Global Award Finalists Illustrate How Red Hat Solutions Drive
Innovation and Business Results
RALEIGH, N.C. & BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, today announced the finalists in the sixth annual Red Hat
Innovation Awards. The awards program recognizes customers, partners and
communities for their outstanding use, innovation and extension of Red
Hat solutions to solve unique business problems today and in the future.
The Red Hat Innovation Awards finalists are recognized in seven separate
categories, and category winners were selected by a panel of experts and
ranked based on the uniqueness, complexity and magnitude of their Red
Hat implementation. The panel of experts included: Joe Brockmeier,
editor/writer, ReadWriteWeb; Lee Congdon, CIO, Red Hat; Jim
Kaskade, Stealth Startup CEO, PARC EIR, GigaOM analyst; Jay
Lyman, senior analyst, Enterprise Software, 451 Research; Scott Merrill,
contributor, TechCrunch; and Craig Muzilla, vice president and
general manager, Middleware, Red Hat.
The seven Innovation Awards category winners will compete for the 2012
Red Hat Innovator of the Year and will be recognized during Red Hat
Summit and JBoss World 2012 in Boston. The 2012 Red Hat Innovator of the
Year will be selected by the community via online voting and announced
during a special awards ceremony hosted by Red Hat president and CEO Jim
Whitehurst on Thursday, June 28.
The 2012 Red Hat Innovation Awards winners include:
Optimized Systems
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UNE EPM Telecommunications — UNE EPM Telecommunications is
Colombia's leading provider of IT and communication services.
High-quality services based on cutting-edge technology has given UNE a
competitive advantage in the Latin American market, helping create a
customer base of more than 5 million. During the past three years, UNE
standardized on Red Hat solutions. Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red
Hat Director Server's reliability and high-availability has provided
UNE with a comprehensive platform for its entire IT infrastructure,
that has helped UNE reduce recovery time by 95 percent and lower
operational costs by 50 percent, as well as lay the foundation for the
company to provide relevant, innovative technologies to its customers
base.
Next Generation Business Application
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Toll Global Logistics -- Toll Global Logistics is a division of
the Toll Group, one of Asia's leading providers of integrated
logistics, operating an extensive network of more than 1,200 sites in
55 countries with 45,000 employees. In order to address
critical issues within its core transport tracking system, Toll Global
Logistics sought an innovative solution that could provide real-time,
effective interpretation of vendor data feeds against its internal
transport system. By developing a middleware architecture based on Red
Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Enterprise MRG, JBoss Enterprise
Application Platform and JBoss BRMS, Toll Global Logistics transformed
its operations, and, for the first time, enabled its users to visually
track packages across multiple modes of transport.
Outstanding Open Source Architecture
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State Street Corporation -- State Street is a leading financial
services provider with operations in 29 countries that serves some of
the world's most sophisticated institutions, offering a flexible suite
of services that span the investment spectrum, including investment
management, research and trading and investment servicing. State
Street embarked on a transformation initiative to accelerate new IT
application development and business innovation with an
enterprise-wide Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) framework built on Red
Hat solutions in its private cloud environment. State Street's PaaS
unifies industry-leading advancements in technology to achieve the
company's strategic objectives, including faster time-to-market,
strengthened security and improved overall IT operations.
Superior Alternatives
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Sprint Nextel -- Sprint Nextel is a publicly traded
Fortune 100 telecommunications company with more than 40,000 employees
and more than 56 million subscribers. Tired of paying exorbitant
licensing and maintenance fees for proprietary middleware, Sprint
Nextel deployed JBoss Enterprise Application Platform and, at the same
time, significantly cut costs while delivering enhanced flexibility
and agility to the company's mission-critical business applications.
With millions of dollars in cost savings from Red Hat solutions,
Sprint Nextel can fund more IT projects to spur business-driven
functionality, growth and innovation. Sprint Nextel's key successes
also include improved developer productivity, reduced time-to-market
for key Sprint products, and improved automation of crucial business
processes.
Extensive Partner Ecosystem
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Appcelerator -- A private company with approximately 140
employees, Appcelerator worked closely with Red Hat on their flagship
platform, Titanium. One of the leading enterprise-grade,
cross-platform development solutions on the market, Titanium counts
more than 300,000 mobile developers in its worldwide ecosystem.
Appcelerator integrated Red Hat's OpenShiftTM PaaS into its
Titanium platform, enabling developers to push and auto-scale the
backend of their mobile development processes. This integration gives
Titanium developers the ability to create, deploy and manage their
mobile applications, and then push these applications to Red Hat's
OpenShift PaaS with just a single click.
Best Middleware Implementation
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Allianz Group -- Together with its customers and sales
partners, Allianz is one of the strongest financial communities. Over
75 million private and corporate customers rely on Allianz's
knowledge, global reach, capital strength and solidity to help them
make the most of financial opportunities and to avoid and safeguard
themselves against risks. In 2011, around 142,000 employees in some 70
countries achieved total revenue of 103.6 billion euros and an
operating profit of 7.9 billion euros. The solutions provided by Red
Hat Enterprise Linux and JBoss Enterprise Middleware played an
important role in re-architecting Allianz's IT environment to a
private cloud. Allianz also highly values Red Hat's Consulting and
Support Services, which provides the company with an efficient and
smooth usage of its Red Hat platforms.
Best Storage Implementation
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Cornell University Institute for Biotechnology and Life Science
Technologies — Founded in 1865, Cornell University is the largest
university in the Ivy League with more than 20,000 students from
around the world. Located in the heart of New York's Finger Lakes
region, Cornell has more than 100 interdisciplinary research
organizations and three national research centers that serve broad
scientific communities and reflect the strong partnership between
academia, government and industry. Cornell University Center for
Advanced Computing (CAC) conducts research on current and emerging
technologies to enhance the capabilities of high-performance
computing. Cornell's Institute for Biotechnology and Life Science
Technologies turned to the technical staff at CAC to identify and
deploy a storage solution for its department to help manage
data-intensive research technologies such as DNA sequencing,
proteomics and imaging. Red Hat Storage's flexibility and reliability,
coupled with Red Hat's community-driven approach to innovation has
enabled the Institute to achieve the growth needed to continue its
critical research programs.
To read the 2012 Red Hat Innovation Awards winning submissions and vote
for the 2012 Red Hat Innovator of the Year, please visit http://www.redhat.com/summit/awards.
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