Success Stories
Red Hat Solutions at Work
Organizations are always looking for new ways to make their networks more reliable and efficient--without having to rely on inflexible, expensive technology. This is a collection of stories about Red Hat solutions at work in organizations of all sizes and from around the world. Some chose Red Hat as a competitive advantage. Some sought improved stability. Some simply wanted to save money. Start below with a few of our featured stories.
Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
One of the most well known cities in the United States, Chicago prides itself on finding a better way to do things~Wfrom strengthening public education to inventing Cracker Jacks, lowering crime to building the first skyscraper. In the same spirit, this year they've begun migrating their IT systems to Red Hat Enterprise Linux to improve performance and save costs.
When Juan Quesada's company, a leading home builder, began considering Linux in 2001, he turned to Red Hat for instructor-led training. Early the following year Juan became a Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) and is now the Linux "go to guy." "Experience is important," Juan notes, "but the RHCE proved to my company that I had the knowledge needed to carry out the Linux deployment with confidence and within time constraints."
When regulations mandated that Indian banks be fully computerized by December 2004, Central Bank of India knew they must find a solution optimized for scalability and focused on ease of support and maintenance. After some testing, Linux was clearly the best choice, with Red Hat as the partner. CBI has now implemented the Red Hat solution across 1,115 branches, with 1,770 additional branches planning to deploy Linux in 2004.
Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
For the City of Bloomington, Indiana (pop 70,000), a declining budget offered a big opportunity. Their aging Unix infrastructure was experiencing significant performance problems along with increasing maintenance costs. When budget cuts were delivered, they had to find another solution. By migrating to Red Hat Enterprise Linux, the City increased performance and flexibility in their most mission-critical systems while chalking up significant savings.
Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Academic Edition, Red Hat Network, and Red Hat Training
Consistently ranked as a top U.S university, Vanderbilt takes as much pride in it's technology and research programs as in its renowned medical center. Maintaining their role as a technology leader permeates every decision, so when data storage needs began multiplying by 1000% per year and their Unix infrastructure clearly couldn't keep up, Vanderbilt looked at Linux. After migrating to Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Vanderbilt reports lower TCO in three areas: hardware acquisition, software licensing, and system administration.
Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Network
When Pottawattamie County migrated mission-critical tasks from Microsoft Windows to Red Hat Enterprise Linux, they saw increased reliability and control at a significantly lower cost. "From a technical standpoint, we've found that Red Hat Enteprise Linux and other open source solutions could almost always meet the business needs and performance of proprietary alternatives," said Thomas Broniecki, Director of IT.
Solution: Red Hat Enteprise Linux AS
Faced with commodity-style competitors, Fiat Auto needed a way to distinuish it's brand above and beyond quality cars. They instituted Fiat Link, a three-tier sales support and customer relationship management (CRM) tool based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Oracle9i RAC on HP Integrity Servers with 64-bit Intel Itanium 2 processors. Now Fiat dealers have instant access to real-time CRM, dealer, and vehicle information, creating a streamlined buying process while lowering the cost of each sale. Fiat Link will be in use across 5,800 retailers in 17 countries by 2005.
Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS
As a leading internet-based automotive company, Auto Trade Center knows that their competitive edge depends on technology--their e-commerce site must be reliable, stable, and responsive with at least 99.99% availability. Red Hat Enterprise Linux with Oracle9i RAC on HP
ProLiant servers exceeds their needs. Now Auto Trade Center customers can sell their vehicles online in 1/5 the time it would take via the typical offline process. The company has seen a big boost in revenue, which allows them to pass savings onto their customers.
Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
The Chronicle Herald is the biggest independently-owned newspaper in Canada and boasts a daily readership of 333,000. As a thoroughly automated newspaper operation, The Chronicle Herald requires a highly available server and operating system to keep operations moving 24x7. They recently migrated from a Sun Enterprise 3000 environment to IBM eServer BladeCenter with Red Hat Enterprise Linux, a decision that saves CA$14,000 (US$10,500) over three years in maintenance costs alone. Additionally, The Chronicle Herald uses Samba and Sendmail for file system and e-mail software rather than Microsoft® Windows NT® and Microsoft Exchange, creating a savings of CA$25,000 (US$18,800).
Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
As one of the largest independent trust companies for self-directed retirement plans, First Trust Corporation handles millions of dollars per day, a number that continues to increase. A new transaction system built on HP's Itanium 2-based servers, Oracle9i RAC, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux resulted in a threefold perfomance improvement to accomodate for their rapid growth.
Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Lithonia Lighting, one of the largest industrial and commercial lighting manufacturers in the world, migrated from single, processor-based database servers to clustered servers running Oracle® 9i RAC on Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS. The result: Low costs and improved productivity.
Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Network, and Red Hat Training
Rackspace Managed Hosting, the leading managed service provider, entrusts thousands of its customers~R Web servers to Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Network. And 90% of their support team are Red Hat Certified Engineers, allowing Rackspace customers to focus on core business issues with the confidence that their servers are in good hands.
Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Managing and retrieving personnel records for 1.2 million U.S. Army soldiers requires an enterprise solution that delivers quick and reliable access to those records. Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS meets those requirements, and soldiers stationed around the globe can now access their records reliably and securely anytime, any place.
Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Having outgrown its legacy Unix platform, the Virginia Department of Juvenile Justice needed to upgrade its Oracle-based Juvenile Tracking System to a scalable, Web-based architecture. By migrating to a Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Dell solution, the Department was able to upgrade its Oracle-based tracking system at one-third the cost while realizing tremendous gains in performance and scalability.
Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
With over 70 call centers in over 20 countries, SITEL provides global call center and customer support services to major corporations around the world. When it came time to rethink its IT infrastructure, SITEL chose Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS running on Dell to build out databases and applications in its geographically remote call centers. The Result: Stability and reliability necessary for remote sites.
Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
As a leading provider of Web Services Management (WSM) solutions, Flamenco Networks needed a server and operating system infrastructure
that was capable of providing 99.9% availability. Learn how Flamenco chose to run all its applications on Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS and IBM  xSeries systems.
Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
In order to meet the insurance industry's need for realtime access to claims and account information, LOSSRUNS needed to created an on-demand service built upon a secure, reliable platform: Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS on IBM's xSeries 342 systems.
Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
When Lenzing, a world leader in cellulose fiber manufacturing, saw the performance of its proprietary application deteriorate within its dated HP Alpha environment, it quickly recognized the need for a change. Lenzing decided to update to a clustered solution running Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS on IBM's xSeries systems to achieve flexible, high performance computer power at the right price.
Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
NetCreations, a world leader in opt-in e-mail direct marketing, replaced two existing Alpha servers with an IBM xSeries systems running Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS. The result: $100,000 annual savings on infrastructure costs and licensing fees; 78% decrease in processing time for select applications; and enhanced responsiveness to customers - just to name a few.
Solution: Red Hat Applications
The UK Government set the target for all local authorities to have their services online by 2005. One of the original projects in support of this mandate was the Accessible and Personalised Local Authority Websites (APLAWS) project. The APLAWS Project team turned to Red Hat CMS and Portal Server to deliver a robust, yet intuitive web content management solution and a flexible platform for building web applications and portals.
Solution: Red Hat Linux
Amerada Hess Corporation, Houston, TX, USA
A major energy company uses Red Hat Linux to handle billions of computations in its three-dimensional geophysical modeling technology as it searches for new crude oil resources.
Solution: Red Hat Linux
Google, Mountain View, CA USA
Google runs the world's largest search engine, handling more than 100 million searches per day. And it's powered by one of the world's largest server farms, comprised of 8,000 Red Hat Linux servers.
Solution: Red Hat Linux
Kenwood Americas Corporation, Long Beach, CA, USA
When Kenwood Americas overhauled its aging network and operating system, it found the stability and reliability of Red Hat Linux.
Solution: Red Hat Linux
New Jersey State Police keep the wheels of law enforcement turning with Red Hat Linux and Oracle, using Red Hat Linux to power essential day-to-day functions and helps keep costs under control.
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