Red Hat Tries Harder to Transition Data Centers Towards Containerization For six years already, most every data center migration to modern digital infrastructure has made it, well, most of the way. Now Red Hat works to move some organizations at least somewhat further.
Jun 15, 2021
There’s still a considerable disconnect in data centers of all sizes between capacity planning (where systems are designed to support workloads) and workload optimization (where workloads are designed to support systems). You’d think the two would at least be willing to meet halfway.
For the marriage of Red Hat and IBM to progress smoothly, the hardware maker will need to take even further steps to adopt the software maker’s definition of “platform.” Red Hat’s containerization platform is OpenShift essentially branded Kubernetes, plus Red Hat’s workload implementation and deployment systems, and Red Hat Support. Last March, as our Christine Hall reported, parent IBM opened a few m