Snam, one of the world’s largest gas networks, has deployed Red Hat OpenShift and other cloud-native technologies to help drive the organization’s digital transformation, announced Red Hat recently.
Using a broad set of Red Hat’s powerful open hybrid cloud solutions, Snam can better manage and scale applications across distributed infrastructure, including at the edge, to prepare for a hybrid cloud and multicloud future.
Headquartered in San Donato Milanese, Italy, Snam oversees one of the world’s largest natural gas transportation networks, 2 LNG terminals and the largest European natural gas storage capacity.
Backed by the open hybrid cloud expertise and technologies from Red Hat, Snam has started to renew its existing application map and make interactions leaner and more effective among its business services, while developing an entirely new technology stack for its IoT and data needs, designed to be ready to connect up to 30,000 devices and able to handle 100x more data, enabling the intelligent network.
Red Hat OpenShift has been deployed on-premises and on the edge of the network, with Snam also taking advantage of the public cloud, using Microsoft Azure Red Hat OpenShift, a jointly engineered managed Red Hat OpenShift service supported by Microsoft and Red Hat.
Stefanie Chiras, SVP and GM, Red Hat Enterprise Linux Business Unit, Red Hat
Organizations like Snam, which deal with a dynamic landscape of regulations and market demands, need to be able to rely on flexible infrastructure that can scale to meet the changing requirements of today and tomorrow, including out to the edge as a natural extension of the open hybrid cloud.
Roberto Calandrini, Head of Architecture, Digital and AI Services, Snam
Red Hat OpenShift is a cornerstone of our transformation project; it has enabled us to create an efficient, high performing, reliable IT platform, simplifying the management of complex systems and applications to better support our existing business needs, while giving us the agility and flexibility to properly support our future evolution.
