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Red Hat. Modern applications in the hybrid cloud

Accelerate application development, get more productivity from developers, and double operational efficiency. But also incorporate security issues right from application development. Red Hat accompanies banks on this innovation journey through its solutions

A new way of implementing security that starts right from the application development cycle. "Organizations are transforming the way they create, run and scale applications, adopting cloud-native technologies such as Kubernetes and microservices-based application architectures," says Franco Varano, FSI Hybrid Cloud Solutions Sales Specialist at Red Hat. The adoption of these cloud-native technologies and architectures means that organizations must also transform the way they implement security. Faster release cycles, faster bug fixes and greater flexibility to run and manage applications in hybrid environments are three of the most cited benefits of containerization. However, when security becomes an element of ongoing complexity, we risk undoing the biggest gain of containerization: agility."

Securing applications without complexity
New technologies often create unforeseen security challenges. "Some organizations are overwhelmed by security needs that extend to all aspects of an application's life cycle, from development to deployment and maintenance," comments Varano. They need a simplified way to secure their containerized applications without slowing development or increasing operational complexity."

Security right from development
Therefore, security must be addressed from the beginning of the application development cycle, rooted in DevOps workflows. "To help organizations address this complexity, Red Hat offers Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes, a Kubernetes-native container security platform that protects applications during the build, deployment and execution phases, with several benefits: minimizes operational risk," Varano lists, "reduces operational costs and accelerates DevOps productivity.

Being a trust advisor in innovation
In addition, Red Hat positions itself as a strategic partner for banking organizations: "a trust advisor, with whom to engage on issues such as: innovation and new technologies, digital transformation and journey to cloud," Varano points out. In particular, our solutions, professional services and training enable banks to adopt modern, cloud-native application architectures through an Open Hybrid Multi Cloud strategy, which enhances traditional on-premises investments and allows them to leverage multi-cloud services, while complying with current regulations."

A turnkey application platform in hand
Organizations must develop innovative applications to achieve their business outcomes. This often means balancing factors such as time to market, cost, talent deployment with business objectives and maintaining security and governance policies. "Red Hat offers Red Hat OpenShift cloud services to the market as a turnkey managed application platform, providing the global expertise to automate the deployment and management of OpenShift to rapidly create, deploy and manage applications across all major public clouds," explains Varano. The cloud-native services are jointly managed with leading cloud providers, optimized for performance, scalability and security, and offer a consistent hybrid cloud experience while complying with regulations and regulators."

The benefits, in the numbers
Organizations can then focus on innovation and core competencies, rather than the ongoing management of the application platform. "OpenShift cloud services customers accelerate application development by 65 percent, achieve a 20 percent higher developer productivity rate, and see a 50 percent increase in operational efficiency," Varano points out. In addition to the OpenShift application platform, there are additional managed services available that enable organizations to create modern native cloud application architectures, such as: Red Hat OpenShift API Management, the Streams for Apache Kafka service, Red Hat OpenShift Data Science and Database Access."