IBM engineer Stefanie Chiras holds a Power9 chip above an AC922 server in Austin
IBM s Arranged Marriage Between OpenShift and Power Aims at Hybrid Cloud Crown Its new Power-based hardware appliance for IBM cloud on premises ships with Red Hat s container orchestration platform. Power Systems and IaaS now feature expanded OpenShift support.
Big Blue these days often looks like a Red Hat vendor. Which is not surprising, given that it spent $32 billion to get to look that way.
IBM recently doubled down on its big bet on Red Hat s hybrid cloud moxie by announcing that it s shedding itself of all its businesses that aren t hybrid cloud-related. Sharing the limelight was IBM s homegrown Power architecture, which the company would like to entice Red Hat OpenShift users to purchase.
“Red Hat OpenShift already provides enterprises with a powerful foundation to connect workloads across the hybrid cloud and with each new feature or capability we aim further that mission,” said Ashesh Badani, senior vice president of cloud platforms at Red Hat.
“With Red Hat OpenShift Support for Windows Containers, organizations no longer need to manage separate IT stacks for their Linux and Windows containers helping to break down silos and make it easier for enterprises to pursue their cloud-native agenda.”
Red Hat said OpenShift Support for Windows Containers uses the certified OpenShift operator Windows Machine Config Operator (WMCO) to manage Windows containers within the OpenShift console.