Herzog Technologies Drives Intelligent Railway Safety Solution with Red Hat
Red Hat’s open technologies power the Internet-of-Things (IoT)
foundation for Herzog’s cloud-based positive train control (PTC) solution
RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, today announced that Herzog Technologies, a leader in the
railroad signal and communications industry, has launched a cloud-based
positive train control (PTC) solution using Red Hat technologies. The
enterprise-grade foundation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux provides the
backend to the complex IoT system required for the intelligence and
dynamism expected of PTC, while Red Hat CloudForms and Red Hat Satellite
help Herzog with systems management and compliance. Combined, Red Hat’s
powerful open source technologies are helping Herzog provide railroads
with the ability to more quickly adopt PTC technology, helping to enable
safer and more efficient rail transportation.
A highly-advanced system that is designed to stop trains before certain
types of accidents can occur, PTC is aimed at making rail transportation
safer and is the focus of a rail safety initiative1 in the
United States, backed by Congressional mandate. Railroads, particularly
smaller carriers, however, may struggle to implement PTC due to the
financial and technical burdens required to fully deploy a complete,
on-premise solution, which can include large sensor networks and
significant computing resources. To help meet the requirements of these
railroads, Herzog Technologies saw a need for a more cost-effective,
open source and cloud-based PTC offering.
Herzog chose to build its new PTC solution on a private cloud powered by
Red Hat Enterprise Linux and managed by Red Hat Satellite and Red Hat
CloudForms. The leading enterprise Linux platform allows for easier
scaling for IoT-type network deployments and helps minimize the hosting
footprint in Herzog’s datacenter, thanks to the flexible, stable
foundation that it provides. Red Hat CloudForms, an award-winning open
hybrid cloud management platform, has helped Herzog transform their
existing virtualized infrastructure into a private cloud, through its
on-demand scaling functionality. Red Hat Satellite helps Herzog maintain
greater platform security and compliance with various regulatory
standards, as well as manage their software lifecycle from testing
through production. Herzog also worked with Red Hat Consulting to help
bring their new offering to market.
With their new cloud-based PTC solution built on Red Hat technologies,
Herzog has experienced:
- The potential for more market opportunities by bringing a
cloud-based PTC offering to a new customer segment, enabled by Red
Hat’s experience in delivering open, flexible technologies for the
rail industry.
- Higher efficiency for Herzog’s complex, hybrid IT environment,
provided by the management and automation capabilities of Red Hat
CloudForms and Red Hat Satellite.
- Improved costs thanks to the open source nature of Red Hat’s
solutions (hosted solutions for rail) via intelligent IoT networks.
Supporting Quotes
Jim Totton, vice president and general manager, Platforms Business
Unit, Red Hat
“Our work with Herzog shows how Red Hat helps
organizations across industries move to the hybrid cloud and embrace an
IT environment that can drive real business value and results while
remaining dynamic, highly scalable and more secure. By basing its
cloud-based PTC solution on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and our hybrid
management technologies, Herzog can deliver the mission-critical
reliability and flexibility needed to drive the sophisticated,
intelligent networks to help modern railways enhance safety and
transportation efficiency.”
Travis Rollings, director, Office Systems, Herzog Technologies
“Red
Hat realizes that we’re all working toward the same goal. Without Red
Hat, launching this solution would have been a far more complex
undertaking, and we would not have been able to onboard new customers as
quickly.”
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