RALEIGH, N.C.--BUSINESS WIRE--Red Hat, Inc. NYSE: RHT, the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, today announced that Growing Opportunity, a micro-finance
organization in India dedicated to helping the working poor escape
poverty, has deployed its mission-critical applications, including its
portfolio management application and mail server, on Red Hat Enterprise
Virtualization and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. With this combination of
Red Hat solutions, Growing Opportunity has reduced the total cost of
ownership of its IT infrastructure by fifty percent and has achieved
expanded performance and scalability for its systems.
“We were impressed by the capabilities of Red Hat Enterprise
Virtualization, such as live migration and system scheduling, and the
solution met our flexibility, scalability, cost, performance and
security needs.”
Growing Opportunity turned to virtualization to help it scale its IT
infrastructure to meet business growth. “In the next year, we want to
reach 150,000 clients and take our employee count to 500,” said Immanuel
Jeyaraj, head of IT at Growing Opportunity. “Previously, our IT
environment was not as stable and scalable as our business needs
demanded, so we decided to revamp the infrastructure using
virtualization.”
The company evaluated several virtualization solutions, including those
from Red Hat, Microsoft and VMware. “We ruled out VMware vSphere and
Microsoft Hyper-V because of the lack of features and flexibility we
were looking for and because we wanted a more affordable solution,” said
Jeyaraj. “We were impressed by the capabilities of Red Hat Enterprise
Virtualization, such as live migration and system scheduling, and the
solution met our flexibility, scalability, cost, performance and
security needs.”
Growing Opportunity additionally selected Red Hat Enterprise Linux as
the combination of the Red Hat virtualization and operating system
solutions would together deliver extended security, performance and
ecosystem benefits for its infrastructure.
“Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization not only improved our operational
efficiency, reduced hardware and power costs by fifty percent,
simplified management and improved server utilization, but it has also
made our business more agile to rapidly respond to changing business
needs and has helped us to build what we believe is the right
infrastructure platform for Growing Opportunity's future,” said Jeyaraj.
To read the full Growing Opportunity case study, visit www.customers.redhat.com.
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