source alternative for building, deploying, integrating and managing on-premise and cloud-based applications. "With JBoss Enterprise Middleware, Red Hat provides the middleware components necessary for organizations to standardize their application architecture with confidence using a flexible approach to accommodate user choice", said Craig Muzilla, Vice President and General Manager for Middleware, Red Hat.
JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform 5.0 is part of the JBoss Enterprise Middleware portfolio, a comprehensive family of open source middleware software products to enable developers and organizations to build, deploy, integrate and manage applications on-premise and within the cloud. For more information about JBoss solutions, visit: www.redhat.com/jboss/.
Volume 8 June 2010 - July 2010
JUST DIAL AND LIFESPRING HOSPITALS WINS THE 2010 RED HAT INNOVATION AWARD This is the first time an Indian Company has won it in the history of the Awards. Red Hat and JBoss Innovation Awards are designed to recognize the outstanding use, innovation and extension of Red Hat's platform and middleware solutions by customers, partners and the open source community. In the recently concluded Red Hat Summit, Just Dial, the leading Indian local search company and LifeSpring Hospitals, a chain of affordable, high quality maternity hospitals were felicitated for winning the 2010 Red Hat Innovation Award in different categories. Just Dial was also awarded with the title of 2010 Red Hat Innovator of the Year. The two companies were also felicitated by Jim Whitehurst, global CEO of Red Hat along with other Red Hat customers at a recent customer showcase event in India called “The Beat of open Source – Powered by Red Hat”. In the event, he also inaugurated the first edition of Red Hat Case Studies Dossier
for Indian subcontinent containing case studies of some of the key Red Hat customers such as IRCTC, C-DAC, SBI Life, New India Assurance and the like. These customers have varying industry background such as finance, government, telecom, healthcare, and others and have utilized quite a few solutions from Red Hat infrastructural stack. “These success stories emphasize the fact that Red Hat's value proposition is getting stronger by the day in the Indian subcontinent,” said Nandu Pradhan, Managing Director – Red Hat India. “Today, it has established as the most cost effective as well as high performance platform for enterprise wide deployment and I am confident that Red Hat will soon become platform of choice for the enterprises in Indian subcontinent.” For detailed case studies of Red Hat's customers, visit: http://customers.redhat.com/
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C-DAC BUILDS MISSION CRITICAL E-GOVERNANCE SERVICES DELIVERY GATEWAY, FIRST OF ITS KIND IN THE WORLD, COMPLETELY ON RED HAT STACK BUSINESS CHALLENGE NSDG (National e-Governance Services Delivery Gateway) is one of India's Mission Mode Projects (MMP) under the National e-Governance Plan (NeGP) of the Government of India. This mission critical e-Governance project was entrusted with C-DAC for its development. The key objective of NeGP is to collaborate and integrate information across different departments in the centre, state, and local Government. NSDG was specifically aimed at integrating the services offered by the departments of central government, such as issuing a birth certificate, passport, and land records, amongst others, so as to provide a single window service to the customer. Government systems are characterized by islands of legacy systems using heterogeneous platforms and technologies and spread across diverse geographical locations in varying states of automation. NSDG needed to simplify the above task by acting as a standards-based messaging switch and providing seamless interoperability and exchange of data across the departments. NSDG, acting as a nerve centre, needed to handle a large number of transactions and help in tracking and time stamping of all transactions of the government. Apart from the process and people challenges, there were loads of other challenges in front of CDAC while designing the entire architecture of the gateway.
To begin with, the gateway was a first of its kind to get developed in the world. “We didn't have any role model to follow,” said Zia Saquib, Executive Director, C-DAC. “The only gateway project before ours was that in the UK, but our architecture was much more difficult and complex.” Protocol specification was also very complex and challenging as there was going to be a lot of asynchronous messaging traffic due to a non-existent IT infrastructure at the backend. “The system needed to be designed in such a way so as to handle traffic of 250 messages per second and to add to that, it also should not take more than three seconds of processing time within the gateway. There can't be any compromise on the performance,” said Saquib. “As the initial stage of the development is very crucial, we didn't want to restrict ourselves in any kind of proprietary vendor lock-in. The flexibility of fine tuning the software component that we use was extremely important.”
SOLUTION With performance, scalability, and flexibility criteria in mind, for C-DAC to implement the NSDG project successfully, it chose Red Hat as its trusted technology partner. Red Hat's open source solutions were an ideal fit as they not only met the above criteria, but also allowed C-DAC to avoid proprietary vendor lock-in, while taking advantage of the rapid innovation of the open source community. “We have used the complete Red Hat stack; the operating system and the middleware for the development of the NSDG system,” said Saquib. Currently, there are a total of 32 servers on which Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform has been implemented. “We have also used Red Hat's clustering suite to address the failover issues.” C-DAC has based NSDG's core framework on JBoss Enterprise Middleware. “We started with JBoss.org for the development and are now moving on to the supported enterprise-class version as we moved to production environments,” said Saquib. “Over the last one and a half years, we have found that JBoss is quite stable and sturdy. It matches our performance requirements.” “In addition to Red Hat's reliable products, Red Hat Support is a benefit that is so important for our mission-critical projects, such as NSDG,” said Saquib. Red Hat helped C-DAC in getting a sound understanding of JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 4.3. The system is capable of processing any request in less than three seconds within the gateway and is quite stable with close to zero downtime in the last one and a half years – a strong testament to its successful implementation.
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l A Cookbook implementation guide, making cloud setup
l “Red Hat freed C-DAC from vendor lock-in and enabled it
to build the NSDG system, which is flexible and delivers high performance,” said Saquib. l “JBoss being an open source product helped us
tremendously in fine tuning it as per project needs with the source code available at our disposal for customization.” said Saquib. Additionally, with JBoss, C-DAC didn't have to seek any developer license or wait for the arrival of trial media that usually happens with proprietary platform providers. C-DAC had almost no waiting time to get started with development of NSDG on JBoss. l “With the right blend of performance with flexibility, Red
Hat Enterprise Linux becomes the natural choice while developing mission-critical turnkey systems,” said Saquib. “With an excellent support network at the back, Red Hat products give us a sense of comfort.”
For more information about Red Hat and cloud computing, visit: www.redhat.com/solutions/cloud.
l A detailed reference architecture providing step-by-
step instructions, scripts and settings for creating and configuring the private cloud. l Consulting services to enable turnkey assessment,
implementation and operational management of a private cloud. l Training classes, to transfer knowledge and best
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practices to customers, creating a strong base of skills among their staff quickly and efficiently. With the launch of Red Hat Cloud Foundations solution, Red Hat now has the ability to provide consistent cloud and on-premise environments as it can provide the full breadth of enterprise-quality capabilities, including virtualization, operating systems, middleware and application frameworks also on cloud.
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l With the successful completion of NSDG at the national
level, C-DAC in collaboration with Redhat has once again proved that Open Source can surely be applied to mission critical projects and reap rich benefits from it.
The high performance and flexibility that comes with the Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating platform makes it the natural choice for developing mission-critical turnkey systems. The excellent support network and ecosystem available for Red Hat solutions provide a strong sense of comfort, allowing one to sleep well at night. - Zia Saquib, Executive Director, C-DAC
RED HAT INTEGRATES SERVER AND DESKTOP VIRTUALIZATION Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 2.2 brings virtualization to more organizations by overcoming cost and scalability barriers. Red Hat recently announced the next step in the integration of its enterprise-grade server and desktop virtualization portfolio with the general availability of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) 2.2. In addition to providing the first release of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Desktops, the 2.2 update includes new scalability capabilities, migration tools and features to expand the performance and security of the solution. Released in November 2009, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 2.1, which introduced Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Servers, has gained momentum with
RED HAT UNVEILS COMPREHENSIVE CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE SOLUTIONS WITH THE LAUNCH OF CLOUD FOUNDATIONS In an effort to simplify the deployment and management of cloud solutions, Red Hat recently announced Red Hat Cloud Foundations offering. It is a major new offering family delivering comprehensive solutions which would expand the reach and appeal of cloud significantly, offer the richest set of development and deployment environments in the industry and deliver consistency between the datacenter and public clouds.
quick and simple.
The first edition of Red Hat Cloud Foundations includes the following elements necessary to successfully create and operate clouds:
customers, including Fujitsu, IBM and NTT Communications, adopting it for their cloud deployments and customers like Swedish-based Voddler and Sri Lanka-based Etisalat, adopting it for their datacenters. "Already experiencing traction with server and cloud deployments, the RHEV solution would now expand its reach with the delivery of our desktop virtualization management capabilities to help more customers to break down the barriers to virtualization adoption," says Navin Thadani, senior director, Virtualization Business at Red Hat. Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 2.2 is now globally available. To learn more about Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, visit: www.redhat.com/rhev.
RED HAT USHERS IN NEXT GENERATION OF WEB APPLICATION DEPLOYMENT WITH JBOSS ENTERPRISE PORTAL PLATFORM 5.0
l Industry-leading products for implementing a private
cloud, including Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Network Satellite, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, JBoss Enterprise Middleware and Red Hat Enterprise MRG Grid.
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Red Hat has also announced the general availability of its next-generation portal solution, JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform 5.0. The advent of JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform
5.0 marks the next stage in Red Hat's goal of providing the industry's most comprehensive portfolio of middleware products. Organizations worldwide now have a flexible, open
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