Produban Chooses Red Hat as Technology Partner to Deliver Modern Cloud Services with Kubernetes and Containers on OpenStack
Global IT Services Company reduces time-to-market for services for
Santander Bank with one of the world’s first production deployments of
Kubernetes and containers on OpenStack
BARCELONA, Spain--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
OPENSTACK SUMMIT – Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading
provider of open source solutions, today announced that Produban, the IT
services arm of the Spanish banking leader Grupo Santander, has picked
Red Hat as its technology partner to create a modern cloud
infrastructure with Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform on Red Hat
OpenStack Platform, marking what is believed to be one of the world’s
first production deployments of Kubernetes and containers on OpenStack.
Produban’s global footprint includes 10 datacenters across four
countries that support all of Grupo Santander’s businesses, including
Banco Santander, S.A., one of Europe’s largest banks and among the
largest banks globally by market value. It specializes in Infrastructure
and IT Operations, priding itself on providing reliable and modern IT
services that can keep the bank at the forefront of innovation.
Produban wanted to create a private cloud platform to provide cloud
services across Grupo Santander’s businesses, aiming to increase its
agility and reduce costs. It sought an open source platform that would
enable it to create cloud-native applications via an agile approach with
a high degree of automation and strong security, and which would work
across Produban’s global, multi-site deployment.
After evaluating other Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), container,
Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), and hybrid cloud management offerings,
Produban selected Red Hat as its technology partner. They found Red Hat
OpenShift Container Platform on Red Hat OpenStack Platform best-suited
to support its needs for a modern and agile platform to create
cloud-native applications in a standardized IaaS environment.
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform is the first and only
container-centric, hybrid cloud solution built from the Docker,
Kubernetes, Project Atomic and OpenShift Origin upstream projects and
based on the trusted backbone of the world’s leading enterprise Linux
platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform
provides a more secure, stable platform for container-based deployments
without sacrificing current IT investments, allowing for
mission-critical, traditional applications to coexist alongside new,
cloud-native and container-based applications.
And, Red Hat is an OpenStack leader - both in contributions to the
upstream OpenStack community and its work in delivering a
production-ready OpenStack platform to enterprise customers. Red Hat
OpenStack Platform, a highly scalable, production-ready IaaS solution,
has emerged as an open source cloud platform of choice for a growing
number of global organizations. Co-engineered with Red Hat Enterprise
Linux and backed by Red Hat's support lifecycle, Red Hat OpenStack
Platform offers an open foundation for cloud deployments.
Prior to creating its hybrid cloud infrastructure, Produban deployed Red
Hat Enterprise Linux for its operating platform and Red Hat Enterprise
Virtualization as its traditional scale-up virtualization platform.
Produban also deployed Red Hat Ceph Storage, a massively scalable,
software-defined storage solution, in hyperconverged mode with Red Hat
OpenStack Platform, providing Produban with a single, efficient platform
to support the demanding storage needs of its OpenStack-based cloud. Its
deployment is believed to be the first hyperconverged OpenStack
architecture solution in Spain, and among the first in the world, using
Ceph.
Working with Red Hat Consulting on the project, Produban has met its
goal of creating a modern cloud platform to support the bank’s global
business. With its Red Hat-based platform, Produban has created a
reliable, production-ready and controlled IaaS environment, while
reducing its technology footprint and costs. With its cloud platform,
Produban reports that it has not only increased agility, but reduced
time-to-market for different services, including big data analytics. It
now has a standardized and efficient IaaS environment with consistent
management and deployment across its hybrid cloud services, including
dedicated availability zones by region.
Supporting Quote
Radhesh Balakrishnan, general manager, OpenStack, Red Hat
“In many respects, Produban has created a blueprint deployment with one
of the world’s first production deployments of Kubernetes and containers
on OpenStack, and one of the first hyperconverged OpenStack architecture
solutions using Ceph. We are thrilled that they selected Red Hat as
their technology partner for this significant global deployment, and are
excited to collaborate with Produban to help keep it at the forefront of
innovation.”
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