Success Stories

Education

Yuba County School System Increases Efficiency

Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Yuba County Unified School District (YCUSD) in northern California migrated from a mainframe environment to one built around Red Hat Enterprise Linux and other open source solutions. As a result, they've increased efficiency and reliability, all while saving money.
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University of Stirling Chooses Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Applications and Intel Itanium 2-based Server

Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
With over 9000 students and 2000 staff member, human resources and payroll are critical systems at Stirling University. When its systems began to lag, it turned to Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Intel Itanium 2- based systems. Not only did Stirling University more than triple its performance, it also cut costs by 50%.
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learndirect Teaches the Benefits of Open Source With Red Hat

learndirect provides delivers online education, training, and advice for two million users, facilitating over 50,000 sessions and 10,000 new course enrolments per week. With systems needing to be available 24 hours per day, 365 days per week, there was no room for outages or failure. A reliable, high performance system was needed to replace learndirect's Visual Basic-based legacy system, which was outdated and costly to support. A requirement to work with the source code and to adopt the most cost effective solution led learndirect to open source solutions from Red Hat.
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IIT Kanpur sets up mission critical, High Performance Computing powerhouse on Red Hat Enterprise Linux

With proprietary UNIX-RISC servers, scaling the HPC infrastructure was an expensive proposition for IIT Kanpur. With Red Hat Enterprise Linux running on non-RISC hardware, the institute has found a scalable, low cost solution that delivers the same performance, without any compromises.

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Liberty University

The IT leaders at the University knew for some time that they wanted to make the switch to Linux. Ultimately, the need for a cluster file system for the SAN led the IT team to select Red Hat Global File System (GFS) and Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

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Basel University

After completion of the university’s initial implementation phase, there are 15 running server services and a large number of applications accessing the directory, including e-mail services, SAP, practical training rooms, web applications, and file servers. In addition, Red Hat Directory Server now guarantees the desired high-degree availability needed to support the university’s IT systems.

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ProQuest CSA

An innovative approach to drive out cost and achieve measurable ROI as a result of implementing a Red Hat solution. Results could include financial return or percentage increase in productivity, yield, efficiency, quality, or uptime performance.

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