Ice selects Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JBoss Enterprise Application
Platform to better meet business needs
RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, today announced that online jewelry retailer Ice
has deployed Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JBoss Enterprise Application
Platform, on Amazon Web Services (AWS), as part of an initiative to
restructure its IT infrastructure to overcome operations challenges that
were limiting the company's growth and profitability. The solution was
designed to reduce IT costs and enable the company to respond to new
market opportunities quickly and efficiently.
The combination of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, JBoss Enterprise
Application Platform and AWS has helped Ice better serve existing
customers while exploring new market opportunities. As an e-commerce
retailer, scalability, support and mobile capabilities were top of mind
for CIO and COO, Jason Ordway, who led the initiative.
"Our existing system simply didn't support the needs of the business.
Its limitations were felt throughout the company," said Ordway. "We
needed to set a new direction for the company that would allow us to do
what we needed to do as a growing business while also reducing IT
expenditures. Red Hat's open source solutions offered us the flexibility
and support we needed to achieve these goals."
Support is a core function at Red Hat alongside product management and
engineering. Red Hat's Global Support Services team provides support for
Red Hat customers, in all locations, across all product lines, and has
been recognized
by numerous industry
associations for the quality
of its work.
Modernizing its application infrastructure and laying an open, hybrid
foundation will enable Ice to develop and deploy applications across
on-premises, physical, virtual, or cloud environments in the future.
Since launching the system in 2011, Ice has empowered its merchandising
teams to make changes in real time without involvement of the tech team.
This has allowed the company to increase the amount of product it adds
to its online store daily, freeing both teams for more strategic tasks.
The company has also launched a new mobile application and
mobile-optimized site, m.ice.com, as well as developed its own suite of
web services for partners. Ordway estimates the company is saving nearly
$250,000 annually because of its move to open source applications and
the cloud.
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