Companies expand collaboration to target hybrid cloud sector through
technology and services integration
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IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Red Hat Inc. (NYSE: RHT) today announced a major
expansion to their long-standing relationship, which will enable IBM and
Red Hat customers to benefit from the combined power of both companies’
technologies in private and public clouds.
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Red Hat's Paul Cormier, IBM's Arvind Krishna extend the two company's decades-long collaboration to the hybrid cloud. (Photo: Business Wire)
The agreement builds on IBM’s recent move
to re-engineer its entire software portfolio with containers, including
WebSphere, MQ Series and Db2. Container technologies are fast becoming a
safe and reliable way to move applications across multiple IT
footprints, from existing data centers to the public cloud and vice
versa. Going hand-in-hand with IBM’s shift to containerized software, is
Red Hat’s expansive portfolio of enterprise-grade, cloud-native, and
hybrid cloud infrastructure solutions, which, when combined, provide a
clear pathway for enterprises to adopt hybrid cloud computing.
Through the agreement, IBM and Red Hat customers can now:
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Maximize their existing technology investments and move them more
easily to the hybrid cloud with IBM Cloud Private and Red Hat
OpenShift serving as the common foundation;
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Build and deploy containerized applications on one single, integrated
container platform IBM Cloud Private providing a single view of all
enterprise data;
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Allow developers to design, modernize, and deploy new applications
more quickly while taking advantage of IBM’s cloud-based services such
as artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT) and
blockchain with IBM Cloud Private on Red Hat OpenShift Container
Platform.
As part of the agreement, IBM will extend its private cloud platforms
(IBM Cloud Private and IBM Cloud Private for Data) and its middleware
offerings to Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform as Red Hat Certified
Containers. Customers can benefit from the speed and simplicity of the
IBM Cloud Private self-service catalogue, deployment engine and
operational management on Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform across
all footprints of the hybrid cloud including the IBM public cloud.
Today’s announcement builds on two decades of partnership between IBM
and Red Hat, which are two of the world’s biggest open source companies.
This extended collaboration is already available to customers, as
organizations with eligible Red Hat subscriptions can currently use
their Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform subscriptions on IBM Cloud
via the Red
Hat Cloud Access solution. The companies will also partner to
provide joint consultancy and implementation services through the IBM
Garage and Red Hat Consulting and the solution will be supported by
world-class IBM Technology support services and Red Hat Services.
Today’s news parallels a joint
development plan designed to accelerate the availability of key
pieces of Red Hat’s portfolio on IBM Power Systems. Additionally, IBM,
in collaboration with Red Hat, also announced
that IBM PowerAI is now available on Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Today, 90 percent of Fortune 100 companies and more than 100 billion
mission-critical transactions per day run on IBM systems. Meanwhile, Red
Hat has become the leading Linux platform for the enterprise and one of
the primary catalysts fueling Kubernetes adoption for global IT
organizations.
Supporting Quotes
Paul Cormier, President, Products and Technologies, Red Hat
“Today’s
enterprises need a succinct roadmap for digital transformation as well
as confidence in deployment consistency across every IT footprint. By
extending our long-standing collaboration with IBM, we’re bringing
together two leading enterprise application platforms in Red Hat
OpenShift Container Platform and IBM Cloud Private and adding the power
of IBM’s software and cloud solutions. Together, we’re providing
customers with a supported, consistent offering across their computing
environments.”
Arvind Krishna, Senior Vice president, IBM Hybrid Cloud
“With
IBM’s recent move to containerize its middleware, today’s landmark
partnership between IBM and Red Hat provides customers with more choice
and flexibility. Our common vision for hybrid cloud using container
architectures allows millions of enterprises – from banks, to airlines,
to government organizations - to access leading technology from both
companies without having to choose between public and private cloud.”
Sam Fatigato, CEO, Coda Global, LLC
"IBM and Red Hat are
leaders in delivering enterprise flexibility with strong support for
open standards and hybrid cloud environments. This partnership aligns
with Coda Global's strategy to help customers modernize their
applications leveraging container-based cloud computing with
enterprise-grade management and scale. Coda Global empowers businesses
to rapidly bring their greatest ideas to market, and the combination of
IBM Cloud Private and Red Hat OpenShift helps us to deliver with speed,
quality, and scale.”
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About IBM Cloud
The IBM Cloud simplifies how clients move to the cloud by making it
easier to gain insights from their data wherever it resides, providing
access to a full range of AI capabilities and by securing it at every
level. For more information on IBM Cloud, visit: www.ibm.com/cloud
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