11th Annual Red Hat Innovation Awards Recognize Achievements in Open Source
Barclays Bank, Government of British Columbia, Macquarie, Rackspace,
and State of Jalisco, Mexico Commended for Exceptional Uses of Red Hat
Solutions
BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
RED HAT SUMMIT 2017 – Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE:RHT), the world's
leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the winners
of the 11th annual Red Hat Innovation Awards, recognizing customers and
partners for their outstanding and innovative use of Red Hat solutions.
This year's winners - Barclays Bank, Government of British Columbia,
Macquarie, Rackspace®, and State of Jalisco, Mexico - will be
honored during Red Hat Summit, the industry’s premier open source
technology event, taking place this week in Boston. Online voting is now
open to select the overall 2017 Red Hat Innovator of the Year.
The Red Hat Innovation Awards recognize the technological achievements
of Red Hat customers and partners worldwide who demonstrate creative
thinking, determined problem-solving, and innovative uses of Red Hat
technology. Red Hat Innovation Award winners were selected by a panel of
experts and ranked based on the complexity, uniqueness, and magnitude of
their Red Hat implementations.
From the category winners, an overall 2017 Red Hat Innovator of the Year
will be selected by the community through online voting. Voting will
open at 9 a.m. EDT on Monday, May 1, and close at 11:59 p.m. EDT on
Wednesday, May 3. To vote for the 2017 Red Hat Innovator of the Year,
visit www.redhat.com/en/customers/innovation-awards.
The winner will be announced during an awards ceremony on Thursday, May
4, at the 2017
Red Hat Summit.
The winners of the 11th annual Red Hat Innovation Awards are:
Category: DevOps implementation
Recognizing the best implementation of the complete DevOps strategy
of culture, automation, and platform changes needed to meet the new
demands of their customers.
Winner: Barclays Bank PLC
Barclays is a transatlantic consumer, corporate and investment bank
offering products and services across personal, corporate and investment
banking, credit cards and wealth management, with a strong presence in
its two home markets of the UK and the US.
Looking to drive innovation and increase productivity, Barclays set out
to build an Application Platform-as-a-Service (aPaaS) as part of its
cloud program that could provide its development teams a more secure,
consistent and scalable platform for application development and
hosting. Barclays developed its aPaaS by following a DevOps methodology
and deploying several Red Hat technologies and services, including Red
Hat OpenShift Container Platform, Red
Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (JBoss EAP), Red
Hat CloudForms, Red
Hat JBoss Fuse, Red
Hat Enterprise Linux and Red
Hat Satellite. Red Hat Consulting provided support, both in terms of
architecting and delivering the aPaaS.
As part of Barclays’ cloud strategy, they are deploying Red Hat
OpenShift Container Platform on Amazon Web Services. Barclays is
believed to be one of the first banks to successfully implement an aPaaS
and requisite operating model. Internally, the project changed the way
Barclays offers and consumes middleware infrastructure, moving the
company from offering technology to providing service. As a result of
the aPaaS and based on its internal testing, Barclays experienced a 70
percent reduction in time needed to release a new product, an 80 percent
better utilization of underlying infrastructure and a five times
increase in functional drops.
Category: The open source way
Recognizing innovation through building an open source culture,
contributing to community projects, and using open source technology to
support a broad range of applications and business services.
Winner: Government of British Columbia, Office of CIO
The Government of British Columbia provides services such as education,
healthcare, social services and economic development to its 4.6 million
residents. Seeking to further economic development, the Government of
British Columbia wanted to develop innovative public services faster to
meet evolving demand and improve its user experience.
To meet the challenge, the province established the BC Developers’
Exchange (BCDevExchange) to take advantage of the innovation of private
sector technology companies and entrepreneurs. The BC Developers’
Exchange supports collaboration between government and citizens using
open source tools, such as online code repository GitHub and enterprise
software from Red Hat. BCDevExchange includes Red Hat OpenShift
Container Platform as the foundation for its container-based application
platform. It uses Red Hat CloudForms to manage its OpenShift environment
and is connected with Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services in order
to improve infrastructure visibility. BCDevExchange also includes Red
Hat Gluster Storage for resilient data backup, and JBoss Fuse to
manage API, data access, and integration of legacy systems. With help
from Red Hat Consulting, the province installed a full production build
in its datacenter—running a mix of physical servers and virtual
machines—in just three weeks. As a result, the province can support
agile, collaborative development following a DevOps approach, create and
update services faster, and balance innovation with security
requirements.
Category: Enterprise transformation
Recognizing the most outstanding transition from legacy IT to
becoming a self-service leader and business partner in the digital world.
Winner: Macquarie
Macquarie is a global financial services provider headquartered in
Australia with offices in 28 countries. Macquarie’s Banking and
Financial Services Group identified the need to build a smarter digital
banking platform and mobile app that could help it continually evolve
and build a more personalised and intuitive experience for its
Australian retail banking customers.
Macquarie adopted modern cloud application architecture, supported by
distributed technologies like Apache Cassandra, Apache Spark, SolrCloud
and container technologies. Red Hat Openshift Container Platform, Red
Hat CloudForms and Red Hat Gluster Storage underpinned the container
strategy, which enabled rapid innovation and agile delivery, and allowed
Macquarie to bring its new banking platform to life. Red Hat worked with
Macquarie on a new strategy to achieve open end point independence by
creating highly composable modular APIs, which are open for access by
partners and developers. The business strategy and underlying technology
based on microservices, coupled with highly scalable cloud and container
technologies, gave Macquarie the ability to quickly change, test, and
refine offerings based on real-time insights to create an intuitive
customer experience.
Category: Cloud infrastructure
Recognizing the best collaborative public, private, or open hybrid
cloud deployment.
Winner: Rackspace
Rackspace is a leading managed cloud provider, serving business
customers in more than 150 countries, as well as a Red Hat Certified
Cloud and Service Provider, a program that offers customers and
independent software vendors access to tested and verified solutions for
safe, scalable and supported enterprise cloud deployments. In an effort
to offer broader technology choice in its OpenStack as-a-service
portfolio based on customer demand, Red Hat and Rackspace partnered
together to build an enterprise, managed private cloud solution built on Red
Hat OpenStack Platform.
The result was the Rackspace Private Cloud powered by Red Hat (RPC-R)
solution. RPC-R includes other Red Hat technologies such as Red
Hat Ceph Storage, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Satellite and
Red Hat CloudForms, with Fanatical Support® from Rackspace
layered on top. Rackspace also worked with a Red
Hat Technical Account Manager to help develop the solution, and used Red
Hat Training and Certification
to gain expertise on Red Hat OpenStack software and tools. Ultimately
with RPC-R, end users receive the agility and efficiency of public cloud
with the security features, control and performance of enterprise
private cloud software provided by Red Hat, all coupled with managed
services from Rackspace, which has industry-leading OpenStack
operational expertise.
Category: Application optimization
Recognizing the most outstanding use of agile methodologies and Red
Hat solutions to achieve superior overall performance while creating,
maintaining, and deploying successful business applications.
Winner: Secretariat of Planning, Administration and Finance (SEPAF),
Government of the State of Jalisco, Mexico
The Secretariat of Planning, Administration and Finance (SEPAF) is
responsible for allocating state assets and resources for projects
related to state development. In an effort to increase quality of
service, SEPAF carried out a technological modernization, integration
and process automation for its web services applications, which host tax
collection and services for the State of Jalisco.
SEPAF used a range of Red Hat technologies and services to build the
applications, including Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Satellite,
JBoss EAP, JBoss Fuse, Red
Hat JBoss BPM Suite, and Red
Hat Virtualization. Red Hat Consulting has been seen as a valuable
partner throughout implementation, supporting the team members through
education and training to support the project's success. The systems
enabled SEPAF to increase the number of resolved web requests by three
times and drove a 100 percent reduction in hardware costs.
Judging Panel
The judging panel for the 2017 Red Hat Innovation Awards included:
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Ashesh Badani, vice president, OpenShift, Red Hat;
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Swapnil Bhartiya, technology journalist;
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Marco Bill-Peter, vice president, Customer Experience and Engagement,
Red Hat
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Dietmar Fauser, vice president of R&D Architecture, Quality &
Governance at Amadeus (Amadeus was the 2016
Red Hat Innovator of the Year and won the Cloud category for its
use of Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform to power Amadeus Cloud
Services);
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Sean Michael Kerner, senior editor, eWeek;
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Chris Rommel, executive vice president, IoT & Embedded Technology, VDC
Research; and
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Chris Wright, vice president and chief technologist, Office of
Technology, Red Hat.
Supporting Quote
Marco Bill-Peter, vice president, Customer Experience and Engagement,
Red Hat
“Each year the Red Hat Innovation Awards uncover unique and impressive
projects that are using Red Hat solutions to solve problems, improve
functionality and expand the open source community. Our customers and
partners continue to push the boundaries of innovation and we are proud
to play a role in these incredible accomplishments. Congratulations to
the 2017 Red Hat Innovation Awards winners.”
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