CIQ Customer Stories: How Enterprises Run Rocky Linux from CIQ, HPC, and AI in Production

Real results from the organizations that trust CIQ with mission critical infrastructure. See how global enterprises, high frequency trading firms, manufacturers, and research teams standardize on Rocky Linux, RLC Pro with Long Term Support, Fuzzball, and Warewulf to build systems they never have to think about.

An insurance claims arbitration provider moves off Chef to commercially supported Ansible with Ascender Pro

An insurance claims arbitration provider moves off Chef to commercially supported Ansible with Ascender Pro

A $50M+ nonprofit arbitration provider handling almost $27 billion a year in insurance claims filings replaced Chef with Ascender Pro ahead of the Chef Infra Server end of life, and now runs event-driven remediation, audit-ready reporting, and one control plane across a 650-node on-premises and Azure environment.

Oct 20, 2026
Customer StoryAscender ProAutomationCompliance
A hyperscale GPU cloud provider keeps fleet automation moving with Ascender Pro

A hyperscale GPU cloud provider keeps fleet automation moving with Ascender Pro

A $5B+ hyperscale GPU cloud provider runs its fleet automation, spanning thousands of AMD and NVIDIA nodes and 2.5 million executions a month, on Ascender Pro and Ascender Ledger, with a drop-in Helm migration and real-time compliance and change tracking.

Oct 20, 2026
Customer StoryAscender ProAutomationComplianceAI
A European telecom operator standardizes a three-tier carrier network on RLC Pro

A European telecom operator standardizes a three-tier carrier network on RLC Pro

A European telecom operator, part of a $15B+ global technology group, runs a three-tier Open RAN carrier network, spanning thousands of bare metal servers and hundreds of edge clusters, on RLC Pro with a certified, pinned kernel, CIQ Bridge on legacy CentOS hosts, and a multi-year migration on its own timeline.

Oct 20, 2026
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A university research computing team recovers a failed node in 30 minutes with Warewulf Pro

A university research computing team recovers a failed node in 30 minutes with Warewulf Pro

The research computing team at a $1.3B+ U.S. research university cut compute-node recovery to about 30 minutes and ended dependency chases for a few hundred researchers by standardizing its 222-node cluster on RLC Pro, Warewulf Pro, and Apptainer.

Oct 20, 2026
Customer StoryWarewulf ProRLC ProApptainerHPC
A global data protection vendor builds its Linux backup future on RLC Pro

A global data protection vendor builds its Linux backup future on RLC Pro

A global data backup, disaster recovery, and cyber resilience vendor expanded from Windows into Linux by building its backup repository ISO and infrastructure appliance on RLC Pro, with FIPS 140-3 certified cryptography on a limited footprint CIQ maintains.

Sep 25, 2026
Customer StoryRLC ProSecurityCompliance
FYR Diagnostics builds a production-ready multiomic platform on Fuzzball

FYR Diagnostics builds a production-ready multiomic platform on Fuzzball

FYR Diagnostics partnered with CIQ to give its AI-enabled EV-Omics platform a scalable, reproducible analytics foundation, cutting pipeline onboarding from days to minutes and reaching 100x throughput potential across 8 to 10 multiomic pipeline types.

Sep 23, 2026
Customer StoryFuzzballHPC
Arcee AI selects Fuzzball for portable workload orchestration at frontier scale

Arcee AI selects Fuzzball for portable workload orchestration at frontier scale

Arcee AI, the U.S. model lab behind the Trinity family, selected Fuzzball to coordinate compute intensive model development workloads across cloud, GPU provider, and on premises environments, while its team keeps control of its models, data, and training and inference stack.

Sep 15, 2026
Customer StoryFuzzballAIHPC
NASA’s Flight Sciences Lab runs its most demanding missions on RLC Pro

NASA’s Flight Sciences Lab runs its most demanding missions on RLC Pro

The Flight Sciences Lab at NASA’s Johnson Space Center runs 28,000 cores of mission critical HPC on Rocky Linux and RLC Pro, supporting Artemis II reentry modeling, ISS operations, and real time analysis for Mission Control.

Aug 7, 2026
Customer StoryRLC ProHPCCompliance
A Fortune 500 digital payments company cut licensing costs without disrupting production

A Fortune 500 digital payments company cut licensing costs without disrupting production

With more than 3,000 nodes in a mission critical Linux estate, a Fortune 500 global digital payments company moved to RLC Pro and cut OS licensing costs by more than 40%, with zero disruption to production.

Aug 7, 2026
Customer StoryRLC Pro
A global high frequency trading firm commits three years of production Linux to RLC Pro

A global high frequency trading firm commits three years of production Linux to RLC Pro

With 16,000 servers and its own kernel engineers, a global financial services firm running high frequency trading standardized production Linux on RLC Pro with Long Term Support, and committed three years to CIQ.

Jul 21, 2026
Customer StoryRLC ProComplianceSecurity
Enterprise Infrastructure Stability with CIQ Rocky Linux LTS

Enterprise Infrastructure Stability with CIQ Rocky Linux LTS

Challenge and Opportunity One of the largest credit card providers faced significant challenges with the infrastructure underpinning their expansive data center operations, which includes over 20,00…

Customer StoryRLC ProCompliance
Scaling HPC on Rocky Linux with CIQ

Scaling HPC on Rocky Linux with CIQ

Challenge and Opportunity A leading AI and cloud data platform is known for handling massive data loads with high-speed processing and low-latency and needed an operating system that could match its…

Customer StoryRLC ProHPC