Companies collaborate on new solutions to help
organizations operate in the cloud continuum, adopting open hybrid
cloud technologies to drive innovation and IT modernization at
scale
Red Hat Inc., the world’s leading provider of open source
solutions, and Accenture (NYSE: ACN) have expanded their nearly 12
year strategic partnership to further power open hybrid cloud
innovation for enterprises worldwide. The companies are jointly
investing in the co-development of new solutions to help
organizations more seamlessly navigate a multi- and hybrid cloud
world, define their strategy, and accelerate their pace of
innovation to get to value faster.
With the combination of Accenture Cloud First and Red Hat
OpenShift, organizations are better equipped to embrace the cloud
continuum – a range of capabilities, from public to private to edge
computing, all connected by modern networks and built with a
zero-trust security mindset – to accelerate enterprise reinvention.
A hybrid solution brings the public cloud benefits of innovation,
speed, consumption and scale with private cloud advantages of
regulatory compliance, performance and data gravity.
To further help organizations migrate to hybrid cloud, Red Hat
and Accenture are co-developing new solutions over the next year
with an initial focus on the following four areas:
- Open hybrid cloud application and mainframe
modernization – With the boundaries for public and private
cloud blurring and no one-size-fits-all solution, Accenture and Red
Hat are helping clients develop a holistic cloud strategy that
embraces hybrid to enable greater operational efficiency and drive
innovation based on Red Hat OpenShift.
- Automation – As organizations continue to modernize,
they need consistent, resilient and standardized solutions for
managing their cloud estate. Accenture and Red Hat are developing
solutions that automate and orchestrate workloads across the IT
infrastructure to reduce risk and lower costs of technology
operations. This includes the development of Accenture solutions on
Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform to
deliver stable, automated cloud computing capabilities. As a
result, the companies helped one client achieve a 99% reduction in
downtime for rolling upgrades, a 100% reduction in downtime for
operating system patching, and 50% faster development time through
infrastructure as code.
- Edge Computing – The scale and complexity of data
created by connected devices are continuously pushing the limits of
network and infrastructure capabilities. New solutions under
development by Red Hat and Accenture are focused on analyzing and
processing data where it is generated to improve the customer
experience and reduce latency. With Red Hat OpenShift and Red Hat
Ansible Automation Platform, applications can be deployed and
automated at the edge, reducing dependency on a physical
footprint.
- Sovereign Cloud – Organizations are navigating an
intricate patchwork of technology solutions while aligning with
new, emerging industry standards and compliance requirements in
various countries and sectors. Accenture and Red Hat are jointly
committed to helping clients control the location, access to and
processing of their data in the cloud through open source
technologies and services.
Red Hat and Accenture have worked together to deliver
transformative outcomes for hundreds of organizations across
industries. For example, Finanz Informatik, an innovative IT
partner for the financial sector, worked with Red Hat and Accenture
to implement an ambitious next-level multi-channel architecture for
its core banking applications. Using Red Hat OpenShift and Red Hat
Ansible Automation Platform, with strategic support from Accenture,
Finanz Informatik modernized its IT infrastructure to significantly
improve business agility and more quickly respond to evolving
customer needs.
Unlocking the rich value and capabilities of hybrid cloud
requires deep collaboration across an ecosystem of IT vendors. A
recent IDC white paper sponsored by Red Hat revealed that
organizations can accelerate application migration projects by 47%
and achieve a three-year return on investment of 523% when
implementing Red Hat OpenShift with a Red Hat accredited global
systems integrator such as Accenture1. With this expanded
partnership, Red Hat and Accenture bring together robust partner
ecosystems, equipped with deep technical expertise to support
customers across any cloud and any industry, in order to support
multi-partner engagements and deliver tailored cloud solutions.
Learn more about Red Hat and Accenture’s expanding partnership
at Red Hat Summit 2022.
Supporting Quotes
Stefanie Chiras, senior vice president, Partner Ecosystem
Success, Red Hat “Operating in the hybrid cloud enables customers
to optimize their existing systems with the added layers and
capabilities necessary to support innovation and efficiency at
scale. At Red Hat, we believe that success not only lies in the
technical components we bring to the cloud, but also with the
impactful partnerships that drive successful implementations and
business outcomes. Our long-standing collaboration with Accenture
means that customers have access to the open source solutions they
need and expertise they can trust to navigate the complexities of
open hybrid cloud and grow their business where it needs to be - in
the cloud.”
Raj Wickramasinghe, Hybrid and Emerging Platform lead, Accenture
“Organizations are increasingly turning to hybrid cloud to help
overcome complex challenges around core business functions like
customer service and supply chain, and to drive growth and
innovation. Through our expanded alliance with Red Hat, we can
further help clients embrace the cloud continuum to enable greater
operational efficiency and drive innovation.”
Robert Bersdorf, division head for multi-channel applications,
Finanz Informatik “Our business-critical applications are used
every day by nearly 400 financial institutions, so regulatory
compliance, security and reliability are crucial. Our hybrid cloud
strategy is critical for helping us drive resilience, while
balancing agility with stability and security. By using OpenShift
and Ansible Automation we took a pioneering step forward to embrace
the private cloud to continuously deliver innovation while
delivering a seamless experience and maintaining the performance of
our own technology estate. It was a great experience working with
Accenture and Red Hat on this project and together pushing the
envelope.”
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1 IDC White Paper, Sponsored by Red Hat, "The Business Impact of
Global Systems Integrators on Red Hat OpenShift Implementation",
Doc #US48836122, March 2022.
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