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Choose an infrastructure platform that lets you optimize your SAP environment and operations while preparing you for the future. Through trusted technologies, investment protection, and flexible innovation, Red Hat can help you modernize your SAP systems and build a foundation for digital transformation.

Open source software (OSS) has long held the allure of being available for free use in the form of community-supported projects, in addition to being available in commercially packaged and supported versions that are targeted at business users. That allure of free software has carried with it the belief that by avoiding subscription fees, customers can save money in the long term. Numerous IDC Business Value research studies have found that higher operational costs associated with self-supporting community-based infrastructure software far outstrips the cost of commercial subscription support, when that software is used in a mission-important or mission-critical capacity.

Studies show that IT spends 71% of its budget on maintenance. The process of IT optimization helps you incrementally reclaim that budget. With an optimized IT foundation that supports automation and scales as you grow, you can implement what you want, when you want, without complex processes. By optimizing IT, you can focus your staff and budget on the projects that deliver deeper value to your customers.

Learn how in this Red Hat e-book.

This IDC Study takes a look at such a comparison of several Red Hat products including Red Hat Enterprise Linux (including Red Hat Satellite and Red Hat Insights); Red Hat OpenStack, Red Hat OpenShift, and Red Hat Ansible, with community-based alternatives. The cost of deploying, managing and life-cycling these products, both individually and collectively, was considered in comparison to community-based alternatives. In addition, the impact of user productivity — the impact of time to deploy, cost of outages, and related metrics — was considered for these two sets of technologies.

In today’s digital businesses, IT organizations are expected to deliver more services at a faster pace than ever before.

However, the IT infrastructures of most companies encompass a variety of operating system vendors and versions, server hardware configurations, and management tools, resulting in a complex maze of resources that requires a large, highly skilled IT staff. Interoperability issues, complicated administration, and convoluted processes can delay provisioning, increase downtime, and create security and compliance risks, all greatly hindering flexible and efficient operations.

In a digital world, your IT environment is a critical business asset. Customers expect high-quality services and innovation and can be quick to move to another vendor if your organization cannot meet their needs. As a result, you must manage your IT environment to be as efficient, reliable, and secure as possible. To achieve this, you need a trusted operating system with easy-to-use management, visibility, and remediation tools.

Out of $188 trillion of worldwide business revenue in 2019,$10 trillion is touched by Red Hat Enterprise Linux. About 900,000 people are employed by Red Hat and its ecosystem,powering 1.7 million IT professionals who work on Red Hat-enabled systems for a total of 2.6 million in Red Hat–related positions in 2019.

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IDC’s Business Value research found that Red Hat solutions are far more cost-effective than unpaid infrastructure alternatives. Numerous IDC studies found that subscription-based infrastructure software from Red Hat offers a 3-year return on investment (ROI) of 368% and 32% lower infrastructure costs. Download this executive summary to learn more.

IDC’s Business Value research shows that subscription-based, supported Red Hat solutions have serious cost advantages over free, non supported open source infrastructure software. Commercial support for Red Hat products—such as Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Ansible Automation, Red Hat OpenStack Platform—supply rapid value and reduce the burden of self-support that’s necessary to maintain free, open source software solutions. Download this infographic to see the highlights of IDC’s research.

An introduction to the Forrester analyst report: How to Capture the Benefits of Microservice Design

There has always been a relationship between an application and the platform and services which run it. For a long time, that relationship was very tight and encompassed a lot of areas related to the application design, from the language the application could be written in to administrative behaviors like monitoring and logging, even things like transaction management, frontend UI development, or integration methods.

The cloud-native approach describes a way of modernizing existing applications and building new applications based on cloud principles, using services and adopting processes optimized for the agility and automation of cloud computing. This e-book describes detailed steps as a part of a successful journey from where you are today to adopting a cloud-native application approach.

Everything changes. We are in a period of significant shifts in companies — even entire industries — demonstrated in rankings, like the Fortune Global 500. For the last century, these periods of volatility have been driven by a combination of technological change and capital expansion. There is obvious competition between direct, traditional market segments, but digital disruption also opens up the ability to compete and gain revenue in new areas. For example, a movie streaming service like Netflix also launches a community around the software it created to run its services, or an online retailer like Amazon also innovates with public cloud management. Innovation requires more than a slick customer user interface (UI). There has to be a foundation of technology, processes, and culture that allow an organization to be flexible, to build on its existing knowledge, and to incorporate new ideas.

When any organization starts planning for cloud-native applications, it is important to consider the entire time span: from selecting a development platform until an application is truly production-grade and ready for delivery in the cloud. It can be a long journey, with many decisions along the way that can help or hinder progress.

An introduction to the Forrester analyst report: How to Capture the Benefits of Microservice Design

There has always been a relationship between an application and the platform and services which run it. For a long time, that relationship was very tight and encompassed a lot of areas related to the application design, from the language the application could be written in to administrative behaviors like monitoring and logging, even things like transaction management, frontend UI development, or integration methods.