President of RedHat Asia Pacific: Business Transformation created by superior operation

Due to the recent economic situation and the increasing demands of enterprises to reduce expenditures and improve efficiency, many companies have begun to explore various possible ways to reduce costs and improve business agility. Among all business functions, high value and low cost goals are extremely important, not only in the current challenging economic period, but also in the long term of strong economic growth. To welcome the coming economic recovery period, we have summed up many lessons. The first thing we should do is to achieve business transformation through excellent operations and prepare for the dynamic economic reality in the future. In this revolution

Due to the recent economic situation and the increasing demands of enterprises to reduce expenditures and improve efficiency, many companies have begun to explore various possible ways to reduce costs and improve business agility. Among all business functions, high value and low cost goals are extremely important, not only in the current challenging economic period, but also in the long term of strong economic growth.

To welcome the coming economic recovery period, we have summed up many lessons. The first thing we should do is to achieve business transformation through excellent operations and prepare for the dynamic economic reality in the future. In this revolution, the core is to achieve the transformation of the data center.

Gery Messer, CEO of RedHat Asia Pacific/Japanese company, left

In data centers, three technologies play an important role in accelerating business transformation: Open-source software solutions, Virtualization Technologies, and cloud computing platforms. One day, traditional data centers that adopt multiple technologies will provide simple and standardized solutions. In the Internet era, superior operation is a competitive advantage. The success of Amazon and Google has proved this conclusion.

In the future, IT will adopt more open-source standards and open-source technologies, both of which will provide robust and interoperable solutions for enterprises and free them from the shackles of manufacturers' brands. Google, Amazon, and IBM all run infrastructure with huge scalability on open-source Linux.

Linux can run on a variety of hardware, providing users with full freedom to choose. Because no authorization fee needs to be paid to any vendor, it also has inherent cost advantages. Therefore, it has become the preferred platform for many hardware developers.

Virtualization can achieve server integration, and is an important pillar of high performance in the data center. With this technology, the server utilization rate can be increased from 20% to 80%, saving enterprises a lot of cost. In addition, if virtualization is integrated into the operating system, it also enables the original hardware to provide host services for the operating system and virtual machines, thus greatly improving the efficiency.

Virtualization is the basic technology of cloud computing, and cloud computing is the latest way that the IT industry provides and consumes computing resources. Virtualization can be used to integrate computing resources and dynamically allocate resources as needed. As a business transformation solution, cloud computing greatly improves the speed and cost efficiency.

Recently, IBM has built a development and testing cloud using Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Technology to provide the ability to build new development and testing environments as needed. With automated resource allocation, this solution is expected to reduce IT resources and operation costs by 30% to 50%. It also hopes to reduce the time required for development and test resource configuration from weeks to minutes.