United States Cepsa Tender

The worlds leading provider of open source solutions announced that is has been selected by the Spanish energy company Cepsa to underpin its digital transformation strategy helping it to more rapidly create and deliver digital services that better address changing consumer behaviour and help keep up in an evolving market. Cepsa has built a hybrid cloud-ready platform with Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform supported by Red Hat OpenShift Container Storage and automated with Red Hat Ansible Tower to enable faster development and launch of new applications.We are working closely with the Cepsa team to increase its business agility through more scalable efficiently performing infrastructure as well as a more collaborative company mentality and culture. We hope to provide a foundation for Cepsa to engage in new ways with its customers to offer a better user experience.JULIA BERNALCOUNTRY MANAGER SPAIN AND PORTUGAL RED HATCepsa which operates across the oil and gas value chain is immersed in a far-reaching digital transformation process spanning all its divisions and businesses with the aspiration of being an agile data-driven company. As part of its transformation Cepsa has chosen Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform the industrys most comprehensive enterprise Kubernetes platform to help it more quickly bring ideas to market as new digital experiences for customers. Cepsas IT is made up of on-premises private cloud and multiple public cloud multicloud environments. With Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform Cepsa is containerising applications on a standard platform currently running on-premise and offering more flexibility in scaling across its hybrid cloud infrastructure in the future.This is a cross-functional project involving several teams and Cepsa is keen to promote closer collaboration and embrace a DevOps methodology. Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform is designed to unite developers and IT operations while helping accelerate DevOps practices by offering standardised operating environments configuration as code self-provisioning continuous integration and auto-scaling. Cepsa also selected Red Hat OpenShift Container Storage given its integration with and optimization for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform. Red Hat OpenShift Container Storage is designed to provide persistent storage for OpenShift functions and a more seamless user experience for developers and DevOps to move persistent data with applications between platforms to the hybrid cloud or between multiple public clouds.Cepsa has chosen Red Hat Ansible Tower an enterprise framework for automating across infrastructure networks and cloud to help ready it to more easily extend automation across its hybrid infrastructure as may serve its future needs. To support the project roll-out Red Hat is providing technical training for Cepsa staff and helping define a framework for building cloud-native applications modernising existing applications and managing applications more consistently across its IT estate.