Whole Foods Reduced Costs and Increased Performance and Manageability of Business-Critical Applications With Red Hat Solutions

Founded in 1980 in Austin, Texas, Whole Foods Market (www.wholefoodsmarket.com) is a leader in the natural and organic foods industry and was America's first national certified organic grocer. Whole Foods needed a cost-effective operating platform and complementary management solution that would scale with the company's growth while increasing the security, manageability, and availability of business-critical applications. For this Whole Food deployed Red Hat. Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Cluster Suite, Red Hat Global File System (GFS), Red Hat Satellite, Red Hat Consulting was implemented by Red Hat. And they benefited with an easy-to-use and reliable systems management solution that enabled increased productivity and reduced costs by increasing system administrator efficiency.