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Energy, Oil, and Gas
Energy for a New Tomorrow
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.
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Statoil Migrates From UNIX and Saves 50%
Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Technical Account Manager
Summary: As an early adopter of Linux for enterprise applications,
Statoil has learned many lessons and seen great benefits. As one of the
world's largest operators for offshore oil and gas activities, Statoil
realized in the late 1990's that they needed to standardize their IT
infrastructure. Since then, they've migrated from seven Unix variants to
Red Hat Enterprise Linux. In the process, they've experienced a 50% cost
savings, increased performance, and built the largest super-computer in
Norway.
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Gas Natural: Leading Natural Gas Distributor Achieves Impressive Performance Increase With Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Oracle 9i RAC, SAP BW, SAP SEM
There are now a variety of systems within The Gas Natural Group running on Enterprise Linux, including one of the most business critical systems: a corporate data warehouse powered by Oracle® Database 9i RAC and SAP Business Information Warehouse (BW), and another system running SAP Strategic Enterprise Management (SEM). The overall TCO (total cost of ownership) of their IT infrastructure has been reduced by a 1:4 factor and performance gains in their data warehouse have been as high as 5,214% in some queries.
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Red Hat Solutions Provide Added Power for Italian Iride Energia
The requirement for compatibility with Oracle solutions led the company to Red Hat. Known for its high-quality support services, Red Hat was selected by Iride Energia after tests carried out on alternative products fell short of requirements. During the migration to Red Hat solutions, SAP certification was also added to Red Hat Enterprise Linux, delivering increased value to Iride Energia. “Our experience with Linux is a long-standing one, since we had opted to operate within an open source environ ment as early as 2003,” said Roberto Ganio Mego, Iride Energia’s system administrator. “We wished to update our IT infrastructure and improve its performance, while ensuring that we received excellent quality of service, such as Red Hat provides.”
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