Build a strong infrastructure foundation with Red Hat Services

Today’s enterprises are grappling with skyrocketing IT complexity, rising costs, and mounting risks that frequently stall innovation. These challenges often arise from gaps across culture, process, and technology, making it difficult for organizations to maximize their investments. If IT teams do not take a consistent and simplified approach to managing systems scattered across diverse datacenters, clouds, and edge environments, they risk chaos and could end up facing manual toil, resource constraints, and significant security threats. All of that blocks the path toward scalable AI and business agility.

To overcome these hurdles and protect their bottom line, organizations must standardize and automate their operations to create a reliable foundation. Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® provides an open source foundation for modernization—delivering the speed, consistency, and expert-backed reliability needed to tame sprawling hybrid IT infrastructure. While Red Hat Enterprise Linux delivers the unified foundation for hybrid cloud, Red Hat Services provides the expertise organizations need to bridge the gaps in processes that stall progress. Rather than simply providing a finished product, Red Hat Services experts work side by side with IT teams to optimize environments for scalable AI and business agility, with teams simultaneously gaining the skills required to manage, scale, and innovate independently.

Red Hat Services provides a framework for IT leaders to follow through all stages of adoption, from introducing Red Hat Enterprise Linux, to aligning teams on standard practices, to confidently scaling the platform to fit with evolving business objectives. The goal is to help enterprises thrive by transforming their infrastructure into a security-focused and easy-to-manage engine for continuous innovation.

Our experts guide organizations across a series of strategic phases.

Define the strategy: Align current capabilities with future goals

When an organization begins its modernization journey, Red Hat Consulting helps IT leaders define a unified strategy tailored to their specific infrastructure and compliance requirements. Once the current state is documented, Red Hat experts collaborate to identify high-impact Red Hat Enterprise Linux use cases, migration timelines, and governance requirements—and then align them with organizational key performance indicators (KPIs) to point the way toward a clear return on investment.

This initial phase often begins with a 2-week assessment engagement. During this time, Red Hat Consulting collaborates with the customer to develop a detailed blueprint for migrating existing Linux systems to Red Hat Enterprise Linux, along with plans to improve security and compliance. Outcomes from the engagement will include customized modernization strategies for improving operations and boosting scalability. 

Master new capabilities with tailored training recommendations

As businesses accelerate their digital transformation, they must provide continuous learning to their staff. This represents the next modernization phase and gives IT teams the tools they need to confidently master modern infrastructure. Embracing a forward-thinking approach to education sets IT teams up to quickly adopt tools like automation and generative AI, building a resilient and innovative foundation on Red Hat Enterprise Linux that drives long-term business success.

Red Hat Training and Certification offers a strategic pathway for customers to bridge the skills gap by transforming how teams interact with and manage their infrastructure. By following targeted learning paths, IT teams gain the hands-on skills necessary to:

• Standardize platforms. Create a consistent, reliable foundation across hybrid cloud environments.
• Streamline operations. Use Red Hat Enterprise Linux-native automation to reduce manual overhead and human error.
• Accelerate innovation: Deploy and manage modern workloads—from machine learning models to containerized applications—with confidence and speed.
• Integrate security and compliance: Use advanced security tooling like Red Hat Lightspeed and Red Hat Satellite to improve detection speed and coverage.

Red Hat Training and Certification does much more than deliver information about product features. It also allows IT professionals to engage in hands-on, outcome-driven learning that maps directly onto real-world scenarios, so they can feel confident tailoring their environments to their needs. Individuals can then validate their expertise through performance-based certifications, allowing organizations to create a culture of continuous improvement where teams are better prepared to handle complex migrations, security mandates, and the adoption of emerging technologies. 

Deploy, manage, and scale with confidence

An organization may be implementing Red Hat Enterprise Linux for the first time, upgrading, modernizing existing Red Hat Enterprise Linux installs, or establishing a standard operating environment (SOE). In any of these scenarios, Red Hat Consulting will help to fully integrate and operationalize this modern environment as the final stage of the modernization journey. Red Hat experts guide organizations on how to best use the operating system’s (OS) platform and features to enhance efficiency, security, and governance capabilities while lowering costs.

During this execution and scaling phase, IT teams work closely alongside Red Hat Consulting experts to focus on specific use cases and objectives. Red Hat experts mentor IT teams and provide direct-from-the-source technical expertise. They do not just implement solutions—they empower customer teams to understand the platform and use it as a foundation to further organizational goals.

Red Hat Consulting can help tackle the practical steps that will help organizations modernize their infrastructure, including: 

• Standardizing on Red Hat Enterprise Linux
  
  Red Hat consultants introduce and scale the technology, processes, and culture needed to transform an organization from manual management to a security-centered and automated enterprise. Execution and scaling typically focuses on the following areas:
  • Initial implementation and pilot activities as well as understanding how to quickly turn strategy into production. 
  • Learning best practices for making the most efficient use of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux platform within an existing environment. 
  • Modernizing the lifecycle through automated, in-place upgrades and migration pathways that can improve stability over the long term.
  • Introducing an automation-first approach and proven patterns for repeatable execution. 
  • Reducing risk and building internal capability to support rapid scaling.
• Optimizing the infrastructure lifecycle
  
  Red Hat Consulting works alongside IT teams to accelerate the journey from initial deployment to long-term operational excellence. Our experts build and scale an organization’s Red Hat Enterprise Linux environment with the help of tools like: 
  • Red Hat Lightspeed: AI-powered assistance, informed by decades of Linux expertise, to simplify building, deploying, and managing the OS.
  • Identity Management: A centralized solution to manage user identities, enforce security policies, and facilitate access management.
  • Red Hat Satellite: Manage the entire infrastructure from a single, unified console.
  • Image mode for Red Hat Enterprise Linux: Use familiar container technologies to build, deploy, and manage the OS.
• Security and AI readiness
  
  Establish a trusted foundation for next-generation workloads using the enterprise Linux distribution that is leading the way to the post-quantum era. Red Hat Consulting experts understand how to protect data against evolving threats, even during complex deployments. From initial pilot activities to full-scale platform use, Red Hat Consulting works alongside teams to embed essential skills, so organizations can scale their infrastructure and maintain security standards long after the engagement concludes.

Organizations naturally want to maximize their investment in Red Hat technologies. Red Hat gives customers access to deep product expertise and proven best practices and, through a tailored combination of services, helps organizations learn how to implement and scale Red Hat Enterprise Linux and other Red Hat products effectively and efficiently. Collaboration with Red Hat reduces time to value through expert guidance and a wealth of practical, real-world experience.

Red Hat Consulting brings organizations unparalleled expertise and provides the information and skills needed to adopt Red Hat solutions safely and efficiently. Red Hat experts mentor and collaborate with teams to make the most of each IT investment.

Red Hat Training and Certification offers role-based courses and hands-on exams that develop and validate the real-world skills needed to adopt new technologies and support transformation goals. Through Red Hat Enterprise Linux-specific learning paths and courses, Red Hat Training can help teams successfully standardize platforms, streamline development, and accelerate innovation.

Red Hat Technical Account Management (TAM) serves as a single point of contact for organizations, providing personalized guidance to preemptively resolve issues and minimize disruptions, allowing IT teams to pivot their focus toward core business innovation. 

By combining the world’s leading enterprise Linux platform with Red Hat Services’ expertise, you can empower your team to own the technology that moves your business forward.

Connect with us to begin your organization’s infrastructure transformation.