Welcome
Over the past decade, Red Hat has helped tens of thousands of customers with critical endeavors around infrastructure modernization. Specifically, this has meant migrating from proprietary, closed infrastructure based on RISC/UNIX to industry standard open systems based on the x86 architecture. As Gartner notes in their April 2012 report "While steady, the [Unix to Linux] migrations have been phased by degree of complexity, total cost of ownership (TCO) savings, modernization priority and degree of internal skills (or transfer of UNIX to Linux skills)."Factors that have driven the acceleration of UNIX to Linux migration over the past few years include: Read More
Paul Cormier
Red Hat Executive Vice President & President, Products and Technologies
- The Future of Unix: Hazy and Overcast, So Reach for the Umbrella
- G. Weiss | A. Butler | P. Dawson
- 20 April 2012
- Purely monolithic Unix will decline as infrastructure architects migrate legacy applications such as ERP off Unix; one scenario shows the period of sharpest Unix decline beginning 2014 to 2015.
- By 2017, 65% of applications running on proprietary versions of Unix in 2012 will have been migrated to x86 (primarily on Linux), making IT planning essential.
- ERP scale-out architectures on x86 platforms with Windows or Linux will rise from a 10% ratio in 2005 to 80% in 2017 for application and database management system (DBMS) online transaction processing (OLTP) workloads, making ERP/x86 standard.
- By 2020, the Unix market vendor share will comprise one predominant vendor, with about a 60% market share, and two others dividing the remaining share, incurring a potential procurement risk in a one-vendor market.
- Linux scalability and reliability will have surpassed Unix by 2017, but scale-out cluster and fabric architectures will remain the predominant Linux deployment style in 2017.
- The Unix decline will be steepest in the 2014 to 2015 period, when the heaviest migration from HP-Unix/Itanium is expected, and should be planned according to the circumstances at that time.
Impacts
Red Hat content
- Whitepaper: Migrate to Red Hat Enterprise Linux: Lower the Total Cost of Ownership
- This white paper provides an analysis of five organizations that migrated enterprise applications from proprietary legacy systems to Red Hat Enterprise Linux solutions. In each case, the organization's current system(s) had reached end of life from a hardware or application perspective. At these management decision inflection points, each organization decided to compare the cost and benefits of either staying the course with RISC/UNIX platforms, or migrating to a solution based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux on x86. In all cases, the Red Hat Enterprise Linux solutions were significantly less expensive than the legacy systems while going further to support other business objectives such as improved business continuity and higher application performance.
- Video: Unix to Red Hat Enterprise Linux Migration Customers
- Case Study: Travelers Migrates Mission-Critical SAS Applications from Solaris to Red Hat Enterprise Linux
- Travelers is a leading provider of property casualty insurance for auto, home and business, and is the second largest writer of commercial property casualty insurance and personal insurance in the U.S. Travelers is a global company with more than 30,000 employees and operations in the U.S., Canada, Ireland and the United Kingdom. Read this informative case study to learn how Travelers reaped significant benefits from their migration from Solaris to Red Hat Enterprise Linux, including:
- SAS application performance was at least twice as fast on Red Hat Enterprise Linux after migrating from Solaris
- Hardware and operating system licensing costs were reduced by 25%
- Business processes improved and business agility increased for their overall IT operations after standardizing on Red Hat Enterprise Linux
