Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization and Red
Hat Technical Account Management Services selected by CERN
SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, today announced that CERN, the European Organization for
Nuclear Research, has deployed Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat
Enterprise Virtualization and Red Hat Technical Account Management
services to provide a reliable and stable platform for mission-critical
applications. The project includes nearly 600 servers running Red Hat
Enterprise Linux operated by CERN at its Geneva datacenter, fulfilling
database, application server and backup and recovery functions.
At CERN, Red Hat Enterprise Linux runs some of the organization's most
critical applications, including the Large Hadron Collider Logging
Server and the central financial and HR systems for CERN's members of
personnel and 11,000 users. Given the nature of these applications,
operating system stability is crucial to successful operations, a need
fulfilled by the reliability and high availability offered by Red Hat
Enterprise Linux. Beyond uptime, Red Hat Enterprise Linux also requires
minimal administrative overhead and offers CERN high flexibility and
rapid deployment times for key applications and services.
In addition to using an infrastructure based on Red Hat Enterprise
Linux, CERN also runs Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization in its
cutting-edge LHCb experiment, which focuses primarily on identifying the
differences between matter and antimatter. A stable and reliable IT
infrastructure, such as that provided by Red Hat's solutions, is
critical to LHCb, as it supports the controlling, configuring, and
monitoring functions for approximately one million systems and
processes, including detectors, temperature sensors, and power supply
units as well as entire software processes.
The infrastructure is comprised of physical two-socket servers and is
virtualized using Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization on Dell PowerEdge
M610 servers (with Intel Nehalem or Ivy Bridge processors with between
96 GB and 256 GB RAM per server) and a Brocade FC8 SAN with a NetApp
data storage system. The infrastructure is designed for high
availability and is built to be completely redundant, a critical feature
for CERN as control system downtime almost always results in data loss.
Beyond the crucial technologies delivered, CERN's Red Hat subscription
enables the Organization to take advantage of Red Hat Technical Account
Management (TAM) services. Through Red Hat TAM, CERN is assigned a
dedicated technical contact person at Red Hat who helps the Organization
take full advantage of its investment in Red Hat solutions, offering
active consultation services and support in both strategic and operative
decision-making processes.
A long-term Red Hat customer, CERN also uses other solutions from the
open source specialist in different IT areas. For example, the
Organization uses Red Hat JBoss Fuse, a robust, flexible, enterprise
service bus (ESB) platform for integrating applications, data, services,
and devices. Based on popular open source technologies, JBoss Fuse
provides services for transformation, routing, and log assignments.
Supporting Quotes:
Tim Bell, group leader of IT operating systems and infrastructure
services at CERN:
"We appreciate the stability and availability of solutions from Red Hat.
This is extremely important to us because we use these solutions in
highly critical areas where commercial support, resilience and
reliability are key requirements."
Niko Neufeld, deputy project leader at CERN:
"Our LHCb experiment requires a powerful, very reliable and highly
available IT environment for controlling and monitoring our 70 million
CHF detector. Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization is at the core of our
virtualized infrastructure and complies with our stringent requirements."
Leonard Bodmer, Red Hat country manager, Switzerland:
"We are very proud of the fact that a world renowned research institute
such as CERN has not only selected Red Hat solutions, but also because
these products are used in such critical areas of the organization. In
the instance of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, this is further evidence of
the platform's success in supporting mission-critical applications,
regardless of their end purpose or composition. Naturally, we are
looking forward to further collaboration with CERN and we are pleased to
know that with our solutions, we are able to make a small contribution
to innovative research initiatives."
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