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COUNTRY FOCUS: ITALY “ WE SEE RED HAT AS THE ONLY COMPANY THAT CAN SUPPORT US IN THE USE OF THE LATEST TECHNOLOGIES WITH THIS LEVEL OF PERFORMANCE. as its application hosting platform after completing a successful proof of concept (POC). “We are always comfortable with open source technologies. We have a rapidly changing business and sometimes it’s difficult to allocate www.intelligentcio.com budgets. Open source can make it easier to manage project costs,” said Scocco. “We found that OpenShift met all our requirements and would be easy for us to move to because we already had experience with Red Hat Enterprise Linux.” The company expanded its use of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, managed by Red Hat Satellite, as its operating system foundation for OpenShift. In addition, Coopservice decided to standardise new application development on Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP), with Red Hat Data Virtualization providing near real- time data integration. “While we have different kinds of applications running on OpenShift such as PHP, JBoss EAP is always the first choice for new applications,” said Scocco. “We know the quality of Red Hat products. The stability and consistency between updates is key to delivering applications without problems. We see Red Hat as the only company that can support us in the use of the latest technologies with this level of performance.” INTELLIGENTCIO 51