DevOps Chat: Red Hat Developer Experience in the IBM Era
Red Hat Linux is a staple of most enterprise IT organizations’ software diets. Developers and IT leaders all over the world took notice when IBM acquired Red Hat. Will IBM Red Hat change? Will Red Hat continue to operate as it does today or will it be subsumed and disappear into some IBM business unit? […]
Red Hat Unveils Ansible Platform
At the AnsibleFest 2019 conference, Red Hat this week announced the general availability of the Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform that combines several IT automation technologies into a single subscription. Built on top of Red Hat Ansible Engine, the platform also includes Red Hat Ansible Tower, a management console, and Red Hat Network Automation, an […]
IBM Closes $34B Red Hat Acquisition
Following the official closing of IBM’s $34 billion acquisition of Red Hat today, leaders from both companies reiterated Red Hat will continue to operate independently of IBM but will leverage IBM resources to advance the hybrid cloud computing ambitions of the newly combined entity. Arvind Krishna, senior vice president for cloud and cognitive software at […]
Open Innovation Labs: How Lockheed Brought Better Security to Fighter Jets
How Red Hat’s Open Innovation Labs have helped accelerate Lockheed’s software development for the F-22 Raptor As the key government contractor charged with helping the U.S. Air Force keep its F-22 Raptor jets in fighting trim, Lockheed Martin Aeronautics increasingly values software delivery speed as much as engine speed. So much of the continued evolution […]
With RHEL 8, Red Hat Adds More Automation to IT Ops
At the Red Hat Summit 2019 conference, Red Hat today announced the general availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8, which includes among other things a Smart Management add-on designed to make it easier to manage RHEL 8 across hybrid cloud computing environments. In addition, RHEL 8 includes Application Streams, a set of utilities […]
Red Hat Adds Support for Nested Workflows to Ansible Automation Framework
Red Hat today announced it is adding support for nested playbooks created using the open source Ansible automation framework within one another, which, in turn, will make it easier to automate complex IT processes. Bill Nottingham, product manager for Ansible, said the goal is to enable DevOps teams to reuse existing Ansible playbooks to kick […]
Red Hat Injects DevOps Flexibility into RHEL 8
With the beta release of the next version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), Red Hat is setting the stage for making it easier for DevOps teams to consume emerging operating system services without having to upgrade their entire operating system. The beta release of RHEL 8 adds an Application Streams capability designed to make […]
VMware Extends Scope of Alliance with IBM
On the heels of IBM announcing its intent to acquire Red Hat, VMware announced at the VMworld Europe 2018 conference this week an extension of its longstanding cloud alliance with IBM. Red Hat competes directly with VMware; yet, there are also more than 1,600 customers running VMware on the IBM cloud. Ajay Patel, senior vice […]
How IBM’s $34B Bid for Red Hat Will Spur DevOps Adoption
IBM’s proposed acquisition of Red Hat for $34 billion will have an immediate impact in raising awareness for a programmatic approach to managing hybrid clouds based on best DevOps practices. A recent survey published by International Data Corp. (IDC) finds most organizations (64 percent) have already embraced multiple clouds to varying degrees. Only 7 percent […]
IBM and Red Hat: Now, That’s an Interesting Combination
Like everyone else, Sunday night I got a surprise with the pre-announcement of IBM’s intent to acquire Red Hat (I might have seen it a little earlier than the rest of you, as a friend from IBM shared it as soon as it was public). I’ve been mulling this over and checking out the information […]
IBM Acquires Red Hat to Create DevOps Behemoth
In a move that has massive implications for DevOps teams across the enterprise, IBM today announced it is acquiring Red Hat in a deal valued at $34 billion. Red Hat will join IBM’s Hybrid Cloud group as a distinct independent unit. Red Hat will continue to be led by Jim Whitehurst and Red Hat’s current […]
Red Hat Takes Virtualization Aim at VMware
Red Hat, as part of on going drive to wean enterprise IT organizations off proprietary virtualization technologies, today launched a set of Red Hat infrastructure migration tools and services. Joe Fernandes, vice president of cloud platforms products at Red Hat, said that as organizations move to modernize their application environments by lifting and shifting them […]
Red Hat Positions PaaS as Cure to Heal DevOps Divide
Red Hat is making a strategic bet that IT organizations increasingly will rely on platform-as-a-service (PaaS) environments to make a broad range of distributed services available to developers, which would eliminate friction without enabling IT operations teams to maintain control. Paul Cormier, president of products and technologies for Red Hat, said IT organizations are realizing […]
NeuVector Extends Red Hat OpenShift Availability with Role-Based Access Controls for Automated Run-Time Container Security
The container firewall leader also adds Red Hat Container Registry scanning and a Jenkins plugin to automate vulnerability scanning during development SAN FRANCISCO – RED HAT SUMMIT – May 8, 2018 – NeuVector, the leader in Kubernetes security delivering the first and only multi-vector container firewall, today announced an expansion to its support for Red Hat OpenShift […]
Red Hat Rises to Data Management Challenges
Red Hat is moving to reduce or eliminate many of the manual tasks DevOps teams routinely encounter via a beta release of an update to Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) that addresses multiple data management issues related to DevSecOps and DataOps. Steve Almy, principal product manager for RHEL, said version 7.5 of RHEL adds support […]
Red Hat Delivers Advanced Network Automation with Latest Version of Ansible
RALEIGH, N.C. — April 12, 2017 — Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the general availability of Ansible 2.3, the latest version of the leading simple, powerful, and agentless open source IT automation framework. Ansible 2.3 provides performance enhancements and advanced networking capabilities, including adding connection […]
Red Hat Helps Enterprises Embrace DevOps at Scale with Ansible Tower 3.1
RALEIGH, N.C. — February 28, 2017 — Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the general availability of Ansible Tower 3.1, the latest version of its enterprise-grade, agentless automation platform. Ansible Tower by Red Hat helps enterprises cut through the complexities of modern IT environments with powerful […]
Red Hat to Acquire API Management Leader 3scale
Accelerates digital transformation with API driven hybrid-cloud architectures RALEIGH, N.C. — June 22, 2016 — Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire 3scale, a leading provider of application programming interface (API) management technology. By adding 3scale to its […]
Will MariaDB Soon Replace MySQL?
MariaDB is a database growing in popularity. Its lead developer is Michael “Monty” Widenius, who was part of the team that created MySQL. When MySQL was acquired by Oracle, Widenius and some of the other original MySQL developers decided to launch MariaDB as a fork of MySQL and keep it as open source to mitigate […]
Red Hat Launches Red Hat Open Innovation Labs, Introducing Collaborative Open Source Cloud and DevOps Residency Program
Red Hat Open Innovation Labs is designed to enable customers to jumpstart innovation and software development initiatives the open source way April 26, 2016 08:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time AUSTIN, Texas–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the creation of Red Hat Open Innovation Labs, a […]
Open source and Samsung take center stage at Red Hat Summit
While much of the DevOps world was focused on DockerCon in San Francisco this week, there was also big news happening on the east coast. While DockerCon was shaking things up with the announcement of the Open Container Project the Red Hat Summit in Boston held its own share of big news and much of […]
Red Hat launches platform to support Docker, Kubernetes and enterprise-grade containerization
Red Hat continued its momentum to capture a piece of the containerization market last week with the official launch of its new Red Hat Enterprise Linux Atomic Host operating system. According to Red Hat executives, this is a natural progression in the Red Hat ecosystem as more of the company’s customers embrace Docker and other […]
The role of middleware in DevOps
Middleware has a very important and strategic role in DevOps, according to Ben Henshall, middleware business unit manager at Red Hat Australia and New Zealand. ‘Rapid everything’ is part of DevOps culture, so the bloated, proprietary middleware with roots in the late 1990s and early 2000s – the pre-cloud era – is a poor fit. […]