Loading...
Loading

Red Hat Forges An Open Pathway To Digital Transformation For CorpFlex

06:45:20 - 07 May 2019

CorpFlex reduces infrastructure costs, improves performance and transforms process efficiency with Red Hat infrastructure migration solution

BOSTON - RED HAT SUMMIT--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that CorpFlex, a managed service provider in Brazil, successfully used the Red Hat infrastructure migration solution to reduce the complexity of its IT infrastructure and lower costs by 87% through its savings on licensing fees. Delivered as a set of integrated technologies and services, including Red Hat Virtualization and Red Hat CloudForms, the Red Hat infrastructure migration solution has provided CorpFlex with the framework for a complete hybrid cloud solution while helping the business improve its bottom line.

Founded in 1992, CorpFlex is a Brazilian managed services provider that delivers customized IT solutions to its customers, from e-mail services and cloud storage to managed firewalls and software-defined wide-area networks (SD-WAN). The provider specializes in tailoring combinations of services to commercial customers, helping to deliver value to end users that goes beyond technical capabilities.

As a cloud services provider, CorpFlex was looking for new ways to drive value for clients through technology-as-a-service options. To provide more choices, scale and flexibility for its customized offerings, CorpFlex knew that it had to embrace a hybrid cloud strategy, spanning on-premise and cloud-based resources, but faced a roadblock in its costly existing proprietary virtualization infrastructure. With more than 3,000 virtual machines (VMs) supporting customer operations, CorpFlex wanted to lower its operating costs without impacting services and also gain an entry point to broader hybrid cloud capabilities.

CorpFlex considered its options for an alternative virtualization solution and ultimately decided on Red Hat Virtualization. The Red Hat infrastructure migration solution provided CorpFlex with consulting expertise and supported tools to effectively migrate with minimal impact and integrate Red Hat’s open virtualization technology into its operations.

Red Hat Virtualization, built on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and the Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) project, gives CorpFlex the ability to virtualize resources, processes and applications with a stable foundation for a cloud-native and containerized future. Benefits that CorpFlex has seen from migrating to Red Hat Virtualization include:

  • More affordable virtualization: Red Hat Virtualization can offer a lower total cost of ownership year over year when compared to other virtualization solutions while providing an open solution that avoids vendor lock-in. For CorpFlex, Red Hat Virtualization resulted in savings of nearly 87 percent per virtual machine. With this reduction in cost, CorpFlex was able to transfer the budget it previously used for maintenance to innovation.
  • Improved performance: Meeting customer expectations is critical and CorpFlex found that Red Hat Virtualization ran with improved efficiency over its legacy infrastructure. The environment is also better integrated and more automated, resulting in standardized delivery with fewer errors. CorpFlex is able to deliver a higher level of availability, security and management to run customers’ critical systems.
  • Enhanced collaboration: With the long-term goal of moving towards a complete hybrid cloud, CorpFlex was looking for a partner, not just a vendor, for support in its journey in open source technology. Leaning on the expertise of Red Hat Consulting during its migration, the provider is exploring additional opportunities to drive an open source stack and technology culture.
  • Extended automation: Using Red Hat CloudForms, CorpFlex’s IT administrators are able to more easily offer self-service capabilities via a consistent user experience for provisioning, managing, and compliance across VMs and private clouds.

By taking this step, CorpFlex has been able to enhance business growth while maintaining competitive differentiation across its target markets. CorpFlex is also looking to expand its embrace of open source technologies and an open source culture internally.

Press webcast

Red Hat will host a press conference live from Red Hat Summit at 11 a.m. EDT on Wednesday, May 8. Following remarks, press and analysts are invited to participate in a live question and answer session.

To register for the press conference or view the replay after the event, visit https://onlinexperiences.com/Launch/QReg/ShowUUID=45D50AF9-7E2C-4F8C-8606-B85EBDA927AC

Supporting Quotes
Joe Fernandes, vice president, Cloud Platforms Products at Red Hat
"Legacy virtualization infrastructure can serve as a stumbling block to, rather than a catalyst for, IT innovation. From licensing costs to closed vendor ecosystems, these silos can hold organizations back from evolving to better meet customer demand. We’re pleased to have helped CorpFlex adopt Red Hat Virtualization through the Red Hat infrastructure migration solution, providing them a clear entry point to open hybrid cloud infrastructure and a catalyst for implementing a technology culture change."

Diogo Santos, CTO, CorpFlex
“As our customers begin to digitally transform, it’s critical that we are able to support them in these initiatives and not be bogged down by poorly-performing and costly legacy infrastructure. With Red Hat Virtualization, we’ve not only seen cost-saving in terms of licensing per virtual machine but we’ve also been able to enhance our own team’s performance through Red Hat’s extensive expertise and training. We expect Red Hat Virtualization to also help us build the foundation for future solutions, including offering Red Hat OpenShift as-a-service, to meet our evolving customer needs.”

Additional Resources

  • Learn more about Red Hat infrastructure migration solution
  • Learn more about Red Hat Virtualization
  • Learn more about Red Hat CloudForms
  • Read more Red Hat customer success stories
  • Read more about Red Hat’s work with CorpFlex
  • Learn more about Red Hat Summit
  • Follow @RedHatSummit or via the hashtag #RHSummit on Twitter
  • Become a fan of Red Hat Summit on Facebook

Connect with Red Hat

  • Learn more about Red Hat
  • Get more news in the Red Hat newsroom
  • Read the Red Hat blog
  • Follow Red Hat on Twitter
  • Join Red Hat on Facebook
  • Watch Red Hat videos on YouTube
  • Follow Red Hat on LinkedIn

About Red Hat, Inc.

Red Hat is the world’s leading provider of enterprise open source software solutions, using a community-powered approach to deliver reliable and high-performing Linux, hybrid cloud, container, and Kubernetes technologies. Red Hat helps customers integrate new and existing IT applications, develop cloud-native applications, standardize on our industry-leading operating system, and automate, secure, and manage complex environments. Award-winning support, training, and consulting services make Red Hat a trusted adviser to the Fortune 500. As a strategic partner to cloud providers, system integrators, application vendors, customers, and open source communities, Red Hat can help organizations prepare for the digital future.

Forward-Looking Statements

Certain statements contained in this press release may constitute "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements provide current expectations of future events based on certain assumptions and include any statement that does not directly relate to any historical or current fact. Actual results may differ materially from those indicated by such forward-looking statements as a result of various important factors, including: risks related to our pending merger with International Business Machines Corporation, the ability of the Company to compete effectively; the ability to deliver and stimulate demand for new products and technological innovations on a timely basis; delays or reductions in information technology spending; the integration of acquisitions and the ability to market successfully acquired technologies and products; risks related to errors or defects in our offerings and third-party products upon which our offerings depend; risks related to the security of our offerings and other data security vulnerabilities; fluctuations in exchange rates; changes in and a dependence on key personnel; the effects of industry consolidation; uncertainty and adverse results in litigation and related settlements; the inability to adequately protect Company intellectual property and the potential for infringement or breach of license claims of or relating to third party intellectual property; the ability to meet financial and operational challenges encountered in our international operations; and ineffective management of, and control over, the Company's growth and international operations, as well as other factors contained in our most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K (copies of which may be accessed through the Securities and Exchange Commission's website at www.sec.gov), including those found therein under the captions "Risk Factors" and "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations". In addition to these factors, actual future performance, outcomes, and results may differ materially because of more general factors including (without limitation) general industry and market conditions and growth rates, economic and political conditions, governmental and public policy changes and the impact of natural disasters such as earthquakes and floods. The forward-looking statements included in this press release represent the Company's views as of the date of this press release and these views could change. However, while the Company may elect to update these forward-looking statements at some point in the future, the Company specifically disclaims any obligation to do so. These forward-looking statements should not be relied upon as representing the Company's views as of any date subsequent to the date of this press release.

Red Hat, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CloudForms, and OpenShift are trademarks or registered trademarks of Red Hat, Inc. or its subsidiaries in the U.S. and other countries. Linux® is the registered trademark of Linus Torvalds in the U.S. and other countries.

Contacts

Media Contact:
Chelsea Lawrence
Red Hat Inc.
clawrence@redhat.com
+1 252-622-8406

news_buffer

Leave a Comment