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“ We plan to migrate at least 88 % of our applications to the cloud . Such an aggressive plan needs a stable , secure and supported enterprise platform ,” said Moussa Wade , Head of the Centre of Excellence at Orange Sonatel . “ But we wanted an open-sourcebased platform , because it is cost-effective and the community is very responsive .”
Orange Sonatel decided to modernise its IT environment by deploying Red Hat OpenShift , supported by Red Hat OpenShift Container Storage and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform .
“ We selected Red Hat OpenShift because of its leading position in the market and because of its competitive pricing and features ,” said Wade . “ We were impressed by the results of an internal proof of concept ( PoC ) that showed how its automation capabilities could help us accelerate our delivery process .”
Red Hat is an enterprise Kubernetes application platform that unites IT and developers to support faster , more reliable development , deployment and management of container applications across cloud and infrastructure . OpenShift Container Storage provides block , shared file , and object data storage for containers and manages the OpenShift registry , logging , and metrics . Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform , an enterprise automation solution for complex deployments , automates patch and update management at the scale required for telecommunications networks .
Working with local partner BeOpenIT , Orange Sonatel deployed its new Red Hat software on a virtualised infrastructure to create Malaw , a cloud platform named for the horse Lat Dior , a key Senegalese historical figure that represents strength , bravery , loyalty and competitiveness . The service provider currently runs 15 applications on Malaw , with plans to migrate another ten applications in the next six months .
“ Some of the apps we ’ ve successfully migrated include a self-service application for business-to-business ( B2B ) customers and a global shareholder assembly app created for remote voting during COVID-19 ,” said Seynabou Niang , Cloud Architect at Orange Sonatel . www . intelligentcio . com INTELLIGENTCIO
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