Business Highlights – 48% more applications developed per year

Organizations continue to find themselves at odds with striking the balance between maintaining their Linux operating system environments and the workloads that they support, all while being stretched for time and resources. Making matters more complex is the proliferation of the cloud and next-generation workloads such as AI and ML. As a result, IT departments often find that their Linux environments have become quite unwieldy in terms of the number of distributions that require their support.

This support generally includes day-to-day tasks such as provisioning, patching, and updating their Linux footprints and continuously monitoring them to make sure they are correctly configured, up to date, and secure. Automation capabilities have helped with this to an extent, but many organizations are still finding themselves struggling to integrate these capabilities across their fleet of operating systems.

This ultimately raises the question of why organizations do not standardize on a particular Linux distribution more often. In this Business Value white paper, we delve into organizations’ Linux estates as they relate to their standardizations on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) operating system and the benefits they can expect to achieve by doing so. For the purposes of this study, we define RHEL “standardization” as an initiative undertaken by an organization to deploy more RHEL in its environments that increases the portion of its total deployments running the operating system to 50% or more.

Check out this IDC Whitepaper to learn more.