Combination of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization and IBM BladeCenter
Allows Electronics Leader to Reduce Costs, Decrease Procurement Time and
Prepare for the Cloud
RALEIGH, N.C. & BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
RED HAT SUMMIT AND JBOSS WORLD 2012--IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Red Hat,
Inc. (NYSE: RHT), today announced that Casio Computer Co, Ltd., a
leading electronics manufacturing company headquartered in Japan, has
selected a combination of Red Hat virtualization software and IBM
systems to effectively handle business management challenges and prepare
its IT infrastructure for cloud deployments.
Casio wanted to optimize the global IT infrastructure within its
business development department and create business models to gain a
competitive advantage in its industry. In 2010, Casio installed Red Hat
Enterprise Virtualization and Red Hat Enterprise Linux to enhance
optimization of its IBM BladeCenter for increased efficiency and to
develop IT systems tailored to specific sections of its business. Casio
also plans to deploy Red Hat solutions for future endeavors with cloud
software.
Before implementing Red Hat software solutions, Casio decided that
utilizing virtualization would be a main goal while rebuilding Casio's
IT infrastructure for better competitiveness. The team's mission was not
to simply build systems in response to developmental requests, but also
to optimize those systems, taking into consideration everything — up to
and including the outward-facing business process of each department.
Casio separated non-core business and core business during its
system-building process and now successfully focuses more on investment
for core business-related systems.
When Casio decided to virtualize its IBM System x servers in 2005, it
moved from proprietary virtualization software to an open source
hypervisor in 2007. Soon after, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, based
on the open source Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) hypervisor, was
suggested to Casio and the company's testing results convinced it that
it would be able to gain the high-performance, scalable, cost-effective
solution it was looking for with Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization.
"We saw Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization as an ideal fit for Casio
because it provides a key foundation for cloud deployments," said
Atsushi Yazawa, deputy senior general manager, Production & Purchasing
Division at Casio. "With Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization on IBM
hardware, we have been able to reduce costs significantly while also
speeding up procurement, which has helped the company successfully
handle business management challenges."
As a next step, Casio plans to transition to a cloud environment. The
company currently uses its own privately built consolidated
infrastructure platform, but is also considering using a public cloud
environment in the future.
Casio's success is part of a growing trend of companies turning to open
virtualization to save money and improve time-to-market as they
virtualize servers, adopt dual-source virtualization strategies and
build clouds. IBM and Red Hat are working together to offer customers
open virtualization solutions to fit these needs that are affordable,
enterprise-ready and easy to manage. Earlier this year, Red Hat
announced the delivery of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0,
bringing industry-leading performance, scalability, openness and cost
benefits to enterprises worldwide.
In recent months, IBM and Red Hat have worked together on
SPECvirt_sc(R)2010 performance benchmarks, collaborated to achieve
advanced EAL4+ security certification and worked together to establish
both the Open Virtualization Alliance (OVA) and the oVirt open source
development community.
"Open virtualization is important for our clients, our partners and the
industry," said Jean Staten Healy, director, Worldwide Cross-IBM Linux
and Open Virtualization at IBM. "Together with Red Hat, IBM is working
to help businesses save money and optimize their IT infrastructures
through open virtualization alternatives."
"From performance benchmarks to the leadership of Red Hat Enterprise
Virtualization 3.0 to the widespread industry support for OVA and oVirt,
open virtualization has seen increased momentum in the past year," said
Paul Cormier, president, Products and Technologies at Red Hat. "We have
heard loudly and clearly from our customers that the industry needs an
open alternative, and the combination of Red Hat Enterprise
Virtualization and IBM platforms is well-positioned to meet that need."
Earlier this year, Red Hat released Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization
3.0, with significantly expanded capabilities for both its server and
desktop virtualization management tools and its KVM hypervisor. IBM
resells Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0 subscriptions along with
its support and service on the IBM System x product line.
Today, Casio deploys Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization and Red Hat
Enterprise Linux on IBM BladeCenter.
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