Eyes are on clubs in all leagues as they prepare to welcome fans to the fields and stadiums in the coming seasons. The same scrutiny is being applied to tennis, rugby, cricket, and other sports. The clubs and their respective governing bodies want to implement new technologies and practices that help them return to normalcy and keep fans safe. SCC, a Red Hat solution provider, is in talks with a Premier League club for precisely this reason. After further consultation, we realized that containers could be implemented to develop applications that help enrich the fan experience inside and outside the stadium.

SCC has become a hub of innovation for its clients who are embracing hybrid cloud strategies and embracing open source projects like Kubernetes, to deploy new containerized applications at scale across their entire IT infrastructure. This customer-driven model is driving momentum and innovation in different sectors, including sports and stadiums. The timing couldn't be better as sports clubs reopen their turnstiles.

The Red Hat connection.

SCC focuses on consulting with clients to address issues and deliver results. We regularly sit down with our clients to address their "Top 5" concerns. As an integrator and provider of managed IT services, we aim to offer a unified solution. We have our own cloud and SaaS capabilities, and we work with some of the best names in the industry, like Red Hat. 

In 2020, we selected Red Hat OpenShift as our preferred container platform. It allowed us to build our Containers-as-a-Service (CaaS) solution to help clients evolve their businesses and embrace this new modern architecture. CaaS accelerates application development and helps drive innovation. It also gives customers the flexibility to deploy containers on premises or in the cloud, through our Oworx platform. 

This process can be automated using Red Hat's Ansible Automation Platform to manage workflows and deploy containerized applications anywhere through a hybrid cloud infrastructure. With automation, customers can adopt containers faster and easier. We can help them build new infrastructure, but we can also support them with application modernization as they transform into more agile cloud-native businesses.

Innovation gives clubs a sporting opportunity.

Other than a handful of Premier League teams, sports clubs and stadiums have never budgeted for this type of investment before. Therefore, they need the agility of a cloud-native platform that can replace expensive application servers. 

We have the scope to offer a wide range of CaaS use cases through our managed SCC Cloud + platform and our Oworx public cloud solution. Red Hat OpenShift helps our customers adopt Kubernetes, run new workloads, and deploy containerized applications across multiple hybrid cloud architectures.

This agile framework can help sports clubs modernize and address their priorities, while building a new sustainable cloud and IT infrastructure. It provides them with the template to host international tournaments, concerts orother events as we return to a new normal.