A major German enterprise hosting company is to
standardise on
Linux architecture to cut costs for customers.
ISP Host Europe, which supports firms in Austria, Germany and
Switzerland, is using systems from
Red Hat.
More than 25% of enterprises listed on the German DAX stock
index use Host Europe's services.
The firm is using
Red Hat Enterprise Linux, the Red Hat Global File System (GFS)
and the Red Hat High Availability Cluster Suite for
storage virtualisation and high availability.
"We saw a huge demand in the market for highly available web
applications at a reasonable price,” said Patrick Pulvermüller,
manager at Host Europe.
"The only way for us to satisfy this demand was to rely on Red
Hat Enterprise Linux. Other platforms suffered from definite
weaknesses regarding pricing or service, some lacked in both
respects,” he said.
Now in the first phase of the project, Host Europe is running
over 600 servers with Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The company's
customers mainly use the managed services for highly available web
applications, especially for e-commerce.
The ISP plans to more than double the size of the installation
in the near future.
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