New environment enables leading Swiss service
provider to deliver fast, reliable and innovative cloud services
across its business and customer base
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open
source solutions, today announced that Swisscom has selected Red
Hat as its technology partner to help the company deliver a modern,
agile, and highly scalable cloud platform. Deploying Red Hat
OpenStack Platform and Red Hat Virtualization as the basis of its
new cloud infrastructure, Swisscom has been able to develop and
deliver new digital products faster and more efficiently.
Swisscom, a leading telecoms provider in Switzerland and one of
its leading IT companies, is headquartered in Ittigen, close to the
Swiss capital city, Bern. Customers such as Swiss Re and Dorma
Kaba, use Swisscom’s cloud services to develop and build their
software.
To help maintain a leading position while supporting a growing
customer base looking to benefit from new and emerging digital
services, Swisscom wanted to expand its cloud offerings. It
required a technology platform that could provide the flexibility
needed to support ongoing innovation and development - across both
its own organization and customer base.
Recognizing that Red Hat OpenStack Platform offers a highly
scalable, open, and production-ready Infrastructure-as-a-Service
(IaaS) solution, the organization chose Red Hat as its preferred
technology partner. Co-engineered with Red Hat Enterprise Linux and
backed by Red Hat's enterprise support lifecycle, Red Hat OpenStack
Platform offers an open foundation for scalable cloud deployments.
Red Hat OpenStack Platform now provides the infrastructure
foundation needed for Swisscom’s Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS).
Offering flexible bandwidth based on workloads, Swisscom is helping
to simplify rapid prototyping and agile development, while offering
a self-service environment to Swisscom’s customers to develop their
own applications.
While an open source environment was a key factor in Swisscom’s
decision, so too was Red Hat’s ecosystem expertise. Swisscom
recognized Red Hat’s contributions to the upstream OpenStack
community, and worked with Red Hat Consulting to gain access to
upstream and downstream expertise, as well as Red Hat’s leadership
in delivering a production-ready OpenStack platform for hundreds of
organizations around the world.
In addition to selecting Red Hat OpenStack Platform to deliver
its cloud platform, Swisscom also uses Red Hat Virtualization. This
solution uses the same KVM-based virtualization technology found in
Red Hat OpenStack Platform, meaning that the same team can manage
the environments and Swisscom can achieve more consistency. With
both Red Hat OpenStack Platform and Red Hat Virtualization,
Swisscom can now more easily scale its clusters up and down
on-demand and fully automate deployments, all while limiting
downtime during production changes. It can also increase platform
density, hosting different customer workloads on the same cluster
and platform.
As a result of the size and flexible cloud computing capacity
offered by Red Hat OpenStack Platform, Swisscom has created new
offerings. One example is MyCloud, a new cloud application that is
designed to offer unlimited storage for residential customers. The
application is developed, hosted and managed on Red Hat OpenStack
Platform.
Supporting Quotes
Marco Hochstrasser, head of Cloud Platform Development,
Swisscom
“Our mission at Swisscom is to give every citizen in Switzerland
a piece of the cloud, and we are one of the first service providers
in Europe to launch a publicly available, commercial cloud offering
at the scale we have. Red Hat OpenStack Platform enables us to take
our cloud strategy one step further, helping us to be flexible in
multiple senses. We can scale up and down our clusters; we can
fully automate our deployments; and we have limited our downtime
when we make changes in production. As a result, we are proud to
say we now have organizations outside of Switzerland using our
solution.”
Stephan Massalt, vice president of Cloud, Swisscom
“Swisscom is committed to guiding our customers into the digital
age. Being a partner for us really means that you’re engaged in the
way we build our solutions, how we offer them to our customers, and
how we develop them in the future. Red Hat is a pivotal partner in
this mission.”
Radhesh Balakrishnan, general manager, OpenStack, Red Hat
“As a consumer of telecoms and IT services I have come to expect
access to innovative applications. As a technologist I can
appreciate the challenges faced by operators such as Swisscom in
terms of bringing those new services to market. It is, therefore,
gratifying to see the flexibility and scalability of the Red Hat
OpenStack Platform and Red Hat Virtualization being used to help
bring innovative new services to market.”
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