Evolution Systems Offers Cloud Service on Red Hat Solutions

To meet the technology needs of business or government entities, Evolution Systems, a Sydney, Australia-based full service IT support business, has built its cloud service offering, the Evolution Cloud, on a combination of Red Hat (News - Alert) Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization.

This announcement is made by Red Hat, Inc., a provider of open source solutions.

“The beauty of working with Red Hat technology is that it makes our offering a more attractive cloud option for customers because of our ability to provide scalability and flexibility,” said Geoff Boreland, managing director at Evolution Systems. “Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization enable us to offer a stable and secure environment for customer data and provide us with cost savings that we can pass directly on to our customers.”

According to a press release, Evolution Systems started its cloud services offering in January 2011 with an aim to establish an environment that could be virtualized at a low cost so that the company could sell virtualized servers and storage at a competitive price. For this purpose, Evolution Systems looked at a technology foundation that could provide fast deployment at an affordable price, while offering scalability for future expansion. Determining that a virtualization solution would be central to its solution, Evolution Systems evaluated virtualization options, including solutions from Red Hat and VMware.

“We’re confident in Red Hat and its technology solutions, and we’re effectively betting our cloud business on these technologies because they’re the foundation of what we offer. We know that at the end of the day, our customers want their data stored, and they want it stored safely and securely. With Red Hat as the basis of our cloud service, we have the tools to help us deliver that,” said Boreland.

Headquartered in Raleigh, NC with over 65 offices spanning the globe, Red Hat is a provider of open source solutions and a component of the S&P 500.

Evolution Systems’ Evolution Cloud offering has allowed many customers to accomplish new levels of scalability, performance and flexibility. For example, one of Evolution’s customers was able to utilize The Evolution Cloud to scale with growth without a dedicated IT department. The customer is able to add and remove resources in the cloud as needed, which provides it with the ability to grow its IT infrastructure with its business demands.

 In other company news, TMCnet reported that Red Hat, Inc., a provider of open source solutions, announced today that it has expanded its relationship with Amazon Web Services.