Communications Leaders Choose Red Hat OpenStack Platform for Powering Cloud Deployments to Deliver New Services
FreeBit, KazTransCom and Turkcell adopt Red Hat solutions to improve
agility, flexibility and operational efficiency
BARCELONA, Spain--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, today announced that communications leaders from around the
world, including FreeBit, KazTransCom and Turkcell, have deployed Red
Hat OpenStack Platform, a highly scalable Infrastructure-as-a-Service
(IaaS) solution, as the foundation for their modern cloud initiatives.
In a world driven by the growth of digital services, new devices, and
massive user numbers, communications leaders around the world are
modernizing their infrastructures to support advanced cloud services and
improve the speed at which new services can be created. Thanks to its
ability to massively scale and capabilities to meet the needs of
real-time applications without requiring massive increases in physical
infrastructure, OpenStack has become a go-to platform for enterprise and
communications industry cloud deployments. According to the April 2016
OpenStack User Survey, 14 percent of OpenStack users were traditional
telcos and another 68 percent were IT companies that include
communications as part of their initiatives and services.
Red Hat, a leader in making open technologies safer, more secure, and
more easily consumable for business-critical use, provides solutions
that serve as the foundation for modern, flexible and scalable cloud
deployments. Red Hat Enterprise Linux, including the high-performance
Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) hypervisor, forms a more stable, more
secure, more reliable operating system foundation. Co-engineered with
Red Hat Enterprise Linux and hardened and backed by Red Hat's support
life cycle, Red Hat OpenStack Platform offers a proven foundation for
communications industry deployments, including network functions
virtualization (NFV).
Red Hat has seen increased adoption of OpenStack, highlighted by several
communications leaders selecting Red Hat OpenStack Platform as the
backbone of their advanced cloud deployments:
- FreeBit Co., Ltd., headquartered in Tokyo,provides
infrastructure services to Internet Service Providers (ISPs). Seeking
to modernize an infrastructure built on aging servers, FreeBit looked
to the cloud and OpenStack. They selected Red Hat OpenStack Platform
to improve services, reliability, and compatibility, and to create a
cloud infrastructure capable of supporting its Internet business. By
standardizing on Red Hat OpenStack Platform and using standard
OpenStack APIs, FreeBit was able to automate 75% of its infrastructure
builds, work that had previously been manually conducted. To move its
work to production with minimal downtime, FreeBit uses the blue-green
deployment approach, running identical and interchangeable Red Hat
OpenStack Platform environments for test and production. Five of
FreeBit’s services and its Internet of Things (IoT) service
development infrastructure now run on Red Hat OpenStack Platform.
FreeBit’s highly maneuverable Red Hat OpenStack Platform-based
infrastructure has helped the company create new business value,
supporting faster innovation by trial and error.
- KazTransCom is one of the largest telecommunications operators
in Kazakhstan and boasts a modern network infrastructure that
stretches for tens of thousands of kilometers. To innovate and
increase revenue potential, it wanted to add new cloud services for
business customers, including a public cloud and a highly reliable and
scalable NFV platform for network equipment. Following a thorough
competitive review, KazTransCom chose a solution based on Red Hat
OpenStack Platform and Red Hat Ceph Storage, with Cisco UCS hardware,
as the basis of its new cloud platform. With its Red Hat-based cloud
platform, KazTransCom has found a reliable, easily managed solution
that offers the flexibility and scalability it needs to easily
provision new services, with sufficient spare performance to handle
new client wins and additional customer requirements.
- Turkcell is a converged telecommunication and technology
services provider, founded and headquartered in Turkey. It serves its
customers with voice, data, TV and value-added consumer and enterprise
services on mobile and fixed networks. Turkcell launched LTE services
in its home country on April 1, 2016, employing LTE-Advanced and three
carrier aggregation technologies in 81 cities. In 2G and 3G,
Turkcell’s population coverage is at 99.80% and 95.14%, respectively,
as of June 2016. It offers up to 1 Gbps fiber internet speed with its
FTTH services. Turkcell Group companies serve 66.5 million subscribers
in nine countries - Turkey, Ukraine, Belarus, Northern Cyprus,
Germany, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Georgia, Moldova - as of June 30,
2016. Turkcell Group reported a TRY3.4 billion revenue with total
assets of TRY28.6 billion as of June 30, 2016. It has been listed on
the NYSE and the BIST since July 2000, and is the only NYSE-listed
company in Turkey.
For more than a decade, Turkcell has trusted Red Hat Enterprise Linux as
a strategic operating platform for its infrastructure. In collaboration
with Red Hat Consulting, Turkcell built Turkcell Akıllı Depo
(“Lifebox”), a self-service cloud based storage application that runs on
Red Hat OpenStack Platform, built using OpenStack’s Object Storage
(Swift) capabilities. Moving the app in-house has resulted in savings
for Turkcell, and they are now able to bring new capabilities to market
faster. Because of the success of the project, Turkcell is also
developing its BIP messaging application and other services on Red Hat
OpenStack Platform.
Supporting Quotes
Radhesh Balakrishnan, general manager, OpenStack, Red Hat
“FreeBit, KazTransCom and Turkcell are stellar examples of the
modernization and transformation we are seeing in the communications
industry. They have turned to open source - and to Red Hat - to help
them create more agile, flexible, and scalable clouds that can meet
their needs now and well into the future. The promise of OpenStack in
the communications industry is now becoming a reality, and Red Hat is
proud to work with organizations around the globe to help them with such
transformation and modernization initiatives.”
Koichi Inokuchi, subdirector, YourNet Service Division, FreeBit
Co., Ltd.
“When selecting an OpenStack distribution, we placed the most importance
on quality. With regard to quality, while operation of OpenStack itself
and compatibility with hardware was also important, we most considered
quality of support from distributors. In troubleshooting during the
assessment period and considering configuration, we collaborated deeply
with Red Hat’s engineers, and they responded quickly to OpenStack issues
with our systems. Through such opportunities, we appreciated Red Hat’s
support, proposals, and high technological ability. Red Hat has also
been working on translation of its product manuals into Japanese in a
timely manner. Their content played a very important role in our
understanding of OpenStack and specifications of the product. With this
new infrastructure introduced, FreeBit could advance one more step in
making system operation management automatic and more efficient.
OpenStack is a technology which is expected to develop further. We
expect Red Hat to drive its evolution as an industry leader for
OpenStack.”
Maxim Popov, head of R&D, KazTransCom
“Red Hat's leadership in providing robust, enterprise-ready, open source
technology that offered vendor flexibility - as well as the easy
integration of Red Hat software with KazTransCom's Cisco server hardware
- appealed to our technology strategy. With Red Hat OpenStack Platform
and Red Hat Ceph Storage, KazTransCom can easily scale to provision new
services for its business customers - with spare processing power to
handle the demands of new and current clients.”
Bülent Saltürk, director of Infrastructure Operations, Turkcell
“We have been using Red Hat Enterprise Linux for more than 10 years and
have been satisfied with its robustness and support. While modernizing
our cloud-based storage service, we decided to use Red Hat OpenStack
Platform because it is backed by an experienced development and support
teams. We also used Red Hat Consulting for the migration and they have
been very responsive in assisting to get our OpenStack deployment up and
operating quickly.”
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