Success Stories

Randstad Creates Centralized Architecture With Help from Red Hat

Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS
With more than 2,000 offices and 12,000 employees across the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Poland, and the US, Randstad Holding is one of the largest temporary and contract staffing companies in the world. Randstad needed to centralize and consolidate a disparate administrative as well as ensure system stability and flexibility. Randstad and Red Hat worked together to implement a solution in an "incredibly short" time frame, according to Hidde Fennema, ICT project manager at Randstad.
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Swedish Construction Company Skanska Chooses Red Hat Enterprise Linux

A world leader in the construction industry, Skanska aims to provide lower costs, higher quality, and world-class customer satisfaction. Efficient, reliable technology plays a major role in achieving this goal, so when it was time to upgrade, Skanska chose to migrate from Sun Solaris to Red Hat Enterprise Linux on Dell for Oracle11i and Oracle10g RAC.
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Travel Booking Website Chooses Red Hat Enterprise Linux Over Microsoft

Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS, Oracle10g Standard Edition, Java 1.5, AMD Opteron, Red Hat Network
Wotif.com, founded in 2000, is Australia's leading last-minute accommodations website and the global specialist in its field. In 2002, Wotif.com was essentially a Microsoft shop. Wotif.com was having enormous issues with performance, scalability, and system availability because of 80-100% yearly growth. They decided that Wotif.com's overall architecture needed a solution that was scalable, open source, and UNIX-like. Buy-in and support from tier-one vendors like Oracle was also essential. The platform that best met these needs was Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
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Red Hat Offers Gruner + Jahr Higher Performance At Lower Cost

Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SAP, Dell
Gruner + Jahr is faced with the challenge of achieving greater performance with fewer resources. Attracted by the low-cost and high- performance of Linux, they have migrated numerous business-critical applications away from UNIX and Windows NT to Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
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LVM Chooses Red Hat Solutions As Strategic Platform for the Future

LVM is a nationwide insurance company, operating in the private sector and represented by 2,100 agencies throughout Germany. After using an in-house Linux solution for years, they needed an enterprise Linux OS that could provide low total cost of ownership, ease of management, stability, security, reliability, and flexibility. Their solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux on their servers and Red Hat Desktop on their desktops.
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Leading French Retailer Chooses Red Hat for Critical Sales and Customer Service System

Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Network Satellite Red Hat Professional Services
Lapeyre is a leading manufacturer and distributor of home improvement products in Europe. As they prepared to upgrade their critical sales and services application to the Oracle9i platform, they needed an operating platform that ensured stability, availability, and full compatibility with their existing environment. So they migrated to Red Hat Enteprise Linux combined with Red Hat Network Satelite Server.
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Auto Trade Center Boosts Sales With Red Hat, Oracle, and HP

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.
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First Trust

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.

Automobile giant Renault deploys Red Hat Enterprise Linux with Rackspace Managed Hosting for a more dependable on-line customer interface.

Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
French automobile manufacturer Renault is the most popular vehicle brand in Europe and is among the top three in the United Kingdom. Offering distinctive, clever design and value for money, its vehicles are considered among the safest in the world. Renault relies on websites strategically tailored for each market as a primary information source for customers. The reconfiguration of the company’s UK micro sites to a managed web hosting solution running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux maximizes commercial gain by ensuring the consistent availability of online information for existing and future customers.
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SITEL Calls on Red Hat to Increase Performance and Stability

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.
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Finding Your Way on the Web

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.
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Powers Weather Services for 2006 Winter Olympics

Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Cluster Suite, Red Hat Application Server, Red Hat Network
Arpa Piemonte, Italy's Environmental Protection Agency for the Piedmont region, will provide the weather service to the 2006 Winter Olympic Games in Turin, Italy. The system configuration being used is a reliability cluster based on two servers running Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES 3, Red Hat Cluster Suite, and Red Hat Application Server.
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At the Munich Trade Fair: Red Hat Global File System Provides a Modern Cluster Solution With Virtualized Storage

Solution: Red Hat GFS
Messe Munchen International (Munich International Trade Fair--MMI), which organizes about 40 trade fairs for capital goods, consumer goods, and new technologies is one of the world's leading trade fair companies. Over 30,000 exhibitors representing more than 90 countries and two million visitors from about 180 countries take part in the events in Munich every year. With five subsidiary companies abroad, global trade fairs and 75 foreign branches dealing with 89 countries, MMI has a very strong worldwide network.
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UAE'S Leading Construction Company Migrates to Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Arabtec Construction LLC (Arabtec) is the leading construction company in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Established in 1975, the company has undertaken a substantial program of construction projects, including high rise developments, hotel interiors, residential complexes, office blocks, airport developments, offshore oil and gas installations, cinemas, and entertainment facilities. The construction company's current projects include the Dubai Tower (the tallest tower in the world), The Dubai International Finance Centre, and the Conference Palace in Abu Dhabi.
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deRemate.com Cuts Costs and Scales Online Business with Red Hat and JBoss

In looking for a cost-effective and reliable solution, deRemate.com researched a number of options. The company looked into choosing the solutions of a well-known supplier, but ultimately selected Red Hat for its flexible, customizable, and cost-efficient open source solutions. The company migrated to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and the JBoss Application Server, both backed by Red Hat support, on Dell PowerEdge hardware.

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Ticketmaster

Ticketmaster is the world’s leading ticketing company, selling more than 98 million tickets and serving more than 9,000 venue, promoter, sports team, and event clients worldwide in 2004. Ticketmaster scheduled eight months to add high-performance email to its existing CRM solution. It was operational in one month with StrongMail and Red Hat Enterprise Linux providing them unprecedented speed, delivery and control.

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CD-adapco

CD-adapco deployed Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat GFS with industry-standard server hardware and storage area networking. This allowed them to reduce their infrastructure costs significantly while increasing throughput. The company deployed an easy-to-manage scalable cluster solution to replace their existing proprietary storage infrastructure.

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