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.