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IBM and Red Hat join forces to
accelerate hybrid cloud adoption
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IBM and Red Hat expand
collaboration to target
hybrid cloud sector
through technology and
services integration.
This extended collaboration is already
available to customers, as organisations with
eligible Red Hat subscriptions can currently
use their Red Hat OpenShift Container
Platform subscriptions on IBM Cloud via the
Red Hat Cloud Access solution.
The companies will also partner to provide
joint consultancy and implementation
services through the IBM Garage and Red
Hat Consulting and the solution will be
supported by world-class IBM Technology
support services and Red Hat Services.
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BM and Red Hat have announced a
major expansion to their long-standing
relationship, which will enable IBM
and Red Hat customers to benefit from
the combined power o f both companies’
technologies in private and public clouds.
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 centres to the public cloud and vice versa.
Going hand-in-hand with IBM’s shift
to containerised software, is Red Hat’s
expansive portfolio of enterprise-grade,
cloud-native, and hybrid cloud infrastructure
solutions, which, when combined, provide a
clear pathway for enterprises to adopt hybrid
cloud computing.
Through the agreement, IBM and Red Hat
customers can now:
• Maximise their existing technology
investments and move them more easily
to the hybrid cloud with IBM Cloud
Private and Red Hat OpenShift serving as
the common foundation
• Build and deploy containerised applications
on one single, integrated container
platform IBM Cloud Private providing a
single view of all enterprise data
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Paul Cormier, President, Products and
Technologies, Red Hat
• Allow developers to design, modernise
and deploy new applications more
quickly while taking advantage of IBM’s
cloud-based services such as artificial
intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT)
and blockchain with IBM Cloud Private on
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform
As part of the agreement, IBM will extend its
private cloud platforms (IBM Cloud Private
and IBM Cloud Private for Data) and its
middleware offerings to Red Hat OpenShift
Container Platform as Red Hat Certified
Containers. Customers can benefit from
the speed and simplicity of the IBM Cloud
Private self-service catalogue, deployment
engine and operational management on
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform across
all footprints of the hybrid cloud including
the IBM public cloud.
The announcement builds on two decades
of partnership between IBM and Red Hat,
which are two of the world’s biggest open
source companies.
The news parallels a joint development plan
designed to accelerate the availability of key
pieces of Red Hat’s portfolio on IBM Power
Systems. Additionally, IBM, in collaboration
with Red Hat, also announced that IBM
PowerAI is now available on Red Hat
Enterprise Linux.
A total of 90% of Fortune 100 companies
and more than 100 billion mission-critical
transactions per day run on IBM systems.
Meanwhile, Red Hat has become the leading
Linux platform for the enterprise and one
of the primary catalysts fuelling Kubernetes
adoption for global IT organisations.
Paul Cormier, President, Products and
Technologies, Red Hat, said: “Today’s
enterprises need a succinct roadmap for
digital transformation as well as confidence
in deployment consistency across every
IT footprint. By extending our long-
standing collaboration with IBM, we’re
bringing together two leading enterprise
application platforms in Red Hat OpenShift
Container Platform and IBM Cloud Private
and adding the power of IBM’s software
and cloud solutions. Together, we’re
providing customers with a supported,
consistent offering across their computing
environments.” n
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