Global Award Finalists Honored for Transforming IT Infrastructure and
Delivering Business Innovation with Red Hat
SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, today announced the finalists for the eighth annual Red Hat
Innovation Awards. The awards program recognizes customers, partners and
communities for their outstanding use, innovation, and extension of Red
Hat technology.
The Red Hat Innovation Awards finalists are recognized in five separate
categories with category winners being 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: Lee Congdon, CIO,
Red Hat; Ashesh Badani, vice president and general manager, OpenShift,
Red Hat; Carl Lehmann, research manager, Enterprise Architecture,
Integration & Business Process Management, 451 Research; Laurent Lachal,
cloud computing research lead, Ovum; Sean Michael Kerner, senior editor, eWEEK;
and Fredric Paul, blogger, Network World and contributor, CIO, IT
World, InfoWorld, and other publications.
The eighth Innovation Awards category winners will compete for the 2014
Red Hat Innovator of the Year award and will be recognized during Red
Hat Summit in San Francisco. The 2014 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's president and CEO Jim
Whitehurst on April 15, 2014.
The 2014 Red Hat Innovation Awards winners include:
Category: Infrastructure
Recognizing striking flexibility, scalability, cost effectiveness,
performance and security within an infrastructure.
Winner: Centre for Railway Information Systems: The Centre for
Railway Information Systems (CRIS) runs a journey planning application
that is integrated with Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporate
(IRCTC)'s online internet ticketing system of Indian Railways. The
current system serves travelers across the entire nation and with
increasing site traffic, data processing challenges, such as a slow and
often unresponsive booking system during peak times, were expected. CRIS
turned to Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat JBoss Enterprise
Application Platform for reliability and scalability. Now, the internet
ticketing system, along with enhancements to CRIS' application, has
reduced transaction response times and has processed a record high of
more than 65,000 tickets during peak hours.
Category: Emerging Technologies
Recognizing the most successful illustration of cutting-edge
deployment and business value from Red Hat's emerging technology
portfolio.
Winner: Nanyang Technological University: Due to high computing
demand by researchers and students, Nanyang Technological University, a
research-intensive university in Singapore, sought an open hybrid cloud
infrastructure to link the school's private cloud with its Amazon Web
Services public cloud. The university deployed Red Hat Cloud
Infrastructure, Red Hat's solution for building and managing an open,
private Infrastructure-as-a-Service
(IaaS) cloud based on datacenter virtualization and management
technologies. Nanyang Technological University reduced costs by 30
percent by integrating their public and private clouds. The school
increased flexibility afforded by the Red Hat and Amazon Web Services
cloud solution during computing traffic spikes and provided secure data
replication.
Category: Application Development
Recognizing the most outstanding employment of agile methodologies
and superior overall performance of creating, maintaining, and deploying
successful business applications - whether they are traditional, mobile
or cloud - using Red Hat solutions to reduce costs by approximately
$195M (USD).
Winner: Secretariat of Social Development, Oportunidades (SEDESOL
Oportunidades): SEDESOL Oportunidades program strives to counteract
causes of extreme poverty in Mexico by providing economic incentives for
educational, health, and nutritional improvement for families. SEDESOL
Oportunidades determined the socioeconomic status of potential
beneficiaries through surveys on paper, but the government agency
developed a system to allow a virtual application to first, validate the
information in real time to determine the eligibility of an applicant
and second, minimize service times to potential beneficiaries. With the
integration of Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, Red Hat
Enterprise Virtualization, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SEDESOL
Oportunidades deployed the survey on mobile devices. This reduced the
survey response time from two hours to 50 minutes and has saved 1,200
tons of paper to date, as well as an estimated cost reduction in the
operation of approximately $195M USD on 15 million surveys in three
years. In addition, the department is now incorporating Red Hat JBoss
BRMS, Red Hat JBoss Fuse, and Red Hat JBoss Data Grid into a future
stage of their project.
Category: Ecosystem and Knowledge Exchange
Recognizing the most flourishing use of Red Hat's expanding partner
ecosystem to create innovative architectures based on Red Hat's
platform, middleware, cloud and/or storage solutions.
Winner: Hennepin Home Health Care, Inc: Hennepin Home Health
Care, Inc. (HHHC) found itself at an IT crossroads. The existing IT
infrastructure needed a refresh, but with future healthcare regulations
around online billing and record keeping becoming increasingly strict
and difficult to anticipate, the new infrastructure needed an
unprecedented degree of flexibility. Under unusually tight budget
constraints, HHHC enlisted the expertise of Red Hat and Infrasupport, a
Red Hat partner. Infrasupport has a long time relationship with HHHC and
regularly moves IT challenges from impossible, to success, to routine.
Virtualization has been the key to flexibility and Infrasupport proposed
a virtualization solution based on Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization
with Microsoft Windows guests. With its new virtual infrastructure, HHHC
is now positioned to rapidly respond to the unpredictable demands of
healthcare regulators, and to try small experiments with new, cutting
edge ideas and services and scale them up as opportunities present
themselves.
Category: Accelerate, Integrate, Automate
Recognizing the best overall acceleration, integration, and
automation of IT workloads using Red Hat products.
Winner: OSDE Binario: The largest private healthcare company in
Argentina, OSDE Binario, sought a more adaptable middleware solution to
speed up application development. By building a new architecture with
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, Red Hat JBoss BRMS, Red
Hat JBoss Data Grid, and Red Hat JBoss Operations Network, the company
can now make changes to applications more rapidly without interrupting
user interaction. OSDE can now complete new application projects in less
than four weeks instead of the previous minimum of four months. The Red
Hat solution brought quicker response times and is OSDE is now able to
store 40 customer requests per second and send a response within 60
milliseconds.
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