Automate & Optimize - Red Hat Alliance Guide

Explore the Modernization Route

Modernize today. Build for what’s next.

Explore how Red Hat OpenShift combines with alliance solutions from Cisco and NetApp to support modernization, virtualization, data, and infrastructure strategies.

Connect the
Ecosystem

Create a more consistent environment for managing virtual machines, containers, and modern applications.

Bring Workloads Together

Support customers moving beyond traditional infrastructure and virtualization models with a more adaptable application platform.

Modernize Infrastructure

Help customers rethink how applications, virtual machines, and infrastructure come together as they prepare for a more flexible hybrid cloud future.

Modernize & Transform

ROUTE 02

Explore the Automation Route

Less manual work. More consistency. Greater opportunity.

Explore how Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform works alongside alliance technologies from Cisco and Splunk to address real operational challenges.

Connect the Ecosystem

Create repeatable automation workflows that help standardize processes across datacenter, cloud, network, and other environments.

Improve Consistency

Automate routine infrastructure and application tasks to reduce manual effort and help teams work more efficiently.

Simplify Operations

Help customers turn repetitive, manual processes into more consistent, scalable operations across increasingly complex IT environments.

Automate & Optimize

ROUTE 01

Choose Your Route

One foundation. Multiple routes forward.

RHEL helps you modernize at your pace, supporting cloud, hybrid, and edge environments without disruption.

Move Toward Modernization

Use RHEL as a launchpad for automation, increasing efficiency, reducing complexity, and doing more with less.

Expand into
Automation

RHEL delivers a stable, secure, and consistent platform to run, connect, and scale your environment with confidence.

Build from a Common Foundation

Red Hat solutions don’t operate in isolation. Red Hat Enterprise Linux provides the underlying foundation that supports the next stage of your customer journey — toward automation, modernization, or both.

Why Begin with RHEL?

YOUR STARTING POINT

Real Results

Learn how these solution paths can help partners identify customer opportunities, connect the right technologies, and build stronger outcomes with TD SYNNEX and Red Hat.

Hybrid Cloud

See how Red Hat technologies extend into cloud environments with AWS and Microsoft Azure to help customers build more flexible, connected strategies.

Modernization

Explore how Red Hat OpenShift connects with alliance solutions to support application modernization, virtualization strategies, and infrastructure transformation.

Automation

Discover how Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform works with alliance technologies to help customers reduce complexity, improve consistency, and streamline operations.

This guide is designed to help TD SYNNEX partners explore how Red Hat technologies connect with key alliance solutions to support customer opportunities across automation, modernization, and hybrid cloud.

Your guide to what's ahead

What You’ll Explore

Continue to the Foundation

Explore the Opportunity

Automate more. Operate consistently. Make room for what’s next.

As customer environments expand across infrastructure, networks, cloud, and edge, routine work becomes harder to manage consistently. Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform helps customers simplify operations, reduce manual effort, and create more repeatable processes — while opening new opportunities across the alliance ecosystem.

ROUTE 1

Drive efficiency. Reduce complexity. Do more with less.

Automate & Optimize

IT teams are being asked to manage more complexity without always gaining more resources.

Challenge

Growing Demands

Disconnected tools and one-off processes can create operational risk and inefficiency.

Challenge

Inconsistent Operations

Too much repetitive work slows teams down and consumes valuable IT resources.

Challenge

Manual
Processes

Explore the Automation Route

Less manual work. More consistency. Greater opportunity.

Explore how Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform works alongside alliance technologies from Cisco and Splunk to address real operational challenges.

Connect the Ecosystem

Create repeatable automation workflows that help standardize processes across datacenter, cloud, network, and other environments.

Improve Consistency

Automate routine infrastructure and application tasks to reduce manual effort and help teams work more efficiently.

Simplify Operations

Help customers turn repetitive, manual processes into more consistent, scalable operations across increasingly complex IT environments.

Automate & Optimize

ROUTE 01

Explore the Alliance Advantage

Automation becomes even more powerful when the right technologies work together.

See how Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform connects with key alliance technologies to address real customer opportunities.

Manual processes, inconsistent operations, and growing demands can make increasingly complex environments harder to manage. Automation provides a more repeatable way forward.

TODAY’S REALITY

Complex environments create bigger challenges.

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Partner Opportunity: Help Splunk customers move from manual response to automated action (Visibility → Insight → Automated Action).

Faster remediation
Reduced manual intervention
Lower mean time to resolution
More consistent and auditable response
Greater operational resilience

Once an event is validated, Ansible can trigger a governed remediation playbook — from restarting services and updating configurations to scaling resources or updating ITSM tickets. Role-based access and audit trails help keep execution controlled and accountable.

Customer Value:

Move Toward
Closed-Loop Operations

Reduce manual triage
Trigger consistent responses
Apply automation only when predefined conditions are met

The Red Hat Event-Driven Ansible Add-on for Splunk can send critical Splunk events directly into Ansible Automation Platform.

Ansible Rulebooks evaluate the event and determine the appropriate automated response — connecting Splunk detection directly to pre-defined operational workflows. The official add-on supports operational and security events and can trigger Ansible rulebooks and playbooks.

Customer Value:

Turn Events into
Automated Decisions

Less alert noise
Better incident context
Faster identification of meaningful operational issues

Splunk ITSI and Splunk Observability help teams reduce alert noise by correlating events and providing context around the services and systems affected.

Instead of operators investigating hundreds of individual alerts, Splunk can surface a more actionable incident with the information needed to determine what should happen next.

Customer Value:

Detect and Prioritize
What Matters

Splunk helps customers understand what is happening across complex IT environments. Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform gives them a way to act on those insights automatically.

Together, Splunk ITSI and Splunk Observability can identify and correlate operational issues, while Event-Driven Ansible evaluates those events and launches predefined automation in response. The result is a path from insight to governed action rather than another alert waiting for manual intervention.

Close the Gap Between Detection and Action

SPLUNK + RED HAT

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Partner Opportunity: Ansible helps Cisco teams reduce manual work, drift, and compliance complexity.

policy and configuration changes
compliance enforcement
configuration-drift remediation
patching and Day-2 workflows
hybrid-cloud infrastructure operations

The Cisco + Red Hat story can expand beyond initial provisioning into ongoing infrastructure operations.

Customers can use automation for activities such as:

Automate Across the Operational Lifecycle

Faster infrastructure provisioning
Consistent server configurations
Reduced operational risk
Faster time-to-value

Cisco UCS and Intersight combine with Ansible Automation Platform to automate server and infrastructure provisioning that would otherwise rely on manual tickets and repetitive setup.

Cisco Validated Designs can incorporate Ansible and Infrastructure as Code principles to create more standardized, repeatable deployment processes.

Customer Value:

Zero-Touch Datacenter Operations

Faster network changes and deployments
Reduced configuration drift
More standardized configurations
Improved compliance and audit readiness
A practical path toward Infrastructure as Code

Network teams often spend significant time manually configuring devices, updating policies, managing changes, and validating compliance.

With Ansible Automation Platform and Cisco technologies such as ACI, Nexus, Catalyst, and SD-WAN, teams can automate provisioning, configuration, and lifecycle management through reusable workflows.

Customer Value:

Network Automation & Infrastructure as Code

Cisco and Red Hat bring together Cisco networking and datacenter infrastructure with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform to help customers replace manual, ticket-driven processes with repeatable automation.

Certified Ansible integrations support automation across Cisco environments including ACI, Nexus, Catalyst, SD-WAN, UCS, and Intersight — giving infrastructure teams a practical path toward Infrastructure as Code and more consistent operations.

Turn Cisco Infrastructure into a More Automated, Repeatable Environment

CISCO + RED HAT

Detect • Decide • Respond

Connect Splunk observability and operational intelligence with Event-Driven Ansible to automatically trigger governed response and remediation workflows.

SPLUNK + RED HAT

Turn Splunk Insights into Automated Action

Explore the Splunk Alliance Story

Connect Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform with Cisco networking and datacenter technologies to automate provisioning, configuration, policy, and lifecycle operations.

cisco + Red Hat

Network Automation • Infrastructure as Code • Zero-Touch Operations

Automate Cisco
Infrastructure at Scale

Explore the Cisco Alliance Story

Explore the Automation Route

Less manual work. More consistency. Greater opportunity.

Explore how Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform works alongside alliance technologies from Cisco and Splunk to address real operational challenges.

Connect the Ecosystem

Create repeatable automation workflows that help standardize processes across datacenter, cloud, network, and other environments.

Improve Consistency

Automate routine infrastructure and application tasks to reduce manual effort and help teams work more efficiently.

Simplify Operations

Help customers turn repetitive, manual processes into more consistent, scalable operations across increasingly complex IT environments.

Automate & Optimize

ROUTE 01

One route explored. More possibilities ahead.

Return to Route Selection

Explore Modernization

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform becomes even more valuable when connected with the technologies customers already rely on. Explore how Red Hat works with Cisco and Splunk to extend automation into real operational environments.

ALLIANCE ADVANTAGE

Stronger Together: Cisco + Splunk