Industry use case of OpenShift: CISCO
Before moving towards the use case of Openshift let’s overview what is Openshift.
What is Openshift?
OpenShift is a family of containerization software products developed by Red Hat. Its flagship product is the OpenShift Container Platform — an on-premises platform as a service built around Docker containers orchestrated and managed by Kubernetes on a foundation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
In simple words we can say it is an open source container application platform based on the Kubernetes container orchestrator.
Use case Of Openshift in CISCO:
About CISCO:
Cisco is the worldwide leader in IT and networking. It develops, manufactures and sells networking hardware, software, telecommunications equipment and other high-technology services and products.
Cisco Systems, Inc. is an American multinational technology conglomerate headquartered in San Jose, California, in the center of Silicon Valley.
How CISCO get benefitted from RedHat Openshift?
Cisco, a leading provider of networking solutions, must quickly deliver new IT products and solutions. The challenge is to keep its IT team engaged and productive to fuel innovation. With help from Red Hat, Cisco built its Lightweight Application Environment (LAE), which runs on Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) technology formerly known as OpenShift Enterprise by Red Hat. Now provisioning times have gone from months to minutes, and the Cisco IT team can focus on strategic initiatives.
Challenge: Improve productivity and speed to market
Cisco’s success depends on its ability to quickly deliver innovative IT products and solutions to customers. Delays can cost the company business. To encourage speed to market and improve satisfaction, Cisco needed to keep its 1,000+ developers fully engaged in designing and building applications and guard against high employee turnover, low productivity, and slow response times.
Solution: Build a 1-stop shopping catalog
Cisco turned to Red Hat to design and build its LAE, a PaaS deployment that supports hundreds of apps that power a variety of business functions. The solution gives developers a self-service portal they can use to order the IT resources they need to develop apps, eliminating manual provisioning.
Results: Move from months to minutes for faster innovation
Cisco developers used to wait as long as 3 months for projects to be provisioned. But now the developers just to push a button and the service is delivered within a matter of minutes.
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