Reist Telecom Unifies Virtual Machines and Containers with Red Hat to Better Deliver Modernization for its Customers

Red Hat, Inc., the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, announced that Reist Telecom AG (Reist), a Swiss IT managed service company, is using Red Hat technologies to modernize its IT infrastructure. Using Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization, Reist is able to unify virtual machines (VMs) and containers to cut licensing costs in half, bring greater transparency and consistency to its IT security policies, and enable greater cross-team collaboration through the implementation of DevOps practices and tools.

Our work with Red Hat has helped us lead the way as a best practice example of cloud migration that in turn positions us to help our customers transform their own organizations.

Patric Siegrist

Chief Architect, Reist Telecom AG

Reist Telecom AG is a privately owned Swiss telecommunications and information technology company focused on offering flexible solutions to its customers. Reist provides solutions including private, public and hybrid cloud services, identity and access management (MAYI ID© product suite), as well as network, telecommunications, and cybersecurity services. The company was looking to embrace microservices and containers in order to better support its customers on their own modernization journeys.

Reist sought to expand beyond virtualization and towards a cloud-native platform for its offerings, including MAYI ID©, which is provided both as managed service and as a standalone software-as-a-service solution. Needing greater flexibility and consistency from the underlying platform, Reist chose Red Hat OpenShift as a hybrid cloud platform that could run both on-premises and at the edge. To get started quickly, Reist engaged Red Hat partner Puzzle ITC to work with its networking, Linux, storage and engineering teams to implement OpenShift, initially on bare metal in its datacentres, integrating with critical infrastructure services.

Once running OpenShift on bare metal, Reist was easily able to use Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization, an included feature of the solution. Reist used Red Hat’s migration toolkit for virtualization to move VMs to OpenShift Virtualization. Reist has also upgraded to Red Hat OpenShift Platform Plus to make use of Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes for its vulnerability-scanning capabilities and Red Hat Quay as a scalable central container registry.

With OpenShift in place, Reist is able to minimize operational overhead thanks to a single management interface and greater consistency in the provided development and operations tools. Having a shared platform and DevOps approach has brought Reist’s developer and operations teams closer together, increasing collaboration and reducing silos. For instance, developers working on the MAYI ID©solution can now collaborate more closely with the operations teams.

Taking advantage of CI/CD-driven GitOps workflows enabled by OpenShift, Reist can create more repeatable processes, provide version control and a single source of truth, thus increasing standardization, traceability and visibility. This benefits productivity and security management as well as enabling Reist to roll out updates with minimal interruption to the services it provides its customers. Previously, releasing code for a customer or the shared platform was a manual process that required stopping services to replace components and perform testing, which often led to downtime for customers.

In addition, Reist is now able to offer new services to customers, such as namespaces-as-a-service, which provides an OpenShift environment for customers to manage themselves, and consulting services if they require assistance.

Reist and its customers are benefiting from the following:

• 50% decrease in virtual machine licensing costs and significantly reduced infrastructure costs 
• Tighter integration between VM and container environments, enabling more efficient and streamlined operations
• Greater collaboration, productivity and consistency of security management for teams
• More reliable user experience and reduced downtime for end customers with automated code releases
• The capability to offer new cloud-native services for end customers.

Reist is continuing on the path to migrate all its VMs to OpenShift and containerize more applications to support its internal and external customers with modernization so they can better focus on core business innovation.

Supporting Quotes

Richard Zobrist, Country Manager Switzerland, Red Hat: 
“With the growing opportunity of generative AI and the disruptions to the traditional virtualization market, many organizations are looking to re-architect their IT infrastructure. Red Hat is helping Reist Telecom to maintain its existing virtualization investments while taking advantage of cloud-native application development and deployment at its own pace. Red Hat OpenShift provides Reist Telecom with a simplified migration process and more consistent management of both virtualized and containerized workloads on a single scalable application platform.”

Patric Siegrist, Chief Architect, Reist Telecom AG
“The Reist company values include innovation, transparency and quality, which align with Red Hat’s community-driven culture and open source technology, resulting in a strong strategic collaboration in support of our modernization. Adopting Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization on top of OpenShift was simple and cost-effective and enables us to bridge the VM and container worlds and remain adaptable in our fast-moving market. Our work with Red Hat has helped us lead the way as a best practice example of cloud migration that in turn positions us to help our customers transform their own organizations.”

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