Norway's Central Securities Depository moves to OpenShift Enterprise
to accelerate development and improve operational efficiency within
business-critical infrastructure
RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, today announced that Verdipapirsentralen ASA (VPS), Norway's
national Central Securities Depository, has deployed a private, on
premise Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) solution based on OpenShift
Enterprise by Red Hat. With OpenShift Enterprise, VPS aims to accelerate
the development and delivery processes within the organization's
existing IT infrastructure and enable a higher level of operational
efficiency across their development, test and production environments.
As the only centralized securities depository in Norway, VPS provides
and manages the critical infrastructure and services for securities
transactions and ownership registration for shares, bonds, equity
certificates, and funds. VPS delivers these services through a network
of investment banks, brokers, banks and fund management companies who
operate the individual accounts and regulate day-to-day access.
VPS evaluated multiple PaaS solutions to help break-down productivity
barriers and deliver application services faster. They ultimately chose
OpenShift Enterprise to provide access to a cloud-based application
platform, enhancing its ability to build the applications it needs and
run them in a hybrid cloud architecture, both in their own datacenter
and the public cloud. It automates much of the provisioning and
management of the application platform stack in a way that enables VPS's
IT operations team to more easily meet growing business demands for new
application services. OpenShift Enterprise also provides an on-demand,
elastic, scalable and fully configured application deployment and
runtime environment for application developers, so that they can focus
on building these new application services.
With Openshift Enterprise, VPS can design, install, configure and
integrate the private PaaS with its existing open source server
infrastructure, offering benefits from a stable, efficient platform
built on open standards. In addition to enabling VPS' developers to
speed application delivery with its pre-defined tools, frameworks and
self-service deployment environment, OpenShift Enterprise enables VPS to
scale-up on demand, while handling peaks through automated processes to
minimize downtime. With a stack built on open source technologies,
OpenShift Enterprise offers freedom of choice, enabling application
portability both to and from the platform.
Supporting Quotes
Jarl L. Bruvoll, head of IT infrastructure, VPS
"Our collaboration with Red Hat and use of OpenShift Enterprise enables
us to balance the need for a highly secure and trusted infrastructure
with the need for a platform which can truly accelerate innovation and
support us in our ambition to transform IT."
Ashesh Badani, vice president and general manager, OpenShift, Red Hat
"We are proud to support VPS in transforming its IT infrastructure. As a
top financial institution in Scandinavia, VPS appreciates the balance
between business agility and security and reliability. That they
selected OpenShift as a strategic platform to help them achieve their
strategic goals is not only a testament to OpenShift's maturity, but
also the platform's ability to help customers balance innovation with
enterprise requirements."
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