The mantra at the 2021 Red Hat Summit wasn’t so much “Linux” as it was “open hybrid cloud. Plus, of course, Red Hat OpenShift, which, as Red Hat’s president and chief executive officer Paul Cormier pointed out, is underpinned by Linux.
Paul Cormier, president and CEO, Red Hat
“Our job is to provide customers the choice to do what is right for them,” Cormier said during his keynote on April 27. “Organizations are going to use multiple clouds. In fact, recent research showed that the typical enterprise today is using nearly eight different clouds from multiple vendors and expects to use at least ten clouds within three years. It is and will continue to be a hybrid world.”
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.
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.
The 4 Hottest Red Hat Summit News And Announcements
Red Hat Summit news this week includes updates involving OpenShift, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Insights and StackRox. By Wade Tyler Millward April 27, 2021, 05:04 PM EDT
IBM subsidiary Red Hat has some big announcements this week from its virtual summit that could spell new opportunities for channel partners.
New OpenShift capabilities to a new version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux are among the updates unveiled at the virtual summit, taking place Tuesday and Wednesday.
Red Hat CEO Paul Cormier told CRN just before the summit that channel partners are key to Red Hat growing its share of the cloud market, especially in the midmarket.