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.
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IBM brings Red Hat to Power Systems
New preconfigured private-cloud platforms feature Red Hat on IBM RISC servers. IBM
IBM has introduced Red Hat Linux on its RISC-based Power Systems servers, further expanding IBM s private- and hybrid-cloud offerings on the traditionally Unix-based hardware.
IBM already has what it calls Enterprise Linux on Power, but this is bringing Red Hat, which IBM paid $34 billion to acquire, to its big iron. IBM Power Systems now feature Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Power Virtual Server leveraging OpenShift s bare metal installer, Red Hat Runtimes, and newly certified Red Hat Ansible Content Collections.
IBM Power Systems Enhances Hybrid Cloud Capabilities with Red Hat
New pre-configured private cloud platform, innovative cloud-consumption payment model, and more Red Hat software now supported on IBM Power Virtual Servers
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ARMONK, N.Y., Feb. 23, 2021 /PRNewswire/ IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced availability of Red Hat software on IBM Power Systems as well as new IBM Power Systems hardware. These announcements further expand IBM Systems s commitment to help clients modernize by empowering them with the latest technology from Red Hat to develop cloud-native applications and deploy them into hybrid cloud environments.
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