Red Hat OpenShift Helps Make X by Orange’s Hardware-Free Vision of Business Communications Services a Reality
New company reimagines digital services for enterprises through
software-defined everything, cloud-native workloads and DevOps,
delivered on Red Hat multicloud and Kubernetes technologies
RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE:RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, today announced that X By Orange, a subsidiary of Orange
Spain focused on business-to-business (B2B) digital services, selected
Red Hat as a core technology partner to help create its software-defined
strategy with Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform in collaboration with
Red Hat Consulting. With the industry’s most comprehensive enterprise
Kubernetes platform, X by Orange is building a greenfield,
cloud-native platform, enabling the service provider to embrace DevOps
and agile development and more rapidly create and deliver digital
services to business customers.
The shift to software-defined, and virtualized infrastructure changes
how services can be created, provisioned and operated, and is altering
the competitive dynamics of the industry. To keep ahead of the curve,
the Orange Group decided to embrace this new approach, changing the
technology it buys and how it operates infrastructure, in order to
deliver services that are more competitive in the digital age. Rather
than evolve its existing infrastructure based on legacy hardware, Orange
chose to create a separate platform, culminating with the launch of its
new software-based, cloud-native subsidiary, X by Orange. Focusing on
the needs of business customers, X by Orange aims to provide digital
services and solutions to improve productivity for enterprises, in the
areas of collaboration, privacy and security, and cloudification of
infrastructure. Initial offerings cover unified communications, data
privacy based on SD WAN, and legal music for retail stores, and the
company plans to grow its services portfolio progressively.
It was important to X by Orange to have the freedom to use the public
cloud provider or providers of its choosing, especially to help
scale operations as the initiative grows. X by Orange selected Red Hat
OpenShift Container Platform to help it more quickly create and release
new services and give it a “provider agnostic” Kubernetes platform on
top of multicloud infrastructure. Delivering a common hybrid cloud
foundation, Red Hat OpenShift’s API-driven architecture enables X by
Orange to work with a diverse partner ecosystem, helping the company
offer a range of its own and third-party services without sacrificing
platform stability or reliability. Additionally, Red Hat OpenShift opens
up Red Hat’s vast ecosystem of certified container solutions, providing
an avenue for X by Orange to use the latest enterprise-ready,
cloud-native innovations to meet emerging needs.
For a software-based CSP like X by Orange, DevOps and enhanced IT
automation are critical in providing customer value, especially in
delivering innovations to market more quickly and in removing manual
intervention from the application development process. Red Hat OpenShift
Container Platform is designed to support a DevOps strategy by uniting
developers and IT operations on a single platform to build, deploy, and
manage applications consistently across hybrid
cloud and multicloud
infrastructures. Built on the backbone of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, the
world’s leading enterprise Linux platform, Red Hat OpenShift Container
Platform tightly integrates across Red Hat’s broader technology
portfolio in areas such as storage, management and middleware, providing
additional paths for X by Orange to expand innovation as it grows.
Emphasizing its software- and services-defined strategy as both a
philosophy and technology, X by Orange worked with Red Hat Consulting to
benefit from Red Hat’s experience and expertise in helping organizations
around the globe evolve their cultures, processes and technologies to
enable a digital future. Skilled in helping customers to better adopt
DevOps and agile workflows to foster open innovation, Red Hat can help
organizations combine automation and infrastructure with more open
culture and collaboration, providing a faster route to innovation and
delivering more business.
Supporting Quotes
Ashesh Badani, vice president and general manager, Cloud Platforms,
Red Hat
“X by Orange is pushing a new frontier in digital transformation as a
communications service provider that doesn't own a single piece of
hardware. We are proud to help make this software-enabled innovation a
reality by delivering cloud-native and Kubernetes-based technologies,
like Red Hat OpenShift, paired with enhanced security, stability and
reliability for enterprise-grade carriers.”
Jose Maria San Jose Juarez, chief technical and information officer,
X by Orange
“Leaving behind the burden of legacy systems, we are committing fully to
DevOps and agile and have a long-term vision for the success of X by
Orange. We believe in the power of open source to accelerate innovation
and with Red Hat’s technology stack, we can better tap into the rapid
development in upstream communities while depending on enterprise-grade
stability, support and enhanced security from Red Hat products. We chose
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for the freedom it gives us on top
of different public clouds, all rooted in Kubernetes-native APIs and
experience. We want to maintain a flexible foundation to collaborate
with diverse players to provide the services our customers want and
need, and we trust in Red Hat’s deep experience in enabling flexibility
and integration across an extensive ecosystem of certified partners.”
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