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Do More With Less. Really.

Budgets are shrinking, but Public Sector IT departments are asked to deliver more value every year. Consolidate, build shared services, increase security, and prepare for emergency situations.

The Red Hat Open Source architecture offers middleware, infrastructure, consulting, and training options for public sector agencies. Enterprise Open Source from Red Hat allows IT decision makers to create innovative solutions under strict budget guidelines while ensuring stability, manageability, and security.

In all 50 states, Red Hat is supporting the delivery of services to citizens and securing the homeland. Now that’s Value Shared.

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Capitalizing on Collaboration

By Government Technology

To cope with the recession, state and local governments have had to come up with innovative solutions to continue the public's work – a more collaborative type of government where jurisdictions find strength in numbers and a more efficient way of governing through shared services approaches.

GTC Best Solutions Award

GTC East 2007

Melodie Mayberry-Stewart, Ph.D., New York State Chief Information Officer, presents Red Hat's John Punzak, National Public Sector Director, with GTC Best Solutions Showcase Award for New York State Courts' Family Case Management System.

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Best Practices

Government IT managers know the challenge of introducing and maintaining new platforms in an enterprise without risking uptime or data integrity. Red Hat has placed a special emphasis on helping organizations develop best and standard practices for successful Linux and open source deployments. Find out more about how we help states implement, document, and share best practices within and among agencies.

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Success Stories


City of Charlottesville, VA

"I am a firm believer in trusting highly deployed open source solutions to be more secure, and more responsive to problems than proprietary solutions. Prior to my arrival, the department and the City of Charlottesville was 100 percent Microsoft. Since then, we began a campaign to increase security, save money and address the needs of management. We chose to standardize on Red Hat as our core open source distribution."
-John Lewis, Security Systems Engineer, City of Charlottesville, VA

Finding a Better Way with Red Hat Enterprise Linux

One of the most well known cities in the United States, Chicago prides itself on finding a better way to do things - from strengthening public education to inventing Cracker Jacks, lowering crime to building the first skyscraper. In the same spirit, this year they've begun migrating their IT systems to Red Hat Enterprise Linux to improve performance and save costs.

County government regains control of IT infrastructure by migrating from Windows to Red Hat Enterprise Linux

When Pottawattamie County migrated mission-critical tasks from Microsoft Windows to Red Hat Enterprise Linux, they saw increased reliability and control at a significantly lower cost. "From a technical standpoint, we've found that Red Hat Enteprise Linux and other open source solutions could almost always meet the business needs and performance of proprietary alternatives," said Thomas Broniecki, Director of IT.

Virginia Department of Juvenile Justice standardizes juvenile tracking system on Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Having outgrown its legacy Unix platform, the Virginia Department of Juvenile Justice needed to upgrade its Oracle-based Juvenile Tracking System to a scalable, Web-based architecture. By migrating to a Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Dell solution, the Department was able to upgrade its Oracle-based tracking system at one-third the cost while realizing tremendous gains in performance and scalability.

City of Bloomington increases performance while trimming budget

For the City of Bloomington, Indiana (pop 70,000), a declining budget offered a big opportunity. Their aging Unix infrastructure was experiencing significant performance problems along with increasing maintenance costs. When budget cuts were delivered, they had to find another solution. By migrating to Red Hat Enterprise Linux, the City increased performance and flexibility in their most mission-critical systems while chalking up significant savings.

Red Hat at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

The healthcare industry faces serious challenges associated with the demand for reliable and secure IT infrastructures that must fit within budget constraints. Dr. John Halamka, MD, MS understands these demands as he serves as Chief Information Officer of Harvard Medical School, Chief Information Officer of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Chairman of the New England Health Electronic Data Interchange Network (NEHEN), Chief Information Officer of the Harvard Clinical Research Institute (HCRI), and an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

Stanislaus County wins JBoss Innovation Award for Integrated Criminal Justice System

Learn how Stanislaus County improved responsiveness of major criminal justice applications, increased adoption of industry standards, reduced development and operational costs, and improved both system architectural flexibility and integration with other local, state, and federal agencies as well as third party vendor systems. According to CIO John Emerson, the new systems provide broader and more convenient access to a broader range of criminal justice information, with better security than the prior systems.

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