Brief

The CIO’s alternative for healthcare

Red Hat is the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, using a community-powered
approach to deliver reliable and high-performing Linux®, hybrid cloud, container, and Kubernetes
technologies. This efficient, focused method outpaces traditional proprietary software
development models and enables healthcare customers to customize solutions in areas such
as clinical decision support, compliance automation, and interoperability. It’s why 100% of
healthcare companies in the Fortune 500 rely on Red Hat.1

Doing business with today’s IT vendors

Purchase process Complex purchasing scenarios Flexible and simple, with option
to treat as CapEx or OpEx, per
Generally Accepted Accounting
Principles (GAAP)

Maintenance Complicated products and Unlimited, fully inclusive

service support, updates, upgrades,
and maintenance

Adoption strategy High cost of entry and cost of Low cost of entry, portability
exit (vendor lock-in) with low cost of exit

The CIO’s alternative

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Operating system Microsoft Windows Red Hat® Enterprise • Supports many commercial
Server, Oracle Linux, Linux off-the-shelf (COTS)
Oracle Solaris, IBM products in the healthcare
AIX, Hewlett Packard market
Unix (HP-UX), SUSE • Cloud-friendly
Linux Enterprise
• Strong product
Server, Ubuntu
enhancement stream
Server
• Low cost to acquire
• Lower cost/more available
resources
• Multiple hardware vendor
alignment/agnostic
facebook.com/redhatinc • Java™ support included
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linkedin.com/company/red-hat
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Platform-as-a- Pivotal Cloud Red Hat OpenShift®, • Consolidate disparate

Service, Containers- Foundry & Red Hat CodeReady technologies and software
as-a-Service Container Service Studio, Red Hat inventory
(PKS), IBM Cloud Runtimes • Reduce IT cost and improve
Kubernetes Service delivery
& Cloud Foundry,
• Core component of cloud
Amazon Elastic
strategies
Container Service
for Kubernetes • Simplify development,
(EKS), Microsoft delivery, and maintenance
Azure Kubernetes of integrations
Services (AKS), • Key component to manage
Google Kubernetes hybrid cloud
Engine (GKE), • On-premise or cloud, or via
Docker Enterprise, some certified cloud and
Mesosphere DC/OS service providers (CCSPs)
Enterprise
• HIPAA compliance
supported; protected and
flexible environment

Infrastructure-as- VMware Integrated Red Hat Cloud Tools to develop, deliver,

a-Service OpenStack® Infrastructure for manage, and provide security
(VIO), Mirantis Service Providers, to hybrid cloud environments
OpenStack, Ubuntu Red Hat OpenStack
OpenStack, Huawei Platform, Red Hat
FusionSphere Satellite
Openstack

Virtualization VMware vSphere, Red Hat Replacement of high-cost

Microsoft Hyper-V Virtualization, Red virtualization alternatives
Server, Citrix Hat Virtualization in favor of cloud-friendly
Hypervisor Suite strategies

Storage NetApp (Solidfire, Red Hat Gluster® • Can be combined with

ONTAP, SANtricity), Storage, Red Hat Ansible® for a low-cost,
Dell EMC (Isilon, Ceph® Storage easily deployed storage
ScaleIO, Elastic appliance
Cloud Storage • Financial, clinical, and
[ECS]), VMware administrative support
vSAN, Scality RING, for all storage file types:
IBM (Cloud Object suitable for imaging,
Storage, Spectrum business office, and more
Scale), Amazon
• Lower cost and flexible
AWS (S3, Elastic
pricing model
Block Store [EBS]),
Portworx

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Application server Oracle (WebLogic Red Hat JBoss® • Available platform for many
Server, GlassFish), Enterprise COTS vendor offerings
IBM WebSphere Application • Lower total cost of
Application Server Platform, Red Hat ownership
JBoss Web Server

Application/data IBM Integration Red Hat Fuse, Red • Manage and take advantage
integration, iPaaS, Bus, Oracle Hat Fuse Online of Fast Healthcare
enterprise service (Integration Cloud Interoperability Resources
bus (ESB) Service, SOA Suite), (FHIR) and other APIs
MuleSoft Anypoint • Mature Health Level Seven
Platform, TIBCO (HL7) offering, widely
Cloud Integration adopted in healthcare
& BusinessWorks,
• Lightweight, distributed
Software AG
ESB
webMethods, WSO2
Enterprise Integrator • Containerized
• Strong software
development community
• Low cost, low barriers to
entry
• Citizen integrator-
focused and application
developer-focused

Business rules IBM (Operational Red Hat Decision • Enables community

management Decision Manager, Manager knowledge sharing in areas
Business Process such as clinical decision
Manager), making
FICO Decision • AI/ML, business process,
Management Suite, and/or complex event
ACTICO Platform processing enablement
• Highly flexible for decision
and workflow applications
that need tailoring by line-
of-business members

Process automation Appian, Pega Red Hat Process Build, deploy, and maintain
Platform, Camunda Automation application function vs.
(BPMN Workflow Manager programming; fills many
Engine, DMN “gaps” between and beyond
Decision Engine) healthcare systems

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About Red Hat

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­Red Hat is the world’s leading
provider of enterprise open Messaging IBM MQ, VMware Red Hat AMQ, Red • Event-driven, Internet
source software solutions, using
a community-powered approach Pivotal RabbitMQ, Hat AMQ Online of Things (IoT)-enabled
to deliver reliable and high- TIBCO (Enterprise healthcare
performing Linux, hybrid cloud, Message Service,
container, and Kubernetes • Reduce single-threading in
technologies. Cloud Messaging), legacy integration engines
Red Hat helps customers integrate Solace PubSub+,
new and existing IT applications, Confluent Platform
develop cloud-native applications,
standardize on our industry- System HPE OneView, Red Hat Satellite, • Simplify systems and
leading operating system, and
automate, secure, and manage management BMC TrueSight Red Hat Insights network management
complex environments. Award- Server Automation, • Compliance automation
winning support, training, and Microsoft System
consulting services make Red using a HIPAA profile
Hat a trusted adviser to the Center Configuration provided by OpenSCAP
Fortune 500. As a strategic Manager, Puppet
partner to cloud providers, system Enterprise
integrators, application vendors,
customers, and open source IT automation HPE XP7 Automation Red Hat Ansible • Simplify systems and
communities, Red Hat can help
organizations prepare for the Director, BMC Automation network management
digital future. TrueSight Server Platform, Red Hat • Compliance automation
Automation, Puppet, Insights using a HIPAA profile
North America Chef, SaltStack
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Europe, Middle East, and Africa
00800 7334 2835 Application Apigee Edge, Red Hat 3scale API Bring security to the API
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programming MuleSoft Anypoint Management endpoints and enable
Asia Pacific interface (API) API Manager, TIBCO business and partner
+65 6490 4200
apac@redhat.com management Cloud Mashery, connectivity through APIs
WS02 API Manager,
Latin America
+54 11 4329 7300 Kong Enterprise
info-latam@redhat.com

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