New environment enables leading Swiss service provider to deliver
fast, reliable and innovative cloud services across its business and
customer base
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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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