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Growth Incubation Leader, Poland and Baltics at IBM

Apr 15, 2018

Open architecture allows for accelerated growth while secure repositories guarantee stability

Pros and Cons

"Open architecture allows for accelerated growth while secure repositories guarantee stability."

"Workstations: More applications for graphics."
"Servers: More applications for monitoring (e.g., nmon)."

What is our primary use case?

Business: workstation and server.

How has it helped my organization?

Open architecture allows for accelerated growth while secure repositories guarantee stability.

What is most valuable?

Multipath
Yum
LVM
Selinux

What needs improvement?

Workstations: More applications for graphics.

Servers: More applications for monitoring (e.g., nmon).

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For how long have I used the solution?

More than five years.

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Works at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Aug 13, 2017

Open source stable Linux OS

What is most valuable?

Stable Linux OS. The stability of the OS is very important for the computer system. Unstable means you never know when it will crash or fail while your valuable data and business applications are running.

How has it helped my organization?

It's an open source solution.

What needs improvement?

Many areas in version 5 are obsolete such as filesystem ext2, ext3, while the new versions (v.6, 7) support ext4, Btrfs, ZFS, etc.

For how long have I used the solution?

10 years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

No.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

No.

How are customer service and technical support?

No technical support.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

No.

How was the initial setup?

No.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

No more support and licensing.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

No.

Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.

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Security Engineer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Nov 28, 2022

Supporting OS software with built-in security and encryption that is easy to use and setup

Pros and Cons

"The security, ongoing support, and ease of taking a system and getting authorization from a government agency have helped the way our organization functions."

"The cost of this solution could be improved."

What is our primary use case?

We use this solution as our operating system.

How has it helped my organization?

The security, ongoing support, and ease of taking a system and getting authorization from a government agency have helped the way our organization functions.

The built-in security features support certain security standards such as encryption. It is simpler to meet FIPS 140 encryption requirements such as the ATOs.

What is most valuable?

The ease of use of this solution has been most valuable.

What needs improvement?

The cost of this solution could be improved.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using this solution for two years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

This is a stable solution.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

We previously used Linux. Red Hat meets our needs more comprehensively.

What was our ROI?

Our main ROI is in the ability to readily get ATOs.

What other advice do I have?

For somebody familiar with the Linux platform, it is not difficult to troubleshoot when using this solution.

I would rate this solution a seven out of ten.

Disclosure: My company has a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer: Partner

Storage and VMware Expert at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

Aug 24, 2017

It's improved our company's system environments that run Oracle databases.

What is most valuable?

Red Hat is mission critical to our environment.

How has it helped my organization?

Red Hat has improved the mission critical environments running Oracle databases, while CentOS has improved our web environment and MySQL.

What needs improvement?

Oracle and SAP Environment and all HPC environments.

For how long have I used the solution?

10 years

What was my experience with deployment of the solution?

No issues

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

Very stable i don´t find any problem we have many environment using redhat since first version.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

Not encountered problem with scalability

How are customer service and technical support?

Customer Service:

The customer service is good and all problem was solved, i dont have any problem

Technical Support:

Very good

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

We have many kinds of the linux version on the all environment but to HPC environment we use Redhat but all another versions work very well

What about the implementation team?

I work with the two scenario

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

The licensing valor is too high and must be improved

What other advice do I have?

Red Hat is similar to CentOS, except that CentOS doesn't offer to support certain solutions, such as Oracle.

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