Success Stories

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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