Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform Takes Digital Innovation into the Fast Lane with Major European Automaker
Enterprise container platform drives IT innovation at the BMW Group
for faster application development and a smoother customer experience
BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, today announced that BMW Group, the world’s leading premium
manufacturer of automobiles and motorcycles, has deployed Red Hat
OpenShift Container Platform to support its delivery of business
applications and services. Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform is used
by enterprises like BMW Group to embrace innovation, speed application
development and time-to-market and gain more flexibility to scale
services on-demand.
In the competitive automotive industry, IT infrastructure does not only
support internal functions such as development and manufacturing, but it
also has to enable the delivery of digital services addressing the
heightened customer expectations regarding reliability and performance.
A majority of customers interact directly with the BMW Group through its
IT services. Almost all cars the BMW Group ships are delivered with BMW
ConnectedDrive, the company’s digital product that connects the driver
and vehicle with a range of services and apps that provide the driver
with vehicle-related information, assistance and entertainment during
journeys or allows them to remotely access the vehicle.
The BMW Group currently hosts more than 1,000 web-based apps, showing
the growing demand for discoverable, easy-to-use application hubs. This
growth highlights a major need for many enterprises: scaling existing
applications and services dynamically to meet demand while bringing new
innovations to market faster. Traditional enterprise architectures are
often monolithic in nature, which can struggle to handle the dynamic
needs of modern workloads. This has led many global businesses to seek
more flexible application infrastructure that embraces more agile
development and IT operations methodology, including continuous
delivery, continuous integration and extensive automation.
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform is the first and only
container-centric, hybrid cloud solution built from Linux containers and
the 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.
With its developers preferring to use industry-standard technologies,
the BMW Group valued Red Hat’s extensive contributions to both the
docker and Kubernetes projects and its enterprise-ready version of these
technologies. Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform also supports
multiple public clouds, allowing for the exploration of hybrid cloud
strategies while maintaining applications that are independent of
underlying infrastructure, allowing for organizations like the BMW Group
to choose the technology that most closely delivers on its needs at any
moment in time. Additionally, Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform’s
streamlined integration with existing technology stacks preserves
existing investments while enabling faster moves to a modern
cloud-native runtime environment.
BMW ConnectedDrive is subject to large fluctuations in service requests,
depending on the time of day, weather conditions, traffic incidents and
other factors. After the decomposition of traditional applications into
microservices running on containers, Red Hat OpenShift Container
Platform enables the BMW Group to do point scaling to adjust loads to
peaks and troughs in demand and to deliver the continuous service that
today’s consumers expect.
The BMW Group has initially rolled out Red Hat OpenShift Container
Platform in its Germany-based enterprise datacenter, focused on
supporting ConnectedDrive.
Supporting Quote
Ashesh Badani, vice president and general manager, OpenShift, Red Hat
“The
BMW Group shows just how an organization can embrace agile methodologies
and modern container technologies to deliver business value and an
enhanced customer experience. We are pleased to support a leader in
automotive innovation as it grows its technological prowess and
innovation capabilities to offer services faster and more reliably.
Seeing a business streamline the application development process, from
creation to deployment, is key to enterprise-level digital
transformation and a trend that we hope to see more and more, especially
as other organizations follow the example of trailblazers like the BMW
Group.”
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