My overview of the Red Hat Summit is up now, for clients only of course. Here’s the 451 Take:
Like many infrastructure companies, Red Hat used its recent annual summit to point out the importance of developers as the driver for the next wave of IT spending: namely, developers writing new software on top of cloud platforms, often using devops-like practices. We, of course, think paying attention to this space is wise as companies seek to become digital enterprises, using custom applications and cloud-based IT to instrument and boost their business processes. It’s tempting to suggest a headline like “we’re working on it” to sum up many of the announcements at Red Hat Summit. However, because it runs its product management primarily in an open source fashion, Red Hat announcements are often about starting projects (with calls for community participation), not just the final, fully productized 1.0 version of the product when it’s released.
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I thought it was a good show with some nice announcements. As the title suggests, I think Red Hat is picking up on the right trends (that is, new technologies and practices that to incorporate into their product suite that will help their customers).
As I noted (well, quoted from another story) in my post on the Summit last week, Red Hat gets about 80% of it’s $1.3bn in revenue from RHEL subscriptions. Over the coming years, the company will need to diversify even more, of course. Like SUSE, they’re looking towards enterprise storage (they bought Gluster, for example) which is a whole new business unit with, possibly, significant revenue, for both companies.
Red Hat jumps on all the right cloud bandwagons, focusing on new application trends (451 Report)