Customer story
A Fortune 500 digital payments company cut licensing costs without disrupting production
With more than 3,000 nodes in a mission-critical Linux estate, the company moved to RLC Pro and cut OS licensing costs by more than 40%, with zero disruption to production.
40%+
Lower OS licensing costs
Across a mission-critical production estate
3,000+
Nodes migrated
Moved to RLC Pro across the estate
0
Disruption to production
No downtime to transaction workloads
100%
RHEL binary compatibility
No application rebuilds, no recertification
The deployment, CIQ products, and business results
How RLC Pro cut the licensing bill on a payments estate that cannot go down.
- Customer
- A Fortune 500 global financial services and digital payments company (name withheld)
- Industry
- Digital payments, financial services infrastructure
- Environment
- A large, mission-critical Linux estate across more than 3,000 nodes
- CIQ products
- Rocky Linux from CIQ Pro (RLC Pro)
- Result
- More than 40% reduction in OS licensing costs, zero disruption to production workloads, and an expanding multi-year partnership
The story in brief
This customer runs a mission-critical digital payments estate with zero tolerance for disruption, and it needed to cut a rising RHEL bill without adding risk. It moved to RLC Pro: full RHEL binary compatibility, enterprise SLA-backed support, and licensing built for long-term planning instead of a one-off renewal.
“The licensing savings got us in the door. What kept us expanding is that CIQ delivers the same reliability we had before, at a cost structure we can actually plan around.”
Why this matters beyond one digital payments company
The same things that made a zero-downtime payments migration possible hold for any estate that has already certified its applications.
Full RHEL binary compatibility.
Nothing gets rebuilt, nothing gets recertified.
Enterprise support backed by a defined SLA.
The same reliability posture you already require, without the RHEL price tag.
Licensing built for long-term planning.
A support relationship structured for expansion, not a contract you renegotiate every cycle.
Evaluate RLC Pro for your environment
RLC Pro for regulated and high-availability production environments
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RLC Pro Hardened: compliance and OS-level hardening
LKRG, the FIPS 140-3 delivery model, DISA STIG and CIS compliance, and the full OS-level hardening feature set from the CIQ Linux Security team.
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