Herzog Technologies Drives Intelligent Railway Safety Solution with Red Hat
13 September 2016 - 11:00PM
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Red Hat’s open technologies power the
Internet-of-Things (IoT) foundation for Herzog’s cloud-based
positive train control (PTC) solution
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open
source solutions, today announced that Herzog Technologies, a
leader in the railroad signal and communications industry, has
launched a cloud-based positive train control (PTC) solution using
Red Hat technologies. The enterprise-grade foundation of Red Hat
Enterprise Linux provides the backend to the complex IoT system
required for the intelligence and dynamism expected of PTC, while
Red Hat CloudForms and Red Hat Satellite help Herzog with systems
management and compliance. Combined, Red Hat’s powerful open source
technologies are helping Herzog provide railroads with the ability
to more quickly adopt PTC technology, helping to enable safer and
more efficient rail transportation.
A highly-advanced system that is designed to stop trains before
certain types of accidents can occur, PTC is aimed at making rail
transportation safer and is the focus of a rail safety initiative1
in the United States, backed by Congressional mandate. Railroads,
particularly smaller carriers, however, may struggle to implement
PTC due to the financial and technical burdens required to fully
deploy a complete, on-premise solution, which can include large
sensor networks and significant computing resources. To help meet
the requirements of these railroads, Herzog Technologies saw a need
for a more cost-effective, open source and cloud-based PTC
offering.
Herzog chose to build its new PTC solution on a private cloud
powered by Red Hat Enterprise Linux and managed by Red Hat
Satellite and Red Hat CloudForms. The leading enterprise Linux
platform allows for easier scaling for IoT-type network deployments
and helps minimize the hosting footprint in Herzog’s datacenter,
thanks to the flexible, stable foundation that it provides. Red Hat
CloudForms, an award-winning open hybrid cloud management platform,
has helped Herzog transform their existing virtualized
infrastructure into a private cloud, through its on-demand scaling
functionality. Red Hat Satellite helps Herzog maintain greater
platform security and compliance with various regulatory standards,
as well as manage their software lifecycle from testing through
production. Herzog also worked with Red Hat Consulting to help
bring their new offering to market.
With their new cloud-based PTC solution built on Red Hat
technologies, Herzog has experienced:
- The potential for more market
opportunities by bringing a cloud-based PTC offering to a new
customer segment, enabled by Red Hat’s experience in delivering
open, flexible technologies for the rail industry.
- Higher efficiency for Herzog’s
complex, hybrid IT environment, provided by the management and
automation capabilities of Red Hat CloudForms and Red Hat
Satellite.
- Improved costs thanks to the
open source nature of Red Hat’s solutions (hosted solutions for
rail) via intelligent IoT networks.
Supporting Quotes
Jim Totton, vice president and general manager, Platforms
Business Unit, Red Hat“Our work with Herzog shows how Red Hat helps
organizations across industries move to the hybrid cloud and
embrace an IT environment that can drive real business value and
results while remaining dynamic, highly scalable and more secure.
By basing its cloud-based PTC solution on Red Hat Enterprise Linux
and our hybrid management technologies, Herzog can deliver the
mission-critical reliability and flexibility needed to drive the
sophisticated, intelligent networks to help modern railways enhance
safety and transportation efficiency.”
Travis Rollings, director, Office Systems, Herzog
Technologies“Red Hat realizes that we’re all working toward the
same goal. Without Red Hat, launching this solution would have been
a far more complex undertaking, and we would not have been able to
onboard new customers as quickly.”
Additional Resources
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Herzog Technologies launch the rail industry’s first hosted PTC
solution
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