Red Hat customers many of whom were interviewed said that their choice to invest in paid Red Hat solutions, such as Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Satellite, and Red Hat Insights, was massively valuable because it allowed them to build more effective, affordable, and high-performing IT infrastructures for their companies than they could have done with free, unsupported open-source alternatives.

Impact on it, security, and development activities:

• 32% more efficient IT infrastructure team
• 56% more efficient security team
• 16% more productive development team
• 21% fewer number of servers
• 65% less time to identify security risk
• 35% less time development life cycle

Business and performance benefits:

• 81% less unplanned downtime
• $9.23M average revenue gain per year
• $21,200 average productivity and revenue gains per year per 100 users