RALEIGH, N.C.--BUSINESS WIRE--Red Hat, Inc. NYSE: RHT, the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, today announced that Etisalat Sri Lanka has adopted Red Hat
Enterprise Virtualization as the foundation for its critical IT
infrastructure that services 2.4 million subscribers across the island
nation's cellular network, inventory management and distribution
services for 30,000 retail outlets. With Red Hat Enterprise
Virtualization, Etisalat Sri Lanka has gained expanded scalability,
operational efficiency and performance for its systems.
“We could not afford any disruption in services while our servers were
being migrated. We needed an elegant, simple and powerful IT
infrastructure that could eliminate multiple levels of cost and support
and dramatically increase efficiency. Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization
was an excellent fit”
Etisalat Sri Lanka previously maintained a heterogeneous IT
infrastructure with solutions from various vendors that each presented
different levels of management complexity for its IT team. As Etisalat
Sri Lanka's business continued to expand, its IT team was faced with the
challenge of procuring new hardware to address growth within short
deadlines. Recurring fees for renewing licenses, rising power costs and
shrinking space to accommodate new hardware was also a challenge.
After evaluating multiple virtualization solutions, Etisalat Sri Lanka
chose Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization and successfully implemented the
solution for its critical datacenter within one month with the help of
Red Hat partner Visual Computing Systems Pvt. Ltd VCS of Informatics
Group of Companies. “With Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, Etisalat
Sri Lanka was able to reduce its previous 40 servers down to just six
servers, while hosting the same extensive amount of data,” said Hemesh
Fernando, senior manager, Marketing, Visual Computing Systems Pvt.
Ltd. VCS of Informatics Group of Companies.
“We could not afford any disruption in services while our servers were
being migrated. We needed an elegant, simple and powerful IT
infrastructure that could eliminate multiple levels of cost and support
and dramatically increase efficiency. Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization
was an excellent fit,” said Chandrakanth Jayasinghe, head of IT Systems,
Etisalat Sri Lanka. “With Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, we have
witnessed a drastic reduction in TCO, enabling our IT team to
concentrate more on our business. We've also seen an increase in
stability, flexibility and scalability.”
The consolidation of servers onto fewer machines resulted in a dramatic
reduction in space, cooling and power needs for the organization. The
Etisalat Sri Lanka IT team was also able to quickly set up
high-availability clusters of applications, improving the reliability of
the datacenter. Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization's ability to manage
Windows virtual machines in addition to Linux, and the seamless
transformation of systems from standalone, aged hardware platforms to
the Red Hat platform, greatly simplified Etisalat Sri Lanka's IT
management tasks.
“Our biggest achievement to date with Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization
has been the ability to address server deployment requirements with
short notice, saving time and money for our business. Deploying Red Hat
Enterprise Virtualization was a smart move. The future of Etisalat Sri
Lanka is now looking bright as we encounter our expanding customer
base,” said Sanath Pilapitiya, Chief Technical Officer, Etisalat Sri
Lanka.
To read the full Etisalat Sri Lanka Pvt Limited case study, visit www.customers.redhat.com.
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About Visual Computing Systems Pvt. Ltd. VCS
Established in 1983, Visual Computing Systems Pvt. Ltd. VCS is a
leading systems integrator supplying innovative systems, quality
software, state-of-the-art hardware and reliable support services to
local and international markets through a combination of direct and
indirect sales channels. VCS is a full subsidiary of one of Sri Lanka’s
pioneering IT giants, Informatics Pvt. Ltd., which has over 25 years
excellence in the IT industry.
About Red Hat, Inc.
Red Hat, the world's leading provider of open source solutions and an
S&P 500 company, is headquartered in Raleigh, NC with over 65 offices
spanning the globe. CIOs ranked Red Hat as one of the top vendors
delivering value in Enterprise Software for six consecutive years in the
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and Services Oriented Architecture SOA solutions, including Red Hat
Enterprise Virtualization and JBoss Enterprise Middleware. Red Hat also
offers support, training and consulting services to its customers
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