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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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Industry: Travel services
Geography: United States
Opportunity: Priceline.com regularly sees millions of page views and thousands of bookings per day. As an Internet-based travel service provider, downtime and outages are not an option. The company decided to shift to Red Hat and open source solutions in order to provide the highest-performing services and applications possible and to realize cost savings. Priceline.com also evaluated JBoss due to the company’s predisposition toward developing in Java and to potentially generate further savings based on the open source model.
Solution: Today, Priceline.com has about half of the infrastructure converted over to a mixture of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Network Satellite Server, and JBoss Application Server with Tomcat and Apache web servers.
Hardware: Sun V20z servers with AMD Opteron, HP ProLiant DL385 servers with AMD Opteron, and HP ProLiant DL380 with Intel Xeon.
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Network Satellite Server, and JBoss Application Server with Tomcat and Apache web servers.
Benefits: The combination of Red Hat and JBoss has been a win-win for Priceline.com. Priceline.com’s application availability runs >99.97 percent and hits 100 percent for most quarters. With Red Hat Enterprise Linux, the company has realized reduced security patching requirements than with some proprietary application servers. Through a series of initiatives, like the company’s JBoss implementation, Priceline.com IT has been successful in proportionally reducing its relevant domestic operational IT budgets for this type of infrastructure, despite increases in product complexity and product unit volumes. Forward-looking, Xen support and virtualization technologies are extremely attractive to Priceline.com. The company has been testing Xen in its development environments to reduce hardware costs and lower TCO.
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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: 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: Automatic video editing
Geography: Singapore (HQ), USA
Opportunity: Create a scalable, high-performance IT infrastructure supporting a rapidly growing, innovative startup while minimizing system administration resources and hardware costs
Solution: Two Dell servers running Red Hat Enterprise Linux and multiple open source software solutions
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Network
Applications: Samba, MySQL, virtual Windows, various tracking and management software, and Intranet, email, and FTP applications
Hardware: Dell
Benefits: Gained tremendous flexibility in developing an infrastructure that accommodates continuous growth and innovation while optimizing resources and improving performance to virtually zero downtime
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Industry: Healthcare
Geography: San Francisco, CA
Opportunity: Integrate disparate software applications on one unified platform to provide a comprehensive solution to improve patient care
Solution: Software: Red Hat Enterprise Healthcare Platform: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Network, JBoss Enterprise Middleware Suite, and Hibernate
Applications: McKesson healthcare solutions, Oracle RAC
Hardware: Intel dual and quad-core Xeon server platforms
Benefits: Gained huge efficiencies, saved customers up to one million dollars in total cost of ownership, and provided a reliable, enterprise-ready solution that helps provide high-quality patient care
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Industry: Retail
Geography: France
Goal: To deploy a highly-available platform with long-term support for a critical sales and customer services tool called Caméléon
Solution: Platform: Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES, v 2.1
Hardware: Dell Poweredge 2650
Applications: Camaon, Oracle
Systems Management: Red Hat Network Satellite
Benefits: High availabiliy and reliability for critical software. Long-term support. Easy, fast installation. No proprietary lock-in.
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Industry: Government
Geography: Germany
Goal: Replace obsolete technology.
Solution: Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Applications: Nivadis; BEA WebLogic
Hardware: HP Integrity Servers (IA-64) and Fujitsu Primergy Servers
Systems Management: Red Hat Network Satellite Server
Benefits: Low-cost solution for high-performance systems. Central, secure IT management. Professional support with open source flexibility.
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Industry/Solution: State and Local Government
Challenge: Regain control of ineffective and fragile network infrastructure
Solution: Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux with Red Hat Network
Applications: Backup, Security, Monitoring, Authentication, E-mail, Web Access, Internet Services, Scripting, Databases, Storage and VoIP
Hardware: Dell PowerEdge Servers
Benefits: Increased reliability and control of a distributed infrastructure at a significantly lower cost.
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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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Industry: Telecommunications
Industry: Technology (ASP, Hosting and E-Business)
Geography: The Netherlands
Challenge: To build a standardized, high-availability application-, web- and database-server environment that would ensure security, interoperablity with multiple database systems, and cost efficiency for a growing customer base.
Solution: Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS Premium Edition, Red Hat Network Satellite Server, Red Hat Technical Account Manager (TAM)
Hardware: HP Proliant DL380, HP BL20, Dell PowerEdge 1850, Dell PowerEdge 2850s servers
Benefits: Increased performance and availability of applications on a standardized platform. Simplified maintenance and support. ISO 17799 compliance.
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