Purple Hat embraces hybrid cloud for inner IT

Step 1: Lowering knowledge heart sprawl

Palermo and staff started challenge Open Hybrid Cloud roughly 18 months in the past. They not too long ago completed the primary part, which concerned shutting down 4 knowledge facilities in North America and consolidating the corporate’s inner purposes in a single knowledge heart on premises in Raleigh.

A number of advantages got here with that consolidation. Purple Hat, as an example, was in a position to retire 150 legacy purposes — about 10% to fifteen% of its whole portfolio of purposes — thus vastly lowering the corporate’s technical debt, Palermo says.

Value saving was one other main profit. The corporate minimize down the variety of server racks it maintains from about 150 throughout a number of knowledge facilities to between 30 and 35 racks within the single knowledge heart.

“As a result of we had been in a position to implement a wholly new workload structure, we had been in a position to cut back our infrastructure footprint considerably,” Palermo says. “It’s a large, large alternative to scale back your whole price of possession. “

Step 2: Going hybrid

For the challenge’s second part, Purple Hat has employed its money cow product, OpenShift, to summary, containerize, and migrate a lot of its business-critical workloads to the AWS cloud, the place roughly 75% of Purple Hat’s inner purposes now run, together with Oracle ERP, Salesforce, and Workday, Palermo says.

However as a result of Open Hybrid Cloud finds its basis in OpenShift, Purple Hat can bundle up and transfer any of these workloads to any public cloud, the CIO provides.