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Message from the UK Public Sector Team
Welcome to the Red Hat UK Public Sector Internet pages, we hope that you find the information that you are looking for and that it is of value and use to you. If you do not find the information you require please contact us directly by email. Red Hat is fully aligned to and supportive of the UK Government's updated policy on Open Source Software (OSS) and the Cabinet Office's IT Service Transformation Strategy. We have been supplying open source software technology to the UK government for the past 10 years and are the global leaders in open source software technology.
Red Hat has a very large and growing number of UK government customers who have standardised on Red Hat's Enterprise Linux (RHEL) server technology and are now extending their infrastructure deployments with our JBoss Enterprise middleware technology. As a result, these government customers are achieving cost savings of up to 80% over their previous proprietary based software infrastructure deployments. In addition to this, these customers are also experiencing improved security, true open standards and innovation in service delivery and staff development.
Red Hat is committed to delivering the highest quality software and value to its customers. Government business accounts for over a quarter of our overall business revenue so you can be assured that you will get the best possible service and commitment from the Red Hat Public Sector team. Whether you are a direct government end user, a government systems integrator or other service delivery partner, the team are here ready to assist you in achieving real value from your software investments.
Tod Cury
Head of UK Public Sector Business
Featured Government Events
JBoss Virtual Experience 2009
Date: Februay 11, 2009
Open Source in the Public Sector
Date:Date: April 22nd, 2009
Open Source Forum 2009
Date: June 16th, 2009
Articles and Whitepapers
"Open Source: helping to keep London moving" [PDF] - GovernmentIT, April 2009
SOA solutions for Education from Red Hat [PDF]
Red Hat SOA solutions for local government [PDF]
Savings, security, interoperability and innovation for government [PDF]
Increase the performance and reliability of your ANPR system [PDF]
Defense Department sets up its own SourceForge - January 31, 2009
The dam holding back U.S. federal adoption of open source just burst with the introduction of the Defense Department's Forge.mil.
Forge.mil is an open-source project repository built in the image of SourceForge.net, Federal Computer Week reported Friday.
DOD launches site to develop open-source software - January 30, 2009
Defense Department officials have launched a new Web site where developers can work on open-source software projects specifically for DOD, David Mihelcic, the chief technology officer for the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), said today.
Open Source Hosted Software Industry Predictions, Speculate on Obama IT Impact - January 29, 2009
Polling high-ranking open source business executives on their forecasts for the year ahead, the OSA survey results point to new opportunities and challenges for the commercial open source software industry. OSA members remain optimistic that the industry will continue its worldwide growth, echoing sentiments from the 2008 survey.
Featured Government Solution - March 31, 2009
Systems and Identity Management Solutions
As budgets get tighter and IT demands increase, many states and government agencies are looking to Red Hat for low cost Open Source solutions. We're well-known for our Red Hat Enterprise Linux distribution, but with the release of Red Hat Enterprise IPA, now is the perfect time to consider Red Hat for your Systems and Identity Management solutions.JBoss Middleware and SOA - Government Trusts JBoss
Government agencies trust JBoss Enterprise Middleware not just for development, but for production deployment of their mission critical application and services. Why? Enterprise class performance and scalability. Shorter development cycles and faster time-to-market. Industry leading support. And of course, outstanding value.
Unix to Linux Migration
Better Management, Lower TCO. Migrate to Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Agencies require business and technology solutions that enable price and performance gains, cutting-edge flexibility, and proven stability to power the most sophisticated technology environments. Red Hat Enterprise Linux provides an open source alternative to the proprietary lock-in of legacy Unix systems. The openness of Red Hat Enterprise Linux provides government agencies the building blocks to respond rapidly to changes in IT requirements-whether they are adding new features to existing solutions or new applications.
Healthcare
Red Hat open source solutions for healthcare provide the reliability, security, and interoperability needed to deliver safe, quality patient care. Used by organizations such as Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Florida Hospital, and Highmark, Red Hat technologies power clinical applications in life critical environments. Solution providers such as McKesson, GE Healthcare, CPSI, and InterSystems have adopted Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JBoss middleware for reliable, secure infrastructure without sacrificing affordability.
Success Stories
"Open Source: helping to keep London moving" [PDF] - GovernmentIT, April 2009
learndirect Teaches the Benefits of Open Source with Red Hat
Hill Air Force Base - 2007 Red Hat Innovator of the Year
Hill AFB's existing system went down eight times in three months. With about 18,000 users on base, many of whom are doing highly sensitive and deadline-driven work, it can cost up to $1 million per hour when Hill's systems are down.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux stood out as the only Linux that was able to meet security concerns. In addition to having enhanced security, Red Hat's solutions were much more economical than others. To sustain the existing environment and increase capability, it would have cost Hill a minimum of $5 million per year to use Solaris. Red Hat Enterprise Linux cost $100,000, just two percent of the cost of the old operating system.
Read more at redhat.com or read about how Hill Air Force Base streamlines systems and improves aircraft maintenance at GCN.com.
Booz Allen Delivers a Flexible and Scalable SOA Solution to Client by Leveraging Red Hat Products
Booz Allen built a modular SOA environment that efficiently supported the development and integration of new applications into the system, reducing the dependence on custom coding when doing proof-of-concept or production deployments of client systems across a broad range of government and commercial applications.
"We selected Red Hat and JBoss Enterprise Middleware in order to meet our client's budgetary constraints, support requirements and operational needs. The combination of efficiency provided by Xen, scalability provided by Red Hat Cluster Suite, GFS, and the clustering feature of JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, along with the agility provided by the JBoss family of products has led our client to consider these products as their top-tier choice."
- Christopher Dale, associate, Booz Allen Hamilton
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NSA takes its Flask architecture to the open-source community to offer an inexpensive route to trusted systems
Architecture created by the National Security Agency and expanded with help from the open-source community will save the Defense Department and intelligence agencies millions in hardware costs. Analysts used to need multiple computers because they worked on separate machines for each classification level of data they accessed. Soon, users will be able to access data from a single console that could cost $500 or less, thanks to the NSA security architecture dubbed Flask.
With Flask, "we can guarantee that high-integrity data can't be corrupted by untrustworthy entities or that sensitive data doesn't leak to untrustworthy entities," said Stephen Smalley, one of the chief developers of Flask at NSA. The best part is that the technology requires no specialized hardware or operating system.
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DISA certifies Red Hat OS for IPv6
The Defense Information Systems Agency has certified the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) operating system as being ready for swapping Internet Protocol version 6 packets with other Defense Department servers, Red Hat announced this week.
The software meets the requirements of the IPv6 Master Test Plan, a program initiated by DOD's Office of the Chief Information Officer, as well as by the Chief Assistant Secretary of Defense for Networks and Information Integration.
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U.S. Army realizes better price/performance by migrating to 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.
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