Industry leaders Fastweb, Paddy Power Betfair,
and Produban deploy Red Hat OpenStack Platform to enable cloud
innovation
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open
source solutions, today announced that leading organizations across
Europe, including Fastweb, Paddy Power Betfair, and Produban, have
deployed Red Hat OpenStack Platform as the backbone of their cloud
initiatives.
Research firm IDC noted in early 2015, “As European enterprises
enter the most critical phase in the 3rd Platform era – the
innovation phase, they want new, yet cost-effective technologies to
bring their ideas to fruition. Their desire to avoid vendor
lock-ins, and reduce software licensing fees are steering them to
evaluate OpenStack for building their cloud infrastructures.”1
According to the 2016 Red Hat Global Customer Tech Outlook,
OpenStack proofs-of-concept (POCs) and deployments are expected to
accelerate in 2016, with 39 percent of respondents planning to
implement OpenStack POCs or production deployments this year.
Red Hat is a private and hybrid cloud leader, with open source
solutions spanning the datacenter’s four footprints - from bare
metal and virtualized environments to private and public cloud. Red
Hat is also a staunch supporter and leading provider of OpenStack -
both in contributions to the upstream OpenStack community as well
as delivery of a production-ready OpenStack platform to enterprise
customers. Red Hat OpenStack Platform, a highly scalable,
production-ready Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) solution, has
emerged as the open source cloud platform of choice for a growing
number of global organizations. Co-engineered with Red Hat
Enterprise Linux and hardened and backed by Red Hat's support
lifecycle, Red Hat OpenStack Platform offers a proven, fully open
foundation for cloud deployments.
In Europe, Red Hat has seen strong momentum, highlighted by
several successful production deployments, including:
- Fastweb, a leading Italian
telecommunications company, provides enterprise cloud-based
information and communications technology (ICT) services to Italian
businesses that lack internal resources to independently develop
and support them. As its user uptake grew, Fastweb needed to
improve the automation and self-service capabilities according to
the highly dynamic customer needs. Therefore, in order to meet the
market needs with an agile and flexible approach, Fastweb migrated
to Red Hat OpenStack Platform.
- Paddy Power Betfair, one of the
largest online betting companies, and the largest betting exchange
in the world, built its success by using technology as a strategic
advantage to disrupt the betting industry. Paddy Power Betfair’s i2
program, which aims to create a greenfield private cloud platform
for Paddy Power Betfair using Red Hat OpenStack Platform and
software-defined networking (SDN) in order to support continuous
delivery of Paddy Power Betfair’s applications. With its new
OpenStack-based private cloud, Paddy Power Betfair can deliver a
new network and hosting infrastructure based on IaaS principles,
hosting all development, test and production applications, and the
associated tooling in a single location. Using SDN, Paddy Power
Betfair reports that it has been able to reduce its reliance on
physical networking equipment and simplify network operations,
enabling them to process more transaction volume per second with
less server downtime.
- Produban, Santander bank’s IT
services company, specializes in the continuous design and IT
infrastructure operation. Produban’s global footprint includes 10
datacenters to support all of Grupo Santander’s businesses,
including Banco Santander, S.A., one of Europe’s largest banks and
among the largest banks globally by market value. To support its
global datacenters, Produban built a hybrid cloud infrastructure
based on Red Hat OpenStack Platform, Red Hat Ceph Storage, Red Hat
CloudForms, and software-defined technology from Nuage Networks, a
Red Hat certified partner. Produban also deployed OpenShift
Enterprise, Red Hat’s container application-development platform,
as the default Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) solution to develop and
deploy its enterprise banking applications. The new solution meets
Produban’s requirements for an open hybrid cloud that includes core
infrastructure (IaaS), DevOps (PaaS), and multi-cloud management,
all built on an underlying virtualized network.
Supporting Quotes
Radhesh Balakrishnan, general manager, OpenStack, Red Hat“Red
Hat is making an impact on the global marketplace as a growing
number of companies recognize the benefits of OpenStack. We are
thrilled that so many industry leaders are embracing our vision for
cloud computing across both private and hybrid deployments, and
hope to grow our community of customers experiencing similar
success with OpenStack.”
Mirko Santocono, product manager, Cloud Computing Services,
Fastweb“Fastweb, a leading Italian telecommunications company,
provides enterprise cloud-based ITC services to Italian businesses
that lack internal resources to independently develop and support
them. As its user uptake grew, Fastweb needed to improve the
automation and self-service capabilities according to the highly
dynamic customer needs. Therefore, in order to meet the market
needs with an agile and flexible approach, Fastweb migrated to Red
Hat OpenStack Platform.”
Paul Cutter, CTO, Paddy Power Betfair“The primary factor that
justified our investment in Red Hat was the excellent cultural fit
between our two companies. We rely as a business on a wide range of
Red Hat technologies including Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat
OpenStack Platform, and Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization. The i2
program enabled by OpenStack is a massive part of our business and
impacts millions of active customers on a daily basis."
Juan Antonio de la Fuente Osuna, director, Cloud Engineering,
Digital@Produban“The IaaS deployment enabled by Red Hat OpenStack
Platform provide next generation capabilities to Produban taking us
to the next level as an IT service provider. It is important to
note that arguably the most influential part of the OpenStack
solution came from Red Hat Consulting, which played a significant
role in our architecture designs, and worked with us in
deployments, upgrades and fine tuning, and also provided workshops
when necessary.”
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1 IDC, “OpenStack – Ready for Prime Time in Europe?,” available
at
http://nordic.idc.com/eng/about-idc/press-center/60698-openstack-ready-for-prime-time-in-europe
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