In a fast paced digital world, speed and quality is everything. Solutions which can help businesses with their digital transformations are worth their weight in gold.
Red Hat’s OpenShift’s collaboration with Microsoft combines the flexibility of the OpenShift platform with the power and scalability of Azure. It’s helping businesses of all kinds step up to challenges of growth, innovation and evolving beyond legacy systems. Here are three examples of how Azure Red Hat OpenShift has helped businesses in the real world.
Grupo Logístico Andreani Powers Growth
In Argentina, Grupo Logistico, a leading logistics company, used Azure Red Hat OpenShift to respond to a significant increase in customer demand. Grupo Logístico Andreani has been going for more than 75 years and has operations in Brazil and Uruguay working across various sectors including ecommerce, telecommunications and technology.
The pandemic created rapid growth in the ecommerce sector which accelerated the company’s growth plans. Before they knew it they were hitting targets in 2020 which they hadn’t expected to see until 2023.
As welcome as this was, it also placed a great burden on the company. They needed something which could handle their increased loads and turned to Microsoft and OpenShift. The company was already an Azure customer and contacted the Red Hat and Microsoft teams for an agile solution to help them manage the additional workflows.
After taking stock of their situation, they decided that Red Hat OpenShift on Azure was the best way forward. It provided smooth implementation, capex savings and a fully customizable solution which could be fitted around the company.
With this in place they have been able to make changes to the delivery methods, assign shifts in branches to adjust attendance methods at pre-set times and provide tools for clients to self-report their health status.
The new solution has helped them overcome a challenging year, accelerate their growth and leave them well positioned for the future.
Continuous improvement with Lufthansa Technik
One of the world’s leading providers of airline maintenance, repair and overhaul solutions, Lufthansa Technik created a digital platform to support products for its end users in developments and operations.
Their solution Aviator supports the DevOps teams to continually improve, deploy and run new infrastructure components. Red Hat’s Container storage provides scalable solutions to enable the platform to run with as much or as little storage as it requires at any one time.
It has enabled Lufthansa to think differently about digital technology embracing solutions such as automation, storage and self-provisioning. The agile hybrid cloud environment delivered by OpenShift on Azure gives it the capacity to embrace the latest solutions across its operations.
VINCI Energies Gain Additional Data Insights
For Netherlands based VINCI Energies, data integration has always been key to allowing its network to share information freely. However, as it grew, its existing enterprise service bus system came under strain.
They needed a solution which offered the ability to grow, OpenShift on Azure offered the perfect combination of the flexibility offered by a container platform with the scalability provided by the cloud.
VINCI uses a multi-local business model which focuses on connections and data to fast track new technologies to provide the best value for its customers. For this, it required a flexible, agile and scalable model capable of growing with its needs.
“It’s a big advantage of moving to a platform as a service,” Jan Govert Kemps, IT Director at VINCI Energies. “Now it’s much less effort to manage multiple software layers and suppliers in our cloud environment, which means we can spend more time on our business objectives instead of IT and focus on improving other services.”
With OpenShift on Azure in place they have a powerful container platform which has provided a clearer view of operational data coming into the system giving managers a better idea of business processes. It streamlines important processes such as invoicing and integrating new business datasets.
Conclusion
Stone Door Group has spent countless hours helping customers execute on their digital transformation initiatives. Our team of expert consultants have helped enterprises of all kinds modernize their legacy systems, bringing them up to date with the latest technology, saving them both time and money, and making them more efficient and agile.
To speak with one of our experts about leveraging Red Hat Openshift on Azure in your digital transformation efforts, drop us a line at letsdothis@stonedoorgroup.com or check out our Azure Red Hat OpenShift Accelerator solution. This solution combines everything needed in one package to help customers to rapidly transform and modernize legacy applications on Microsoft Azure Cloud Platform.
About the Author
Mike McDonough is a Senior Red Hat Architect with Stone Door Group and is responsible for designing and blueprinting OpenShift and Ansible architectures for Fortune 500 customers spanning a broad array of Red Hat technologies. With a 25+ year career in enterprise IT, Mike has deep experience in cloud architecture, automation, performance tuning and information security.