Red Hat Consulting: Comprehensive Enterprise Linux Assessment

As organizations face the continuous demands of managing their IT landscapes, many are also challenged with modernizing their older, existing systems. The rising costs associated with maintaining these systems can also be a burden. Red Hat® Consulting offers an experience-driven framework to help IT leaders plan and execute a strategic migration of legacy Linux® systems to Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Red Hat Consulting: Comprehensive Enterprise Linux Assessment is a 2-week engagement that provides a comprehensive roadmap and structured timeline for transitioning an organization’s existing systems to a fully supported and security-focused, high-performance platform.

Red Hat Consulting experts will work alongside IT leaders to assess the organization’s business drivers, current state, and desired path forward. This comprehensive assessment forms the foundation for a high-level solution design, a roadmap to production, and a customized journey tailored to the specific requirements of the organization. Together with the organization’s IT team, Red Hat experts will help create an effective plan and detailed analysis, ensuring any enterprise systems—whether on-premise, in a cloud, or in a hybrid environment—are migrated to Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

By the end of the assessment, IT leaders can be confident they understand the tools and methods required to execute a migration or upgrade critical workloads. Completing the assessment provides the organization with a detailed blueprint on how to migrate to a reliable and scalable platform optimized to work in any environment.

Running an unsupported or outdated Linux distribution can expose an organization to security vulnerabilities, increased operational costs, and a lack of access to the latest innovations. Red Hat Enterprise Linux offers a lower total cost of ownership (TCO) over time compared to unpaid, unsupported Linux distributions. It simplifies conversion, maintenance, and overall management for IT teams while providing full lifecycle support, a large partner ecosystem, and built-in security features.

Organizations migrating to Red Hat Enterprise Linux will benefit from comprehensive support, integrated tools, and best practices designed to optimize performance and ensure long-term success.

The Red Hat Consulting: Comprehensive Enterprise Linux Assessment focuses on 3 core areas:

Strategy. This focuses on reviewing and tailoring system requirements and addressing standard operating environment (SOE) needs.

• Consultants will examine the business objectives behind the migration and modernization of the organization’s existing Linux systems.
• Consultants will identify clear timelines and ensure key stakeholders are involved. 

Workloads and applications. The assessment process helps teams map operating system (OS) dependencies for the applications running on their current platforms, regardless of the Linux distribution being used.

• Through dedicated workshops with application and platform teams, consultants will gain comprehensive insights into existing workloads, dependencies, team structures, and operational processes. 

Platform and infrastructure. Consultants will consider integrations such as monitoring, backup, metrics, repositories, authentication, logging, and other IT service management (ITSM) processes.

• The consulting team understands the details of OS-integrated platforms, including their architectures, cloud interfaces, service level agreements (SLAs), and customizations.

At the conclusion of the assessment, organizational leaders will understand the essential tools and methods necessary to confidently plan and execute the in-place upgrades of hybrid cloud systems.

Red Hat Consulting brings organizations unparalleled expertise and provides the information and skills they need to adopt Red Hat solutions safely and efficiently. Using a mentor-based approach, Red Hat experts collaborate with teams to speed up migration success and help make the most of each IT investment.

Red Hat Training and Certification develops role-based, hands-on knowledge in emerging and foundational open source technologies. With a comprehensive curriculum, organizations can build the skills required for long-term success with their infrastructure investments.

Red Hat Technical Account Managers (TAMs) offer personalized support and work alongside customers to resolve potential problems and minimize disruptions, so IT teams can focus on key business challenges. 

Connect with Red Hat Consulting to discuss whether a Comprehensive Enterprise Linux Assessment is right for your organization.