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Tax and Revenue Management: A government’s lifeblood
IT has provided the opportunities for governments to remodel the entire process of tax collection over the last decade. It is, however, a continuously evolving process and governments the world over need to constantly upgrade their tax systems to optimise their revenue workflows.
Unlocking Public Value
A recent SAP study confirmed that those organisations which adopt best practices in the areas of scope and adoption, process standardisation, technology and customer governance, do perform better, and do so as their best practice maturity increases.
Governments and Socialising
The advent of social media has seen governments hopping onto the bandwagon in a bid to further engage citizens.
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Open Source: The future of virtualisation
CIOs know that virtualisation can deliver greater operational flexibility, tighter server consolidation and lower deployment and operational costs. Yet, many are still undecided about virtualising their data centres. The issue: how can virtualisation be implemented ubiquitously throughout the organisation without the need for expensive investments in proprietary hardware and technology.
RED HAT ELIMINATES VIRTUALISATION BARRIERS
With Red Hat’s Enterprise Virtualisation, businesses can realise improved operational efficiency without changing the application environment. A server virtualised withRed Hat Linux 5 can run existing Windows or Red Hat operating systems as virtual guests, preserving existing hardware and software, while reducing downtime and deployment costs. For IT administrators, this also means tighter server consolidation, simplified system management and ultimately, enhanced performance.
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RED HAT ENTERPRISE VIRTUALISATION CARVES OUT COSTS
Red Hat addresses the industry’s need for a comprehensive set of virtualisation solutions that are cost-effective and standards-based, delivering value throughout the IT infrastructure. In addition to server consolidation, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualisation solution also allows businesses to optimise their data center through new uses of virtualisation such as application migration, high availability in failover and virtual desktops. More importantly, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualisation builds a strong foundation for flexible cloud computing environments that can run any application, anywhere, at any time.
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BOLSTERING INTERNAL SKILLS TO SUPPORT DEPLOYMENT
To develop internal skills to support your virtualisation solution, Red Hat offers the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Virtualisation and the Red Hat Enterprise Storage Management. Take advantage of Red Hat’s highly regarded training courses to ensure rapid, successful deployment and eliminate downtime.
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RED HAT ENTERPRISE VIRTUALISATION BENEFITS
Customer references
“Our experience with Red Hat Enterprise Linux virtualisaton and the Red Hat Network management platform has been good. Red Hat has met U21Global’s need for cost-effective and reliable technology. We will be looking to adopt more open source technologies to power our business. In particular, the new Red Hat Enterprise Virtualisation solution that is based on KVM technology and promises advanced virtualisation management capabilities.” U21Global, Singapore
“Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform (RHEL AP) came with built-in virtualisation solution, reducing our deployment cost significantly and eliminating the need to source for other vendors,” said Nikolas Lam, UNIX System Administrator, “RHEL AP Virtualisation is also able to support our current data load of about 15 gigabytes. As the University continues to grow and incorporate new video and other rich data formats, we are confident that our virtualised environment will scale up to several terabytes of data without any configuration change.” University of Sydney, Australia
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