Intelligent CIO Middle East Issue 35 | Page 28

TRENDING James Labocki, director of Product Management, Red Hat consumes so many resources in the form of people and money. The Red Hat Infrastructure Migration Solution enables customers to reduce the complexity and cost of their current infrastructure so that they can transform their applications, platforms and processes to deliver new services to market faster. between the existing virtual infrastructure and KVM-based virtualisation provided by Red Hat Virtualization or Red Hat OpenStack Platform. How does the ‘discovery session’ phase work? The analysis of previous activities can be complex so how do you develop a study plan of the client's structure? What results have you achieved through internal tests or actual migration cases? What are the improvements achieved regarding management costs, process efficiency and automation? The Red Hat infrastructure Migration Solution has been used successfully by customers to successfully migrate over 100,000 virtual machines. Customers can save up to 50% on their infrastructure costs and these savings can be used to develop new container- based applications. Red Hat’s professional services team has deep experience in migrating customers workloads safely and with availability that meets the needs of the customer. The recently released migration tooling allows for parallel migrations so that thousands of virtual machines can be converted quickly. In many environments, proprietary virtualisation architectures have been developed. In this case, how is it possible to take action using the Red Hat Infrastructure Migration Solution? For example, Red Hat helped successfully migrate Intermountain Healthcare, a large American healthcare provider with more than 35,000 employees. One customer, for example, reported an order of magnitude increase in migration performance when compared to previous migration tests. n The Red Hat Infrastructure Migration Solution provides comprehensive tooling via Red Hat CloudForms, a cloud management platform, which allows customers to discover all of their existing virtual assets within their existing virtual infrastructure without agents. Once discovered, customers can build migration plans through an easy-to-use interface. CloudForms then uses Ansible automation to automate the conversion of thousands of virtual machines concurrently 28 INTELLIGENTCIO The services team’s discovery session is where Red Hat services works closely with the customer and this helps the customer to understand exactly how a migration can be performed taking into account both business and technical requirements. At the end of the discovery session the customer receives documentation that explains how the migration could be performed and the business benefits that would be realised along with how the business benefits would help customers accelerate their Digital Transformation initiatives. “ ORGANISATIONS NEED TO ANALYSE THEIR CURRENT IT INFRASTRUCTURE SPEND. www.intelligentcio.com