Parent company for Autotrader and Kelley Blue Book estimates nearly
ten years of time and $5 million in savings achieved with Red Hat
CloudForms hybrid cloud management platform
RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, today announced that Cox Automotive, a leader in vehicle
remarketing services and digital marketing solutions for car dealers and
consumers, has deployed Red Hat CloudForms, Red Hat Gluster Storage and
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization to scale its internal cloud
infrastructure to meet the increasing requests from its customer base.
Since moving to Red Hat CloudForms, Cox Automotive greatly decrease its
production development time and has achieved millions in savings.
As the internet has emerged as the way for consumers to research and
purchase cars, Cox Automotive has digitized and moved its major existing
brands online, making it easy to use familiar companies like Autotrader
and Kelley Blue Book to buy and sell a car. The online automotive
marketplace continues to expand, as does Cox Automotive's volume of
requests for customer applications and tools - more than two thirds of
car buyers in the United States use a Cox Automotive company at some
point in their car buying process. Cox Automotive companies need to
quickly deliver new web-based products in order to maintain its
leadership positions, but the increased traffic and requests for IT
service were slowing deployment and service times.
Building on a continuing relationship with Red Hat that dates from 2005,
Cox Automotive chose Red Hat CloudForms to manage its cloud
infrastructure and deliver self-service access to IT resources for its
portfolio of more than 25 brands. With Red Hat CloudForms' single
unified interface, workers from all areas of the company serving various
customer groups can view a shared IT environment, enabling easy access
to self-service offerings for developers, enterprise architects and QA
specialists. Red Hat CloudForms enables various Cox Automotive business
units to work together more cohesively and deliver new products to
consumers faster, cutting a nearly three-week wait time for new product
development and testing down to under twenty minutes.
The Red Hat CloudForms dashboard also provides cross-system visibility
and granular metrics, enabling the Cox Automotive teams to better use
the capacity in its environment. Cox Automotive has also built an Apache
Hadoop Infrastructure based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux as the
foundation of its big data initiative, also using Red Hat Gluster
Storage, an open software-defined file storage system, and Red Hat
Enterprise Virtualization as part of its big data strategy. Presenting
more data in one location enables Cox Automotive to see the interactions
between customers and its various websites, creating a more customized
shopping experience for users.
Additionally, Cox Automotive is using Red Hat Insights, Red Hat's
operations analytics service, to proactively manage its IT environment.
Red Hat Insights brings Red Hat's expertise supporting hundreds of
thousands of customers and provides real-time risk assessments related
to critical areas of IT infrastructure. With Red Hat Insights, Cox
Automotive can identify specific, verified deployment issues and receive
guidance to help resolve risks related to system stability, performance
and security - enabling them to avoid disruption and optimize
performance of their IT operations.
Supporting Quotes
Joe Fitzgerald, vice president, Management, Red Hat
"Cox Automotive is a fantastic example of a company that has embraced
digital transformation to better meet its customers' needs. With this
digital transformation comes new management challenges for cloud
infrastructure, and user expectations for new self service capabilities.
With its Red Hat CloudForms-based solution, I'm thrilled that Cox
Automotive can not only effectively manage this hybrid cloud
infrastructure, but that they have also experienced compelling ROI not
only in terms of costs, but also significantly accelerated production
development times."
Jason Cornell, manager of Cloud and Infrastructure Automation, Cox
Automotive
"Red Hat CloudForms is a Swiss Army knife. You can do many different
things in the IT environment with it - including insights and
intelligence on our infrastructure. We analyzed the numbers to see what
resources we deployed and how much time it took, and we realized that
with the Red Hat solution, we saved almost 10 years of time spent
waiting for resources to be delivered and almost $5 million in soft
savings since 2014. Additionally, with Red Hat Insights, we can resolve
critical issues before they occur. We no longer have to look at
individual systems because we have one tool that gives us much more
comprehensive and actionable information on our infrastructure. It's
important to have a company like Red Hat that's working toward the same
goals we are, that understands our business and what we're trying to
accomplish, and understands our infrastructure and our businesses. As
the market continues to change and new technologies are released, we'll
continue to change as well, and we expect Red Hat to be an important
partner to help us on that journey."
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