Organizations Around the Globe Turn to Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform as Enterprise Kubernetes Platform of Choice
Elo,Follett School Solutions, SIX Group, and ZTE
Corporation speed innovation and development with Red Hat OpenShift
Container Platform
RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, today announced that Follett School Solutions, SIX Group, ZTE
Corporation, and Elo are transforming their IT infrastructure and
embracing DevOps
methodologies by adopting Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform as their
enterprise Kubernetes solution of choice. These organizations, spanning
each region, are representative of how customers around the world are
embracing Red Hat OpenShift, the industry’s most comprehensive
Kubernetes platform.
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform unites developers and IT operations
on a single platform to build, deploy, and manage applications
consistently across hybrid cloud infrastructures. This helps businesses
achieve greater value by delivering modern and traditional applications
with shorter development cycles and increased efficiencies. The platform
is built on open
source innovation and industry standards, including Red Hat
Enterprise Linux and Kubernetes, and is trusted by many companies around
the world.
Organizations taking advantage of Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform
and Red Hat’s broad portfolio of container and Kubernetes-based
solutions to more rapidly create, host, and scale applications across
hybrid and multi-cloud environments include:
North America:
- Follett
School Solutions, the largest provider of preK-12 educational
materials and technology solutions in the United States and a major
supplier to education institutions worldwide, needed to modernize its
software development and deployment processes. During the search for a
more agile solution, Follett was drawn to Kubernetes, the open source
container orchestration platform for automating application
deployment, scaling and management, to support their new pipeline and
container strategy. To take full advantage of these capabilities in a
high availability configuration, Follett chose to deploy Red Hat
OpenShift Container Platform as the foundation of its application
environment, as OpenShift is the leading enterprise distribution of
Kubernetes. Additionally, by pairing Red Hat OpenShift together with
Red Hat Ansible Automation, Follett can develop, deploy, and manage
applications more quickly and with greater ease than previously. As a
result, the company can make customer-requested changes and launch new
learning applications to schools more quickly.
Europe, Middle East and Africa:
- SIX Group, a Swiss financial services provider, selected Red
Hat OpenShift Container Platform after conducting an evaluation of
competitive solutions and proof of concept with Red Hat. Together with
Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application
Platform (JBoss EAP), the company is using Red Hat OpenShift Container
Platform to implement a DevOps strategy and take advantage of new
application architectures like microservices and containers
in order to bring innovations to market quicker.
Asia-Pacific:
- ZTE Corporation is a leading global provider of integrated
communications solutions, including voice, data, multimedia, and
wireless broadband. To help network operators and enterprise clients
in more than 160 countries navigate the ever-changing communications
industry, ZTE is building an integrated Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS)
offering that can adapt to different integrated communications
technology (ICT) scenarios. Key to the foundation of this PaaS
offering is ZTE’s collaboration with Red Hat, combining ZTE's
experience in network functions virtualization (NFV) with Red Hat's
experience in IT and the open source community. Together, ZTE and Red
Hat are working to promote development in upstream communities such as
Kubernetes, OpenShift and OpenStack,
and eliminating the gap between upstream communities and NFV
scenarios, ZTE can better prepare for industry changes—particularly
the shift to the new 5G telecommunications standard—as well as take
advantage of a more flexible technology and a collaborative DevOps
approach to build and deploy products faster.
Latin America:
- Elo, a Brazilian card brand created as a joint venture by the
three leading Brazilian banks and an existing Red Hat Enterprise Linux
customer, Elo implemented Red Hat Openshift Container Platform along
with Red Hat Ansible Tower and Red Hat Satellite to support its
digital transformation efforts. The company has since automated its
deployment process and adopted a DevOps culture, reducing the time
associated with deployments by 98 percent.
Supporting Quotes
Ashesh Badani, vice president and general manager, OpenShift, Red Hat
“Globally,
we see organizations turning towards digitally transformative
technologies like Linux containers as they seek to deliver enhanced
business value faster and drive differentiated service offerings to
their customers. Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform helps enterprises
take advantage of the innovative technologies necessary for developing
modern applications and services while maintaining a stable and more
secure environment, driving transformation without disrupting existing
operations.”
Anderson Agapito, infrastructure manager, Elo
“When we began
our digital transformation story, we looked to Red Hat because their
products fit our needs as well as having the added benefit of Red Hat
support. Since implementing Red Hat solutions we have been able to adopt
a DevOps culture that allows us to reduce deployment time and get
services to our customers more quickly and efficiently.”
Jerry Thome, architect, Follett School Solutions
“Moving to
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform was a key component in our overall
strategy to deliver software better and faster to our customers. With
OpenShift, we are able to scale applications based on demand in minutes,
better handle load and use resources more efficiently. The platform has
enabled us to reliably run and manage our containerized applications so
we can focus on solving the next set of problems for our customers.”
Dave Brupbacher, head global IT operations, SIX Group
“The
Red Hat solutions we have deployed are key to modernising our
infrastructure and to implementing the DevOps strategy that will
determine our digital future. Our central aim is to bring products and
individual functions to market much faster and in a highly-automated
way, whilst maintaining outstanding quality.”
Minghe Zhao, chief engineer, PaaS Platform Research and Development,
ZTE Corporation
“As an open source pioneer, Red Hat offers
great technical strengths combined with extensive influence in open
source communities. Combined with our telecommunications expertise,
working with Red Hat makes for a perfect collaboration for ZTE.”
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