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Red Hat and IBM: Cormier, Strategy and More

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Friday 1st of May 2020 11:50:10 PM Filed under
Red Hat
  • Red Hat’s new CEO on surviving inside Big Blue: 'We don’t participate in IBM's culture. It’s that simple'

    Red Hat’s new CEO is feeling confident. It’s a pretty good time to be the head of a company whose entire business is virtual: virtual machines, hybrid cloud, operating system support, Kubernetes containers. These are boom times.

    If there’s a downside for Paul Cormier, it’s that after nearly 20 years with the company he wasn’t able to celebrate taking the top job on stage in front of his staff at Red Hat's annual summit this week. Instead, he’s communicating via webcam from his home office; the conference has gone online-only mid-pandemic.

    But, just as with the world outside, there is a lot of flux within Red Hat. Cormier took over from Jim Whitehurst on April 6; Whitehurst is now president of IBM following Big Blue’s purchase of Red Hat for $34bn, a deal completed in July.

    IBM also got a new CEO this month, Arvind Krishna, and the first thing he did was tell the world that the tech behemoth’s main focus from now on would be the hybrid cloud; the very department and technology Cormier sits atop.

    And so the culture clash between the buttoned-up, bureaucratic Big Blue that lives on consultancies, services, and hardware, and the employee-empowered Red Hat that moves fast and thrives on open-source software – a clash many have warned about since IBM’s purchase was announced in October 2018 – looks as though it is about to hit fast-forward.

  • New Red Hat CEO Paul Cormier faces a slew of challenges in the midst of pandemic

    This week was Cormier’s first Red Hat Summit as CEO, one that like so many conferences had to pivot from a live event to virtual fairly quickly. Customers have been nervous, and this was the first chance to really reconnect with them since things have shut down. He says that he was pleasantly surprised how well it worked, even allowing more people to attend than might pay to travel to a live event.

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux still central to Red Hat's strategy

    While it may be overshadowed by OpenShift and Kubernetes, Red Hat Summit attendees were reminded that Red Hat Enterprise Linux still has a strategic role to play.

  • Rich Sharples Talks About 25 Years of Java | Red Hat Summit
  • Linux and Kubernetes: Serving The Common Goals of Enterprises

    For Stefanie Chiras, VP & GM, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Business Unit at Red Hat, aspects such as security and resiliency have always been important for Red Hat. More so, in the current situation when everyone has gone fully remote and it’s much harder to get people in front of the hardware for carrying out updates, patching, etc.

    “As we look at our current situation, never has it been more important to have an operating system that is resilient and secure, and we’re focused on that,” she said.

    The recently released version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8.2 inadvertently address these challenge as it makes it easier for technology leaders to embrace the latest, production-ready innovations swiftly which offering security and resilience that their IT teams need.

  • Keep your IMS COBOL applications thriving

    If you have your finger on the pulse of IT, you can’t help but notice the rising visibility of COBOL and its implications in the coronavirus pandemic. If you’ve been in IT long enough and understand the implications of the word “legacy,” you have firsthand knowledge as to why many banks, governments, and global companies continue to rely on their COBOL application programs. The evidence of their durability and resilience is now front page news, and the call for COBOL skills has become an imperative.

    COBOL is about 10 years older than IBM Information Management System (IMS), a hierarchical database and transaction management system that, likewise, has been doing yeoman’s work for over 50 years, including processing lots and lots of COBOL application programs. As IT has evolved, IBM IMS has made strides to ensure that users can continue to rely on their COBOL investments. Many enhancements and capabilities have been introduced over the years to keep the COBOL and IMS partnership thriving.

    The primary capability is COBOL and Java interoperability. A great example of this solution comes from Fiducia & GAD IT AG, which introduced Java alongside COBOL in IBM IMS, enabling them to create new services and extend the life and value of their applications.

  • CodeTheCurve: Final winners announced

    Over the past week, we’ve had the fortunate opportunity to collaborate with hundreds of people from all over the world to fight back against COVID-19 through a gender-inclusive global hackathon with youth at the center. CodeTheCurve was organized by UNESCO, SAP, IBM Z, UN EQUALS, iHackOnline, AngelHack, Internet Society, and many other collaborators. We were lucky enough to be part of the leadership team that created the concept, and we can say that we felt like we were living our best lives — and that best life is still not over!

    Nearly 200 project teams from all over the planet submitted innovative CodeTheCurve proposals. Of the 40 participating teams selected as CodeTheCurve quarterfinalists, 34 teams from 26 countries submitted their solutions following a week of intense and hands-on virtual learning, hacking, and collaborating with mentors and speakers. More than 400 people played a role in participating, speaking, mentoring, judging, and/or organizing our CodeTheCurve magic. Three winners were selected … let’s take a look at them now!

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