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.
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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.”