The Total Economic ImpactTM Red Hat Enterprise Linux On Microsoft Azure

Red Hat and Microsoft commissioned Forrester Consulting to conduct a Total Economic Impact™ (TEI) study and examine the potential return on investment (ROI) enterprises may realize by deploying Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® on Microsoft Azure.

Using customer interviews and data aggregation, Forrester reports on the 3-year financial impact of using Red Hat Enterprise Linux on Microsoft Azure including business continuity savings, reduction in datacenter spend, full-time employee (FTE) reallocation towards value-added initiatives, and reduction in conventional solution costs.

Additionally, the investment allows hybrid scenarios, licensing flexibility, ease of procurement and purchasing, and improved security posture from better manageability and monitoring.

A few of the quantified benefits Forrester identified from customers running Red Hat Enterprise Linux on Microsoft Azure organizations listed in the Forrester report include:

Improved business continuity as a result of 50% reduction in outage frequency and 85% reduction in outage downtime.

• 80% reduction in datacenter spend.
• 40% FTE reallocation towards value-add business initiatives.
• 60% reduction in legacy solution costs.

Download the report to learn about the value of Red Hat Enterprise Linux on Microsoft Azure.