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University of Stirling Chooses Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Applications and Intel Itanium 2-Based Servers | 0000-00-00 | Red Hat |
| The University of Stirling in Scotland, UK was founded by Royal Charter in 1967 and has established itself as a major center of education with remote campuses in Inverness and Stornoway. The University is organized academically into four faculties: Arts, Human Sciences, Management, and Natural Sciences. With a respected teaching reputation, supported by an active research culture, the University of Stirling has over 9,000 students and 2,000 staff. Understandably, human resources and payroll are among the most critical systems supported by the University's IT department. So when its systems began to lag, it turned to Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Not only did Stirling University more than triple its performance, it also cut costs by 50%.
Tags: Linux Server OS |
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Technical Operations: Lastminute Success Case | 0000-00-00 | Globant |
| lastminute.com is Europe's leading independent travel and leisure website. Lastminute began to seriously study how to leverage available technology (e.g. management and monitoring software) together with strategic partnerships with technology services companies to guarantee that the technical environment could scale as quickly as business needs required. All this while reducing the growth rate of infrastructure costs. Lastminute was looking for scalable, stable solutions at reasonable cost. Globant delivered a core team of Linux, Solaris and Informix database experts that filled critical holes in the technical operations support team.
Tags: Sun Solaris, Linux Server OS |
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LVM Chooses Red Hat Solutions as Strategic Platform for the Future | 0000-00-00 | Red Hat |
| With about three million customers, Landwirtschaftlicher Versicherungsverein Munster A.G., or LVM, is one of the largest insurance companies in Germany. The tradition of Linux within the company reaches back to the year 2000, when a combination of strategic considerations led to the company developing its own Linux version. The company wanted to find a Linux-solution backed by enterprise-level support while retaining vendor-independence. As a solution the company deployed Red Hat Desktop and IBM ThinkPad notebook computers.
Tags: Laptops, Linux Server OS |
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Splunk Case Study: Rearden Commerce | 0000-00-00 | Splunk |
| Rearden Commerce provides the world's largest marketplace for services of all kinds, including travel, entertainment, package shipping and meeting services. Rearden's service must be online for its customers 24/7/365 or it risks losing revenue and accounts. As a solution the company implemented Splunk Professional. It helps the company to be prepared for inevitable failures through better situational awareness, head off many failures entirely through identifying unusual patterns proactively and resolve problems much faster if and when they do happen.
Tags: Linux Server OS |
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Red Hat Offers Gruner + Jahr Higher Performance at Lower Cost | 0000-00-00 | Red Hat |
| With a workforce of over 11,500 and revenue of more than 2.44 billion Euro in fiscal year 2004, Gruner + Jahr is Europe's largest magazine publishing house. Like most companies, Gruner + Jahr also faced the challenge of having to achieve ever greater performance with ever fewer resources. Attracted by the low-cost of Linux, they began experimenting with Linux for web servers in 2000. Now they are operating numerous business-critical applications on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, including e-procurement applications, SAP application servers, and database servers.
Tags: Linux Server OS |
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Novell Case Study: Tractor Supply Company | 0000-00-00 | Novell |
| Tractor Supply Company is the largest retail farm and ranch store chain in the United States. As the company continues to grow, Tractor Supply Company (TSC) wanted to put in place a cost-effective, performant infrastructure to host its mission-critical systems. As a solution TSC chose to deploy a cluster of price-performant Linux servers where each server in the cluster can simultaneously read and write to volumes of shared data on a Storage Area Network (SAN).
Tags: Linux Server OS |
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Sybase Case Study: Addison Lee | 0000-00-00 | Sybase |
| Addison Lee, London's premier courier and delivery service, found the edges of its system with explosive growth. Working with BT and Sybase, Addison Lee architected a system that provides robust 24/7 availability, unparalleled customer service and is fully integrated across all operations functions. Based on a multiple failover approach, the solution ensures open resilient architecture that is very flexible, yet will scale and grow with the business. The overall design incorporates two IBM pSeries hardware servers, which support the primary Sybase data management system and a separate hot standby. The operating system runs on Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Tags: UNIX, Linux Server OS |
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PhotoWorks Powers Its Linux-Based E-Commerce Business With DataDirect | 0000-00-00 | Data Direct |
| Seattle-based PhotoWorks Inc. is the leading provider of digital and film photography services. The company wanted to merge two IT departments without compromising the Web-based applications the business runs on. PhotoWorks needed a Linux-to-SQL Server solution that could scale with their business. DataDirect was the only solution in its class, offering PhotoWorks worryfree and fast connectivity. The company turned to DataDirect Technologies, designers of premium data connectivity software, to solve its quandary.
Tags: Linux Server OS |
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VanDyke Case Study: Multi-M/IA Internet Architects BV | 0000-00-00 | VanDyke Software |
| Multi-M/IA is an internet consulting firm that provides e-business solutions for its clients including web site development, management of internet and e-business projects, and integration of internet initiatives with existing business processes. Multi-M/IA needed to develop a collaborative network environment for its employees, consultants, and partners that provide secure file revision and project management. Using VanDyke Software's end-to-end solution, Multi-M/IA implemented a secure, collaborative environment for their employees. VanDyke's software is interoperable with OpenSSH and CVS running on Multi-M/IA's Linux server and client machines.
Tags: Security Management, Linux Server OS |
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Everything to Gain and Little to Lose With Red Hat Enterprise Linux | 0000-00-00 | Red Hat |
| Ranked consistently in the top tier of U.S. colleges and universities, Vanderbilt University is internationally known for its cutting edge technology and research programs coupled with the Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Vanderbilts challenge was to regain top notch performance. This was solved by Red Hat Enterprise Linux Academic Edition with Red Hat Network; Hardware: HP DL-series servers; Software: Oracle 9i Enterprise Database Server, Oracle 9i RAC, Oracle 10g RAC, Oracle 9i AS (J2EE), Blackboard Course Management System 6.1, Several custom-developed applications.
Tags: Linux Server OS |
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