Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Mitigate Downtime
Has Red Hat Enterprise Linux helped to mitigate downtime and lower risk? If yes, please explain how with an example or details.
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Sergio-Maurenzi
Founder & Chief Executive Officer at Peperina Software
The quality of their services is high because they have people internally working on improving features every day.
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RicardoLima
Software developer manager at a educational organization with 1,001-5,000 employees
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) has helped to mitigate downtime and lower risk, though I don't have specific numbers about this.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) has helped to mitigate downtime and lower risk, though I don't have specific numbers about this.
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Tucker Hewitt
Solutions Architect at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees
High availability has been extremely beneficial for us to support. These features benefit our company by providing less downtime.
High availability has been extremely beneficial for us to support. These features benefit our company by providing less downtime. We are not taking downtime to do patching on tier-one systems, and we spend less manpower and time to perform the types of automation and management that would normally take considerable time to accomplish hands-on, resulting in significant time savings.
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Shelby Stevenson
Platform engineer at a computer software company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) has helped to mitigate downtime and lower risks.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) has helped to mitigate downtime and lower risks.
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Luis Venegas
Infrastructure engineer at Markel
The security features of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), including SELinux and its features, make it easier to be aware of compromises. The Insights tool is very good at providing CVEs to alert us about vulnerabilities quickly.
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ChristianLopez
Team manager at Evertec
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) has helped to mitigate downtime and lower risks. While I don't have a specific number, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) has definitely helped in being more stable than other operating systems.
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John Angeli
Technology, Atc Solutions Engineer I at World Wide Technology
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) might have helped to mitigate downtime and lower risk, though I cannot think of a specific example.
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Sean Doyle
Solutions Architect at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) has not helped to mitigate downtime and lower risks any more than any other operating system. The contributing factors of downtime are typically external, whether it's power or networking or storage. In our ecosystem within a Red Hat space, crashes are very infrequent and usually something external.
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Igor Escaleira
Software Engineer at Dell Technologies
Our upgrade and migration plans to stay current with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) involve upgrading our clusters. Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) has helped us to mitigate downtime and lower risk with zero downtime achievement.
View full review »Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) has helped to mitigate downtime and lower risk through our ability to patch quickly, with relatively fast reboot times, and the amount of changes applied that don't affect systems much, especially with patching, so everything works as designed with very little incompatibility issues.
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Anton Marquez
Specialist Cloud and Infrastructure at LTI - Larsen & Toubro Infotech
Red Hat releases monthly patching schedules with vulnerability remediations happening every week. The patching schedule and support we get from Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is beyond any other Linux flavors available. We have a monthly patching cycle for Red Hat and Red Hat releases patches pretty much every week. Many RHSA releases are available for Red Hat. We can do weekly patches. That said, due to downtime considerations, we have controlled it to a monthly schedule. From a security standpoint, our vulnerability scans are clean on the Red Hat side, while with Windows, it's painful to manage the vulnerabilities.
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Troels Hansen
Architect at KnowIT
The stability and reliability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) are very good, even according to what my customers say. We have had very few bugs where the actual operating system was to blame for any problems. There might have been one or two bugs that I could name that influenced our Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) running. It is quite bug-free. It's not perfect, but usually bugs are fixed if you raise a support case. I don't think I've ever seen downtime caused by Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL).
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Matias Calleja
Technology Leader at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We have reduced downtime issues from patching by 30% over the past year, thanks to our TAM who provided a testing site where we can check patching in our test environment first, allowing us to find any issues before they reach production and thereby minimizing impact.
From my point of view, the biggest return on investment when using Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is the meantime to repair issues; with good support, our downtime is practically nothing, which is a significant return for us.
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Christopher Johnston
Senior System Engineer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
Stability is the feature of RHEL that I appreciate the most. Systems remain operational without rebuilds.
My company benefits from these features as our systems must remain operational. When systems go down, it results in significant monetary losses per hour, so having RHEL running and security patches available quicker than other distributions is crucial for maintaining satisfaction.
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Donald Hardy
Network Systems Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) has helped us mitigate downtime and lower risk as we have plenty of extra systems.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) has helped us mitigate downtime and lower risk as we have plenty of extra systems. I don't have an application that's a 24/7 application that I can't shut down.
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Sheldon Kroner
Director, DevOps at Lightedge Solutions
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) has helped to mitigate downtime and lower risk. If there ever is a problem, it's quick to stand up a replacement system.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) has helped to mitigate downtime and lower risk. If there ever is a problem, it's quick to stand up a replacement system. It's pretty lightweight, so I'd much rather deal with a RHEL system any day versus a Windows system. If you compare it to a Windows system, which has a much bigger attack surface, there's a big reduction there.
View full review »Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) has helped me mitigate downtime and lower risks. They specifically thrive on criticism, and they don't take it lightly.
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Kirk Brauer
Infotainment Software Engineer at a transportation company with 501-1,000 employees
The stability and reliability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) seems to be rock solid from our perspective, as we have workloads running continuously 24/7, and the only reason we shut it off is to install a full reboot update or if the workload fails due to our own issues.
View full review »Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) has helped me mitigate downtime and lower risks by about 80%.
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ScottPalmer
Team Lead, Linux Systems & Tools at a tech vendor with 5,001-10,000 employees
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) has definitely helped to mitigate downtime and lower risks. As far as I know, we've not had a service outage with Red Hat in six years. We've had system outages if all systems fail, since we produce a high availability setup, Red Hat has been very stable, and there's been no unplanned downtime.
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Chris Perrault
Systems administrator at a retailer with 501-1,000 employees
Any downtime issues have been related to upstream factors, networking, and power infrastructure. In terms of stability and reliability, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is very stable.
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MichaelJones3
IT Solutions Engineer I at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) definitely helps to mitigate downtime; we reboot our servers twice a year and do our patches, and that helps reduce our risk of exposure to malware, worms, viruses, but also increases our uptime.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) definitely helps to mitigate downtime; we reboot our servers twice a year and do our patches, and that helps reduce our risk of exposure to malware, worms, viruses, but also increases our uptime.
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Jonathan Kyek
Team Lead Riti Research Systems Engineering at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees
Regarding the stability and reliability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), we have systems that we've kept running for years without any downtime, so I have never had a problem with stability or reliability.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) has helped us mitigate downtime and lower risks, as we've utilized virtual machines and process load balancing to minimize issues. While we've had downtime with any systems, there tends to be a lot less with RHEL.
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Einar Wågan
Teamansvarlig Serverdrift at a government with 501-1,000 employees
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) has helped mitigate downtime and lower risk significantly.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) has helped mitigate downtime and lower risk significantly.
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Benjamin Frederick
Staff Security Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) has helped me mitigate downtime and lower risks. Anyone coming from security will tell you that more patches in a timely manner will save you a lot of time.
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Joe Campos
Principle Architect at a logistics company with 10,001+ employees
We don't have specific metrics on how much less risk has been lowered or how much downtime has been mitigated, however, we do keep our systems patched within 30 days of CVE being released, so our risk exposure is quite low.
RHEL has helped to mitigate downtime and lower risks, as we keep RHEL current with patching.
View full review »Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) has helped to mitigate downtime and lower risks since we don't have much downtime when it comes to Red Hat systems; it's quite stable. The stability and reliability of the RHEL platform are good.
View full review »The stability and reliability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) are very good. It's not throwing out mystery patches that break things constantly, as certain other server solutions do, so that stability has been strong because we can say we don't need that patch now, and review them on their own merits.
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DavidSexton
Devsecops Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) definitely helps to mitigate downtime and lower risks through access to AAP.
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Jimmy-Le
Senior Hardware Support Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
I can't say if it has helped to mitigate downtime or lower risks specifically. Everything's so smooth with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) that it's not something we really think about.
I can't say if it has helped to mitigate downtime or lower risks specifically. Everything's so smooth with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) that it's not something we really think about.
View full review »It helps reduce downtime. Overall, it's stable, but it also depends on the type of workload you are running.
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Nagendra Kavadi
Senior Manager at Cognizant
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) has helped us mitigate downtime and lower risk.
View full review »I like that there is no downtime during operations. We work to mitigate downtime, but it typically ranges from two to three hours for upgrades and up to four hours for migration work.
View full review »Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) helps mitigate downtime and lower risk because you can recover.
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Kam Lam
Senior Full Stack Engineer at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) has helped mitigate downtime and lower risk for what we use it for because we use it to host a Docker container and for the development environment. From my standpoint, it has been beneficial because we're using it as a development environment to test out new features, which helps mitigate unwanted bugs.
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Syed Qidwai
Linux Engineer at Verizon
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) has not helped me to mitigate downtime and lower risks.
View full review »Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) has helped me to mitigate downtime and lower risks, though the specific details are confidential at this time.
View full review »In my particular applications, it's not allowed to be down for more than five minutes consecutively, so it's helping me meet my requirement.
View full review »Any time we've had to do a patch update, the patch time is minimal. The risk reduction has been significant.
It's helped us mitigate risk. Any time we've had to do a patch update, the patch time is minimal. The risk reduction has been significant.
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Bern Pluviose
Devops at Proton Technologies
RHEL's advantage lies in its architecture - it's harder to break the system due to its notifications, invisible files, and pre-reboot checks. Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) solves stability problems in two ways: the architecture of the software stack is exceptionally stable, minimizing downtime and risk, and when issues occur, the recovery time is minimal.
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Sreenivas Yedlapalli
Senior Middleware Engineer at a insurance company with 5,001-10,000 employees
From the OS perspective, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is very good at mitigating downtime and lowering risks; however, certain things when bundled with other components show significant dependency.
View full review »Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) has helped mitigate downtime and lower risks because we used a lot of freeware Linux systems before, which posed challenges when bugs came up, leading to struggles when solutions weren't available. With Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and support from Red Hat, if issues arise, we can get quick support and resolution, making it very helpful.
View full review »Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) has helped me to mitigate downtime and lower risks because we have everything in place to mitigate any issues since we have a failover on the other side.
View full review »Its stability and reliability are very good. Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) has helped us to mitigate downtime and lower risks, not necessarily due to its nature but because we design our systems to be highly available.
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TonyHe
Vice President at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Red Hat Enterprise Linux has indeed helped us mitigate downtime and lower risks. We can run for months without needing to reboot, which contributes to its stability.
View full review »I can work with less downtime, and if anything happens, it's very easy and direct to troubleshoot compared to other operating systems.
View full review »RHEL has also helped us mitigate downtime and reduce risks during system changes.
View full review »I noticed fewer outages and less downtime as specific outcomes since we began using Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL).
View full review »Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is really stable. I have not experienced any downtime related to workloads or operating system issues so far.
View full review »Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) has helped to mitigate downtime and lower risk. Our restart used to take considerable time initially, but through optimization, it now takes significantly less time.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) has helped to mitigate downtime and lower risk. Our restart used to take considerable time initially, but through optimization, it now takes significantly less time.
View full review »RHEL has helped mitigate downtime and lower risk with negligible system interruptions.
RHEL has helped mitigate downtime and lower risk with negligible system interruptions.
View full review »Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) has helped to mitigate downtime and lower risk; although it's hard for me to say that I really understand it outside of an analyst report, I can say that I truly believe it has increased uptime based on my experience.
View full review »Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) has helped mitigate downtime and lower risk through high availability solutions and key features that enable network redundancy, allowing us to achieve this.
View full review »There has not been much downtime with the system.
View full review »Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) has helped reduce downtime and lower risks for me. There are rarely crashes or errors.
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