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Emirates Group Standardizes On Red Hat's Solution Portfolio To Simplify And Reduce Costs |
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The Emirates Group IT, operating under the brand name Mercator; is a global provider of business technology solutions, delivering business transformation, process improvement and return on investment to more than 100 customers in over five continents, today announced that after a three month pilot program, it has standardized its IT operations on a combination of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JBoss Enterprise Middleware.
Patrick Naef, Divisional Senior Vice President, Emirates Group IT and
head of Mercator said: “Emirates Group IT / Mercator has an ongoing
programme to rationalise, standardise and simplify the current
technology landscape, including reviewing standards for Java servers to
help reduce the total cost of the group’s operations. This included
investigating open source opportunities which the development community
was already exploring and retrofitting their applications to work on
the standard web server platform.”
The Emirates Group IT/Mercator supports a global enterprise of
approximately 40,000 employees as well as more than 100 customers
outside of the Emirates Group under the brand name Mercator.
Consequently it has a complex IT infrastructure made up of a variety of
software and hardware technologies.
In an effort to simplfy its datacenter and reduce the total cost of
operations for web server technologies, the Emirates Group migrated
approximately 80% of its comparable servers to Red Hat Enterprise Linux
and JBoss Enterprise Middleware. Red Hat's middleware solution
portfolio offers a certified and supported platform for other open
source technologies, a critical factor for the Emirates Group when
deciding to standardise on open source technologies.
“Migrating to a new standard can be highly complex in an organisation
the size of the Emirates Group/Mercator,” said Naef. “Change management
and confidence in vendor support are critical factors to successfully
adopt a new standard- this is why we chose Red Hat.”
The Emirates Group IT / Mercator strategy to migrate to JBoss was to
first divert new applications for deployment on this platform. This
allowed Emirates Group IT to quickly build capability, before
applications were promoted to the production environment. The migration
occurred seamlessly with Red Hat providing training and support to the
Emirates Group IT department to ensure a more gradual adoption process.
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