Online Jewelry Retailer Restructures IT Infrastructure with Red Hat Technologies

RALEIGH, N.C. - (BUSINESS WIRE) - Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that online jewelry retailer Ice has deployed Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, on Amazon Web Services (AWS), as part of an initiative to restructure its IT infrastructure to overcome operations challenges that were limiting the company's growth and profitability. The solution was designed to reduce IT costs and enable the company to respond to new market opportunities quickly and efficiently.

The combination of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform and AWS has helped Ice better serve existing customers while exploring new market opportunities. As an e-commerce retailer, scalability, support and mobile capabilities were top of mind for CIO and COO, Jason Ordway, who led the initiative.

"Our existing system simply didn't support the needs of the business. Its limitations were felt throughout the company," said Ordway. "We needed to set a new direction for the company that would allow us to do what we needed to do as a growing business while also reducing IT expenditures. Red Hat's open source solutions offered us the flexibility and support we needed to achieve these goals."