SAN FRANCISCO –- RED HAT SUMMIT--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 8, 2018--IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Red Hat Inc. (NYSE: RHT) today announced a major expansion to their long-standing relationship, which will enable IBM and Red Hat customers to benefit from the combined power of both companies’ technologies in private and public clouds.This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180508005946/en/Red Hat's Paul Cormier, IBM's Arvind Krishna extend the two company's decades-long collaboration to the hybrid cloud. (Photo: Business Wire)The agreement builds on IBM’s recent move to re-engineer its entire software portfolio with containers, including WebSphere, MQ Series and Db2. Container technologies are fast becoming a safe and reliable way to move applications across multiple IT footprints, from existing data centers to the public cloud and vice versa. Going hand-in-hand with IBM’s shift to containerized software, is … [Read more...] about IBM and Red Hat Join Forces to Accelerate Hybrid Cloud Adoption
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IBM and Red Hat look to better combine containers for hybrid cloud deployments
IBM and Red Hat are strengthening their partnership with the goal of better combining containers and hybrid cloud platforms. According to the two companies, IBM will push both Cloud Private and Cloud Private for Data to Red Hat’s OpenShift Container Platform, and Certified Containers.For the two companies’ clients, this means easier coupling of wares in the hybrid cloud.Announcing the extended partnership, IBM and Red Hat said IBM Cloud Private can now deploy containers across Red Hat. Devs can now use IBM’s cloud to build AI, blockchain and IoT solutions, while both companies will serve as an integrated hybrid cloud platform.PowerAI, IBM’s deep learning solution, will also now be available on Red Hat.And at the same time, Red Hat also announced a new member for its Board of Directors. Alfred (Al) W. Zollar will be joining the board, who has served as an executive partner at Siris Capital Group, LLC, since February 2014.He was also serving at IBM in the past, as … [Read more...] about IBM and Red Hat look to better combine containers for hybrid cloud deployments
Red Hat Accelerates Software-Defined Storage Adoption with Red Hat Storage One
RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr 25, 2018--Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the general availability of Red Hat Storage One, a new approach to web-scale enterprise storage aimed at providing customers the convenience of hardware-optimized systems while preserving the flexibility and scale of software-defined storage.Red Hat Storage One is designed to provide more of a plug-and-play approach to the procurement, deployment, and performance tuning of software-defined storage, ushering in a new wave of enterprise storage to meet the varying demands of modern workloads. Red Hat Storage One is a platform of pre-engineered systems, created in close collaboration with Red Hat’s server hardware partners, that delivers tightly packaged workload-optimized storage solutions. The fulfillment and support is offered via Red Hat’s hardware partner ecosystem. Supermicro is the first Red Hat server partner offering a single … [Read more...] about Red Hat Accelerates Software-Defined Storage Adoption with Red Hat Storage One
Red Hat polishes JBoss EAP for a cloud-native future
Red Hat on Monday rolled out a major new release to its JBoss Enterprise Application Platform that's designed to offer better support for containers and cloud-native applications. It's been 10 years since Red Hat acquired JBoss, but much has changed in the technology world since then. Now, JBoss EAP 7 is optimized for cloud environments, Red Hat says. The platform combines Java EE 7 APIs (application programming interfaces) with key DevOps tools, including Red Hat’s JBoss Developer Studio integrated development environment (IDE). Also included are Jenkins, Arquillian, Maven, and support for several Web and JavaScript frameworks. The new release is lightweight and features a small footprint, Red Hat says, making it well-suited for building either traditional or more modular, microservices-style applications. When deployed with Red Hat's OpenShift platform-as-a-service (PaaS), JBoss EAP 7 helps businesses take advantage of containers, load balancing, elastic scaling and … [Read more...] about Red Hat polishes JBoss EAP for a cloud-native future
Red Hat acquires CoreOS for $250 million to double down on Kubernetes
Red Hat announced today that it has reached an agreement to acquire CoreOS, one of the biggest independent players in the Kubernetes ecosystem. It’s a move by the enterprise tech company to bring in more expertise as it builds software that integrates with the popular open source project. The deal is worth $250 million and is expected to close next month. Red Hat said in a press release that it will integrate CoreOS’ offerings into its own products. In addition, the company said it will honor all commitments around support of CoreOS products — both during and after the acquisition — and will continue to support the open source communities that exist around the startup’s offerings. CoreOS was one of the first companies to bet big on containerized software, which uses an execution environment that’s lighter-weight and more isolated than a traditional virtual machine. When Google released its Kubernetes container orchestration project in 2014, … [Read more...] about Red Hat acquires CoreOS for $250 million to double down on Kubernetes