ABC Cooking Studio in Japan chooses Red Hat for IT flexibility

TOKYO, JAPAN: Red Hat, Inc. announced that ABC Cooking Studio, a rapidly expanding chain of cooking schools in Japan, has chosen Red Hat solutions to virtualize on a flexible IT infrastructure to scale their business and reduce deployment time of new systems by more than 65 percent.

The studio's current virtual environment has 12 virtual machines per server running across a total of five physical servers. The Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization-based virtual environment comprises of 60 operating systems, and plans to raise this server consolidation ratio even higher in the future.

ABC Cooking Studio also deploys Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization. Due to its success with Red Hat's Linux, middleware, and virtualization offerings, the company intends to deploy more Red Hat software in the future.

Shigetoshi Nakamura, Information Systems Group, ABC Cooking Studio, said: "We have high hopes for upcoming versions of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization and Red Hat Storage Server. We will look into those products with keen interest and definitely want to participate in Red Hat user groups so that we can best assess if the products meet our needs prior to purchase."