RALEIGH, USA: Red Hat has announced that InfoCamere, an organization responsible for managing the IT systems that connect and secure over 100 Italian Chambers of Commerce, relies on Red Hat and JBoss solutions for flexibility, reliability and ease of use for its mission-critical systems.

InfoCamere’s IT infrastructure, covering all 300 local offices, must ensure that its users, including administrations, companies and individuals, have immediate access to documents, information and legal data stored in the Chambers’ archives. When InfoCamere began developing its first Internet platform in 2000, it utilized Red Hat Linux 7.2 in both testing and production environments. After demonstrating high levels of reliability, the ability to succeed in critical production environments and flexibility with an extensive application ecosystem, InfoCamere decided to expand its use of Red Hat solutions to Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JBoss Enterprise Application Platform.

Today, Red Hat Enterprise Linux is used on all of InfoCamere’s mail systems and is the main production platform for many of the websites that the organization runs for the Italian Chambers of Commerce. Many of the company’s Java applications also run on Red Hat Enterprise Linux with a combination of JBoss and Tomcat application servers.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux also provides the reliable platform for InfoCamere’s Legaldoc, a document-archiving service used for the reception, signature, time stamping and conservation of electronic documents that offers significant cost, space and time savings. The organization’s service for collecting HASH signature documents relies on Red Hat solutions for reliability, scalability and security. InfoCamere’s Oracle-based database servers are also installed on Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems to achieve installation and maintenance cost savings.

JBoss Enterprise Application Platform is used widely throughout the company, as well. It uses JBoss solutions for the significant cost savings, expanded performance and ease of installation and management. InfoCamera is also beginning the migration to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

InfoCamere has also leveraged Red Hat Training offerings and boasts two employees who have achieved Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) certification to expand InfoCamere’s in-house knowledge of Red Hat solutions.