Red Hat is the world’s leading provider of enterprise open source software solutions and services, using a community-powered approach to deliver reliable and high-performing Linux®, hybrid cloud, container, and Kubernetes technologies. Red Hat helps customers develop cloud-native applications, integrate existing and new IT, and automate, secure, and manage complex environments. Traditional, proprietary software development models cannot match this efficient, rapid, customer-focused model
Doing business with today’s IT vendors
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| Purchase process | Complex purchasing scenarios | Flexible, simple purchasing process |
| Maintenance | Complicated support and maintenance products | Unlimited support, including updates, upgrades, and maintenance |
| Adoption strategy | High cost of entry and exit (lock-in) | Low cost of entry and exit (portablity) |
The CIO’s alternative
| Current technology | Red Hat solutions | Customer success story | |
| Operating system | Microsoft Windows Server, Oracle Linux, Oracle Solaris, IBM AIX, Hewlett Packard Unix (HP-UX), SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, Ubuntu Server | Red Hat® Enterprise Linux | |
| Cloud computing and containers | VMware (Tanzu, PKS (formerly Pivotal Cloud Foundry)), Container Service, Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (EKS), Microsoft Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS), Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Mirantis Docker Enterprise, Mesosphere DC/OS Enterprise | Red Hat OpenShift®, Red Hat CodeReady, Red Hat Runtimes | Orange Sonatel case study |
| Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) | VMware Integrated OpenStack® (VIO), Mirantis OpenStack, Ubuntu OpenStack, Huawei FusionSphere OpenStack | Red Hat OpenStack Platform | Turkcell case study |
| Virtualization | VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V Server, Citrix Hypervisor | Red Hat Virtualization, Red Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure | Intermountain Healthcare case study |
| Storage | NetApp (Solidfire, ONTAP, SANtricity), Dell EMC (Isilon, ScaleIO, Elastic Cloud Storage (ECS)), VMware vSAN, Scality RING, IBM (Cloud Object Storage, Spectrum Scale), Amazon AWS (S3, Elastic Block Store (EBS)), Portworx Enterprise | Red Hat Gluster® Storage, Red Hat Ceph® Storage, Red Hat OpenShift Container Storage | Grupo ASD case study |
| Application server | Oracle (WebLogic Server, GlassFish Server) | Red Hat Runtimes | U.S. Navy case study |
| Application and data integration, enterprise service bus (ESB) | IBM Integration Bus, Oracle (Integration Cloud, SOA Suite), MuleSoft Anypoint Platform, TIBCO (Cloud Integration, BusinessWorks), Software AG webMethods, WSO2 Enterprise Integrator | Red Hat Integration, Red Hat Fuse, Red Hat Fuse Online | UPS case study |
| Business rules management | IBM (Operational Decision Manager, Business Process Manager), FICO Decision Management Suite, ACTICO Platform | Red Hat Decision Manager, Red Hat Process Automation | BP case study |
| Process automation | Appian, Pega Platform, Camunda (BPMN Workflow Engine, DMN Decision Engine) | Red Hat Process Automation | BBVA case study |
| Messaging and Messaging-as-a-Service (MaaS) | IBM MQ, VMware Tanzu RabbitMQ (formerly Pivotal Rabbit MQ), TIBCO (Enterprise Message Service, Cloud Messaging), Solace PubSub+ Platform, Confluent Platform | Red Hat Integration, | Edenor case study |
| System management | HPE OneView, BMC TrueSight Automation for Servers, Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager (formerly Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager) | Red Hat Smart Management, Red Hat Insights, Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes | Metalloinvest case study |
| IT automation | HPE XP7 Automation Director, BMC TrueSight Automation for Servers, Puppet Enterprise, Chef Infra, SaltStack Enterprise, shell scripts | Red Hat Ansible® Automation Platform, Red Hat Process Automation Manager | British Army case study |
| Application programming interface (API) management | Apigee Edge, MuleSoft Anypoint Platform (formerly Anypoint API Manager), TIBCO Cloud Mashery, WSO2 API Manager, Kong Enterprise | Red Hat Integration, Red Hat 3Scale API Management | Shinhan Bank case study |