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 | Designed for flexibility and simplicity |
| Maintenance | Complicated products and support | Unlimited, fully inclusive support, updates, upgrades, and maintenance |
| Adoption strategy | High cost of entry and cost of exit (vendor lock-in) | Low cost of entry and cost of exit (portablity) |
The CIO’s alternative
| Red Hat solutions | Customer successes | ||
| 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 | |
| Platform-as-aService (PaaS) and Container-as-aService (CaaS) | Pivotal Cloud Foundry & Container Service (PKS), Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (EKS), Microsoft Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS), Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Docker Enterprise, Mesosphere DC/OS Enterprise | Red Hat OpenShift®, Red Hat CodeReady Studio (formerly Red Hat Developer Studio), Red Hat Runtimes (formerly Red Hat OpenShift Application Runtimes) |
Hilton case study |
| Cloud orchestration | VMware vRealize Suite, IBM Cloud Orchestrator, HPE Cloud Service Automation, RightScale Cloud Management, BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management, Scalr, Cloudify | Red Hat CloudForms® | CorpFlex case study |
| Infrastructure-as-aService (IaaS) |
VMware Integrated OpenStack® (VIO), Mirantis OpenStack, Ubuntu OpenStack, Huawei FusionSphere OpenStack | Red Hat Cloud Infrastructure for Service Providers, Red Hat OpenStack Platform, Red Hat Satellite |
Turkcell case study |
| Virtualization |
VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V Server, Citrix Hypervisor | Red Hat Virtualization, Red Hat Virtualization Suite | 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 | Red Hat Gluster® Storage, Red Hat Ceph® Storage | Université de Lorraine case study |
| Application server | Oracle (WebLogic Server, GlassFish) | Red Hat Runtimes (formerly Formerly Red Hat Application Runtimes) |
U.S. Navy's C2C24 DevSecOps program case study |
| In-memory data grid |
Oracle Coherence, Hazelcast, Software AG Terracotta DB | Red Hat Runtimes | Lufthansa Technik case study |
| Application/data integration, iPaaS, enterprise service bus (ESB) | IBM Integration Bus, Oracle (Integration Cloud Service, 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 | Asahi Tekko 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-aService (MaaS) | IBM MQ, VMware Pivotal RabbitMQ, TIBCO (Enterprise Message Service, Cloud Messaging), Solace PubSub+, Confluent Platform |
Red Hat Integration, |
E*TRADE case study |
| System management | HPE OneView, BMC TrueSight Server Automation, Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager, Puppet Enterprise | Red Hat Satellite, Red Hat Insights |
HCA Healthcare case study |
| IT automation |
HPE XP7 Automation Director, BMC TrueSight Server Automation, Puppet, Chef, SaltStack Enterprise, shell scripts | Red Hat Ansible® Automation Platform, Red Hat Insights |
British Army case study |
| Application programming interface (API) management | Apigee Edge, MuleSoft Anypoint API Manager, TIBCO Cloud Mashery, WSO2 API Manager, Kong Enterprise | Red Hat Integration, Red Hat 3Scale API Management |
Amsterdam Airport Schiphol case study |