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whitepaper Success Story: Sesame Workshop2008-03-12 Novell
  With a small IT staff and a limited budget, Sesame Workshop needed innovative ways to manage its growing IT environment. The company implemented Novell ZENworks Asset Management to reduce inventory administration time by 70 percent and leveraged SUSE Linux Enterprise Server to consolidate Web servers by 80 percent.

Tags: Server Consolidation, Virtualization		   
whitepaper Enhancing the Benefits of Linux With Symantec Software and Strategic Technologies, Inc.2007-01-05 01:00:23 Symantec
  Migrating to Linux offered Replacements lower infrastructure costs through hardware independence. With Symantec's enthusiastic support for Linux, Replacements could stay with its familiar Veritas storage management and data protection tools, and continue to reap the benefits: 50 percent reduction in storage management time compared to native Linux and sustained high availability of 99.99 percent. Symantec partner Strategic Technologies has added value by providing integration and implementation services, and timely advice on software upgrades.   
whitepaper HP Server Cluster Meets the High Demands of Oil Exploration Simulations2006-12-13 01:00:24 Hewlett-Packard
  Total is the fourth largest oil and gas company in the world and its researchers at Total E&P UK in Scotland are constantly seeking and evaluating new fields in the North Sea. Computer simulation plays a key role but these simulations have huge appetites for processing power. To meet these demands, Total needs to provide definitive high performance hardware platforms. Seeking to improve on the performance of its old DELL workstation cluster, the company approached HP who brought its specialist partner, OCSL, into play. OCSL designed and built a new high performance cluster with an HP ProLiant DL385 headnode and eight HP ProLiant DL145 processing nodes linked by a Gigabit backbone attached to an Ethernet network.   
whitepaper Quova Inc. Pinpoints IT Savings and Scalability2006-12-08 01:00:19 Oracle
  Quova Inc. provides geolocation data and services that empower online businesses to target customers and safeguard their assets. The company wanted to deploy a cost-effective, scalable database infrastructure to support core business processes. The challenge was to maintain 24x7 performance of critical business applications and streamline IT management to optimize existing DataBase Administrator (DBA) resources. Quova deployed Oracle Real Application Clusters and Oracle Database to create a highly flexible, reliable, and cost-effective IT platform. The company deployed Oracle Real Application Clusters on Linux to further reduce IT costs.   
whitepaper Sanyo Semiconductor Cuts Downtime, Improves Productivity With Help From Global Sapphire Inc.2006-12-08 01:00:19 Oracle
  Sanyo Semiconductor Manufacturing Philippines (SSMP) began experiencing irregular system outages and longer transaction processing time as its aging production server struggled to cope with an increase in workload. This resulted in data losses, long report generation times, a decrease in overall productivity, and frustrated, overworked staff. Maintenance costs were also skyrocketing. In 2005, SSMP engaged Oracle Partner Global Sapphire Inc to migrate its database and applications to Oracle Database 10g with Real Application Clusters running on Red Hat Linux.   
whitepaper St. Luke's Episcopal Health System Ensures High Availability of Clinical Data at Lower Cost2006-12-07 01:00:20 Oracle
  St. Luke's Episcopal Health System has provided compassionate healthcare to Houstonians for almost five decades from its location in the heart of the Texas Medical Center. St. Luke wanted to reduce hardware expenditures required when SMP servers running McKesson patient care applications reached maximum capacity. The challenge was to keep care providers online 24/7 by eliminating downtime for upgrades and enhance disaster recovery strategies cost-effectively. St. Luke reduced hardware expenditures by deploying Oracle Database 10g with Real Application Clusters on Linux on low-cost Intel-based servers, per McKesson's advice.   
whitepaper Rayovac Chooses Windows over Linux for Lower Cost of Ownership, Less Risk2005-12-20 11:12:45 Microsoft
  Find out how Rayovac was able to save nearly $1 million in their first four years of using Microsoft Windows Server 2003 over Red Hat Linux.   
whitepaper Marimba and Celestix Partner to Deliver Linux-Based Hardware Appliance for On-Demand Software Management2005-06-08 03:00:01
  Celestix Networks Inc., is a leading developer of Internet managed security appliances that are complete, ready-to deploy solutions. Celestix and Marimba, Inc. have formed an alliance to offer a cost-effective solution for enterprise change management. Using Marimba's management software enhances the capabilities of the Celestix appliance by efficiently distributing software and content to end points, providing flexible software access and enhanced quality of service to remote and local users. The combination of Celestix and Marimba provide a powerful, one-two punch for an enterprise. In addition to lowering TCO, it provides enhanced quality of service through full functionality, dedicated, low touch servers."   
whitepaper Lithonia Lighting Case Study: Red Hat, Oracle, Dell Solution Halves Batch Processing for ERP Applications2005-06-10 03:00:02 Red Hat
  Lithonia Lighting, an Acuity Brands Company, is one of the largest industrial and commercial lighting manufacturers in the world, relying heavily on technology to provide a competitive edge. But when fast-growing product databases and user activity tested the limits of the company's existing environment, Lithonia needed a change. To handle the rapidly increasing loads, Lithonia migrated from a single, Intel processor-based database server to clustered Dell servers powered by Intel Xeon processor family technology and running Oracle9i Real Application Clusters (RAC) and Red Hat Linux Advanced Server 2.1. Most importantly, this solution delivers performance headroom to meet future demand.   
whitepaper Finding a Better Way With Red Hat Enterprise Linux2005-06-10 03:00:02 Red Hat
  Chicago's Business & Information Services (BIS) Department, supports most of the city's enterprise-level applications that keep the city working. More than 15,000 city workers depend on BIS for fast, reliable access to the technology required to effectively perform in their jobs. In the spirit of finding a better way, the City of Chicago undertook a pilot project with Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Realizing the potential for open source technology to reduce the cost of hardware and IT operating costs, BIS partnered with HP, Red Hat and Systems Solutions Inc. (SSI) to kick off a Red Hat Enterprise Linux pilot project.