Red Hat, Inc. announced that Blockchain Services & Solutions (BSS) Oman is introducing Red Hat OpenShift across its business for more scalable, consistent application development to support its expansion goal and achieve a faster time to market for innovation.
BSS offers blockchain solutions, services, and consulting that allow businesses to leverage common digital ledger platforms to record transactions and track assets in distributed networks, resulting in lower operational costs and higher efficiencies.
Adrian Pickering, Regional General Manager, Red Hat MENA said, “At Red Hat we balance the rapid community innovation of open source development with the stability, support and security features of enterprise software to power emerging technologies such as blockchain in areas like government and financial services. We are excited to work with Blockchain Services & Solutions Oman as it builds out its application development strategy with Red Hat OpenShift as a foundation for its business expansion and commitment to redefining exceptional customer experience.”
Ahmed Al-Yamani, vice president, Technology, Blockchain Services & Solutions Oman says, “Innovation is at the heart of what we do, as we work to define new use cases for blockchain to help transform organizations, industries and societies. We found Red Hat OpenShift to be a comprehensive, feature-rich, robust solution backed by enhanced security, stability and support from Red Hat. After a successful proof of concept, we are pleased to roll out Red Hat OpenShift across our business to help us gain efficiencies within and across our teams to bring innovation to market faster. We view Red Hat OpenShift as a strategic platform to help us evolve our value proposition and enhance our capabilities to provide the most durable, reliable and future-proof blockchain technology.”
BSS’s principal business goal is to use the most modern distributed ledger platforms available in the most secure method to drive innovation, expansion, and optimization of its services for clients. BSS looked to containerization for higher portability of apps and lower risk, with workloads running in isolation and independent of each other and underlying infrastructure, in order to update its IT to achieve this goal. BSS installed Red Hat OpenShift as its hybrid cloud platform with the support of Al Nahla Solutions IT Consultancy services and employed Red Hat Consulting and Red Hat Training to help obtain more value from its new technologies and adopt agile practises like CI/CD.
BSS has started using Red Hat OpenShift to run applications, including customer-facing solutions, and has gained the flexibility and freedom to run containers reliably across a variety of environments, including several on-premise datacenters. BSS has improved the redundancy and high availability of services and can achieve speedier disaster recovery by installing Red Hat OpenShift across three sites. BSS hopes to maximise ROI and enable more effective hosting of high demand services in its project pipeline, as well as improve scalability of its services, using its flexible infrastructure. This allows BSS to act as a public cloud and deliver Blockchain-as-a-Service (BaaS) to customers, allowing them to experiment with blockchain use cases in a flexible environment.
BSS has been able to reduce the time between a customer seeking a service and it becoming available from three days to one day thanks to its unified platform. Thanks to increased automation and central control of the entire application and operations lifecycle, BSS development teams are seeing increased productivity.
BSS is leveraging Red Hat OpenShift’s range of features, including dynamic security controls (like container isolation and data access control), Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh (used to connect, manage, and observe microservices-based applications), and Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines based on Tekton (a Kubernetes-native framework for creating continuous delivery pipelines) to provide its users with a more streamlined and secure self-service experience with its catalogue of predefined applications.
