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Company: Booz Allen Hamilton
Industry: Government, Management Consulting
Geography: McLean, Virginia
Challenge: Build a service oriented architecture (SOA) solution for a government client that could be leveraged and reused for other client engagements
Migration Path: Transitioned a custom coded, proprietary-based solution to a a hybrid COTS/GOTS/Open-Source application that leveraged a significant portion of the Red Hat product portfolio.
Software: JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform including JBoss jBPM and JBoss Rules, JBoss Operations Network, Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform with Xen virtualization, Red Hat Cluster Suite and Red Hat GFS.
Operating System: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Advanced Platform
Hardware: Eight Dell 2950 servers with 32 gigabytes of memory
Benefits: Booz Allen built a modular SOA environment that efficiently supported the development and integration of new applications into the system, reducing the dependence on custom coding when doing proof-of-concept or production deployments of client systems across a broad range of government and commercial applications
“We selected Red Hat and JBoss Enterprise Middleware in order to meet our client’s budgetary constraints, support requirements and operational needs. The combination of efficiency provided by Xen, scalability provided by Red Hat Cluster Suite, GFS, and the clustering feature of JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, along with the agility provided by the JBoss family of products has led our client to consider these products as their top-tier choice.” – Christopher Dale, associate, Booz Allen Hamilton.
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Category: Persistence
Winner: ADP
Submitted by: Patrick Urban & Nicholas Whitehead
Industry: Financial Services
Geography: Roseland, New Jersey
Overview
Selected for building an AJAX Adaptor for Hibernate that supplies AJAX clients with a rich and high performance data access API and for their use of Hibernate and other JEMS products to improve uptime and reduce cost of their EasyPayNet 5 and TeleNet 1.X Web-based payroll systems.
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Industry: Telecommunications
Geography: India
Challenges: Design a failproof televoting system to manage millions of SMSes. Conform servers to a peak load requirement in excess of 4000 messages per second. Ensure faster processing of votes and eliminate any window for performance delays. Build a system that can handle highly volatile SMS traffic. Ensure security of servers from viruses and attacks
Solution: Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Hardware: Intel Xeon
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Industry: Telecommunications
Geography: Southeast Asia
Opportunity: Thailand offers a unique opportunity for prepaid phone services. Unfortunately, traditional telecommunication protocols that allow for easy implementation and usage tracking of such services are both lacking and expensive.
Solution: AIS developed its own Value-added Service Control Point (VSCP), providing the functionality needed to launch new mobile services to the postpaid market. The system was developed using Internet-based technologies, and runs on a redundant cluster of 200 Red Hat Enterprise Linux servers over three locations linked via X.500 connections. VSCP accounts for $32.5 million dollars of revenue each year.
Benefits: Reduced maintenance and purchase costs. Greater functionality. Simpler system management. And increased and faster performance. » Read more
Category: Increased Return on Investment
Winner: Alintec (previously Politecnico Innovazione)
Submitted by: Sanne Grinovero, Architect IT
Industry: Technology and Government
Geography: Milan, Italy
Overview
Alintec (www.alintec.it) (previously Politecnico Innovazione), a non-profit consortium promoting technological innovation within SMEs and public institutions and technology transfer between academia and industry in Europe, was selected following the high return on investment (ROI) it achieved after the implementation of multiple JBoss technologies within its Internet-based Library Management System (LMS) for the Province of Bergamo. The JBoss-based solution increased library loan rates by more than 25 percent and the frequency of inter-library loans by over 30 percent. Overall, it has positively impacted the end-user experience in terms of speed and ease-of-use.
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Category: Certified Service Provider
Winner:Amentra
Submitted by: Amentra Team
Industry: Amentra = Technology / La Petite Academy = Education
Geography: Virginia
Overview
Selected for helping enterprises deploy mission-critical business systems on JEMS through a formal, experience-proven mentoring and software development program.
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Industry: Website hosting
Geography: Austin, Texas
Opportunity: To gain better control over system availability and provide consistently high quality of service to a growing customer base.
Solution: 150 Dell servers running Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Applications: Roaring Penguin CanIt-PRO
Hardware: Dell 860s to Dell 2950s
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Industry: Construction
Geography: United Arab Emirates
Challenge: Outsourced email servers provided poor performance, increased costs, and security concerns.
Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux on an HP Intel Xeon architecture with SCSI hard disk driver and RAID hardware.
Benefits: A five-fold performance gain and dramatically reduced costs.
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Industry: Telecommunications
Industry: Technology (ASP, Hosting and E-Business)
Geography: The Netherlands
Challenge: To build a standardized, high-availability application-, web- and database-server environment that would ensure security, interoperablity with multiple database systems, and cost efficiency for a growing customer base.
Solution: Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS Premium Edition, Red Hat Network Satellite Server, Red Hat Technical Account Manager (TAM)
Hardware: HP Proliant DL380, HP BL20, Dell PowerEdge 1850, Dell PowerEdge 2850s servers
Benefits: Increased performance and availability of applications on a standardized platform. Simplified maintenance and support. ISO 17799 compliance.
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Messe Munchen International (Munich International Trade Fai–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 fi ve subsidiary companies abroad, global trade fairs and 75 foreign branches dealing with 89 countries, MMI has a very strong worldwide network.
MMI is clearly set for further growth, and, as the business expands, so must the IT infrastructure. This need became apparent by the middle of 2005; the existing infrastructure for providing web services was no longer fully able to cope with the increased requirements. Further scaling of the system would have involved great expense. At that time, the web services were based on a Linux cluster using the NFS fi le system; the operating system used on the cluster nodes was Debian.
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