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FAST FACTS
Industry: Technology
Geography: Headquartered in Seoul, Korea
Challenge: Replace former centralized system with a flexible and affordable solution that enables the ability to scale with website traffic spikes
Migration Path: Sun servers and EMC storage to Red Hat Enterprise Linux on Dell PowerEdge servers
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Oracle databases
Hardware: Dell PowerEdge servers
Benefits: Experienced reduced costs, enhanced performance, and greatly expanded scalability that enables easy deployment of additional servers to handle heightened website capacity
“We’ve really benefited from our new Linux-based system – the solution is less expensive, but displays the same high levels of performance. We have added more effort around IT management, but we’re also able to provide more quality services to our users with the enhanced speed and scalability that we now have access to.” — Pyon Dae-bum, Deputy Manager at Chosun.com
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Fast Facts: Europecar
Industry: Transport
Geography: Australia
Business Challenge: To support Europcar’s focus on customer service by delivering a desktop solution that could affordably meet a range of user requirements
Migration Path: Windows to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Desktop
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Desktop, customised TelNet booking application
Benefits: Experienced decreased TCO and increased ROI, performance, flexibility, and ease of management
“Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Desktop immediately solved our licensing issues and certainly decreased our licensing costs. It also met 100 percent of our users’ needs. In fact, the Red Hat desktop solution has enabled us to adopt a new hardware policy that ensures that we maximise our hardware ROI.”
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Fast Facts
Industry: Utilities, Government
Geography: Western Australia
Business Challenge: Decrease technology costs by avoiding expensive hardware replacement fees and improving performance and manageability
Migration Path: Tru64 Unix to Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.6, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.1, Oracle 9i
Hardware: 30 x HP DL385 (AMD Opteron)
Benefits: Increased performance by nearly 500 percent, achieved significant cost savings of approximately $140,000 per machine and gained reliable support from a trusted vendor
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Sector: Public Administration
Geographic location: Spain
Opportunity: Replace mixed proprietary IT environment to simplify management and improve system performance and availability
Migration Path: Sun Solaris and IBM z/OS to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 virtualization, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, Tomcat
Hardware: HP, Dell, and Fujitsu Siemens servers
Benefits: Achieved simplified system management and improved system availability, performance, reliability, stability, and platform flexibility
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FAST FACTS
Industry: Semiconducting
Geography: Worldwide
Opportunity: Replace aging, deficient UNIX-based system with a Linux solution that could deliver reduced costs, expanded flexibility, and heightened stability
Migration Path: RISC-based UNIX servers to Red Hat Enterprise Linux on Dell x86 servers
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Network
Hardware: Dell x86 servers
Benefits: Reduced costs by 60 percent, enabled the sharing of data through flexible support of Network File System (NFS) protocols, gained flexibility in vendor selection, and increased work efficiency by more than four times
“We were also very satisfied with the choices that we were presented with once we deployed Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Before, if we wanted to use an alternative operating system, we were locked in with a specific vendor. Now, we’re able to select vendors based on quality and stability and not brand.” – Seok-Ho Choi, Researcher at Fairchild Semiconductor.
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Delivered Value Winner: Nortel
Submitted by: Ernest Szeideman
Vertical: Telecommunications
Geography: International
Website: www.nortel.com
Company Background
By linking hundreds of millions of users the world over, Nortel is a recognized leader in delivering the communications capabilities that make its promise of “business made simple” a reality. Based in Toronto, Nortel provides enterprises and service providers in more than 150 countries with the next-generation technologies they need to support their multimedia and business-critical network applications. Nortel technologies help eliminate barriers to efficiency, speed, and performance by simplifying networks and connecting people to their information-whenever and wherever they need it. » Read more
Industry: Transportation
Geography: Australia
Business Challenge: To support Europcar’s business objectives by delivering a robust technology platform to improve productivity and reduce costs
Migration Path: Intel-based variant of Unix to Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Solution:
Benefits: Experienced decreased TCO and increased ROI, reliability, stability, performance, flexibility, scalability, and ease of management
“Europcar customers know that the car they reserve is the car they will get because they interface directly with our core reservations system. With the performance and reliability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, we’re given the security and reliability that keeps our customers happy.” - Scott Allen, CIO at Europcar Asia Pacific
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Also: See how Red Hat drives desktop cost savings for Europcar.
Fast Facts
Industry: Transport
Geography: Australia
Business Challenge: To support Europcar’s focus on customer service by delivering a desktop solution that could affordably meet a range of user requirements
Migration Path: Windows to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Desktop
Solution:
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Desktop, customised TelNet booking application
Benefits: Experienced decreased TCO and increased ROI, performance, flexibility, and ease of management
“Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Desktop immediately solved our licensing issues and certainly decreased our licensing costs. It also met 100 percent of our users’ needs. In fact, the Red Hat desktop solution has enabled us to adopt a new hardware policy that ensures that we maximise our hardware ROI.”
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Fast Facts
Industry: Financial Services
Geography: Germany
Business Challenge: To find a reliable, scalable, and easy-to-maintain backup and recovery solution for all database applications in two parallel data centres
Migration Path: Symantec BackupExec and Legato Unix Networker to SEP sesam running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, SEP sesam 3.2, Oracle 9 and 10 databases, Microsoft SQL Server 2000 and 2005 databases
Hardware: Hewlett Packard x86 Server
Benefits:
Gained a flexible, reliable solution that delivers significant cost savings, performance boosts, and
compliance with internal and external security needs
“SEP sesam on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 enables us to reliably save and back up even our most sensitive data. We specifically benefit from the automated backup, enabling us to monitor its current status at a glance. Moreover, the solution suits our system environment very well and integrates seamlessly with our heterogeneous systems. Another asset of the new backup and recovery system is its cost effectiveness.”
Karl Bach, Systems Administrator, Vereinsbank Victoria Bauspar AG
Industry: Local government/education
Geography: Florida
Business Challenge: Running on a costly AIX server that required an expensive maintenance contract and was close to end-of-life, frustrating OCPS’s IT department and draining taxpayer money
Migration Path: SAP on AIX to SAP on Red Hat Enterprise Linux; Domain Name Server on Windows to Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Software: SAP running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Hardware: HP Superdome and HP BL460s and BL860s
Benefits: Deploying Red Hat Enterprise Linux to run business-critical SAP solutions gave OCPS a cost-effective, stable operating system that requires less maintenance and increases security
“Deploying Red Hat alleviated our concern about viruses and the number of penetration points, allowing us to focus on more productive IT initiatives. Running SAP on Red Hat Enterprise Linux has given us the more
secure and scalable operating system that we needed to stay within budget without sacrificing performance”-Thomas McNabb, assistant director, device management, Orange County Public Schools
World’s leading exchange group experiences flexibility, reliability and performance with Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Raleigh, NC – May 14, 2008 – Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, has announced that NYSE Euronext utilizes Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Network to maintain the reliability, high performance and security of its mission-critical financial trading platform. With Red Hat solutions, NYSE Euronext has realized greater flexibility, freedom from vendor lock-in, cost savings and the ability to handle heavy workloads while producing rapid performance results. » Read more
Hospital utilizes Red Hat and JBoss technology to maintain disaster-recovery systems
Raleigh NC – March 10, 2008 – Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Florida Hospital, the largest hospital in the state of Florida, providing care to over one million patients per year, relies on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, Red Hat Global File System, Red Hat Cluster Suite and Red Hat Network to maintain reliable disaster-recovery systems that protect and maintain critical patient information. » Read more
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
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
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