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Red Hat introduced new managed cloud services at its 2021 summit and expanded the OpenShift Kubernetes platform with improved security, management, and Edge deployment features.
CEO Paul Cormier kicked off yesterday s keynote with a speech in praise of open source, stating that it s only the open-source model that brings collaboration across many global communities.
He reminisced about the first non-beta release of Red Hat Linux in May 1995. At the time Linux needed more enterprise attributes if companies were going to bet their businesses on it, he said, and the 2003 Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) was introduced to bridge this gap.
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Red Hat announces Red Hat Edge initiative
Red Hat has outlined how it can bundle existing and new features to better support edge networks, an effort it calls Red Hat Edge. Stephen Lawson/IDG
During this week s Red Hat Summit, the company announced enhanced support for edge networking in its upcoming RHEL 8.4 release. The Red Hat Edge initiative promises new capabilities that will make RHEL a more powerful foundation for the open hybrid cloud.
The Red Hat Edge aims to extend Red Hat’s open hybrid cloud portfolio to the edge. This will involve everything from telecommunications and transportation to smart automobiles and enterprise devices. With Red Hat technologies, the edge-ready technology stack uses Red Hat Enterprise Linux along with: