There is nothing quite like a Mexican standoff in Red Dead Online. The seeds of distrust in the other players wandering the Wild West of Red Dead Redemption 2's multiplayer are already deep-rooted. Should another outlaw come riding by, you will often stop, casting a wary eye as their horse slows to a trot. Friend or foe? Passer-by or threat? Or a potential target, of course, should you be playing the brigand yourself. As it stand in the Red Dead Online beta, there is no passive mode. If you are out in the world, save for your camp with a white flag raised, you are fair game. And people being people, particularly in online video games, the chances are you will be in for a shock should a villain come a knocking. A chap dressed in fine liveries passes by on the street, waving genially, but still I have my rifle equipped, swinging the camera round as he passes, checking no hands are moving towards holsters. I am right to be wary. A few hours earlier, I had been minding my own … [Read more...] about Red Dead Redemption 2 Online beta impressions: Wild West multiplayer sets fine foundations
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Red Hat Q1 solid, but currency dings outlook
Red Hat delivered another strong quarter as its OpenShift portfolio drove subscriptions and services revenue, but its outlook for the second quarter was light.The company reported first quarter earnings of $113 million, or 59 cents a share, on revenue of $814 million, up 20 percent from a year ago. Non-GAAP earnings for the first quarter checked in at 72 cents a share. Wall Street was looking for non-GAAP first quarter earnings of 69 cents a share on revenue of $807.5 million. CEO Jim Whitehurst said Red Hat saw strong growth in OpenShift as more companies "modernize their applications in Linux containers for their hybrid cloud and digital transformation initiatives."Red Hat's only business plan is to keep changing plans | Lucky 13? Red Hat releases Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13 The number of deals worth more than $1 million grew 48 percent in the quarter. Subscription revenue from infrastructure products was $522 million, up 14 percent from a year ago. Application development … [Read more...] about Red Hat Q1 solid, but currency dings outlook
IBM and Red Hat Join Forces to Accelerate Hybrid Cloud Adoption
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
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