Red Hat Adds Service to Customize RHEL Images
Red Hat this week announced a public beta of an Image Builder service that streamlines the process of building customized instances of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) operating system. Scott Herold, director of product management for RHEL at Red Hat, said the Image Builder service enables an IT team to define a “gold” template […]
Red Hat Brings Ansible Automation to Microsoft Azure Cloud
Red Hat this week announced that a private preview of the Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is now available on the Microsoft Azure Cloud. Tom Anderson, vice president of Red Hat Ansible automation, said making the Red Hat instance of the open source automation framework available on Azure is the first step toward making it […]
What Developers Need to Know About Edge Computing
More and more companies are living “on the edge” as they move from “I’ll think about edge computing” to “I don’t think our business can optimally grow and compete without edge computing.” Developers will play a key role in helping organizations use the edge, but their effectiveness will depend on having edge-aligned processes, products and […]
Red Hat Makes DevOps a Reality with OpenShift GitOps and OpenShift Pipelines
New Red Hat OpenShift features provide fully-integrated CI/CD pipeline for organizations to deliver applications more consistently and with greater predictability across the open hybrid cloud RALEIGH, N.C. — May 3, 2021 — Red Hat, Inc., the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the general availability of OpenShift GitOps and OpenShift Pipelines, new […]
Red Hat Extends Reach and Scope of Insights Analytics Service
During its online Red Hat Summit event, Red Hat today announced it has extended the Red Hat Insights predictive analytics cloud platform for managing IT to now include support for editions of Red Hat OpenShift based on Kubernetes and the Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform. In addition, Red Hat has extended Red Hat Insights for […]
AlmaLinux Foundation Delivers on CentOS Promise
A nonprofit organization launched this week to oversee future development of AlmaLinux, a distribution of Linux based on code originally contributed to the open source CentOS project. At the same time, CloudLinux, which created AlmaLinux in response to a decision by Red Hat to pull financial support for CentOS, announced that a stable version of […]
Red Hat Survey Reveals More Confidence in Open Source
A recent Red Hat survey revealed how DevOps teams increasingly depend on open source to support their shift to cloud-native environments and digital transformations, and to maintain security in these highly distributed environments. Based on a survey of 1,250 IT professionals, Red Hat maintains that the survey respondents — from organizations that were Red Hat […]
How Open Source Software Powers Digital Innovation
Open source has permanently altered how we work and conduct business. Linux, and thousands of other open source projects and open standards, now dominate the software landscape, supporting emerging technologies like artificial intelligence and edge computing. Without open source, the DevOps tooling ecosystem would lack Docker, Kubernetes, service mesh, popular databases, and many CI/CD tools […]
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 ARMONK, NY – February 23, 2021 – 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 commitment […]
CentOS Rebellion Against Red Hat Gains Momentum
Two insurgent efforts to make sure the CentOS distribution remains viable have been launched following a decision by Red Hat to no longer invest in that fork of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) distribution. Launched in 2006, CentOS is widely employed by IT organizations that need an open source distribution of Linux to, for […]
Red Hat Automates More Operating System Tasks
Red Hat today announced an update to Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) that automates a wide range of manual tasks. Scott McBrien, a principal product manager for Red Hat, said RHEL 8.3, available in a few weeks, expands the Red Hat System Roles capability that provides a prescriptive and automated means of managing operating system […]
Red Hat Expands Scope, Reach of Ansible Automation Framework
Red Hat, its online AnsibleFest 2020 conference today, announced an on-premises edition of Ansible Automation Platform dubbed Private Automation Hub and previewed technology to connect the Ansible Automation Platform managed as a cloud service by Red Hat and the on-premises edition. In addition, Red Hat is making available more pre-integrated workflows to its certified Ansible […]
DevOps Deeper Dive: IBM to ‘Maniacally Focus’ on Hybrid Cloud, AI
IBM this week announced its intention to spin out a new company next year focused primarily on managed infrastructure as part of a plan to focus more on hybrid cloud computing and artificial intelligence (AI) initiatives. IBM is combining the Red Hat assets it gained last year via a $34 billion acquisition with its investment […]
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform Enhancements and New Certified Ansible Content Collections Refine the Automation Experience to Drive Business Imperatives
Ready-to-use, curated automation for a wide range of platforms, public clouds, network and security technologies help organizations more easily get started with the latest trusted automation RALEIGH, N.C. — June 23, 2020 —Red Hat, Inc., the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced key enhancements to the Ansible Automation portfolio, including the latest version of Red Hat […]
Red Hat Extends Scope of Ansible Tools
Red Hat today announced it has extended the analytics capabilities it makes available for instances of the Ansible IT automation platform and has made the Ansible Automation Services Catalog now generally available. In addition, Red Hat has increased the number of certified playbooks it makes available from both the company and third-party partners within the […]
DevOps Chats: DevSecOps and OpenShift, with Red Hat
In this DevOps Chats, we had a talk with Kirsten Newcomer, senior principal product manager at Red Hat. It is a great discussion on the state of DevSecOps and how the Red Hat OpenShift team is trying to make it easier for developers, DevOps and cyber folks to work together to create more secure applications. […]
Survey Sees Open Source Adoption, Quality Gains
A survey of 959 IT leaders published this week by Red Hat finds increased reliance on and adoption of open source software is now being driven by perceived higher quality as much as it is cost concerns. The survey finds higher quality of software (33%) was the top reason they chose open source, followed by […]
IBM Doubles Down on Cloud, But Is Krishna an Interim CEO?
Big news from Big Blue yesterday: IBM CEO Ginni Rometty is stepping down after eight years at the helm. In her stead, IBM is doubling down on the cloud by appointing Arvind Krishna as CEO and member of the board. The real move to watch, though, is the appointment of Jim Whitehurst, Red Hat CEO, […]
Red Hat Bolsters RHEL 8 Monitoring
Red Hat is looking to expand the number of organizations embracing best DevOps practices by expanding the monitoring capabilities included in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). The beta release this week of RHEL 8.2 includes an update to Performance Co-Pilot (PCP), a system performance toolkit that now includes collection agents for Microsoft SQL Server 2019 […]
Red Hat Extends Runtimes Middleware Portfolio
Red Hat has made available the latest instance of Red Hat Runtimes, a suite of lightweight open source components and frameworks that makes it easier to discover the middleware most appropriate for building a specific type of application. James Falkner, product marketing director for Runtimes at Red Hat, said as organizations embrace cloud-native application architectures […]
Raytheon Leans on Red Hat to Advance DevSecOps
Raytheon Company is partnering with Red Hat to drive the adoption of DevSecOps workflows and processes it developed around the OpenShift application development and deployment platform. Jon Check, senior director for cyber protection solutions for Raytheon Intelligence, Information and Services, said Raytheon has developed a set of DevSecOps practices for organizations building applications deployed in […]
DevOps Deeper Dive: SUSE Sets DevOps Course
There was a time when SUSE was considered to be the second-biggest force driving the adoption of Linux in the enterprise, after Red Hat. Then came an odyssey to rival any epic written by Homer. A few short years after moving its corporate headquarters from Germany to Oakland, California, the company was sold to Novell, […]
Red Hat Launches Holistic DevOps Training Initiative
Red Hat this week announced it has created a Global Transformation Office focused on bringing about digital transformation via broad adoption of best DevOps practices. The Global Transformation Office initiative is comprised of Andrew Clay Shafer, vice president of transformation at Red Hat; Jabe Bloom, chief sociotechnical officer for PraxisFlow; Kevin Behr, general manager and […]