• 1. Introduction
    Introduction
  • 2. Complexity
    Complexity
  • 3. Standardization to the rescue
    Standardization to the rescue
  • 4. Lowered operating costs
    Lowered operating costs
  • 5. Security without compromise
    Security without compromise
  • 6. Agility for today and tomorrow
    Agility for today and tomorrow
  • 7. Your standard operating environment
    Your standard operating environment
  • 8. The Red Hat solution
    The Red Hat solution
  • 9. Next Steps
    Next Steps

Complexity: The enemy of IT operations

What keeps your IT staff from being able to deliver innovative and strategic new applications and services quickly? It’s probably not a lack of skills, resources, or determination. The root of the problem is often complexity.

As complexity increases, we see labor costs, downtime, training, and overhead all growing proportionally. Likewise, security becomes far more challenging and time consuming. The result is more staff spending more time on maintenance, with little time or budget remaining for delivering new services and applications rapidly.

No IT organization sets out to create complexity; it happens over time as legacy environments multiply and mutate into many different variations.

Considering the menagerie of infrastructure found within the average datacenter, it's amazing that the IT team has time for anything beyond keeping configurations, operating systems, and versions up-to-date and secure.

However, there is a way to tame the complexity: by standardizing the operating environment.

Did you know...

According to findings from Aberdeen Group, the average enterprise datacenter runs 4 different server operating systems and 17 different implementations of those systems, along with maintaining 2 different virtualization platforms with 9 different implementations.

Can you trade complexity for innovation?

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  • 1. Introduction
    Introduction
  • 2. Complexity
    Complexity
  • 3. Standardization to the rescue
    Standardization to the rescue
  • 4. Lowered operating costs
    Lowered operating costs
  • 5. Security without compromise
    Security without compromise
  • 6. Agility for today and tomorrow
    Agility for today and tomorrow
  • 7. Your standard operating environment
    Your standard operating environment
  • 8. The Red Hat solution
    The Red Hat solution
  • 9. Next Steps
    Next Steps
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