RLPTechnologies Chooses Red Hat and JBoss Solutions

RLPTechnologies Chooses Red Hat and JBoss Solutions

Red Hat (NASDAQ: RHAT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that RLPTechnologies has achieved success using a combination of Red Hat and JBoss solutions. Running a grid computing environment on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JBoss Enterprise Middleware Suite for a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) platform, RLPTechnologies has experienced an increase in data-file processing performance by 70 percent, increased scalability by 400 percent and enriched the timeliness, accuracy and quality of the company’s automotive data.

RLPTechnologies is a wholly owned research and development subsidiary of R.L. Polk & Co., the premier provider of automotive information and marketing solutions to the automotive world and its related industries. RLPTechnologies is dedicated to deploying world class data-driven technology products that support customers’ needs to turn vast amounts of data into business value with accuracy, speed and security. It specializes in building industry-leading data solutions that serve as the foundation for research, analysis and action across multiple industries.

“With our new SOA platform, we literally have a factory that runs 24/7, processing data as soon as it arrives, making it available for downstream systems immediately,” said Joe LaFeir, Vice President Product Development at RLP Technologies. “Data that previously sat on our loading dock for eight hours is now automatically detected as it arrives and is pushed straight through and distributed out to applications. The timeliness of that data is extremely important for our customers, so being able to reduce that time has been extremely beneficial.”

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