Enterprise leaders collaborate to enable container adoption across
heterogeneous datacenter infrastructure and Microsoft Azure with new
capabilities and product support
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Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) and Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT) today
announced an expansion of the two companies’ alliance
with plans for new initiatives aimed at enabling enterprises to more
easily adopt containers. This includes native support for Windows Server
containers on Red Hat OpenShift, Red Hat OpenShift Dedicated on
Microsoft Azure, and SQL Server on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat
OpenShift. These additions to the companies’ joint roadmap will focus on
simplifying container technologies to help enterprise customers increase
the agility and drive digital transformation using hybrid cloud.
Continuing their commitment to deliver choice and flexibility to
enterprise customers, Microsoft and Red Hat will extend the integrated,
co-located Microsoft and Red Hat support to enable these new offerings
across platforms. This helps to assure IT organizations that whatever
challenges they face on their path to digital transformation, Microsoft
and Red Hat will stand by them together.
Windows Server containers on Red Hat OpenShift
Enterprises see the benefit in using containerized applications to run
their mission-critical workloads, but most IT organizations are not
standardized on a single infrastructure stack. These heterogeneous
environments often carry both Windows and Linux platforms, siloing
applications and making it difficult for a business to modernize and
scale their operations.
Today’s announcement simplifies these challenges, as Windows Server
containers will be natively supported on Red Hat OpenShift, a leading
enterprise-grade, Kubernetes-based container application platform. Red
Hat OpenShift will be the first container application platform built
from the open source Kubernetes project to support both Linux and
Windows container workloads in a single platform across the multiple
environments of the hybrid cloud, breaking down silos and making it
easier for enterprises to pursue their cloud-native agenda.
This capability was demonstrated at Red Hat Summit in May 2017, and is
expected to be available as a Technology Preview in Spring 2018.
Red Hat OpenShift Dedicated on Microsoft Azure and Red Hat Enterprise
Linux on Microsoft Azure Stack
Cloud-native applications and the container platforms that power them
are critical components to digital transformation, but managing the
infrastructure for these technologies can be complex and time-consuming
for already-stretched IT teams. Red Hat and Microsoft will address this
by offering Red Hat OpenShift Dedicated on Azure. Red Hat OpenShift
Dedicated is a container platform delivered as a cloud service, managed
by Red Hat. With today’s announcement, this service is planned for
availability on Azure, Microsoft’s enterprise-grade cloud platform with
availability announced across 42 regions globally - more than any other
public cloud provider. Microsoft and Red Hat engineers are working
closely to optimize OpenShift while running on Azure, helping to deliver
standardized enterprise performance and matching integrated support.
In addition, Red Hat OpenShift Dedicated on Microsoft Azure allows
enterprise IT teams to focus on delivering business value and fostering
innovation rather than keeping the lights on and micro-managing
resources. Red Hat OpenShift Dedicated on Microsoft Azure is expected to
be available in early 2018.
The companies also plan to collaborate on delivering enterprise
performance standards and integrated support for Red Hat Enterprise
Linux workloads running in Microsoft Azure Stack. Azure Stack is an
on-premises extension of Azure that brings cloud computing to
on-premises environments, running on certified hardware from Dell, HP,
Lenovo and Cisco that enables enterprises to quickly and easily stand up
a cloud experience in their datacenter.
SQL Server on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat OpenShift
As customers continue leveraging containers to increase agility in a
cloud-native world, Red Hat and Microsoft are committed to helping them
harness open innovation. Yesterday, Red Hat announced the availability
of .NET Core 2.0 as a container in OpenShift, and in the coming months,
the two companies plan to bring the power and scale of SQL Server for
Linux to Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat OpenShift.
As with all Red Hat and Microsoft joint initiatives, SQL Server for
Linux on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat OpenShift Container
Platform will be jointly supported by both Microsoft and Red Hat.
Supporting Quotes
Matthew Hicks, vice president, Software Engineering, OpenShift and
Management, Red Hat
“Alongside Microsoft, Red Hat is providing
a way for organizations to make technology choices that matter to them,
from containerized workloads to public cloud services, without adding
complexity. Combined with our integrated support teams, we’re able to
offer a pathway to digital transformation that offers the capabilities,
flexibility and choice required to power the future of enterprise IT.”
John Gossman, Lead Azure Architect, Microsoft Corp.
“Microsoft
and Red Hat are aligned in our commitment to bring enterprise customers
the hybrid cloud solutions they need to modernize their businesses as
they shift to operate in a cloud-native world. Today, we’re extending
this commitment as we again join forces to bring fully integrated
solutions that simplify container adoption and help customers make the
most of their hybrid cloud strategies.”
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