Open Sistemas

The project Sanos was defined within the scope of the Health Agency from Valencia as an Open Source Migration office, through which new projects and technologies are analyzed and the feasibility of being tackled through open solutions is studied, or the analysis of migration to open source of existing projects and infrastructures.

• Identified Demand / Problem

  • Analyze the suitability of open software to migrate systems
  • High cost on massive deployments
  • Application on hospital environments

• Description

  • Big environments with massive deployments
  • Very heterogeneous environments

• How the problem was solved

  • Technical team expert in open source and Linux solutions
  • Migration consulting works development
  • Diverse matters: virtualization, data bases, e-learning

• Business outcome

  • Drastic decrease of license cost
  • Guidelines creation and homogeneity

The migration to Linux environments and open source applications supposes a huge advantage based on the license cost saving. Open Sistemas analyzed for Unidad Editorial the impact that a migration of this kind could generate in the group.

• Identified Demand / Problem

  • Linux environment migration
  • License saving / environment homogeneization
  • Different levels of profile and work stations
  • Need of integration with LDAP, Samba, Agata, Proyecta, ...

• Description

  • 200 Windows servers aprox. and 2300 work stations
  • Alñternative to MSExchange: Zimbra
  • Network services, VPN, etc. Alternatives to Nortel products and voip
  • Important license cost with non homogeneous environment and service issues

• How the problem was solved

  • Migration proposal from VMWare to RHEV ( 30 hypervisors )
  • Backup Bacula solution
  • Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Servers
  • Supported by open source technology and Linux (KVM)

• Business outcome

  • License cost saving, easier administration
  • Virtualization presentations superior to VMWare

The distribution working environments are characterized by a high number of sales points. This involves huge necessities of client and server equipments. Many of these systems execute general activities and the impact of migration to an open environment with lower license cost provides real cost reduction advantages. The goal of this project consisted precisely in the analysis of these advantages for several environment and the design of a prototype solution.

• Identified Demand / Problem

  • Cost saving in software licenses by hypermarket
  • Solution to integration and control problems
  • Solutions equivalent to Lotus Domino, SAP, DHCP, DNS and network services

• Description

  • Integration and coexistence with current systems
  • Migration roadmap towards new environments and user training
  • More than 200 servers and 2000 work stations. Need of backup
  • LDAP, AD, Samba integrations
  • High cost of software licenses
  • Excessive dependence on providers

• How the problem was solved

  • Desktop solution with Ubuntu 10.04 (LTS) and Red Hat 5 servers
  • The prototype was composed of a server and a group of work stations, all with Linux
  • Impact analysis, training and migration roadmap
  • Selection of the demonstration centre as case of use

• Business outcome

  • Cost saving of software licences
  • New scalable and connectable model