Industry-leading Red Hat Ansible Automation
Platform brings a trusted, effective, end-to-end automation
solution to nearly every enterprise use case, from traditional
datacenters to multiple public clouds to the network’s edge
Red Hat, Inc., the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, today highlighted how organizations across the globe are
using Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform to help smooth
cloud-native operations, establish a wide-ranging automation
culture and respond more quickly to potentially disastrous
challenges.
Red Hat continues to make Ansible Automation Platform the
mission-critical automation solution for operating complex hybrid
clouds, from the datacenter to multiple public clouds to the edge,
along with AI applications at scale. These customers and many
others are using Ansible Automation Platform to deliver new and
innovative solutions to meet today’s IT challenges while preparing
for technology needs yet to come, like using AI as a natural
progression of IT automation. These implementations include:
City and County of Denver manages and coordinates public
services for residents and visitors of one of America’s most
livable cities, with the population growing 20% in just the last
decade. This work became even more important—and more
challenging—when the COVID-19 pandemic forced a rapid, long-term
shift to remote work. To support more than 15,000 employees working
from home, the government sought to adapt its new collaboration
tool, Microsoft Teams. By automating provisioning, scaling tasks,
application deployments, creating playbooks and configuration
management with Ansible Automation Platform, Denver supported 514%
growth in Teams use. They also quickly launched a digital emergency
operations center (EOC) with 75% completion over a single weekend
early in the pandemic, providing a central facility for government
leaders to strategically enact emergency management and policies.
Now, Denver can react more quickly to potential disasters and
establish future EOCs in just 15 minutes with the right people and
documents ready.
After implementing an automation Center of Excellence and
socializing the automation program, Denver continues to find new
use cases, promote success and gather metrics to support change.
The city is sharing details of its IT automation success with other
cities in Colorado to set the standard in emergency management
efforts.
At MAPFRE, a global insurance company headquartered in
Madrid, customers need absolute confidence that when they have a
question, issue or claim, they can quickly and easily receive the
needed service. When MAPFRE created its cloud strategy, the company
quickly realized the need for automation to achieve its goals, such
as getting to new markets faster, optimizing infrastructure costs,
reducing carbon footprint and maintaining resilience and security.
Once MAPFRE onboarded Ansible Automation Platform, the company saw
significant results that mattered for the business:
- Time to market saw a 55% lead time reduction and 85% error-rate
reduction with 4,700 developer hours saved.
- Cost and sustainability enhancements by automatically shutting
down PRE environments, eradicating unused environments after 30
days and deleting orphaned resources.
- Enhanced resilience by automating remediations and disaster
recovery environments and the disconnection of environments at
risk.
With these successes, automation at MAPFRE has grown from an
experiment into mission-critical. Next, it plans to use Ansible
Automation Platform to minimize issues caused by human error, which
typically account for over 50% of incidents.
Navy Federal Credit Union, the world's largest credit
union with more than 13 million members and $171 billion in assets,
is a leader in an ever-evolving industry, where the use of
technology is key to serving US veterans, retired service members,
active duty members in all branches of the armed forces and their
families. The institution enlisted Ansible Automation Platform for
its functionality and ease of use. By fostering a culture of
openness, transparency and collaboration, Navy Federal met its
technological and cultural goals by closing automation adoption
gaps. Provisioning time to value dropped from 11 days down to 1
day, and the credit union improved consistency across teams and
adopted an automation community of practice. Ansible Automation
Platform became an accelerator of cultural change: Teams who were
speaking different programming languages could now share code,
ideas and workflows in a common format.
As Navy Federal expands usage across all infrastructure and
targets AI implementation for the future, it plans to use Ansible
Automation Platform as the foundation with transparency, innovation
and flexibility.
TD Bank offers a full range of financial products and
services to over 27.5 million customers worldwide. Through their
network transformation roadmap, the bank sought to lead with an
automation-first mindset at the center of their platform delivery
capabilities – ranging from scalability of software upgrades,
configuration management and deployment, as well as standing up new
products. The internal evolution of their automation capabilities
drove forward the reduction of repetitive tasks for engineering
teams alongside bringing new standardization to their
deployments.
First, TD Bank created a strategic architecture for building up
the Ansible environment, writing purpose-built playbooks for
certain key tasks and helping engineers onboard to a new platform.
The Network Services team shifted to an automation-first mindset
with the support of leadership and new team members with automation
backgrounds. Integrating with third-party vendors, TD Bank
automated the standardization of over 10,000 network devices
against new-state standards – improving software deployment and
compliance, as well as configuration management. The bank also has
been successful in migrating and deploying entire platforms using
API integration to speed up the delivery of projects in a shorter
time frame.
Red Hat Summit and AnsibleFest
Join the Red Hat Summit and AnsibleFest keynotes to hear the
latest from Red Hat executives, customers and partners:
- The cloud is hybrid. So is AI. — Tuesday, May 7, 8-10
a.m. MDT (YouTube, LinkedIn)
- The tipping point: adopting a mission-critical automation
mindset. — Tuesday, May 7, 10:30-11:15 a.m. MDT (YouTube,
LinkedIn)
- Optimizing IT for the AI era. — Wednesday, May 8,
8:30-9:30 a.m. MDT (YouTube, LinkedIn)
- Automation, AI, and the next enterprise IT revolution. —
Wednesday, May 8, 10-10:45 a.m. MDT. (YouTube, LinkedIn) Hear more
about MAPFRE and Navy Federal Credit Union’s success.
Supporting Quotes
Sathish Balakrishnan, vice president and general manager,
Ansible, Red Hat “Automation is critical to help drive and sustain
innovation with our customers, no matter the use case or region and
whether they adopt the platform early or are automation experts
tapping Ansible to support new AI possibilities. 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.”
Sean Greer, director of IT Service Delivery, City and County of
Denver “During a very challenging, fast-moving situation,
automation has helped create standard, repeatable processes. We
can’t predict the future, but we know we will face challenges
related to hiring and resource availability. Being able to automate
processes will be fundamental to supporting new, digital ways of
working to solve these challenges.”
Craig Mitchell, manager of Site Reliability Engineering, Navy
Federal Credit Union “No matter how great a tool or the strategy
behind it is, successful adoption of a major change isn’t going to
be sustainable without the right culture in place. We initially
chose Ansible Automation Platform because of its accessibility,
ease of use and our belief in the open source ethos behind the
project. What transpired was that Ansible Automation Platform
became an accelerator of cultural change and we won big. We built a
culture that is ready — and eager — to take on whatever is coming
next.”
Drew Yates, Global Head – Network Service Delivery, TD Bank
“Running networks at scale involves multiple vendors, topologies
and a constant rate of change. Choosing the right complement of
tools to help manage these environments can be equally as
challenging. We're pleased that we've created an ecosystem with
Ansible Automation Platform that is purpose built to address TDs
evolving needs while also cultivating a new network development
mindset within our teams. This enablement has allowed our teams to
move faster and enrich our internal customer's experience with the
network organization - both through request implementation and
currency tasks across our estate, delivering a more performant
network to our developers and application owners."
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