leading Italian organizations, including CSI-Piemonte, one of the top fifteen software and services companies in Italy, Iride Energia, a leading thermal and electric energy provider in Italy and the City of Marsala have found success with Red Hat solutions. Each has experienced heightened performance, cost-savings and increased reliability with solutions including Red Hat Enterprise Linux, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, Red Hat Cluster Suite and Red Hat Support. » Read more
SESCO Enterprises builds new internal infrastructure based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
Raleigh, NC — October 15, 2007 — Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that SESCO Enterprises, a leading electricity and natural gas trading company, has deployed Red Hat solutions including Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JBoss Enterprise Application Platform to facilitate the creation of a high-performance infrastructure to support its rapid database growth. The company has since experienced cost-savings, flexiblity and heightened performance and reliability. » Read more
Latin American-based Sixbell Nekotec Solutions finds success after migrating to Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Raleigh, NC — September 25, 2007 — Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Sixbell Nekotec Solutions, a leading Latin American telecommunications company, is experiencing heightened flexibility, increased cost savings and enhanced performance after migrating to Red Hat Enterprise Linux. » Read more
City’s IT system benefits from stability, compatibility and cost reduction with Red Hat and JBoss solutions
Raleigh, NC — September 19, 2007 — Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that the City of Recife’s Computer Technology Organization (Emprel) in the state of Pernambuco, Brazil is experiencing long-term success with Red Hat solutions. Emprel first selected Red Hat Linux in 1998, has since migrated to Red Hat Enterprise Linux for its critical applications and currently utilizes the full suite of Red Hat solutions. » Read more
Apoteket migrates its existing server platform, in-house developed ERP-system ATS, from SPARC-based Solaris servers to new Intel hardware running Red Hat Enterprise Linux to reduce cost of ownership/TCO
Raleigh, NC — September 18, 2007 — Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Apoteket (The Swedish State Pharmacy), Sweden’s largest state-owned pharmacy chain, has chosen to replace all of its servers at approximately 900 pharmacies with Red Hat Enterprise Linux running on Intel hardware. » Read more
Food retailer selects Red Hat Enterprise Linux as platform of choice; adds Red Hat Satellite Server, Red Hat Global File System and JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
Raleigh, NC — September 12, 2007 — Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Axfood, one of the largest food retailers in Scandinavia, has decided to standardize its IT infrastructure on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Axfood will use Red Hat Enterprise Linux as a platform for its strategic SAP environment and will also use the JBoss Enterprise Application Platform in the company’s core production environment. » Read more
Raleigh, NC — September 10, 2007 — Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Spanair, one of the largest air carriers in Spain, has selected Red Hat Enterprise Linux as the platform of choice for its recent IT initiatives. With Red Hat solutions, Spanair is experiencing increased performance and cost reduction. » Read more
Swedish pharmaceutical association experiences cost savings and increased performance for medicines portal
Raleigh, NC — September 5, 2007 — Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that FASS.se, the main medicines portal run by the Swedish Association of the Pharmaceutical Industry, LIF, has migrated its servers from Sun Solaris to Red Hat Enterprise Linux. With Red Hat solutions, FASS.se is experiencing approximately 40 percent cost savings and has seen its new operational environment double functions on all levels. » Read more
French Ministry selects open source solutions to avoid vendor lock-in, equipping all of its local education authorities with Red Hat Enterprise Linux servers
Raleigh, NC — September 4, 2007 — Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that the French Ministry for Education has migrated 2,500 servers across its 30 local education authorities to Red Hat Enterprise Linux. This decision was made in line with the Ministry’s strategy to invest in open source solutions in order to free itself from the constraints associated with proprietary software and vendor lock-in. » Read more
Airline utilizes Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Network and services; makes plans for an extended JBoss implementation
Raleigh, NC - August 15, 2007 - Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Virgin America, the newly launched American airline, has selected Red Hat Enterprise Linux as the platform on which to host its commercial website. The airline chose Red Hat Enterprise Linux for its reputation for scalability and security. » Read more
Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JBoss Application Server create ideal combination for SAP and other business-critical applications
RALEIGH, NC — August 14, 2007 — Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Swisscom IT Services, a subsidiary of the biggest Swiss telecommunications provider, is relying on the full suite of Red Hat solutions for its standardized Linux infrastructure. Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Cluster Suite, JBoss Enterprise Platform and additional Red Hat technologies are currently used by Swisscom IT Services as the platform for its “Simply Managed Linux” (SIMLUX) infrastructure, the highly flexible and effective infrastructure for the company’s data centres. Using SIMLUX, Swisscom supplies outsourcing services to more than 50 customers. » Read more
Migrating business-critical store applications to Red Hat solutions means simplified maintenance and freedom from vendor lock-inRaleigh, NC - June 18, 2007 - Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Specsavers, the UK’s most trusted optician, is migrating all of its servers, desktops and tills from Microsoft Windows 2000 to Red Hat Enterprise Linux in its 830 stores in the UK, Republic of Ireland, the Netherlands, Scandinavia and Spain. Specsavers selected Red Hat solutions for its Linux open standard strategy because they enabled the company to standardize applications on a Java platform without vendor lock-in. Since migrating to Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Specsavers has experienced a stable and future-proof platform, in addition to enjoying a reduced need for maintenance and increased reliability. » Read more
Funded by the Singapore Red Cross and an IT initiative under the National Blood Programme, the non-profit website chooses Red Hat Enterprise Linux to connect with blood donors and volunteers in Singapore and beyond
Singapore — May 29, 2007- Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Donorweb, the non-profit website and online central depository of the Singapore Red Cross Blood Donor Recruitment Programme (BDRP), has selected Red Hat Enterprise Linux to run its mission-critical applications and SMS messaging gateway critical to recruiting and retaining regular blood donors in Singapore and also important in meeting the national blood requirements. » Read more
Industry: Higher Education
Challenge: Quick deployment of servers in an ever-growing network
Solution: Platform: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Academic Edition with Red Hat Network; Hardware: IBM xSeries servers; Software: Oracle 9i Enterprise Database
central administrative computing conversion in the university’s history. Closely tied to the Oracle installation, Program Link is the cornerstone of the University’s initiative for a totally integrated digital campus, so it was imperative that Wake Forest find an operating system that integrated cleanly with Oracle’s total product line.
The Wake Forest team spent months evaluating different alternatives based on cost, performance, support, manageability, and security. They considered other operating systems, but according to Miller, “In the end, Red Hat proved to be the better option in terms of all our needs.”
Security was top priority for both the DEAC computer cluster and Program Link. “Red Hat Enterprise Linux, combined with Red Hat Network Satellite Server, allowed us to readily secure our systems,” said Seth Stein, Systems Analyst for the Wake Forest UNIX/Linux team. “It is essential that we get updates in place quickly and efficiently to keep the systems and users secure. If we had to compile everything from source, it would be a major drain on our time. With RHN we have all the updates we need. It saves us time because the packages have been compiled and tested. As a result, we can provision a server in 30 minutes.”
Wake Forest gained more confidence when they saw that industry-leading vendors backed Red Hat. “The relationship between Red Hat and Oracle is very important to us,” Stein said. “With Oracle’s total product offering supporting Linux, we can make the case to our managers for deploying the entire Oracle environment on a more easily maintained and secured operating system. In the end, that means we save money by reducing administrative time and maintaining longer uptimes for university business. This produces a major benefit in that the students, who access services and data from those databases, have a much better user experience.”
On the cluster side, research revealed that many cluster vendors actually developed their software on Red Hat products, which created additional stability for the environment. Miller said, “Since the DEAC cluster supports multiple research groups, we use a wide range of software: Gaussian, CHARMM, VMD, NAMD, MEAD, Matlab, BLAST, and ClustalW. Some groups maintain their own software analysis packages and utilize freely available libraries, such as ATLAS, BLAS/LAPACK, MPICH and GSL.”
The final compelling reason in favor of Red Hat Enterprise Linux versus another Linux distribution was cost. “The new licensing costs for many of Red Hat’s competitors were more than we wanted to spend,” Miller said.
“The University has an extensive collection of computing facilities that serve both academic and business needs,” said Jay Dominick, Assistant Vice President for Information Systems and Chief Information Officer. “Red Hat has played a critical role in the upgrade of our information infrastructure from proprietary Unix-based servers to open source-based computing and the deployment of a cluster-based supercomputing facility. It has also allowed us to standardize our computing support-both scientific and business computing-around one operating system. The advantages for us in terms of support, availability and disaster recovery are substantial.”
Use of Linux and other open source solutions have grown rapidly across Wake Forest as the choice for not only high-performance computing and enterprise infrastructure, like Blackboard, Banner, and Oracle, but also for online and network services like email, DNS, LDAP, and library search engines.
In production now for two years, DEAC serves as the primary research computing resource for Wake Forest’s main campus, heavily utilized by the Biophysics, Physics, Computational Chemistry, and Biomedical Engineering departments. Researchers from the Wake Forest University School of Medicine also rely on DEAC.
And through their Red Hat academic site subscription, Wake Forest students and faculty have unlimited access to the entire Red Hat Enterprise Linux product family, including client, workstation, and server products.
Miller offered this advice for companies contemplating a migration to Linux: “Make sure you attack the problem in a structured manner. Plan your deployment and realize the full potential in Linux as it tends to really outperform in areas you least expect. Start with an architectural approach and test your replication plan to make sure it really works. You’ll save yourself a headache later on.”
“Keep an open mind. The perception that open source is not supported, not ready for mission-critical applications is not accurate,” advised Richard Ray, Systems Analyst for the WFU IS UNIX/Linux team. “The community model is much better. Open source has so many eyes looking at it that it is pretty solid. It just grows and evolves over time.”
In regards to future plans with Linux, Miller has at least three upcoming projects that will be based on open source solutions. The first will be a grid-based, web infrastructure compatible with the MCNC statewide efforts (http://mcnc.org) using the Globus Toolkit (v4) and various web technologies including Tomcat, XML, and SOAP. “The second project is to evaluate the Red Hat Global File system (GFS) as a potential GPFS replacement,” he said, “and the third is to convert our custom, home-grown post-imaging environment to cfengine.”
“Our experience with open source and Linux has been extremely positive,” adds Dominick. “Because of the support from Red Hat, we will continue to always consider it as a viable option for our infrastructure. We consider Linux as our primary option for our computing resources. The support from Red Hat makes this an easy decision.”