RedHat unveils expanded automation for hybrid cloud systems

Red Hat unveiled its expanded mission-critical automation for customers across the hybrid cloud today. The objective is to showcase how global organisations are utilising the Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform to streamline cloud-native operations, establish a comprehensive automation culture, and swiftly address potential daunting challenges.

"We're pleased to have Ansible Automation Platform serve as the linchpin for these technology efforts, providing the mission-critical element of any effective modern IT strategy," said Sathish Balakrishnan, vice president and general manager of Ansible at Red Hat. The platform has been made critical to strategies for managing complex hybrid clouds, from the data centre to multiple public clouds to the edge, as well as scaling AI applications.

Several enterprises have successfully integrated the Ansible Automation Platform into their operations. The City and County of Denver, an example of such an organisation, automated provisioning, scaling tasks, application deployments, and configuration management, supporting a 514% growth in Microsoft Teams' usage to cater for more than 15,000 remote workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. The automation adaptations also allowed for the swift launch of a digital emergency operations centre (EOC), showing its readiness to react promptly to potential disasters.

MAPFRE, a global insurance firm based in Madrid, also reaped significant results in time to market, cost and sustainability enhancements, and enhanced resilience after adopting the Ansible Automation Platform. It is now used as an instrument to minimise issues caused by human error, which accounts for over 50% of incidents.

Navy Federal Credit Union, the world's largest credit union with over $171 billion in assets, used the Ansible Automation Platform as an accelerator for cultural change. Provisioning time to value dropped from 11 days to 1 day, and the platform provided a common format for sharing code, ideas, and workflows despite teams using different programming languages.

TD Bank tasted the fruits of adopting an automation-first mindset at the heart of its platform delivery capabilities by creating a strategic architecture for building up the Ansible environment. It succeeded in automating the standardisation of over 10,000 network devices against new-state standards, thereby improving software deployment, compliance, and configuration management.

In sum, these organisations are demonstrating different use cases of the Ansible Automation Platform to solve today's IT challenges while preparing for future technological needs. These successful implementations are promising indications of how automation platforms can fuel business innovation and operational efficiency.