Red Hat Licensing
Our Red Hat licensing services include establishing your Effective License Position (ELP), optimizing your subscription renewal and supporting you through an audit.
Optimize your Red Hat environment
Red Hat’s enterprise level offering of Linux support services and cloud computing makes it a staple in most IT organizations. However, the licensing elements are often misunderstood resulting in suboptimal spend. At ITAA we offer a range of Red Hat licensing services to help address this.
potential reduction in annual subscription costs
Due to the comparatively low costs of Red Hat subscriptions, optimizing renewals is often deprioritized. However, most modern environments have the potential to reduce annual subscription costs by 10–20% without any excessive administrative overhead.
Key Services
From contract review and compliance assessment through to audit support and renewal optimization – end-to-end Red Hat licensing expertise.
Red Hat Contract Review
Red Hat agreements are often highly customizable in larger organizations, resulting in each agreement being unique. The intricacies of these bespoke agreements can be critical in minimizing annual license costs. Through our Red Hat contract review service, we will provide:
Red Hat Audit Support
While Red Hat’s licensing models may not be the most complex in comparison to most of IBM’s portfolio, the lack of an exact data collection methodology often results in assumptions from ambiguities that are likely to inflate the final position. Our service supports clients through Red Hat audits by:
Red Hat Effective License Position (ELP)
To fully understand your compliance with Red Hat and minimize subscription costs, it is necessary to periodically review the estate. Through our Red Hat ELP service, we will help you understand your environment by guiding you through the data collection process and providing an in-depth report detailing:
Red Hat Renewal Support
Through our ELP service and additional interviews to determine the future plans, we are able to provide comprehensive guidance on your renewal strategy:
Key benefits of our Red Hat licensing service
Understand your license usage
Nobody wants to pay for too many licenses. Regular assessment from our experts will ensure that you don’t have too many, or too few. We’ll identify optimization opportunities, resulting in a potential reduction of your annual fees.
Limit risk & financial consequences
Our independent advice ensures that you do not pay too much for your actual usage, and any non-compliance is reduced as much as possible.
Fully independent advice
Our advice is all 100% independent of any software providers, meaning that we can quickly assess and subsequently minimize the damage of any hidden non-compliance, all without biases. Get to the bottom of what you owe – if anything.
INDUSTRY INSIGHT
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Expert Red Hat contract support
If you’re looking to negotiate a better Red Hat contract for your organization, book a call with one of our experts today.
