Singapore’s MyRepublic Deploys Red Hat OpenStack Platform to Power its Cloud
Highly scalable open source cloud platform enhances customer service,
increases efficiency and reduces costs
BARCELONA, Spain--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, today announced that MyRepublic, an internet service provider
(ISP) headquartered in Singapore, has deployed Red Hat OpenStack
Platform, Red Hat Ceph Storage, and Red Hat CloudForms to create a
modern cloud as part of their open hybrid cloud initiative. The new,
more scalable cloud platform, replaces a fragmented legacy IT
infrastructure which was impeding growth and offers MyRepublic increased
availability and flexibility in addition to substantial reductions in
hardware costs.
Undergoing rapid expansion, MyRepublic found it was increasingly
challenging to innovate and grow via its existing infrastructure.
Scaling out services, handling spikes in user demand, and resolving
outages by simply re-using spare capacity from other services were also
difficult to address with the ISP’s legacy infrastructure. Faced with
the costly renewal of its proprietary software and aging hardware,
MyRepublic chose to modernize its IT platform with a more scalable and
flexible platform that could better meet its needs.
For the core of its new and more flexible cloud, MyRepublic selected Red
Hat OpenStack Platform, Red Hat’s highly scalable
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) platform, Red Hat Ceph Storage, a
block and object storage platform capable of scaling to meet
MyRepublic’s requirements, and Red Hat CloudForms, a hybrid cloud
management platform. Red Hat Consulting supported the initial planning
and implementation stages, making it possible to complete the deployment
in only two weeks.
The new infrastructure enables MyRepublic to scale up and add resources
to handle spikes in demand, resulting in higher system availability and
lower latency. More importantly, MyRepublic’s infrastructure is now more
resilient with improved stability, providing an added benefit to
customers. By further automating deployments, planned downtime can be
more easily minimized when changes are made in production.
With its Red Hat-based cloud platform, MyRepublic can introduce new
services more quickly, enabling them to better address new requirements.
This offers MyRepublic the ability to be more agile, capitalizing on the
shorter time-to-market and the ability to host different workloads on
the same cluster.
Because Red Hat software is hardware-agnostic, MyRepublic has also
gained the flexibility to run any certified x86 equipment without
lock-in, which has enabled the company to reduce costs by choosing the
best match for its needs. To date, MyRepublic reports that it has
achieved a double-digit percentage decrease on TCO year-on-year and that
it has improved ROI with the ability to more easily reallocate unused
resources.
Supporting Quotes
Eugene Yeo, group CIO, MyRepublic Group Limited
“We chose Red Hat primarily because they are very close to the upstream,
so we have access to new features really quickly, and also to avoid any
vendor lock-in. Red Hat team’s technical knowledge and documentation
saved us valuable time. Even a slight delay in meeting the deadline
would have affected our marketing plans in a big way and wasted a lot of
our investment. But Red Hat did an amazing job.”
Darrell Jordan-Smith, vice president, Global Telecommunications and
ICT, Red Hat
"Red Hat is excited to work with MyRepublic to help them achieve their
goals of revolutionizing Singapore’s ICT landscape with a cloud platform
based on our highly scalable OpenStack technology. Red Hat OpenStack
Platform combines the power of Red Hat Enterprise Linux with Red Hat
OpenStack technology to deliver a scalable and more secure foundation to
build and manage MyRepublic’s modern cloud infrastructure."
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