FreeBit, KazTransCom and Turkcell adopt Red Hat
solutions to improve agility, flexibility and operational
efficiency
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open
source solutions, today announced that communications leaders from
around the world, including FreeBit, KazTransCom and Turkcell, have
deployed Red Hat OpenStack Platform, a highly scalable
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) solution, as the foundation for
their modern cloud initiatives.
In a world driven by the growth of digital services, new
devices, and massive user numbers, communications leaders around
the world are modernizing their infrastructures to support advanced
cloud services and improve the speed at which new services can be
created. Thanks to its ability to massively scale and capabilities
to meet the needs of real-time applications without requiring
massive increases in physical infrastructure, OpenStack has become
a go-to platform for enterprise and communications industry cloud
deployments. According to the April 2016 OpenStack User Survey, 14
percent of OpenStack users were traditional telcos and another 68
percent were IT companies that include communications as part of
their initiatives and services.
Red Hat, a leader in making open technologies safer, more
secure, and more easily consumable for business-critical use,
provides solutions that serve as the foundation for modern,
flexible and scalable cloud deployments. Red Hat Enterprise Linux,
including the high-performance Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM)
hypervisor, forms a more stable, more secure, more reliable
operating system foundation. Co-engineered with Red Hat Enterprise
Linux and hardened and backed by Red Hat's support life cycle, Red
Hat OpenStack Platform offers a proven foundation for
communications industry deployments, including network functions
virtualization (NFV).
Red Hat has seen increased adoption of OpenStack, highlighted by
several communications leaders selecting Red Hat OpenStack Platform
as the backbone of their advanced cloud deployments:
- FreeBit Co., Ltd., headquartered
in Tokyo, provides infrastructure services to Internet Service
Providers (ISPs). Seeking to modernize an infrastructure built on
aging servers, FreeBit looked to the cloud and OpenStack. They
selected Red Hat OpenStack Platform to improve services,
reliability, and compatibility, and to create a cloud
infrastructure capable of supporting its Internet business. By
standardizing on Red Hat OpenStack Platform and using standard
OpenStack APIs, FreeBit was able to automate 75% of its
infrastructure builds, work that had previously been manually
conducted. To move its work to production with minimal downtime,
FreeBit uses the blue-green deployment approach, running identical
and interchangeable Red Hat OpenStack Platform environments for
test and production. Five of FreeBit’s services and its Internet of
Things (IoT) service development infrastructure now run on Red Hat
OpenStack Platform. FreeBit’s highly maneuverable Red Hat OpenStack
Platform-based infrastructure has helped the company create new
business value, supporting faster innovation by trial and
error.
- KazTransCom is one of the
largest telecommunications operators in Kazakhstan and boasts a
modern network infrastructure that stretches for tens of thousands
of kilometers. To innovate and increase revenue potential, it
wanted to add new cloud services for business customers, including
a public cloud and a highly reliable and scalable NFV platform for
network equipment. Following a thorough competitive review,
KazTransCom chose a solution based on Red Hat OpenStack Platform
and Red Hat Ceph Storage, with Cisco UCS hardware, as the basis of
its new cloud platform. With its Red Hat-based cloud platform,
KazTransCom has found a reliable, easily managed solution that
offers the flexibility and scalability it needs to easily provision
new services, with sufficient spare performance to handle new
client wins and additional customer requirements.
- Turkcell is a converged
telecommunication and technology services provider, founded and
headquartered in Turkey. It serves its customers with voice, data,
TV and value-added consumer and enterprise services on mobile and
fixed networks. Turkcell launched LTE services in its home country
on April 1, 2016, employing LTE-Advanced and three carrier
aggregation technologies in 81 cities. In 2G and 3G, Turkcell’s
population coverage is at 99.80% and 95.14%, respectively, as of
June 2016. It offers up to 1 Gbps fiber internet speed with its
FTTH services. Turkcell Group companies serve 66.5 million
subscribers in nine countries - Turkey, Ukraine, Belarus, Northern
Cyprus, Germany, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Georgia, Moldova - as of
June 30, 2016. Turkcell Group reported a TRY3.4 billion revenue
with total assets of TRY28.6 billion as of June 30, 2016. It has
been listed on the NYSE and the BIST since July 2000, and is the
only NYSE-listed company in Turkey.
For more than a decade, Turkcell has trusted
Red Hat Enterprise Linux as a strategic operating platform for its
infrastructure. In collaboration with Red Hat Consulting, Turkcell
built Turkcell Akıllı Depo (“Lifebox”), a self-service cloud based
storage application that runs on Red Hat OpenStack Platform, built
using OpenStack’s Object Storage (Swift) capabilities. Moving the
app in-house has resulted in savings for Turkcell, and they are now
able to bring new capabilities to market faster. Because of the
success of the project, Turkcell is also developing its BIP
messaging application and other services on Red Hat OpenStack
Platform.
Supporting Quotes
Radhesh Balakrishnan, general manager, OpenStack, Red Hat
“FreeBit, KazTransCom and Turkcell are stellar examples of the
modernization and transformation we are seeing in the
communications industry. They have turned to open source - and to
Red Hat - to help them create more agile, flexible, and scalable
clouds that can meet their needs now and well into the future. The
promise of OpenStack in the communications industry is now becoming
a reality, and Red Hat is proud to work with organizations around
the globe to help them with such transformation and modernization
initiatives.”
Koichi Inokuchi, subdirector, YourNet Service Division,
FreeBit Co., Ltd.
“When selecting an OpenStack distribution, we placed the most
importance on quality. With regard to quality, while operation of
OpenStack itself and compatibility with hardware was also
important, we most considered quality of support from distributors.
In troubleshooting during the assessment period and considering
configuration, we collaborated deeply with Red Hat’s engineers, and
they responded quickly to OpenStack issues with our systems.
Through such opportunities, we appreciated Red Hat’s support,
proposals, and high technological ability. Red Hat has also been
working on translation of its product manuals into Japanese in a
timely manner. Their content played a very important role in our
understanding of OpenStack and specifications of the product. With
this new infrastructure introduced, FreeBit could advance one more
step in making system operation management automatic and more
efficient. OpenStack is a technology which is expected to develop
further. We expect Red Hat to drive its evolution as an industry
leader for OpenStack.”
Maxim Popov, head of R&D, KazTransCom
“Red Hat's leadership in providing robust, enterprise-ready,
open source technology that offered vendor flexibility - as well as
the easy integration of Red Hat software with KazTransCom's Cisco
server hardware - appealed to our technology strategy. With Red Hat
OpenStack Platform and Red Hat Ceph Storage, KazTransCom can easily
scale to provision new services for its business customers - with
spare processing power to handle the demands of new and current
clients.”
Bülent Saltürk, director of Infrastructure Operations,
Turkcell
“We have been using Red Hat Enterprise Linux for more than 10
years and have been satisfied with its robustness and support.
While modernizing our cloud-based storage service, we decided to
use Red Hat OpenStack Platform because it is backed by an
experienced development and support teams. We also used Red Hat
Consulting for the migration and they have been very responsive in
assisting to get our OpenStack deployment up and operating
quickly.”
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