Migration from VMware to Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization and Red
Hat Enterprise Linux puts company on path toward significant cost savings
RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, today announced that LetterGen NV, a Belgian supplier of
document management software, has migrated its virtualized systems from
VMware to Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization. LetterGen expects migrating
to Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization and Red Hat Enterprise Linux to
help it reduce costs by over 60 percent, in addition to optimizing
systems maintenance and improving services for its customers throughout
Europe.
A fast-growing technology company, BTR Services, LetterGen's holding
company, was recently ranked 292nd in Deloitte's Technology
Fast500 EMEA list. Keen to maintain high growth rates along with its
competitiveness, LetterGen required a scalable, stable IT infrastructure
that could grow with the company without becoming too costly. The
company had previously virtualized a large amount of its IT
infrastructure using VMware, but experienced scalability issues and
found the solutions hard to manage. Following a period of internal
testing, LetterGen was convinced that Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization
could satisfy its system requirements to achieve success.
"We made the strategic decision to migrate to Red Hat for a variety of
reasons, but in particular, we were impressed by Red Hat's subscription
model that has no high upfront license fees and costs the same each
year. We expect the virtualization guest rights included in the Red Hat
Enterprise Linux subscription alone to lead to reduced IT-related costs
by over 60 percent," said Luc Vandergoten, CEO at LetterGen. "By using
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization's Live Migration feature, the
migration to our new infrastructure was swift and stress-free. Our IT
team is now able to make efficient use of the virtualization cluster by
moving virtual machines from one host to another without affecting
performance. In addition, the maintenance management functions enable
hosts to be upgraded and maintained while the virtual machines are
running. The result has been much less downtime, and much higher
availability."
LetterGen used BTR Services, a Red Hat Advanced Business Partner
specializing in Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, to handle the
migration. BTR Services was able to automatically convert machines from
its existing format to the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization format
using Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization V2V tools. BTR Services
virtualized 95 percent of LetterGen's infrastructure, including its web
servers, file servers based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Active
Directory, database servers, JBoss Community projects, as well as the
entire development and testing environment. A combination of Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 5 and 6 is used on the virtual servers.
"The existing virtualized IT environment at LetterGen was simply not
capable of meeting the company's long-term scalability requirements,"
said Vincent Van der Kussen, system engineer, Open Systems at BTR
Services. "After an initial demonstration and various internal tests, we
were able to demonstrate that all of the functions LetterGen required
were available in one package by using Red Hat Enterprise
Virtualization. It also helped that Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization
offered this high level of functionality at a lower price than
competitive solutions."
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About LetterGen NV
LetterGen NV of Boom, Belgium was founded in October 2009 as a
subsidiary of BTR Services, an IT service provider that was established
in 2005. LetterGen Document Management Software is an ultramodern
document generation system based on open standards. LetterGen offers
interactive, direct, and high-volume batch generation of
correspondence and forms, interactive documents that can be placed in a
workflow for approval, collaboration, digital signatures, and delivery
via e-mail, fax, printed matter, or web portals. The documents can be
generated as an OpenDocument text file, Microsoft Word document,
Portable Document Format, Tagged Image File Format, or a JPEG Compliant
Image. The Deloitte Technology Fast 500 EMEA, a list of the top 500
fastest growing technology companies, ranked BTR Services, LetterGen's
holding company, at place 292 in 2011.
About Red Hat, Inc.
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S&P 500 company, is headquartered in Raleigh, NC with more than 70
offices spanning the globe. Red Hat provides high-quality, affordable
technology with its operating system platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux,
together with cloud, virtualization, management, storage and
service-oriented architecture (SOA) solutions, including Red Hat
Enterprise Virtualization and JBoss Enterprise Middleware. Red Hat also
offers support, training and consulting services to its customers
worldwide. Learn more: http://www.redhat.com.
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