Red Hat profiles Red Hat Innovation Award winners in the region
Organisations in the Asia Pacific region require solutions that are flexible, scalable and cloud-native. For many of them, the choice has been open-source-based. They include the following companies, which were recognised at the recent Red Hat Innovation Awards for their creative use of open source technologies.
Vodafone Idea (VIL)
VIL is a major Indian telecom operator. Its pan-India telecom operations cover more than 1 billion people and reach more than 700 districts in India, providing connectivity to more than 300 million mobile customers and leading enterprise clients. It led one of the world's largest telco network integration efforts bringing together two large Indian networks, spanning 180,000 radio towers, network deduplication network at 90,000 sites and almost doubled the population under coverage for the two brands.
Now, VIL has been cited as the fastest 4G network across large parts of India. To expand its digital services and accommodate growth, VIL established a Universal Network Cloud to improve DevOps and connectivity points.
With the largest distributed cloud deployment in the country, VIL will be rapidly transforming its 100+ data centres across this 'universal cloud,' where a shared software platform will run multiple workloads such as network, IT and third party applications across its distributed cloud locations. Red Hat OpenStack Platform enables VIL to design efficient pods, which can be geographically distributed and taken closer to the end-users, helping to reduce latency and enable an optimal user experience.
With Red Hat’s open APIs, VIL is able to deliver actionable insights to its enterprise users, and help them potentially create a competitive advantage. APIs or application programming interfaces connect different software together, so that seamless solutions can be created.
In collaboration with Red Hat, VIL plans to set up a DevOps team, to drive more consistent innovation and to help co-create new solutions and extend the platform to startups and developers. In addition, VIL will further deploy the Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform to automate workflows, and extend self-provisioning to VIL enterprise customers. VIL plans to work closely with the Red Hat Global Services team to build new capabilities and execute these initiatives.
VIL achieved 85% cost reduction, and shorter deployment times from months to weeks to days, managing widely-distributed locations running massive commercial traffic (more than 80 VIL Universal Cloud locations, serving more than 30 million VOLTE subscribers and data traffic upwards of 5 terabits per second).
VIL’s next priority is to rapidly expand this ‘network-as-a-platform’, enable a hybrid environment, help third-party applications run distributed workloads and self-orchestrate network slices using standard APIs.
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)
TCS is an IT services, consulting, and business solutions organisation that has partnered with many of the world’s largest businesses in their transformation journeys. In line with TCS’ Enterprise Agile 2020 vision, its IT group worked to create a resilient and adaptable infrastructure to support the company’s transformation. TCS IT worked with Red Hat to upgrade its legacy infrastructure with an open source technology platform. This Infrastructure Reimagination project helped TCS significantly accelerate the concept-to-release cycle and improve total cost of ownership (TCO).
TCS embarked on its journey toward Enterprise Agile 2020 by enhancing business agility to support growth and continuously changing requirements. TCS needed to migrate from legacy systems to an open, scalable, and resilient IT infrastructure with more compute capacity, lower cost of ownership, and no vendor lock-in. TCS partnered with Red Hat to help build an open source platform that allows collaboration with other vendors and solutions.
The entire Infrastructure Reimagination project was delivered through a scaled agile framework to collaborate better and deliver faster. Multiple migration methodologies were deployed to support scale and complexity. In addition, TCS enhanced its technology platform, modernising legacy infrastructure with Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform to enable the cloud-native architecture. TCS also adopted a digital core architecture to power its application.
With TCS’ new solution, its concept-to-release cycle has been slashed from days to hours—allowing the company to quickly meet dynamic customer demands. And without vendor lock-in, TCS has decreased its TCO while significantly increasing compute power. It also reduced its infrastructure footprint and power consumption. With this solution, TCS increased productivity and performance while decreasing complexity.
Alliance Bank
Alliance Bank Malaysia and its subsidiaries, Alliance Investment Bank and Alliance Islamic Bank, are an integrated financial services group offering banking and financial solutions through its consumer banking, small- and medium-sized enterprise (SME) banking, corporate and commercial banking, Islamic banking, investment banking, and stockbroking businesses. In partnership with Red Hat, Alliance Bank built an open architecture container platform using agile methodology, which simplified banking services, increased security, and standardised processes.
The Alliance Way is about being empathetic to customers’ needs and delivering what they need—innovative, digital solutions that are fast, simple, and responsive. The bank’s branch-in-a-tablet solution is one such innovation. It lets individuals open a savings account and activate their debit card, internet, and mobile banking in as little as 15 minutes using a tablet. Similarly, enterprise clients can open a business account digitally in a day, in one visit. This programme is part of the bank’s overall strategy to use technology to streamline operations for greater efficiency.
Working with Red Hat Consulting, Alliance Bank used a microservices-based architecture to create a single large project, instead of multiple individual projects, on a dedicated set of hardware. To support its agile strategy, Alliance Bank chose an open container platform to allow collaboration across teams. The platform allowed the bank to put all branch products and services on a tablet for its staff to use with customers.
Alliance Bank has since developed a culture of agile collaboration and rapid innovation, scaling its digital innovations quickly to meet the needs of its customers. The branch-in-tablet project reduced account opening time by 70% and increased the availability of staff to customers by 75%. Project delivery took two to six months with agile practices instead of the six to 18 months it took with the previous waterfall method. By removing redundant processes that require physical space, Alliance Bank has also improved the customer experience with new community spaces in their branches while also reducing operating costs.
Vodafone Idea (VIL)
VIL is a major Indian telecom operator. Its pan-India telecom operations cover more than 1 billion people and reach more than 700 districts in India, providing connectivity to more than 300 million mobile customers and leading enterprise clients. It led one of the world's largest telco network integration efforts bringing together two large Indian networks, spanning 180,000 radio towers, network deduplication network at 90,000 sites and almost doubled the population under coverage for the two brands.
Now, VIL has been cited as the fastest 4G network across large parts of India. To expand its digital services and accommodate growth, VIL established a Universal Network Cloud to improve DevOps and connectivity points.
With the largest distributed cloud deployment in the country, VIL will be rapidly transforming its 100+ data centres across this 'universal cloud,' where a shared software platform will run multiple workloads such as network, IT and third party applications across its distributed cloud locations. Red Hat OpenStack Platform enables VIL to design efficient pods, which can be geographically distributed and taken closer to the end-users, helping to reduce latency and enable an optimal user experience.
With Red Hat’s open APIs, VIL is able to deliver actionable insights to its enterprise users, and help them potentially create a competitive advantage. APIs or application programming interfaces connect different software together, so that seamless solutions can be created.
In collaboration with Red Hat, VIL plans to set up a DevOps team, to drive more consistent innovation and to help co-create new solutions and extend the platform to startups and developers. In addition, VIL will further deploy the Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform to automate workflows, and extend self-provisioning to VIL enterprise customers. VIL plans to work closely with the Red Hat Global Services team to build new capabilities and execute these initiatives.
VIL achieved 85% cost reduction, and shorter deployment times from months to weeks to days, managing widely-distributed locations running massive commercial traffic (more than 80 VIL Universal Cloud locations, serving more than 30 million VOLTE subscribers and data traffic upwards of 5 terabits per second).
VIL’s next priority is to rapidly expand this ‘network-as-a-platform’, enable a hybrid environment, help third-party applications run distributed workloads and self-orchestrate network slices using standard APIs.
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)
TCS is an IT services, consulting, and business solutions organisation that has partnered with many of the world’s largest businesses in their transformation journeys. In line with TCS’ Enterprise Agile 2020 vision, its IT group worked to create a resilient and adaptable infrastructure to support the company’s transformation. TCS IT worked with Red Hat to upgrade its legacy infrastructure with an open source technology platform. This Infrastructure Reimagination project helped TCS significantly accelerate the concept-to-release cycle and improve total cost of ownership (TCO).
TCS embarked on its journey toward Enterprise Agile 2020 by enhancing business agility to support growth and continuously changing requirements. TCS needed to migrate from legacy systems to an open, scalable, and resilient IT infrastructure with more compute capacity, lower cost of ownership, and no vendor lock-in. TCS partnered with Red Hat to help build an open source platform that allows collaboration with other vendors and solutions.
The entire Infrastructure Reimagination project was delivered through a scaled agile framework to collaborate better and deliver faster. Multiple migration methodologies were deployed to support scale and complexity. In addition, TCS enhanced its technology platform, modernising legacy infrastructure with Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform to enable the cloud-native architecture. TCS also adopted a digital core architecture to power its application.
With TCS’ new solution, its concept-to-release cycle has been slashed from days to hours—allowing the company to quickly meet dynamic customer demands. And without vendor lock-in, TCS has decreased its TCO while significantly increasing compute power. It also reduced its infrastructure footprint and power consumption. With this solution, TCS increased productivity and performance while decreasing complexity.
Alliance Bank
Alliance Bank Malaysia and its subsidiaries, Alliance Investment Bank and Alliance Islamic Bank, are an integrated financial services group offering banking and financial solutions through its consumer banking, small- and medium-sized enterprise (SME) banking, corporate and commercial banking, Islamic banking, investment banking, and stockbroking businesses. In partnership with Red Hat, Alliance Bank built an open architecture container platform using agile methodology, which simplified banking services, increased security, and standardised processes.
The Alliance Way is about being empathetic to customers’ needs and delivering what they need—innovative, digital solutions that are fast, simple, and responsive. The bank’s branch-in-a-tablet solution is one such innovation. It lets individuals open a savings account and activate their debit card, internet, and mobile banking in as little as 15 minutes using a tablet. Similarly, enterprise clients can open a business account digitally in a day, in one visit. This programme is part of the bank’s overall strategy to use technology to streamline operations for greater efficiency.
Working with Red Hat Consulting, Alliance Bank used a microservices-based architecture to create a single large project, instead of multiple individual projects, on a dedicated set of hardware. To support its agile strategy, Alliance Bank chose an open container platform to allow collaboration across teams. The platform allowed the bank to put all branch products and services on a tablet for its staff to use with customers.
Alliance Bank has since developed a culture of agile collaboration and rapid innovation, scaling its digital innovations quickly to meet the needs of its customers. The branch-in-tablet project reduced account opening time by 70% and increased the availability of staff to customers by 75%. Project delivery took two to six months with agile practices instead of the six to 18 months it took with the previous waterfall method. By removing redundant processes that require physical space, Alliance Bank has also improved the customer experience with new community spaces in their branches while also reducing operating costs.
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