Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) RHEL Painpoints Solved
What painpoints does RHEL help you solve?
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) helps me solve pain points through vulnerability management, and its Satellite has been a really good tool to help us track vulnerabilities as well as patching the server.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) helps me solve pain points through vulnerability management, and its Satellite has been a really good tool to help us track vulnerabilities as well as patching the server.
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Anton Marquez
Specialist Cloud and Infrastructure at LTI - Larsen & Toubro Infotech
The simplicity of use is a pain point that Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) solves for us. Many other operating systems, from a security vulnerability standpoint, have very rare releases. Red Hat releases monthly patching schedules with vulnerability remediations happening every week.
The simplicity of use is a pain point that Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) solves for us.
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Antoine Ragland
Senior Infrastructure Systems Administrator at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
One of the pain points that Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) helps me solve is security, as RHEL is more secure than Windows.
One of the pain points that Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) helps me solve is security, as RHEL is more secure than Windows.
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RicardoLima
Software developer manager at a educational organization with 1,001-5,000 employees
Scalability has helped my company grow in general by allowing us to handle the inscriptions of students simultaneously. We have to subscribe to tens of thousands of students at the same time, and only with an operating system that has scalability can we accomplish this.
The feature of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) that I appreciate the most is the scalability. Scalability has helped my company grow in general by allowing us to handle the inscriptions of students simultaneously. We have to subscribe to tens of thousands of students at the same time, and only with an operating system that has scalability can we accomplish this.
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John Angeli
Technology, Atc Solutions Engineer I at World Wide Technology
Automation saves time for me as I don't have to keep doing the same tasks repeatedly.
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Benjamin Mccrory
System administrator at a university with 10,001+ employees
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) helps me solve pain points such as support stability, so maintenance and operations are much easier.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) helps me solve pain points such as support stability, so maintenance and operations are much easier.
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Jason Cummings
Senior software engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) helps solve quite a few pain points; I would say that in RHEL 8 to RHEL 9, when they went to AppStreams, it really helped simplify the repository structure and made package management significantly easier.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) helps solve quite a few pain points; I would say that in RHEL 8 to RHEL 9, when they went to AppStreams, it really helped simplify the repository structure and made package management significantly easier.
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Luis Venegas
Infrastructure engineer at Markel
One of the nice pain points that Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) addresses compared to other distributions is the polished applications within it.
One of the nice pain points that Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) addresses compared to other distributions is the polished applications within it. Their repository tends to be more foolproof. The SELinux feature in RHEL is pretty strong. SELinux is not something that I was ever using before in the open source community, and it was very confusing at first; however, after a while, it made sense why that layer exists.
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Shelby Stevenson
Platform engineer at a computer software company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) helps us solve pain points related to stability and documentation. It is very easy to find solutions to problems or access official documentation, whereas with other Debian-based distributions, one often finds themselves searching through random forums.
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ChristianLopez
Team manager at Evertec
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) helps us solve everything, from security compliance to running the core infrastructure of the company.
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Tucker Hewitt
Solutions Architect at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees
The biggest return on investment when using Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is the manpower; it's the ability to automate significant management tasks. That is the biggest ROI on the amount of time we spend managing this system, as we can take that time back and dedicate it to other types of innovation.
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Bill Bentley
Unix & Linux Administrator at a comms service provider with 5,001-10,000 employees
Ansible has helped my company by managing disparate systems, allowing us to configure for specific use cases and providing common configurations, so it helps us wrangle all the disparate situations and configurations that we have across various different product teams in our labs.
View full review »My main use cases are related to Ansible, mostly involving software automation, software installation automation, and data collection.
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Matias Calleja
Technology Leader at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) helps me solve pain points due to their good support team, which usually has quick access to information, resulting in minimal downtime when problems arise.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) helps me solve pain points due to their good support team, which usually has quick access to information, resulting in minimal downtime when problems arise.
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Christopher Johnston
Senior System Engineer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) helps me solve pain points. It's a good server operating system, better than all the alternatives, with full support and stability whereas many other Linux distros may be more flighty and not as stable.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) helps me solve pain points. It's a good server operating system, better than all the alternatives, with full support and stability whereas many other Linux distros may be more flighty and not as stable.
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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) helps us solve pain points. It is much more configurable, increases our performance, allows us more flexibility in management, and the automation for it is much greater.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) helps us solve pain points. It is much more configurable, increases our performance, allows us more flexibility in management, and the automation for it is much greater. It is very stable. Flexibility and ease of use are great.
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Donald Hardy
Network Systems Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) helps us solve pain points. We design our engineering products and need Linux systems to design the products.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) helps us solve pain points. We design our engineering products and need Linux systems to design the products.
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Sheldon Kroner
Director, DevOps at Lightedge Solutions
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) helps us solve pain points such as automation, as well as supporting other file servers using NFS and other kinds of development workloads we're running on it.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) helps us solve pain points such as automation, as well as supporting other file servers using NFS and other kinds of development workloads we're running on it.
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Rodney Raney
Chief engineer at a consultancy with 11-50 employees
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) helps us solve pain points related to security, CVEs, and patching.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) helps us solve pain points related to security, CVEs, and patching.
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Abhay Agrawal
Senior Director at a media company with 10,001+ employees
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) helps me solve pain points related to reliability, stability, and security, mainly.
View full review »Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) helps us solve pain points related to security. We want security, so it is hardened, and just supports us. As a financial institution, we take security very seriously.
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Kirk Brauer
Infotainment Software Engineer at a transportation company with 501-1,000 employees
The features of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) allow our company to standardize our fragmented ecosystem, which consists of a lot of Windows systems and different development environments, so that we can move away from the 'it works on my machine, it doesn't work on your machine' issues.
View full review »Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) helps my company significantly by allowing me to generate reports from it.
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MichaelJones3
IT Solutions Engineer I at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is a great product, and we don't have any major pain points.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is a great product, and we don't have any major pain points.
View full review »Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) helps us solve pain points. It keeps us easily compliant from my perspective with security compliance and streamlines everything in a multi-system environment.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) helps us solve pain points. It keeps us easily compliant from my perspective with security compliance and streamlines everything in a multi-system environment.
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Einar Wågan
Teamansvarlig Serverdrift at a government with 501-1,000 employees
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) has helped me solve pain points by providing significant maintainability compared to other Linux distros.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) has helped me solve pain points by providing significant maintainability compared to other Linux distros. It is very stable and enterprise-ready, giving me substantial stability and manageability.
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Francesco Foresta
Director, Advanced Research & Architecture at a manufacturing company with 501-1,000 employees
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) helps me solve pain points such as security, upgrades, patching, and all that is related to long-term support.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) helps me solve pain points such as security, upgrades, patching, and all that is related to long-term support. The feature I appreciate the most in the newest version is the image mode and the upgrade in an immutable way.
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Ray Ortega
Server administrator at Northrop Grumman
RHEL helps me solve the pain point of feeling disconnected from the community. I've been feeling more involved and considered. Previously, a lot of documentation was for connected instances, and I work for an air-gapped network. Now I appreciate seeing that the documentation actually has disconnected settings. It's neat to be included in there.
View full review »Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) helps us solve pain points by allowing us to offer support for our managed services, including very high service-level agreements in terms of availability and everything around CVEs, which is also what most of our customers are interested in.
View full review »Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) helps us solve pain points by providing tremendous support from our Red Hat representatives. The flexibility that we get through Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and the ability for people to build their own tools as they're working without having to deal with something like PowerShell or hack it through backwards ways in Windows is a real relief.
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Jimmy-Le
Senior Hardware Support Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
I don't have any previous criticisms that RHEL specifically has solved in our use case.
View full review »The main use cases were certifying our product with this OS platform, installing our product on this platform, and identifying the challenges we face, such as memory leak issues or OS-level issues, such as some libraries not being supportive, permission-related issues, or glitches due to different folder structures because the paths vary from Windows. Developers mostly keep Windows in mind as they have Windows laptops for the development environment.
View full review »Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) helps me solve pain points through automation with tools such as Ansible.
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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) helps solve pain points by being very easy to connect to, and it has an easy setup, though I didn't set it up as the DevOps people handled that.
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Syed Qidwai
Linux Engineer at Verizon
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) helps us solve pain points because every script and everything in RHEL is very human-friendly. We can automate processes, make changes according to our needs, edit files, add directories, and implement any modifications. Even in the RPMs, we can make changes according to our application needs, which is very helpful for us.
View full review »Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) helps me solve pain points with all the integrated tools that it brings to us, including all the Ansible Towers that we exceedingly use.
View full review »The features of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) that I most appreciate include the easy package management and the straightforward upgrades. The stability and support are also impressive.
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Bern Pluviose
Devops at Proton Technologies
Red Hat being interoperable and not taking a side is humongous. Every other platform has tricks and questionable behaviors for lock-in. RHEL is the only platform I don't have issues connecting.
There are two big pain points that Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) helps me solve. First, Red Hat being interoperable and not taking a side is humongous. Every other platform has tricks and questionable behaviors for lock-in. RHEL is the only platform I don't have issues connecting. Everyone is running hybrid multi-cloud environments, so the fact that others make their products purposely not work with others is obnoxious. As a professional who has made money making APIs and connectors, those companies being stubborn benefits me financially. However, from an efficiency or executing on an idea standpoint, it's frustrating. The fact that Red Hat isn't that way is excellent. The second aspect I really appreciate, and I don't think they get credit for this, is how Red Hat's interfaces, design choices, and options work very well for producers.
View full review »The patching capacity of RHEL has improved my company significantly. It allows us to stay more in line with our mandates for our infrastructure. I assess the knowledge base offered by RHEL as fantastic.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) helps me solve pain points by being more scalable.
View full review »I see a return on investment from using Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) because patching is very easy; it supports third-party tools such as BMC or BigFix, so it's very time-saving for patching and performing any operation to fetch data from multiple servers.
View full review »Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) makes it easier to manage hybrid environments because it is widely compatible with all kinds of platforms and protocols, allowing integration with various systems. It is very convenient for me since I have both on-premises installations and cloud installations. A few years ago, we transitioned several machines from baremetal systems to the cloud, and the process was very smooth. One of the advantages of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is that it operates consistently across different platforms, meaning you don’t have to change your processes or tools when working with various environments. This reliability is particularly beneficial for my operations.
View full review »it is an open source OS which allows us to modify the system as per our requirements. It is also secure and user-friendly.
View full review »Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) helps me solve pain points because it is a stable platform, so I don't have to fix many issues because we're using Ansible to automate everything. Since we have a very stable environment and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is very stable, we don't have much pain.
View full review »Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) benefits my company overall because compared to other operating systems, it has a lower TCO.
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TonyHe
Vice President at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
The biggest return on investment when using Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is that it's a very stable overall operating system and is really optimized for running Java-based workloads, meaning we can get more workloads done. This stability gives us a consistent performance which translates into a strong SLA service level agreement.
View full review »Related to stability, security, and reliability, the absolute bedrock of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is that it uses rigorously tested, mature software versions. While not always the latest, this ensures zero unexpected changes, which is critical for systems that must run for years without failure. The security hardening includes tools such as SELinux, FirewallD, and SCAP.
View full review »Indirectly, we help other enterprises implement this solution, and I can tell how other enterprises are benefiting. They reduce complexity and achieve faster time to market as they improve efficiency and use these tools to improve their development process. This helps them move faster and release their software as soon as possible.
The reduction in complexity, ease of use, and managing the entire hybrid cloud landscape was easier with this software. Service mesh and Kubernetes support contribute significantly, allowing better handling of complex cloud-native applications efficiently. We use third-party platforms to manage the risks and put the security guardrails in place, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) has its own native security guardrails as well, so we use both.
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G Parvez
Hosting IT Manager at RTX
Certain vendors require that Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) specifically be used, which helps in those cases. Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) provides a certain base set of security features and capabilities that we have found other flavors of Linux do not provide or are required by governmental agencies to meet CMMC controls. The security controls that go above and beyond other types of Linux, along with the manageability from an enterprise perspective, make it valuable.
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