Organizations continue to find themselves at odds with striking the balance between maintaining their Linux operating system environments and the workloads that they support, all while being stretched for time and resources. Making matters more complex is the proliferation of the cloud and next-generation workloads such as AI and ML. As a result, IT departments often find that their Linux environments have become quite unwieldy in terms of the number of distributions that require their support.
IDC conducted research that explored the value and benefits for organizations standardizing on RHEL to simplify the deployment and management of Linux-based workloads and environments.