Open Source Software Reports

WHITE PAPER: While enterprises are often able to achieve compliance during an audit, they often have difficulty maintaining compliance on an ongoing basis. Learn how Red Hat Enterprise Linux's built-in features will allow your business to develop a robust implementation for managing all security necessary to achieve and maintain compliance on an on-going basis.

Posted: 20 Aug 2009 | Published: 19 Aug 2009

WHITE PAPER: Red Hat Enterprise Linux running on Intel® processor-based servers is helping companies cut TCO by up to 50 percent and more versus comparable UNIX/RISC solutions, while providing a better foundation for growth. This white paper outlines the key benefits of migration and provides a step-by-step guide to conducting a successful transition.

Posted: 10 Aug 2009 | Published: 10 Aug 2009

WHITE PAPER: This whitepaper will review some key features and benefits of both Solaris and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. We will also explain why Red Hat Enterprise Linux is an ideal solution for enterprises that are facing Sun and SPARC's uncertain future, whether you are considering launching a new IT production environment or migrating a legacy environment...

Posted: 10 Aug 2009 | Published: 10 Aug 2009

WHITE PAPER: CIOs are increasingly aware that the Linux® platform offers a low-risk, robust, and value-for-money alternative to traditional UNIX® platforms. This whitepaper will list and describe a simple, six-step process for migrating from UNIX to Linux.

Posted: 10 Aug 2009 | Published: 10 Aug 2009

CASE STUDY: In response to deepening budget challenges, Orange County Public Schools (OCPS) sought to reduce IT related expenses. OCPS conducted a study to compare the total cost of ownership (TCO) of different productivity suite software alternatives, in particular the 2007 Microsoft® Office system and open source software (OSS) alternatives..

Posted: 07 Aug 2009 | Published: 01 Jun 2009

WHITE PAPER: IT organizations are always looking for ways to save money and time without compromising on issues like security or compliance. Exploring the value of your systems management solution is a lot easier when you know the right questions to ask. We have a few suggestions for how to get started.

Posted: 29 Jul 2009 | Published: 28 Jul 2009

PRODUCT OVERVIEW: Red Hat Network (RHN) Satellite server is an easy-to-use, advanced systems management platform for your Linux infrastructure. Learn the business benefits gained through increased productivity, reduced system life cycle costs, greater administration consistency, and enhanced security. This overview details the many features of each module...

Posted: 29 Jul 2009 | Published: 29 Jul 2009

CASE STUDY: Like a large number of businesses in New Zealand and around the world, BNZ was close to reaching capacity in its datacenter and needed to determine how to maximise space while keeping costs down. In this case study we'll see how BNZ handled this and other challenges by migrating to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 running under z/VM on the mainframe.

Posted: 29 Jul 2009 | Published: 29 Jul 2009

WEBCAST: This webcast discusses how Enterprise Flash Drives on Dell | EMC CX4 storage arrays can help tackle these challenges in the context of Oracle database deployments.

Posted: 29 Jul 2009 | Premiered: Jul 29, 2009

CASE STUDY: Managing close to 80 physical servers with limited technical resources can quickly become a challenge for any organization. learn how USM's IT team turned to Red Hat's 'Satellite' to provide a reliable, advanced, open source systems management solution to ease their systems management challenges.

Posted: 28 Jul 2009 | Published: 28 Jul 2009

CASE STUDY: In 2000, Discount Tire Company decided to bring management of its e-commerce infrastructure in-house after having outsourced it for several years. Learn how they turned to the rock-solid reliability of Red Hat's Enterprise Linux platform to handle the task of supporting their new e-commerce environment.

Posted: 28 Jul 2009 | Published: 28 Jul 2009

WHITE PAPER: This White Paper describes a number of real-life applications and databases interoperability scenarios and explains how an Open Source approach helps in solving interoperability challenges. Read this paper to learn more about successfully connecting new technology deployments with existing infrastructure.

Posted: 28 Jul 2009 | Published: 28 Jul 2009

WHITE PAPER: Red Hat can alleviate common infrastructure problems by moving organizations toward service-oriented architectures (SOA). High-quality, low-cost, SOA-enabled solutions from Red Hat and JBoss let customers focus their resources on the applications and business processes that differentiate their business and give them a competitive advantage.

Posted: 20 Jul 2009 | Published: 16 Jul 2009

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: In this three part transcript series with industry expert Greg Schultz learn how to boost web hosting efficiency and optimization in your environment.

Posted: 17 Jul 2009 | Published: 17 Jul 2009

WHITE PAPER: Open source is recognized for its ease of use, high performance, and affordability, especially amidst turbulent economic conditions. The high value of open source, coupled with economic and organizational pressure, represents a "perfect storm" for CIOs, giving them the opportunity to deploy high-performing, cost-effective open source solutions.

Posted: 19 Jun 2009 | Published: 01 Jun 2009

PRODUCT OVERVIEW: Put state-of-the-art intelligence to work on the challenges of tomorrow by running Red Hat Enterprise Linux on the latest Intel® Xeon® processors. Red Hat's open source, commercial-strength innovation delivers optimized results for performance, energy efficiency, and advanced virtualization on Intel platforms, all at an affordable price.

Posted: 19 Jun 2009 | Published: 01 Jun 2009

WHITE PAPER: What is your IT really costing you? Could you be doing more with the technology you have? Could you reduce costs and provide better service to your organization? Read Red Hat's suggestions on "11 Questions Every CIO Should Ask Their IT Manager", and how Red Hat open source solutions can help.

Posted: 19 Jun 2009 | Published: 10 Jun 2009

WHITE PAPER: The current economic climate is forcing more systematic thinking about costs in general, including those associated with overall complexity and the security and resiliency of large distributed infrastructures. These trends intersect in powerful ways; a new wave of computing is gathering momentum as a result. And open source is playing a major role.

Posted: 18 Jun 2009 | Published: 09 Jan 2009

CASE STUDY: Learn how leading provider of global technology operations management services, Cybernet-SlashSupport (CSS), migrated to Red Hat Enterprise Linux® from Microsoft Windows and dramatically improved application performance and improved productivity while freeing up IT resources.

Posted: 18 May 2009 | Published: 15 May 2009

WHITE PAPER: This Red Hat reference guide will show step by step how to properly deploy IBM® Lotus® Domino® on an Enterprise Linux server.

Posted: 18 May 2009 | Published: 15 May 2009

WHITE PAPER: The cost of downtime can be enormous, even catastrophic. IBM and Red Hat have a single, security-rich collaboration and messaging platform that makes it simple, easy, and affordable to improve organizational productivity and effectiveness.

Posted: 18 May 2009 | Published: 15 May 2009

TRAINING GUIDE: This guide describes the Oracle compatibility features of Postgres Plus Advanced Server. Oracle compatibility means that an application runs in an Oracle environment as well as in a Postgres Plus Advanced Server environment with minimal or no changes to the application code.

Posted: 30 Apr 2009 | Published: 14 Mar 2008

CASE STUDY: Read this customer success story to discover why Sony Online Entertainment replaced it's existing Oracle database solution with EnterpriseDB's Postgres Plus® Advanced Server, providing enhanced performance, scalability, and cost savings.

Posted: 28 Apr 2009 | Published: 29 Apr 2009

WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper for tips on selecting the best support approach for your IT shop's Linux platform. You'll learn about various options and the essential components of a successful support system.

Posted: 17 Dec 2008 | Published: 17 Dec 2008

SOFTWARE LISTING: ROC Maestro for Open Systems, a key component of the ROC Enterprise Suite™, provides a very easy method for scheduling and managing workloads, processes, dependencies and events across complex, heterogeneous IT environments.

Posted: 14 Nov 2008 | Published: 01 Mar 2008