Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 With Virtualization Delivers Increased Performance to Dutch City Council

The City of Rotterdam, known for its famous harbour and large city council, is located in the Netherlands and boasts over 600,000 inhabitants. The Rotterdam wanted to renew part of the city's IT infrastructure and create a future-proof platform for its heterogeneous environment. For this Rotterdam deployed Red Hat. Red Hat's Enterprise Linux 5 with virtualization, Red Hat's Global File System, Red Hat's Satellite Server and Basis Registratie Systeem (BRS) these are the software installed by Red Hat. Now Rotterdam able to run more applications with less hardware, it enables cost- and space-savings, it provides scalability, offer capacity to support future growth and delivers disaster-recovery capabilities.