Government of the Canary Islands, Bonhams, Profit Software, and Rural
Credit Banks Funds Migrate to Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization to Meet
Growing Business Needs
RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, today announced global customer momentum for its Cloud
Infrastructure solutions. The Government of the Canary Islands, Bonhams,
Profit Software, and Rural Credit Banks Funds have successfully migrated
their virtualized systems from VMware to Red Hat Enterprise
Virtualization in order to meet their growing business demands and
manage global IT assets.
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization is a scalable, high performance
virtualization solution built on open source technologies including the
Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM)-based Red Hat Enterprise
Virtualization Hypervisor and a management platform derived from the
oVirt project. Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization is also a key component
of Red Hat Cloud Infrastructure, a solution which enables organizations
to build and manage a private cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
based upon datacenter virtualization and management technologies for
traditional workloads, while providing an on-ramp to a highly scalable
public-cloud-like infrastructure based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux
OpenStack Platform. It is offered as a single subscription offering
composed of four component technologies: Red Hat Enterprise
Virtualization, Red Hat CloudForms, Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack
Platform, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. As organizations look to build
and manage private cloud IaaS, Red Hat Cloud Infrastructure has
emerged as a high performing offering with compelling
business value when compared to proprietary cloud infrastructure
offerings.
Government of the Canary Islands
The Government of the Canary Islands of Spain is responsible for
processing regional business applications and providing eGovernment
services, with both applications requiring horizontal and vertical
scaling. Following population and workload growth, the Government faced
staggering virtualization costs and found that their previous
virtualization infrastructure could not keep pace with the growing
workloads.
To meet these requirements, the Canary Islands sought a virtualization
solution that offered reduced ownership costs without compromised
quality. After evaluating solutions, the Government of the Canary
Islands found that Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization was more
cost-effective and provided greater capacity and improved service levels
and continuity. Additionally, the Government found that Red Hat's cloud
infrastructure solution provided a cost savings of 70 percent compared
to proprietary solutions. The Government of the Canary Islands of Spain
successfully migrated 100 physical servers running approximately 1,000
VMware virtual machines to Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization with zero
downtime and no user impact. As the Canary Islands' population grows and
places more services demands on their IT infrastructure, the Government
plans to virtualize more workloads and reduce their current block of 100
physical servers to even fewer machines.
Bonhams
As one of the oldest and largest auction houses in the world, Bonhams
found itself with many unsupported systems after a significant period of
growth, including mergers and acquisitions. Bonhams wanted to gain the
benefits of server virtualization and integrate with its United States
location's use of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization in order to have a
single global system to manage all its assets remotely and support its
Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery strategy. The U.K. had
previously used VMware and found the licenses to be a major part of the
total cost, and the move to Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization has
delivered significant cost savings and performance benefits. As a
result, they sought to replace their aging servers with a reliable,
scalable, and cost-effective platform that enabled remote management of
global IT assets while supporting full disaster recovery.
Bonhams worked with Quru, a U.K.-based solutions provider to deploy Red
Hat Enterprise Virtualization on IBM System x servers, enabling Bonhams
to avoid vendor lock-in and consolidating their physical servers by
nearly 75 percent. Additionally, through the lower licensing costs with
Red Hat, the solution was implemented at 50 percent of the cost for an
equivalent VMware project in the U.K. Bonhams has been so satisfied with
the performance of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization running on IBM
System x servers, finding that the KVM technology has boosted their
organizational efficiency that they are planning to continue their
migration by moving the entire IT infrastructure in their U.K. office
from VMware to Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for consistent scaling
and management as its business continues to grow.
Profit Software
Profit Software, a supplier of product-based IT software to Northern
Europe's insurance and financial sector, found that separate development
environments resulted in wasted resources and inefficient environmental
maintenance. They turned to Red Hat Cloud Infrastructure to help unify
its development environment across three locations, providing increased
operational efficiency. Profit was able to continue business processes
as usual with minimal downtime during their migration from VMware to Red
Hat Enterprise Virtualization-based solutions, and programmers can now
work in a standardized environment from a common environment, instead of
waiting for their development space to be installed on a physical
server. After the migration to Red Hat Enterprise Linux, development
environment build time was reduced from one day to one hour, and these
environments can be accessed remotely as a virtual desktop through a
secure browser connection. Profit plans to migrate their remaining
servers that are virtualized on VMware to Red Hat Enterprise
Virtualization, and they will be able to scale these future solutions to
meet business needs.
Rural Credit Banks Funds Clearing Center
Rural Credit Banks Funds Clearing Center encompasses 31 nationwide
province-level credit union associations in Beijing, including rural
cooperative banks, rural commercial banks, and the Shenzhen Rural
Commercial Bank. Rapid business development and 35 percent
year-over-year growth left Rural Credit Banks Funds Clearing Center with
an imperative need to upgrade the server infrastructure that supported
its information system operation. Rural Credit Banks Funds Clearing
Center migrated to Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization on IBM BladeCenter
blade servers to optimize their system resources and decrease power
consumption and space used.
The flexibility of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization enabled Rural
Credit Banks Funds Clearing Center to customize, scale, and automate
their business management functions without sacrificing performance
speed. Their migration from VMware also resulted in reduced hardware
needs and fewer licensing and maintenance costs. The system monitoring
and alarming built into Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization will enable
Rural Credit Banks Funds Clearing Center to scale their business
sustainably.
Supporting Quotes
Radhesh Balakrishnan, general manager, Virtualization, Red Hat
"We're excited that Red Hat has become a top choice for customers
looking for an open alternative to established virtualization solutions,
either as part of their multi-hypervisor strategy or as part of a
migration fueled by need to contain or reduce costs. Bonhams, the
Government of the Canary Islands, and Profit mirror use-cases we've seen
from enterprise customers around the globe: their existing
virtualization solutions are proving to be costly and limiting in terms
of scalability. Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization offers a better
performing solution with dramatically improved value. We look forward to
continuing our work with these customers on their journey to the open
hybrid cloud via solutions like Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization and
Red Hat Cloud Infrastructure."
Roberto Diaz, general manager, Telecommunications and New
Technologies, Government of the Canary Islands
"Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization has provided us with specific,
advanced features to help us manage our virtualized infrastructure more
efficiently. Key factors for our decision to migrate to Red Hat
Enterprise Virtualization were its cost-effective price point and its
excellent performance in the industry. "
Robin Porter, business development manager, Quru
"The virtualization of the servers in Bonhams' U.K. office was a
half-a-million pound project, 50 percent of which was spent on licenses.
Having been a Red Hat Enterprise Linux user since 2002, it made perfect
business sense for Bonhams to deploy Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization
in the U.S., avoiding lock-in and eliminating licensing costs."
Tomi Pakarinen, lead architect, Profit Software
"Because of the efficiencies and capability to run both servers and
desktops, as well as Windows and Linux environments on the same
platform, our Red Hat solution gives us back the time to imagine and
innovate."
Yoa Chunyang, assistant general manager of IT Operation Assurance,
Rural Credit Banks
"Selecting enterprise-level open source products allow us to be more
proactive. We avoid vendor lock-in and more importantly, we have access
to world-class technical support. We now understand virtualization
standardization, security, and efficiency, which makes us confident in
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization,"
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