Global foreign exchange supports fast-growing portfolio of web-based
applications for new services with Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat
Satellite
RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, today announced that UAE Exchange, a leading foreign exchange
and money transfer brand, has successfully created a scalable, secure,
robust and high-performance datacenter environment by consolidating its
IT infrastructure on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The centralized solution
has enabled the Exchange to more rapidly scale its operations and open
new branches across the globe and to also achieve the ISO 27001
certification for information security management.
With more than 600 branches across 30 countries, UAE Exchange has a
large, and growing customer base. However, rapid expansion caused
performance and availability concerns about the company's distributed IT
systems, previously comprised of servers running various versions of
UNIX . To better support its fast growing portfolio of web-based
applications for new services such as payment for credit cards, utility
bills, subscriptions, airline tickets and others, the company needed to
consolidate its environment on a single platform.
Supported by Red Hat Consulting, UAE Exchange deployed Red Hat
Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Satellite. Red Hat Satellite made
configuration and provisioning easy and enabled the IT team to rapidly
roll out Red Hat Enterprise Linux onto the servers in under one week.
Throughout the migration, UAE's customer facing web-services remained up
and running without impact on the company's 24/7 global operations.
The new Red Hat Enterprise Linux server environment means that the IT
team at UAE Exchange is no longer inhibited by the inflexibility of its
old distributed systems. Because UAE's mission-critical services and
applications are web-based, new branches can now simply 'plug and play'
to the IT infrastructure to get their services up and running. The
solution's scalability and reliability are proven: even with 80,000 to
90,000 users connecting at any given time, the services have not seen
any drop in performance. Using Red Hat Satellite with Red Hat Enterprise
Linux enables UAE Exchange's in-house team to easily exercise full
control over its new environment. This simplifies provisioning and
configuration, while also automating routine tasks such as patch
management.
As an added benefit, the security benchmarking and hardening of the
operating system conducted by Red Hat Consulting helped the exchange to
meet the stringent requirements of the ISO 27001 certification, an
international standard for information security management.
To keep its aggressive growth and expansion goals on track, the company
is now looking to build a new datacenter outside of the UAE, while
simultaneously using virtualization to increase resource utilization.
Having successfully used WildFly, the JBoss.org community application
server, the company now intends to use Red Hat JBoss Middleware to help
it build, test, and deploy applications faster.
Supporting Quotes
Sarath Chandra, CIO, UAE Exchange
"The value of Red Hat Consulting lies in the team's ability to expertly
aid the implementation while conveying best practices. Despite our own
team being very technically proficient, their exposure was limited to
working within our environment. So the additional knowledge provided by
Red Hat's industry experts helped us in a number of areas such as
configuration, fine tuning, performance management and security. It was
also a pride point for us as we could then match our systems to global
benchmarks."
Jim Totton, vice president and general manager, Platform Business
Unit, Red Hat
"UAE Exchange's success is a perfect example of how the right IT
investments can be turned into a platform for business development and
innovation. Red Hat Enterprise Linux has offered the stability,
flexibility, security and performance necessary to power UAE Exchange's
aggressive expansion. Today, they are capable of opening new branches
and growing their business at a faster pace, without being constrained
by IT challenges."
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