Belgian Weather Forecaster Selects Red Hat Virtualization Technology
and Achieves Cost Savings and Minimizes Downtime
RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, today announced that the Belgian Royal Meteorological
Institute (KMI) has migrated to Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization. This
deployment is expected to provide considerable cost savings by
optimizing the efficiency of the organization's existing servers.
KMI provides weather forecasts by analyzing large amounts of
meteorological data. Due to the nature of its services, KMI relies
heavily on its IT environment and therefore requires a highly available,
around-the clock infrastructure. An advocate of open source solutions,
it had been a satisfied Red Hat Enterprise Linux customer for six years
before deciding to virtualize its systems and applications on Red Hat
Enterprise Virtualization.
The aim of the project was to optimize the organization's use of
technology resources and simplify the execution of activities, including
systems management, testing developments, migration and new applications
introduction. KMI chose Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization due to the
benchmark results achieved with the solution's Kernel-based Virtual
Machine (KVM) hypervisor technology.
Migration to Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization will allow KMI to
optimize the use of its IT resources, lower costs and minimize server
downtime. The virtualization platform supports DNS servers, DHCP,
webmail, an FTP production server for exchanges with KMI customers as
well as a server for the Zimbra Collaboration Suite, which provides
email, calendar and contact management.
"Thanks to Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, we expect to not only be
able to realize good cost savings, but also enjoy a very high standard
of IT performance, in compliance with our strong open source views,"
said Emmanuel Strobbe, systems engineer at KMI. To migrate to Red Hat
Enterprise Virtualization, KMI had to bid farewell to several UNIX and
Microsoft Windows servers. Its new Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for
Servers platform supports KMI's virtual servers that run on Red Hat
Enterprise Linux and Microsoft Windows software, such as Windows
login-server, Windows domain server with Active Directory and an
antivirus server for Windows updates. The hardware consists of a cluster
of four Dell PowerEdge R710 servers with EMC NX4 storage.
The switchover to a virtualized infrastructure will be executed in
phases and should be completed by the end of 2012. The operational team
already uses the new software for weather prediction and experimentation.
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