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The benefits of switching to Red Hat VirtualizationBased on an independent study by Forrester Consulting

With Red Hat Virtualization, we are now only paying subscriptions

and save on CapEx, but we also save on OpEx.

IT director, large financial services company

Payback in just 16 months

+ 3 years+ 2 years+ 1 year

Benefits

Impact of switching to Red Hat Virtualization

(cumulative US$)

Costs

net benefit

US$411K

US$1MSavings on CapEx, OpEx and development, and a reduction in incidents, delivered total benefits of US$995K.

US$495Kin OpEx savingsRed Hat Virtualization handles the maintenance of your virtualization solution and comes with its own management tool as standard.

How much could your organization benefit from switching to Red Hat® Virtualization? Forrester Consulting interviewed executives from a large financial services company that had done just that to understand the effect on the business and calculate the Total Economic ImpactTM.

Freed from the upfront costs and ongoing licenses of its proprietary virtualization solution, the company was able to triple the number of virtual machines (VMs) cost-effectively, helping IT provide the service the business needed to innovate and expand.

71% return on investment (ROI)

Red Hat Virtualization cut the number of incidents, saving the company 200 hours of development time per year.

hours

US$486K in CapEx savingsRed Hat Virtualization is based on a subscription model with predictable monthly fees, so no more upfront license or annual maintenance costs.

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The company saw US$411K net benefit over the first three years—an ROI of 71%.

growth total benefits3x

The flexibility of Red Hat Virtualization helped the company more than triple its VMs—from 300 to 950.

To find out more about Red Hat Virtualization and its benefits, read the full study from Forrester Consulting.

A Forrester Total Economic Impact™

Study Commissioned By Red Hat

July 2019

The Total Economic Impact™ Of Red Hat Virtualization

The Business Case Of A Large Financial

Services Company

Financial impact estimates are indicated as three-year, risk-adjusted present values (PV).

Source: The Total Economic Impact™ Of Red Hat Virtualization, a July 2019 commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Red Hat.

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