Red Hat is the world’s leading provider of open-source IT solutions for businesses in the areas of the cloud, Linux, management, middleware, mobile, storage and visualization. The company has been involved in open-source community projects for over 25 years, solving problems and developing innovative new technologies. Red Hat makes these developments business-ready, so that it can offer customers enterprise service and support.

SVA is a Premium Partner of Red Hat, the highest partner status, and became a “Red Hat Certified Cloud & Service Provider” (CCSP) in 2020. In recent years, SVA has made targeted investments in Red Hat’s new technologies, such as OpenShift container services, the open-source automation tool Ansible and in training. SVA has also developed solutions in this area.

With over 20 consultants for OpenShift, over 40 for Ansible and over 80 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (including virtualization), we are one of the leading German system providers and maintain a very strong partnership with Red Hat. As a result of the high number of applications projects, the existing portfolio is currently being expanded and rounded out to include middleware solutions based on JBOSS.

Red Hat OpenShift

Red Hat OpenShift is a business-capable Kubernetes container platform that enables the automation of operations for the entire stack, in order to make managing hybrid and multi-clouds even easier. Red Hat OpenShift is designed to increase developer productivity and support innovations.

SVA began building its expertise in container technology while it was still in its infancy, with the objective of making the technology suitable for use in the German financial services and automotive industries. By specializing in providing OpenShift in air-gapped environments, we are able to give our customers extra value and a competitive advantage. Thanks to our partnership with Red Hat, our engineers can evaluate new products, versions and features at an early stage and view the technical information, so that they can process it and use it effectively in projects.

Red Hat Ansible

Red Hat Ansible is an open-source tool that simplifies the journey towards full IT automation and standardization. The definition and the implementation on the target systems are deliberately separated, which allows users to configure the target environments without having to know the technical details for implementation. This makes it easier to get started with developing and rolling out Ansible playbooks and roles.

Alongside the configuration of operating systems, the direct communication with target systems allows users to integrate network components or cloud services.

Red Hat Ansible is suitable for both small and more complex environments, enabling the dynamic adding of new machines. This means that large environments can be set up and configured using the same configuration with just a few adjustments.

To keep track of this, Red Hat offers the Ansible Tower as an enterprise solution as part of the Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform.

Ansible Tower can combine a wide range of playbooks in a single workflow. Thanks to client separation, every area of IT can visualize its skills in corresponding playbooks. These can then be incorporated in complex processes without affecting other areas.

Thanks to our intensive partnership with Red Hat, we are able to provide expert consultation in this field. Over the last few years we have specialized in the entire process, from introducing Ansible to setting up complex environments. The official Red Hat subscription supports enterprise roles, e.g., for SAP HANA. By developing these and standardizing processes in cloud environments with Ansible, we lay the foundations for excellent collaboration.

Official partner status
Premier Business Partner
How long has the partnership existed?
2016
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