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Pivoting off of last week’s Red Hat Summit, a look at its edge announcements and how Red Hat contributes to IBM’s broader growth strategy.
The network edge is the new battleground for IT product vendors and service providers as the nexus of ubiquitous connectivity, particularly low-latency 5G wireless and smart, connected devices and sensors are moving IT’s center of gravity away from consolidated data centers. The resulting explosion of locally-generated data promises to redistribute enterprise infrastructure after years of centralization in private data centers and hyperscale cloud environments.
The availability of computing hardware and analytical software capable of processing data in situ on compact, power-efficient systems at edge locations like retail stores, manufacturing facilities, distribution centers and wireless base stations promises to extract previously untapped value from the myriad smart sensors, connected machines a
Red Hat Brings Its Managed OpenShift Kubernetes Service to AWS The software company has been adding more and more flavors of managed OpenShift, as managed services grow in importance for its business.
AWS s Elastic Kubernetes Service now has a competitor on the AWS platform. During last week s Red Hat Summit, IBM-owned Red Hat announced the launch of its managed OpenShift service on AWS. According to Red Hat, it s the first natively integrated third-party managed Kubernetes service on Amazon s cloud platform.
The service, called ROSA (Red Hat OpenShift on AWS), had a soft launch about a month ago, but was officially unveiled during the summit. Similar managed OpenShift services have been available on Microsoft Azure and IBM Cloud.
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Red Hat introduced new managed cloud services at its 2021 summit and expanded the OpenShift Kubernetes platform with improved security, management, and Edge deployment features.
CEO Paul Cormier kicked off yesterday s keynote with a speech in praise of open source, stating that it s only the open-source model that brings collaboration across many global communities.
He reminisced about the first non-beta release of Red Hat Linux in May 1995. At the time Linux needed more enterprise attributes if companies were going to bet their businesses on it, he said, and the 2003 Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) was introduced to bridge this gap.
A tertiary OpenShift tier comes alongside three apps for businesses to build on their Kubernetes-based hybrid cloud strategy
Red Hat has launched an advanced tier of its OpenShift container application platform, with added tools designed to offer a complete Kubernetes stack out-of-the-box. This is in addition to launching three new managed cloud services.
Red Hat’s OpenShift Kubernetes Engine is the foundational layer of OpenShift, allowing customers to run containers across hybrid cloud deployments on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) OS. The OpenShift Container Platform adds developer and operations services, as well as advanced features for app development and modernisation.