SBS and Red Hat advance hybrid cloud solutions for financial institutions

By Gloria Methri

SBS has announced a new collaboration with Red Hat, the provider of enterprise open-source solutions, to propel banks and financial institutions into their digital futures. Combining SBS’s deep expertise in the financial services space with Red Hat OpenShift, the collaboration will help equip financial institutions with the modern architectures they need to quickly deploy and scale cloud-based software applications within their existing infrastructures.

As banks and financial institutions embrace digitisation, the vast majority (90%) are taking a hybrid approach to migrating their operations to cloud-based architectures. This means that instead of overhauling their entire infrastructure at once, they can leverage both their existing on-premise systems and new public cloud offerings in a single environment.

Preserving these on-premise infrastructures is especially critical in the financial services industry where internal systems have been built in compliance with strict regulations around data privacy and security.

SBS will leverage the cloud-native framework delivered through Red Hat OpenShift to power its next-generation offerings. This hybrid cloud approach can enable banks and financial institutions to achieve greater flexibility, scalability and agility using Red Hat OpenShift infrastructure without disrupting their existing internal systems or data.

“Working with Red Hat underscores our commitment to guiding our clients through their digital transformation journeys, which for many begins with cloud migration,” said Eric Bierry, CEO of SBS. “With Red Hat OpenShift, we are giving our clients the flexibility to leverage a cloud-agnostic strategy with a fully managed application platform. It is a strategic play for institutions that want to benefit from the cloud while still addressing security and compliance requirements for their critical data.”

Utilising Red Hat OpenShift will help SBS further its work to deliver financial software solutions that are tailored to local regulations and requirements in each of the 80+ markets it serves.

“We are pleased to collaborate with SBS, which is deeply engaged with financial services institutions in the region, to help address the application development needs of the financial sector,” said Penny Philpot, EMEA Ecosystems Vice President at Red Hat. “We look forward to providing financial institutions with a more flexible, scalable path to modernizing their infrastructures on Red Hat OpenShift.”

SBS’s relationship with Red Hat builds on a foundation established by its former parent company and now partner, Sopra Steria. As a Red Hat Premier Business Partner in multiple European countries, Sopra Steria has been driving digital transformation and modernisation offerings using Red Hat technologies for years.