Five pillars of the modern enterprise — Linux, application containers, virtual machine modernization, IT automation, and artificial intelligence. All delivered by a certified Red Hat partner in Saudi Arabia.
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50+Projects Delivered
30+Business Clients
5+Years in Saudi Market
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Red Hat Solutions
Five Red Hat platforms we deliver.
Each platform solves a distinct enterprise challenge. Together they form a complete, open source foundation for IT in Saudi Arabia.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
The trusted foundation for enterprise IT in Saudi Arabia. RHEL delivers a stable, security hardened Linux platform with a 10 year support lifecycle, certified for the most demanding production workloads.
10 year extended lifecycle
Kernel live patching with zero downtime
Built in compliance and security tooling
Certified for SAP, Oracle, and major enterprise apps
The enterprise application platform built on Kubernetes. OpenShift lets your teams build, deploy, and scale containerised applications with production grade security, developer tooling, and full lifecycle automation.
Run virtual machines and containers on the same platform. OpenShift Virtualization lets you migrate existing VMs into OpenShift and manage them alongside containerised workloads — consolidating your operations and cutting hypervisor costs.
Automate server provisioning, patching, configuration management, and network operations at scale. Ansible Automation Platform gives your teams a shared, governed automation engine that works across every layer of your infrastructure.
Enterprise grade artificial intelligence on your own infrastructure. Red Hat AI includes OpenShift AI for building and serving models, and RHEL AI for running large language models on bare metal — without cloud dependency.
OpenShift AI for complete model lifecycle management
Red Hat AI brings large language models and machine learning operations to your own data center. No cloud dependency. Your data stays within your environment.
OpenShift AI
Build, train, and serve AI models at scale.
OpenShift AI is a complete MLOps platform for data scientists and ML engineers. It runs on OpenShift and provides everything needed to go from a notebook experiment to a production model serving endpoint.
Jupyter notebooks for model development
Kubeflow Pipelines for training automation
KServe for model serving at scale
Model registry and version management
NVIDIA GPU operator integration
RHEL AI
Run foundation models on bare metal.
RHEL AI is a bootable image that ships RHEL, InstructLab, and Granite foundation models from IBM as a single unit. Deploy on your own servers and start running AI inference immediately — no cloud account required.
Granite LLM models included out of the box
InstructLab for fine tuning on your own data
Runs on standard x86 servers with GPU support
Air gapped deployment for sensitive environments
Full Red Hat enterprise support included
OpenShift Virtualization
Move your VMs to OpenShift.
OpenShift Virtualization lets you run virtual machines directly on OpenShift alongside your containers. It is the natural migration path for organizations looking to consolidate away from traditional hypervisors without re-architecting their entire application estate first.
Your existing Windows and Linux VMs run inside OpenShift using KVM. You get live migration, high availability, and storage integration — managed through the same OpenShift console as your containerised workloads.
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Assessment
We audit your current VM estate and identify which workloads are ready to move and which need preparation.
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Migration
We use the Migration Toolkit for Virtualization to move VMs from your existing hypervisor into OpenShift with minimal disruption.
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Validation and Handover
Every migrated VM is tested, documented, and handed over with runbooks for your operations team.
What OpenShift Virtualization replaces
Traditional hypervisors Consolidate VM and container operations onto one platform
Separate management tools One console for VMs, containers, networking, and storage
High per socket licensing costs Predictable Red Hat subscription pricing with no surprise fees
Vendor lock in Open standards with no proprietary hypervisor dependency
Our Partnership
Authorized. Certified. Supported.
BustanTech is an official Red Hat partner. That means certified engineers, genuine products, and support backed by the people who built the technology.
We do not just resell Red Hat products. We are qualified to design, deploy, and support them. When something goes wrong, you are not dealing with a middleman.
Why Choose BustanTech
The IT Infrastructure Company Saudi Businesses Trust.
Official Certified Partners
Authorized by Microsoft, Cisco, Red Hat, Aruba, Hikvision, and Acronis. Certified design, deployment, and support.
Riyadh Based IT Team
Based in Riyadh, serving all of Saudi Arabia. On site visits, same timezone, no offshore delays.
Support After Project Completion
We stay reachable long after handover. A real engineer who knows your setup is always a call away.
Under 4 Hour Response Time
Managed clients get a committed response within 4 hours. No waiting, no guessing.
Client Reviews
IT Infrastructure Projects Delivered Across Saudi Arabia.
"BustanTech redesigned our entire office network in three days with zero downtime. They were reachable at every step even after the job was done."
"They built our server room from scratch, on schedule and within budget. The documentation they handed over was better than anything we had seen before."
Fatima Al-ZahraniIT ManagerAl-Madinah Medical Group
"We are a startup and they treated us like a big client. Full office IT setup, done right and they still pick up the phone six months later."
Sara Al-GhamdiFounder and CEOJeddah Tech Startup
Frequently Asked Questions
Red Hat Questions Answered.
RHEL is the most widely deployed enterprise Linux platform in the world. It provides a stable, security hardened operating system with a 10 year maintenance lifecycle, professional support from Red Hat, and certifications for thousands of enterprise applications including SAP, Oracle, and Microsoft SQL Server. For Saudi organisations running production workloads, RHEL means you have a supported, compliant platform with a clear roadmap.
CentOS 7 reached end of life in June 2024 and no longer receives security patches. Running these servers in production means your environment is accumulating unpatched vulnerabilities every day. Your options are to convert in place to RHEL using Red Hat's official convert2rhel tool — which preserves your data and applications — then upgrade to RHEL 8 or RHEL 9, or to rebuild servers fresh onto the current RHEL release. We assess your environment and recommend the least disruptive path for each workload before touching anything.
Yes. Red Hat provides an official tool called convert2rhel that converts a running CentOS, Oracle Linux, or CentOS Stream system to RHEL without reinstalling the operating system. Your files, applications, and configurations remain intact. The conversion replaces CentOS packages with their RHEL equivalents, registers the server with Red Hat Subscription Manager, and applies all current RHEL errata. We run pre-conversion checks on every server before starting and validate the system fully after completion. The process typically takes 30 to 60 minutes per server plus a single reboot.
RHEL is the commercial product with a 10 year lifecycle and professional support from Red Hat. CentOS Stream is the upstream development branch for RHEL — it receives updates before RHEL does, which makes it less stable and unsuitable for production. AlmaLinux and Rocky Linux are community rebuilds of RHEL source code offered at no cost. They are more stable than CentOS Stream but come without commercial support, without Red Hat application certifications, and without a guaranteed long term update commitment. For production systems where stability, support, and compliance matter, RHEL is the right answer.
The convert2rhel process runs in place and requires one reboot at the end. Applications continue running through most of the conversion. Total downtime is typically limited to the reboot itself — around 5 to 10 minutes for most servers. We always validate on a staging environment first to confirm application compatibility before touching production. For mission critical systems we schedule conversions in maintenance windows with a tested rollback snapshot in place. Customers are consistently surprised at how straightforward it is.
CentOS 8 reached end of life in December 2021. If you are still running CentOS 8, migration to RHEL 8 is urgent. The convert2rhel path works the same way as for CentOS 7 — in place conversion without data loss. CentOS Stream is the continuous development branch of RHEL and not appropriate for stable production workloads. We recommend converting Stream systems to RHEL to get a stable, supported release channel. In both cases the conversion process is the same and we handle the full process for you.
OpenShift is enterprise Kubernetes. Where standard Kubernetes gives you the container orchestration engine, OpenShift adds a developer portal, built in CI/CD pipelines, role based access control, integrated monitoring, and a supported upgrade path managed by Red Hat. The result is a platform your developers and operations teams can actually use in production without building all the supporting tooling themselves.
Red Hat provides the Migration Toolkit for Virtualization (MTV), an OpenShift operator that connects directly to your VMware vCenter. It discovers your full VM inventory, maps storage and network resources to OpenShift equivalents, and orchestrates the conversion of each VM. For each migration, MTV copies the VM disk in OpenShift compatible format and starts the VM on KVM inside OpenShift. The VM keeps its IP address, hostname, and all installed software. Cold migration shuts the VM down during transfer. Warm migration uses VMware Change Block Tracking to copy data while the VM is still running, reducing cutover time to under 10 minutes per VM.
The large majority of standard workloads migrate cleanly. Windows Server VMs, Linux application servers, and database VMs all run well on KVM inside OpenShift. Workloads that require VMware specific hardware passthrough, NVIDIA vGPU, or deep vSAN integration need additional planning. Before we start any migration we run a full inventory assessment using the Migration Assessment tool to categorise every VM by migration complexity. In our experience, over 90 percent of typical enterprise VMs migrate with no application changes required.
OpenShift Virtualization covers all core hypervisor operations: VM provisioning and lifecycle, live migration between nodes, snapshots, cloning, storage integration, and high availability via node health checks. vSphere DRS automated workload balancing is handled by OpenShift scheduling policies. vSAN is replaced by OpenShift Data Foundation or your existing storage backend over standard CSI drivers. NSX network virtualisation is replaced by OpenShift SDN or OVN Kubernetes. During our assessment phase we map every VMware capability your team depends on to its OpenShift equivalent so there are no surprises at cutover.
Yes — this is the recommended approach and how every migration we run is structured. OpenShift Virtualization is deployed on new infrastructure or available capacity while your existing VMware environment stays live. We migrate workloads in batches, validate each batch fully, and only decommission VMware hosts once you have confirmed everything is running correctly in OpenShift. The transition period runs at whatever pace suits your team — weeks or months depending on environment size. This phased approach removes the risk of a forced cutover and lets your staff get comfortable with the new platform gradually.
Once your workloads are fully running in OpenShift Virtualization you stop renewing your VMware subscriptions. There is no decommission fee or penalty for not renewing. The OpenShift subscription covers the hypervisor, the container platform, and the management tooling in a single per-core subscription from Red Hat. Many organisations find the OpenShift subscription cost is significantly lower than their previous VMware spend, particularly following the VMware licensing changes introduced after the Broadcom acquisition.
Ansible Automation Platform adds the Automation Controller (formerly Ansible Tower), which gives your team a web interface, role based access, audit logs, credential management, scheduled jobs, and a REST API on top of the core Ansible engine. It also includes Automation Hub for sharing certified automation content, and Event Driven Ansible for triggering playbooks in response to real time events from your monitoring or ticketing systems.
Red Hat AI has two components. OpenShift AI is a platform for data scientists to build, train, and serve machine learning models — it runs on OpenShift. RHEL AI is a bootable image that includes RHEL, InstructLab, and IBM Granite foundation models, designed to run on your own servers so you can do AI inference and model fine tuning completely on premises. Both are available with full Red Hat enterprise support.
InstructLab is an open source tool included with RHEL AI that lets you add new knowledge and skills to a foundation model without retraining it from scratch. You provide your own documents and examples in a structured format, run the InstructLab training pipeline on your hardware, and produce a customised model that answers questions about your specific domain. The process runs entirely on your own infrastructure so your proprietary data never leaves your environment.
Red Hat products are sold as annual subscriptions. RHEL is priced per physical server (socket pair). OpenShift is priced per core. Ansible Automation Platform is priced per managed node. As an authorized Red Hat partner in Saudi Arabia we help you size the right subscription tier, process local procurement, manage renewals, and maintain compliance across your full estate.
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