Tag: openshift

  • IBM buys Kubernetes cost control startup Kubecost to expand its FinOps suite – They’ve bought a lot in this category – solution suite’ing. ”IBM said Kubecost’s capabilities will be integrated into an expanding FinOps Suite, enhancing the combined capabilities of Apptio, Cloudability, Instana and Turbonomic to provide what will perhaps be the most comprehensive cost…

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  • Link: IBM fuses its software with Red Hat’s to launch hybrid-cloud juggernaut

    The effort has started with IBM bundling Red Hat’s Kubernetes-based OpenShift Container Platform with more than 100 IBM products in what it calls Cloud Paks. OpenShift lets enterprise customers deploy and manage containers on their choice of infrastructure of choice, be it private or public clouds, including AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, Alibaba and…

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  • Link: IBM Takes A Hands Off Approach With Red Hat

    The reason for this hands-off attitude for such expensive acquisitions is simple: Both VMware and Red Hat live and die by the fact that they are neutral to any particular platform. While IBM may prefer Red Hat’s various elements of the stack – the Enterprise Linux operating system, the OpenShift container system, the OpenStack cloud…

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  • Link: Red Hat shoves OpenShift in VMware’s software-defined data centre stack

    Chris Wolf, VMware’s CTO for the Americas, said Kubernetes will ultimately morph into the “modern application middleware that crosses clouds, data centres, and edge sites”. Source: Red Hat shoves OpenShift in VMware’s software-defined data centre stack

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  • Link: Microsoft, Red Hat Partner on OpenShift

    The OpenShift-Azure deal extends collaboration between Microsoft and Red Hat that includes the addition of Microsoft SQL server on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The deal signaled Microsoft’s embrace of OpenShift application container management. The expanded partnership also gives OpenShift users access to public cloud services such as Azure Cosmos and SQL databases along with cloud-based…

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  • Link: Big Blue Puts on a Red Hat: IBM Acquires Red Hat

    While many organizations have extensive on and off premise infrastructure investments, comparatively few of them are sophisticated in the way that those environments are tied to each other. If expectations are scaled back to the more realistic “multi-cloud” – the idea that an organization may have investments in more than one environment – the relevance…

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  • Link: Istio sets sail as Red Hat renovates OpenShift container ship

    “The software serves as a management mechanism for distributed microservices, providing capabilities like traffic management, service identity and security, policy enforcement and telemetry among apps running across multiple Kubernetes clusters and hosts.” Original source: Istio sets sail as Red Hat renovates OpenShift container ship

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  • Link: Kubernetes is the new app server

    Indeed! ‘Then there’s the whole cloud angle. Kubernetes has “quickly become the central container orchestration engine for most major cloud providers, including Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, IBM Cloud, and Red Hat OpenShift,” Guiu states. “With services like Amazon EKS, Azure Kubernetes Service, and Google Kubernetes Engine the developer experience is becoming…

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  • Link: Galloping greenback rocks Red Hat

    “30 per cent growth in emerging technologies came in part from 100 new customers signing up for the company’s OpenShift container platform…. The company’s services business grew nicely and president and CEO Jim Whitehurst proudly pointed out that Red Hat now has over 1,000 subscribers, up 70 per cent year on year.” And: “The company…

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  • Link: The Kubernetes ‘fork’: Open source purists miss the point | InfoWorld

    “Enterprises want stuff that works. As much as we in the open source world chatter and fret about vendor lockin, enterprises have demonstrated a remarkable ability to shrug off that concern and buy deeply into Microsoft, Oracle, and, yes, Red Hat’s OpenShift.” Original source: The Kubernetes ‘fork’: Open source purists miss the point | InfoWorld

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  • Link: CoreOS Is New Linux, Not A RHEL Classic Killer

    ‘Importantly, the OpenShift platform cloud software, which included Red Hat’s own implementation of the Kubernetes container controller, will be deployable on either the full-on Red Hat Enterprise Linux in pets mode or the minimalist Red Hat CoreOS in cattle mode. But it will be using the Tectonic version of the Kubernetes controller going forward as…

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  • Link: Microsoft sees Red …Hat for OpenShift-on-Azure public cloud offering

    ‘Rollout of the partnership will occur in two phases, with Azure support for OpenShift Container Platform and Red Hat Enterprise Linux on Azure and Azure Stack available now. The jointly managed OpenShift on Azure project is slated to go into its preview phase “in the coming months.”’ Original source: Microsoft sees Red …Hat for OpenShift-on-Azure…

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  • Link: Bringing CoreOS technology to Red Hat OpenShift to deliver a next-generation automated Kubernetes platform

    “With the acquisition, Container Linux will be reborn as Red Hat CoreOS, a new entry into the Red Hat ecosystem. Red Hat CoreOS will be based on Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux sources and is expected to ultimately supersede Atomic Host as Red Hat’s immutable, container-centric operating system. “Red Hat CoreOS will provide the…

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  • Link: Red Hat tries CoreOS on for size – and buys

    ‘The elder open source software biz sees the younger firm’s technology helping it automate and simplify its OpenShift container app platform, as well as improving its security and application portability in hybrid cloud environments. Red Hat says it will provide more details about how CoreOS products will be handled in the months ahead. It characterizes…

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  • Red Hat Opens Up CloudForms Hybrid Cloud Manager

    Red Hat Opens Up CloudForms Hybrid Cloud Manager

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  • RedHat’s PaaS, OpenShift out with new rev

    The PaaS market has been heating up recently and Red Hat’s release of the latest version of its PaaS marks the latest move. Pivotal (which is a spin out from VMware and EMC) recently released its PaaS named CF, which is the productized version of the Cloud Foundry open source project. Meanwhile, Verizon recently announced…

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