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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/Solution: 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 Server, Oracle 9i RAC, Oracle 10g RAC, Oracle 9i AS (J2EE), Blackboard Course Management System 6.1, Several custom-developed applications
Benefits: Quicker deployment of servers and increased security and performance on mission-critical applications within budget requriements.
Submitted by: Michael Simpson, CTO
Industry: Healthcare
Geography: Louisville, CO
Website: http://www.mckesson.com
Overview
Selected for being the first company to employ the Red Hat Enterprise Healthcare Platform to integrate its varied healthcare software applications on one unified platform, saving approximately one million dollars in combined software and hardware costs and allowing the company to provide a more robust and enterprise-ready solution for patient care.
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Category: Joint Red Hat / JBoss Deployment
Winner: DST Health Solutions
Submitted by: Gary Krasovic
Industry: Health Information Systems
Geography: Birmingham, Alabama
Overview
Selected for their use of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JEMS to build a consumer-directed healthcare solution that was first-to-market, yielding immediate customer traction, increased market visibility, thus reflective of corporate leadership and success.
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Industry: Business equipment supply and distribution
Geography: Australia
Challenge: To deliver an efficient service to customers, Corporate Express required a solution that was stable and secure, yet also flexible enough to support its bespoke online ordering application, NetXpress.
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Network Satellite
Hardware: Approximately 14 Intel blade servers
Benefits:
Industry: State and Local Government
Challenge: Create a scalable, three-tier, web-based architecture under shrinking budget.
Solution: Platform: Red Hat Enterprise Linux with Red Hat Network
Hardware: Dell servers
Applications: Oracle8i database, Juvenile Tracking System (custom, Oracle-based)
Benefits: Increased price/performance and stability at one-third the cost of legacy UNIX solutions
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Industry: Higher Education
Challenge: Regain top notch performance
Solution: Platform: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Academic Edition with Red Hat Network
Hardware: HP DL-series servers
Software: Oracle 9i Enterprise Database Server, Oracle 9i RAC, Oracle 10g RAC, Oracle 9i AS (J2EE), Blackboard Course Management System 6.1, Several custom-developed applications
Benefits: 60% cost savings over comprable HP-UX solution. Higher performance to keep pace with data storage needs increasing by 1000% annually. Easy transfer of strong Unix skills.
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Industry: Travel
Geography: Australia
Challenge: Microsoft-based infrastructure could not scale to match Wotif.com’s 100% growth rate.
Solution: Platform: Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS
Software: Oracle10g Standard Edition, Java 1.5
Hardware: AMD Opteron
Systems Management: Red Hat Network
Benefits: Increased performance upto 500% peak load. Lower TCO. Simplified systems administration
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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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