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Where are you in your Automation Journey?

How do we centralise our processes?

How do we orchestrateour processes?

How can wesimplify our job?

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OPPORTUNISTIC SYSTEMATIC INSTITUTIONALIZED

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It starts often with one challenge to solve but it can do much more

Orchestration

Do this...

Firewalls

Configuration Management

Application Deployment Provisioning Continuous

DeliverySecurity and Compliance

On these...

Load Balancers Applications Containers Clouds

Servers Infrastructure Storage And more...Network Devices

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Use Case: Infrastructure

Infrastructure OS Configuration Management

Customer ChallengeCostly maintenance and poor SLAs in a

mixed multiple operating systems

environment.

ValuePredictable and repeatable process,

mitigating risks of service downtime.

BY THE NUMBERS:

CUSTOMERS:

75% CHANGED

DELIVERY TIME

Infrastructure Virtual Infrastructure

Customer ChallengeEmpower innovation and improve

Time-to-Market for legacy LoB applications.

ValueDeliver virtual resources faster, from weeks

to few minutes, with consistency among

multiple clouds.

BY THE NUMBERS:

CUSTOMERS:

99%REDUCED WORK

HOURS FOR UPDATING

SoftBank

Customer ChallengeUnreliable applications and services, with

poor quality and high incidence of

regressions.

ValueEmpower teams to perform reliable tests and

integration with CI/CD systems.

1DAY ADOPTING ANSIBLE

BY THE NUMBERS:

CUSTOMERS:

Applications Continuous Integration And Delivery

Infrastructure Maintaining Growing Infrastructure

Customer ChallengeThe infrastructure and responsibilities of the

IT team constantly grow, but the staffing

does not keep pace.

ValueA small team can manage large complex IT

infrastructures in automated fashion.

BY THE NUMBERS:

CUSTOMERS:

50%REDUCED IT

MANAGEMENT TIME

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Use Case: Network

Customer ChallengeConfiguration inconsistency and network

instability.

ValueStandardization and enforcement of

best-practices helps to scale operations and

reduce MTTR (Mean Time To Resolution).

3000HOURS PER YEAR

SAVED

BY THE NUMBERS:

CUSTOMERS:

Network Configuration Consistency

275+ CERTIFIED PARTNER

MODULES

Customer ChallengeTroubleshooting is time consuming and

always requires senior engineers.

ValueDecrease time required to identify and

remediate known issues. Empower others

with control.

BY THE NUMBERS:

CUSTOMERS:

Network Troubleshooting

Customer ChallengeTrace & audit configuration changes while

keeping control and of software versions and

enforcing them.

ValueRapidly identify and mitigate risks

associated with non-compliant configuration

and software versions with the help of

version control.

BY THE NUMBERS:

CUSTOMERS:

Network Compliance & Traceability

50NETWORKINGPLATFORMS

15,000MANAGED COMPONENTS

Customer ChallengeTrack platform resources and coverage of

Support & Maintenance.

ValuePerform preventive maintenance, reducing

outage risks and costs of unnecessary

hardware-refresh.

BY THE NUMBERS:

CUSTOMERS:

Network Platform Discovery

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Use Case: Security

Customer ChallengeAttacks are more frequent and sophisticated,

analysis is too time consuming and complex.

ValueEasier event triage, streamlined control of

multiple tools for improved analysis.

3PLATFORMSAT LAUNCH

BY THE NUMBERS:

CUSTOMERS:

Security Investigation Enrichment

Customer ChallengeThreats are hard to identify in complex

setups.

ValueAutomatically validate and escalate threats,

trigger remediation.

BY THE NUMBERS:

CUSTOMERS:

Security Threat Hunting

94% REDUCTION IN MAN HOURS TO

RECOVER FROM SECURITY INCIDENTS

FORRESTER ANALYST PAPER

Customer ChallengeRemediation across multiple platforms and

tools is complex, time consuming and error

prone.

ValueReduce the change delivery time, automate

concurrent remediation on multiple levels.

25% INCREASED SECURITY TEAM PRODUCTIVITY

BY THE NUMBERS:

CUSTOMERS:

Security Incident Response

IDC ANALYST PAPER

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Use Case: Devops

Customer ChallengeThe time it takes from PoC to production is

too long. Manual processes thwart the

transition of new releases from stage to

stage.

ValueAutomate provision, testing and other

routine tasks, saving valuable engineering

time and mitigate risks of errors.

BY THE NUMBERS:

CUSTOMERS:

DevopsGo To Market

3rdPARTY SERVICES

AUTOMATED

Customer ChallengeDeploying changes to complex environments

is time consuming and requires expert on the

component.

ValueDeploy changes automatically with

infrastructure as code.

BY THE NUMBERS:

CUSTOMERS:

DevopsProvision Environments

4h🠖15mPROVISION

ENVIRONMENT TIME

Customer ChallengeDeploying new servers takes too much time,

thus provisioning new services and running

PoCs is slow.

ValueComplex deployment processes can be

automated and integrated with each other

via fully controllable APIs.

BY THE NUMBERS:

CUSTOMERS:

DevopsSpeed Up Development

45🠖1REDUCED SERVER

DEPLOY TIME

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Use Case:Hybrid Cloud

20%EFFICIENCY GAIN

Customer ChallengeAdoption of multi cloud operations is difficult

due to different tools and knowledge

required for each cloud.

ValueProvide multi cloud automation via single

API and reusable code.

BY THE NUMBERS:

CUSTOMERS:

CloudScaling To Multi Cloud Environments

Customer ChallengePrices for cloud resources can be very

different from vendor to vendor. Dynamically

migrating workloads would benefit from that,

but is hard to do.

ValueThe same automation code can be written

cloud agnostic, and run against different

cloud vendors at need.

BY THE NUMBERS:

CUSTOMERS:

CloudMigrate From One Cloud To Another

3rdPARTY SERVICES

AUTOMATED

1w🠖3dTASK TIME WENT DOWN

Customer ChallengeSupporting existing on-site brown field and

integrating it with new cloud approaches.

ValueAutomate existing assets with the same code

as public cloud and future assets.

BY THE NUMBERS:

CUSTOMERS:

CloudIntegrating The Private Cloud

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Use Case: Platform

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BY THE NUMBERS:

CUSTOMERS:

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Automation Success Path

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DISCOVERY SESSION1-3 Days

AUTOMATION PILOT3+ Weeks

CONTINUOUS AUTOMATIONOngoing

RED HAT DRIVES

COLLABORATIVE

CUSTOMER DRIVES

Automation Success Path

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OUTCOMES CUSTOMER PARTICIPANTS RED HAT PARTICIPANTS

DISCOVERY SESSION1-3 Days

AUTOMATION PILOT3+ Weeks

CONTINUOUS AUTOMATIONOngoing

• Automation Roadmap• Scope Definition• Budget Plan

• Budget Sponsor• Domain Architect Lead• Service Delivery Managers

• Solutions Architect• Automation Consultant• Service Manager

Automation Success Path

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OUTCOMES CUSTOMER PARTICIPANTS RED HAT PARTICIPANTS

DISCOVERY SESSION1-3 Days

AUTOMATION PILOT3+ Weeks

CONTINUOUS AUTOMATIONOngoing

• Minimum Value Product.• Deployed and Operationalized Tools.• Top 5 Representative Use-Cases.• Load & Test Baseline.

• Domain Architect Lead• Automation Lead• Head of Operations

• Solutions Architect• Automation Consultant• Project manager

Automation Success Path

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OUTCOMES CUSTOMER PARTICIPANTS RED HAT PARTICIPANTS

DISCOVERY SESSION1-3 Days

AUTOMATION PILOT3+ Weeks

Go-Live with customer Dev and Ops teams involved in the pilot phase, fully operational and capable to create and maintain automation content.

Ongoing support andmaintenance by customer’sDev, Ops and Automation teams.

Red Hat Customer Experience and Engagement - customersupport as needed

CONTINUOUS AUTOMATIONOngoing

Automation Success Path

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