Upgraded IT infrastructure allows multimedia news provider to deliver
flexible, centralized broadcasting and publishing
BARCELONA, Spain--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, today announced that Sky
News, BSkyB's 24-hour, multimedia news channel, has increased the
scalability and resiliency of their centralized platform operations by
deploying Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization and Red Hat Satellite in two
data centers.
Sky News' television platform alone reaches an audience of 107 million
viewers in 118 countries. Renowned for the speed of its coverage and
flexibility of reporting news live, the Sky News team decided to upgrade
their IT infrastructure to deliver news consistently and quickly across
multiple platforms. Broadcasting, publishing and real-time news had
originally been delivered from a centralized platform, Sky News team
decided to upgrade their IT infrastructure to deliver news consistently
and quickly across multiple platforms, rebuilding the system as a
virtualized environment that would enable better scalability,
flexibility and resiliency for IT administrators and users. In May 2012,
Sky News deployed Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization to run across two of
their data centers, paired with Red Hat Satellite for systems management.
While rebuilding the platform, James Murphy, technology delivery manager
for Sky News, and his team opted to run the two virtualized data centers
in a "back to back" setup, sharing workloads equally across two data
centers. This setup would allow for enough free capacity to handle
traffic peaks on the website and simultaneously satisfy disaster
recovery requirements. The Red Hat team built a prototype of the "back
to back" architecture Sky News was looking for, enabling them to
thoroughly test the new concept before deployment. The management
capabilities from Red Hat Satellite also enabled Sky News to move
efforts previously used on manual tasks to new efforts, as the
management platform automated former routine system administrations work.
The new virtualized environment for Sky News' content publishing system
has enabled Sky News to devote more time to ensuring that the system
grows and evolves, just as Sky News' audiences and services are growing
and evolving. With Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization and Red Hat
Satellite, Sky News' team can launch new virtual machines to take
advantage of new opportunities in the market with confidence that they
can manage increasing website traffic.
Supporting Quotes
Radhesh Balakrishnan, general manager, Virtualization and OpenStack,
Red Hat
"Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization offers a no-compromise virtualization
solution with industry-leading performance coupled with a compelling
ROI. We are pleased to work with Sky News and combine the functionality
of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization and Red Hat Satellite to power an
infrastructure designed to meet their growing needs."
James Murphy, technology delivery manager, Sky News
"Our speed of change used to be measured in months. Since deploying Red
Hat solutions, it's measured in weeks and even days — making us more
responsive, not just to breaking new stories and world events, but to
changes in market and audience demands, too. Working with Red Hat really
was a true partnership. The amount of help and support we received from
Red Hat gave us the confidence to move forward with our virtualization
project—even though it was different from most other companies'
approaches."
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