State and Local Government

State and local government agencies must effectively share information within their organization, between departments, and with citizens. Agencies must feel confident that the platform they are using for these efforts is stable, manageable, and secure, and they must do so under strict budget guidelines.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux makes it affordable for government organizations to deploy an architecture that supports its enterprise computing needs. This means that agencies, regardless of their charters, can confidently and cost-effectively work together as an enterprise with mutual goals and ultimately support the delivery of services to citizens.

Featured Article

Linux for Suits - Schooling IT

By Doc Searls
Linux Journal: April 27, 2005

"We knew from our research that SUSE was the number-two Linux distribution on the market, so we were quite surprised to find zero, that's right, zero books on SUSE Linux. The best we could find were vague references in more generalized Linux documentation. Red Hat documentation, on the other hand, was in abundance and on a variety of topics of interest. So we bought a Red Hat book, which had a free Fedora DVD in it—Red Hat: 1, SUSE: 0. Fedora installed on the first try, and with the help of some good documentation, we were able to get basic services working—Red Hat: 2, SUSE: 0. We explored more advanced functionality, both desktop and server-oriented, and found that most Web resources were, once again, Red Hat-oriented. We were able to get Fedora to do just about anything we wanted—Red Hat: 3, SUSE: 0."

-Jim Klein, Director of Information Services and Technology at Saugus Union

Success Stories

Finding a Better Way with Red Hat Enterprise Linux

One of the most well known cities in the United States, Chicago prides itsaelf 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 Solutions for Government

Red Hat's open source software and support solutions allow agencies to achieve the high reliability, availability and scalability necessary in their environment without expensive proprietary hardware and software.

The Red Hat Enterprise Linux family of products combines the innovation of open source technology with the stability of an enterprise operating system.

Red Hat Network is a comprehensive tool designed to manage software delivery, maintenance, monitoring, and reporting of hardware and systems.

Red Hat Professional Services offers a range of consulting engagements such as Unix to Linux migrations

For agencies needing in-house expertise, Red Hat Global Learning Services provides the premier training curriculum and performance based certifications for open source platform administration.

Partners Solutions

In addition to our Alliance Partners, Red Hat has created strategic partnerships resulting in solutions that fit your agency's unique computing needs.

Administration and Finance
Oracle Public Sector Financials allows governments to be more accountable, more efficient, more productive, and less costly.

Planning Solutions
GenaWare-the global leader in enterprise geospatial application development.

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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