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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
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
Company benefits from central, secure management through Red Hat Network and plans to expand open source deployment with JBoss.
RALEIGH, NC - January 29, 2007 - Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Union Bank of California, one of the 25 largest banks in the United States, will standardize its IT infrastructure on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The Company migrated to Red Hat Enterprise Linux from AIX to realize significant performance gains as well as centralized, secure management through Red Hat Network. Union Bank is also piloting JBoss as well as MySQL and plans to make Red Hat’s complete solution stack part of its core technology direction. » Read more
Industry: Financial Trading
Geography: Global
Challenge: To integrate varied trading platforms to produce a high-speed, low-cost platform that offers the reliability and flexibility necessary to produce the rapid performance results demanded by the expanding financial trading industry
Migration Path: HP UX, IBM AIX, and SUN Solaris to Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Network
Hardware: 200 HP ProLiant DL585 four-processor servers, 400 ProLiant BL 685c blades, AMD dual-core Opteron processors
Benefits: Implemented a reliable, secure, and cost-effective solution that provided flexibility, freedom from vendor lock-in, and the ability to handle heavy workloads while producing fast-paced performance results
“Red Hat is extremely strategic and without it, most of our computers wouldn’t be running,” said Steve Rubinow, Chief Information Officer at NYSE Euronext.
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: Pennsylvania, USA
Challenge: To maintain secure health records for over 4.1 million insured customers through a manageable and cost-effective system.
Solution: Platform: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Directory Server, Red Hat Network, Red Hat Satellite Server
Hardware: JuTzu, Race servers, HPDL rat mouse server
Benefits: Approximately 30% savings in hardware/software licensing costs. An almost 50% reduction in hardware (78 CPUs to 42). More than $470,000 long-term savings through the directory server ($500,000 + future costs estimate from Sun versus one-time $30,000 cost from Red Hat). Higher performance and security. Readily available support.
Industry: Technology, specializing in mining companies
Geography: Poland
Challenge: Outdated and disjointed IT infrastructure created performance and maintenance issues for Polish coal mines. COIG needed to renew the aging IT infrastructure based on SCO Unix across 50 remote locations, while increasing functionality and reducing maintenance downtime.
Solution: Centralized server, hosted at single location and containing shared database.
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Applications: Oracle database, SZYK and SAP ERP applications, Apache Web server and Zope application server
Benefits: The move to Red Hat Enterprise Linux delivered reduced maintenance and purchase costs, greater functionality, simpler system management, and increased and faster performance.
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Industry: City administration
Geography: Austria
Opportunity: Cost-effective server operating system with high stability and performance, integrated system administration, deployment and supervision, that’s flexible and independent of manufacturers, with a wide selection of certified software and hardware. This coupled with reasonably-priced and high-performance industry standard hardware.
Solution: Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES and AS
Applications: Red Hat Satellite Server with Provisioning Module (Upgrade to monitoring module planned)
Hardware: HP Proliant Servers and Blade Servers
Benefits: Subscription model provides maximum freedom, simple system administration and provisioning with Red Hat Network, extremely reliable, high security due to Satellite Server.
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