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Comcast - 2007 Red Hat Innovation Award Winner

Category: Emerging and Leading Edge Technologies
Submitted by: John Brzozowski, Architect and Principle Engineer
Vertical: Broadband services
Location: Philadelphia, PA
Website: http://www.comcast.com

Overview

Selected for ther use of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 virtualization capabilities to create a cost-effective, highly efficient testing and certification environment to support the corporate IPv6 initiative.
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Filed under Technology, Consumer, HP, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, North America, Global Professional Services, Global Support Services, Virtualization, Red Hat Innovation Awards on January 10th, 2008 | No comments »

Italian Olive Oil Manufacturer Enhances Performance with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 on IBM Mainframe zSeries

Industry: Food Manufacturing
Geography: Italy
Opportunity: Ensure the fast processing of customer orders by reducing system response times and maintaining consistent performance levels, even during peak periods
Solution:

• Software: 6 virtualized instances of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 running on IBM z/VSE and z/VM, DB2/Udb database, Ware Place and Tomcat
• Hardware: IBM zSeries 9 Business Class mainframe

Benefits: Maintain response times calculating to under one second, efficiently manage various databases with over 24 gigabytes of data and simplify communication among operating systems through use of XML within the mainframe
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Filed under Consumer, Manufacturing, IBM, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, EMEA, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Global Support Services, Virtualization on January 8th, 2008 | No comments »

Swisscom IT Services Implements Simply Managed Linux (SIMLUX) with Red Hat and JBoss Solutions

Industry: Services
Geography: Switzerland
Opportunity: Swisscom IT Services needed to create a standardised and stable operating system environment to host outsourced services for its customers. The company also wanted to simplify the provisioning and allocation of new servers by creating an automated staging infrastructure.
Solution: Hardware: IBM Blade servers
Software: Simple Managed Linux (SIMLUX) including Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 with virtualization, Red Hat Cluster Suite, Red Hat Satellite Server, JBoss Enterprise Application Server
Benefits:

• Swisscom IT Services now has a highly stable standardised Linux platform called Simply Managed Linux (SIMLUX).
• The solution, combining Red Hat and JBoss solutions, delivers simple management through the reliable Red Hat subscription model.
• The solution also delivers top price-performance ratios for Swisscom IT Services.

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Filed under Telco, Services, IBM, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, EMEA, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Global File System, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, Virtualization, Red Hat Enterprise Linux on October 17th, 2007 | No comments »