The Total Economic Impact™ Of Red Hat OpenShift Cloud Services
Modern-day companies are expected to have the capabilities, skills, and tools to support evolving customer demand. As a result, development organization leaders seek container-centric, application developer platforms that can support their business process. As Forrester Research noted, “Container-based cloud-native technologies help firms build, run, and manage scalable applications with resiliency and observability in public and private cloud environments.
Red Hat OpenShift cloud services is an enterprise grade application development platform that is hosted and managed by Red Hat and public cloud providers. Red Hat OpenShift cloud services enables application developers to build, deploy, and run traditional and cloud-native applications at scale. This enables enterprise IT organizations to deliver innovative applications and business value much faster.
Red Hat commissioned Forrester Consulting to conduct a Total Economic Impact™ (TEI) study and examine the potential return on investment (ROI) enterprises may realize by working with Red Hat OpenShift cloud services. 2 The purpose of this study is to provide readers with a framework to evaluate the potential financial impact of Red Hat OpenShift cloud services on their organizations.
To better understand the benefits, costs, and risks associated with this investment, Forrester interviewed six customers with experience using Red Hat OpenShift cloud services. For the purposes of this study, Forrester aggregated the experiences of the interviewed customers and combined the results into a single composite organization.
Prior to using Red Hat OpenShift cloud services, some customers already operated in the cloud, while several customers worked with on-premises, monolithic architectures. Developers at these organizations had to manually create and manage their environments, which meant allocating extra time, while additional DevOps resources were assigned to manage the associated infrastructure. These processes led to lack of agility and slow upgrades due to the time and cost associated with new releases, ultimately slowing the organizations’ innovation and time-to-market. Organizations struggled to respond to ever-changing business demands and incurred rising operational and infrastructure costs driven by their legacy architecture.
After the investment in Red Hat OpenShift cloud services, the customers cut down on operational overhead while gaining new flexibility from introducing containerization and the ongoing management of clusters and tools. Key results from the investment include having a scalable, more reliable application platform, without customers needing to invest in the core infrastructure or skills needed to maintain the platform. The reduced time-to-market and increased developer productivity means organizations that use Red Hat OpenShift cloud services can do more with less.
