Red Hat OpenShift Helps Make X by Orange’s Hardware-Free Vision of Business Communications Services a Reality

Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE:RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that X By Orange, a subsidiary of Orange Spain focused on business-to-business (B2B) digital services, selected Red Hat as a core technology partner to help create its software-defined strategy with Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform in collaboration with Red Hat Consulting. With the industry’s most comprehensive enterprise Kubernetes platform, X by Orange is building a greenfield, cloud-native platform, enabling the service provider to embrace DevOps and agile development and more rapidly create and deliver digital services to business customers.

The shift to software-defined, and virtualized infrastructure changes how services can be created, provisioned and operated, and is altering the competitive dynamics of the industry. To keep ahead of the curve, the Orange Group decided to embrace this new approach, changing the technology it buys and how it operates infrastructure, in order to deliver services that are more competitive in the digital age. Rather than evolve its existing infrastructure based on legacy hardware, Orange chose to create a separate platform, culminating with the launch of its new software-based, cloud-native subsidiary, X by Orange. Focusing on the needs of business customers, X by Orange aims to provide digital services and solutions to improve productivity for enterprises, in the areas of collaboration, privacy and security, and cloudification of infrastructure. Initial offerings cover unified communications, data privacy based on SD WAN, and legal music for retail stores, and the company plans to grow its services portfolio progressively.

It was important to X by Orange to have the freedom to use the public cloud provider or providers of its choosing, especially to help scale operations as the initiative grows. X by Orange selected Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform to help it more quickly create and release new services and give it a “provider agnostic” Kubernetes platform on top of multicloud infrastructure. Delivering a common hybrid cloud foundation, Red Hat OpenShift’s API-driven architecture enables X by Orange to work with a diverse partner ecosystem, helping the company offer a range of its own and third-party services without sacrificing platform stability or reliability. Additionally, Red Hat OpenShift opens up Red Hat’s vast ecosystem of certified container solutions, providing an avenue for X by Orange to use the latest enterprise-ready, cloud-native innovations to meet emerging needs.