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More Than 1,000 Enterprises Across the Globe Adopt Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform to Power Business Applications

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Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source
solutions, today announced that more than 1,000 customers are using Red
Hat OpenShift Container Platform, solidifying Red Hat as a hybrid cloud
and enterprise Kubernetes leader. This milestone comes as Red
Hat announces the availability of Red Hat OpenShift 4, the next
generation of its trusted enterprise
Kubernetes platform, to deliver cloud-like simplicity with
full-stack automated operations across the hybrid cloud.

451 Research estimates the application container software market should
grow to more than $5.5 billion by 2023 with a compound annual growth
rate of 28%.1 As this technology space expands, a growing
number of businesses have trusted Red Hat to support digital
transformation efforts powered by containers and Kubernetes. In the past
year, Red Hat OpenShift customers have nearly doubled.

Red Hat OpenShift customers represent companies embracing containers and
Kubernetes for their hybrid infrastructures. Red Hat OpenShift is
powering customers across the world and across industries. Industries
such as automotive, financial services, hospitality, insurance,
logistics, retail, travel, telecommunications, government agencies and
more rely on OpenShift as their Kubernetes platform. Customers like ANZ
Bank, Banco Santander, Cathay
Pacific, Copel Telecom, GE,
Lufthansa Technik, Macquarie Bank, Miles
and More GmbH, Paychex, Porsche Informatik, Sabre,
Swisscom AG, Via Varejo, and X by Orange are among those embracing Red
Hat OpenShift, including this
year’s Red Hat Innovation Awards winners BP, Deutsche Bank, Emirates
NBD, HCA Healthcare and Kohl’s.

Nearly 50% of the top Fortune 100 companies are using Red Hat OpenShift2.
Almost 30% of the top Fortune Global 500 companies use OpenShift,
representing:

  • 2 of the top 3 energy companies
  • 2 of the top 3 hotel companies
  • 2 of the top 3 telecommunications companies
  • 3 of the top 5 aerospace companies
  • 4 of the top 5 industrial companies
  • 3 of the top 10 finance companies
  • 4 of the top 10 retail companies
  • 5 of the top 10 healthcare companies
  • 5 of the top 10 transportation companies

Digital transformation powered by enterprise Kubernetes across the
hybrid cloud

As more companies transform their businesses with new value-creating
applications, Linux containers and Kubernetes have been core
technologies in the multi-billion dollar market for cloud-native
application platforms. Red Hat OpenShift has emerged as a leading
open hybrid
cloud platform to bring together these technologies, which enable
and accelerate both enterprise developers and IT operations teams.

Some recent examples of how leading enterprises are benefitting from
enterprise Kubernetes from Red Hat include:

  • Lufthansa
    Technik    : Lufthansa Technik, one of the world’s leading
    providers of maintenance, repair, and overhaul services for commercial
    airlines, created a digital platform to support digital products for
    its end users in development and operations—helping them better
    predict events and, as a result, save time and money. The solution
    AVIATAR includes Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, running on
    Microsoft Azure, to support the team’s DevOps and continuous
    improvement approaches, as well as to build, deploy, run, and
    integrate new infrastructure components. Red Hat OpenShift Container
    Storage provides scalable storage for the platform and Red Hat JBoss
    Enterprise Application Platform (JBoss EAP) provides a back-end for
    Lufthansa Technik’s AVIATAR Java applications.
  • Macquarie
    Bank    : To transform its digital banking infrastructure,
    Macquarie moved to a cloud-based solution using Red Hat
    OpenShift Container Platform. The company is using OpenShift to
    iteratively modernize legacy applications and deploy microservices in
    containers to streamline and automate their lifecycles.
  • Porsche
    Informatik GmbH    : The automobile industry is undergoing
    one of the biggest transformations in its 100-plus year history. As a
    service provider, Porsche Informatik’s answer to the digital
    transformation of a worldwide automotive trade network is agility by
    design. It is using Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform and Red Hat
    OpenShift Container Storage to orchestrate the end-customer
    applications and support a portable development process. With
    OpenShift, new applications that once took over a week are up and
    running after just a few hours. With help from its Red Hat-based
    solution, the team’s goal is to reduce time-to-market by 90% – from
    weeks to days.
  • X
    by Orange    : X By Orange, a subsidiary of Orange Spain
    focused on business-to-business (B2B) digital services, selected Red
    Hat as a core technology partner to help create its software-defined
    strategy. Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform helps it more quickly
    create and release new services and give it a “provider agnostic”
    Kubernetes platform on top of multicloud infrastructure.

Red Hat OpenShift is a leading enterprise Kubernetes platform, with
automated operations to manage hybrid cloud and multicloud deployments,
optimized for developer productivity and frictionless innovation. Red
Hat OpenShift runs on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, the most deployed
commercial Linux operating system in the public cloud. More than 90% of
Fortune 500 companies trust Red Hat.3

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Supporting Quotes

Ashesh Badani, senior vice president, Cloud Platforms, Red Hat
“Red
Hat has been leading the industry with enterprise-ready Kubernetes and
Open Hybrid Cloud, making innovation accessible to global enterprises.
Our investments in Kubernetes engineering and community leadership offer
our customers confidence to unleash new application capabilities and
digitally transform their business. With more than 1,000 customers
embracing Red Hat OpenShift in only a few years, we see this as the
first milestone in a much bigger transformation happening across every
industry. We are optimistic about the future.”

Jay Lyman, principal analyst, Cloud Native and DevOps, 451 Research
“Red
Hat was among the first vendors to focus on enterprise use of containers
and Kubernetes. Its OpenShift software, which continues to be a top
Kubernetes product in the market, simplifies central administration of
Kubernetes clusters, environments and users and automates the
installation and update process. Red Hat’s approach to enterprise
Kubernetes is well-aligned with enterprise requirements, making Red Hat
OpenShift Container Platform, with more than 1,000 customers, a leader
in the enterprise Kubernetes market.”

Nilceu Romero Silva, CIO, Copel Telecom
“Red Hat OpenShift
gives us a flexible, automated Kubernetes platform to accelerate the
delivery of applications. It facilitates the tracking of resources used
and the costs related to each department. With Red Hat, we built a
development and production environments that can handle even the most
critical application, with higher availability and lower operational
costs. Now, we currently plan to migrate 100% of our applications and
have all new applications developed on Red Hat OpenShift.”

Dave Wilson, senior director of infrastructure and architecture,
Paychex
“Open source technology gives us the ability to deliver
what our internal and external customers need in a way that
differentiates us from our competitors. Our development teams using Red
Hat OpenShift have, on average, three or four times more product
deployments, equating to more features launching to our end users
faster.”

Cristiano Dianese, manager, IT, Via Varejo
“We manage two
major Brazilian retailers, Casas Bahia and Pontofrio, with almost 1,000
stores and 50,000 employees. With this widely scaled business, Red Hat
OpenShift helps us to drive scalability, resilience, visibility and
agility.”

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1 451 Research Market
Monitor, February 2019
2 Red Hat client data and top
Fortune Global 100 list, March 2019
3Red
Hat client data and Fortune 500 list, June 2018