Red Hat Summit 2020 virtual conference introduces advanced OpenShift capabilities

Cormier used his opening to focus on the history of open source, virtualization, hybrid, and cloud. While all of these concepts began as ideas, they are now integrated deeply into our daily lives, especially hybrid cloud .

"All of us live in a hybrid heterogeneous world," Cormier said during the keynote. "Hybrid requires a common development operations, security and automation environment. This is essential in order to scale. Hybrid isn't a trend. It's a strategic imperative."

Red Hat partners including Ford Motor Company, Verizon, Intel, Microsoft, and Credit Suisse made on screen appearances, discussing their partnerships with Red Hat and the importance of innovation during such an unprecedented time.

With innovation in mind, Red Hat hosted a panel after the keynote focusing on new announcements that will help customers easily optimize and scale IT operations in hybrid cloud environments.

Open source steps up as COVID-19 forces instant digital transformations

Businesses that were behind on the cloud journey before the novel coronavirus-19 are really feeling the heat right now. Transitioning to a digital workflow is hard in the best of times, but the almost instantaneous shift to work-from-home and online operations has sent shockwaves through the corporate world.

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This is an area where Red Hat is comfortable — the company has an ongoing message about how its solutions “go everywhere.”

Big Blue weaves Red Hat OpenShift into the IBM Cloud

IBM deepened its commitment to Red Hat OpenShift with enhancements to the container platform on IBM Cloud, including a handful of security and productivity capabilities that will be available to OpenShift 4.3 users.

The latest features are primarily designed to cut down on the time spent by IT administrators on routine maintenance tasks including updating, scaling and provisioning. Other new features offer better resiliency that protects against unexpected power surges as well as against attacks that increase possible breaches and outages.

Tying OpenShift more tightly to the IBM Cloud came as little surprise to analysts who said the integration has been in the works for some time -- possibly before IBM acquired Red Hat in July of last year.

OpenShift, Kubernetes, And The Hybrid Cloud

Red Hat Summit: Red Hat OpenShift Gets Deeper Virtualization Features

Red Hat Looks to Operationalize OpenShift at Scale

Red Hat today at the Red Hat Summit online conference announced it is making technology previews available for a control plane for managing Red Hat OpenShift deployments dubbed Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes along with an instance of open source KubeVirt software that makes it possible to deploy legacy virtual machines on top of containers.

In addition, version 4.4 of OpenShift adds a developer-centric view of metrics and monitoring tool for application workloads, monitoring integration for Red Hat Operators and tools for assessing the cost of deploying applications in the cloud versus in an on-premises IT environment.

Red Hat: Shift to Kubernetes and microservices is happening faster than expected

A push to reinvent the way developers create applications for the internet has gathered significant momentum, catching even some of its most ardent supporters by surprise.

But even as the popularity of infrastructure based on the Kubernetes platform and microservices surges, the adoption has inevitably brought to light the massive challenges big businesses and large organizations face in overhauling unwieldy infrastructure. To help IT managers navigate this transition, products and services that enable simultaneous management of legacy and new systems are gaining in popularity.

OpenShift 4.4 adds tech previews & improves efficiency

Red Hat’s OpenShift 4.4 is here. This update builds upon Kubernetes 1.17 and aims to improve the developer’s experience. It includes new developer previews of upcoming features and some performance upgrades.

Red Hat tackles complex virtualization, scaling questions through OpenShift automation boost

As the world tackles a global pandemic, the conversation around the practical implications of virtualization and scaling of enterprises is being tested like no other time. Companies are wrestling with many questions such as, how much consistency does there need to be from all of the options within cloud, hybrid cloud, multicloud, and on-premises environments? And how can all of this be managed, especially when teams are scattered like never before?

With data as central actor, Red Hat aims to unite enterprise needs in common platform

In the theatrical world, a central actor might be the lead role in a film or play. In the enterprise, it’s the role technology can perform in bridging the gap between value creation and value capture.

“We think of it in terms of bringing data to applications,” said Chris Wright (pictured), senior vice president and chief technology officer at Red Hat Inc. “Bringing data sources and data processing and model development all onto a common platform is a really powerful thing that’s happening in the industry today. We’re bringing data to be a central actor.”

Wright spoke with Stu Miniman, host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile livestreaming studio, during the Red Hat Summit Virtual Experience this week. They discussed ways that data is transforming business, future technologies that will be affected, developer access to tooling and Red Hat’s role in bringing the open-source ecosystem together.

Cormier at Red Hat Summit: 'Hybrid Isn't a Trend; It's a Strategic Imperative'

Red Hat transformed its popular annual user conference into an online virtual experience this year, for obvious reasons. The socially distanced, two-day digital summit, wrapping up today, went off without a hitch, and the leading enterprise open source software provider, longtime Java community leader and IBM subsidiary laid out its hybrid cloud strategy and product news to an estimated 38,000 distant attendees.

The organization's new CEO, Paul Cormier, gave the conference keynote from his home office in Boston. He opened his talk with a (long) history of open source and the cloud, and ended at the open hybrid cloud, which is central to Red Hat's vision.

Intel, Red Hat’s partnership brings 5G, edge computing, AI into reality

When it comes to the edge and 5G, things are moving from the theoretical to actual reality. And as important transformations happen across the technology industry, Intel Corp.’s 25-year-old history of partnership with Red Hat Inc. is helping to meet these challenges head on with advanced software-defined infrastructure platforms that improve agility and flexibility.

“Our customers and that developer community need us to go together because … of the combination of our hardware work and the open-source software work that we do with Red Hat,” said Lisa Spelman (pictured), vice president and general manager of Intel Xeon products and data center marketing at Intel. “And we see that every year increasing in value as we expand to more workloads and more market segments that we can help with our technology.”

Red Hat Summit 2020 Bits

Red Hat had its annual summit this week and chose to go virtual as the Covid-19 pandemic is causing more and more shows to cancel or try to get their message out through different avenues. Red Hat and Partners made a handful of announcements. These announcements include OpenShift 4.4, OpenShift Virtualization, Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes, Supermicro announced new systems validated with Red Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure, and MemSQL is available on Red Hat Marketplace.

Cloudera Prefers Red Hat for Kubernetes, But YARN Not Going Away

When Cloudera ships the on-premise version of its latest Hadoop distribution later this year, it will work with a Kubernetes container orchestration system from Red Hat, the company announced today. But the introduction of Kubernetes in CDP Private Cloud doesn’t mean that YARN will completely disappear, the company says.

Cloudera Selects Red Hat OpenShift as the Preferred Container Solution for Cloudera Data Platform Private Cloud

Cloudera Chose Red Hat OpenShift as the Preferred Container Solution for Cloudera Data Platform Private Cloud

Analysts pay close attention to IBM’s financials, Red Hat’s strategy as Summit kicks off

Even in normal times, it would be unlikely that IBM Corp. and Red Hat Inc. would make news this week for the usual reasons.

Red Hat kicked off its virtual Summit on Tuesday in an online format after being forced to cancel plans for its annual gathering in San Francisco due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Although the open-source company made a number of product announcements, industry analysts were more interested in Red Hat’s impact on IBM, both from a financial standpoint and in terms of strategic direction.

Trilio unveils TrilioVault cloud-native data protection platform for Kubernetes

TrilioVault for Kubernetes supports applications provisioned via Operators, Helm or Labels within upstream Kubernetes or Red Hat OpenShift environments. Additionally, the platform is cloud agnostic, offering customers the agility to move with the application across public and private cloud infrastructure.

TrilioVault for Kubernetes Achieves Red Hat OpenShift Operator Certification

Argentine Ministry of Health Partners with Red Hat to set up a National Digital Health Network

Red Hat announced that the Argentine Ministry of Health has implemented a National Digital Health Network to vastly improve accessibility of universal healthcare coverage services and initiatives using Red Hat open hybrid cloud technologies.

With a complete digital transformation to modernize its healthcare system and infrastructure, the Argentine Ministry of Health has increased access to imperative healthcare information and services, with more than 2.4 million people currently registered on its network and a goal to reach 15 million by the end of this year. This has been especially critical as the government has used this system to help keep Argentinians up-to-date on pandemic developments and track local and global COVID-19 cases.

Red Hat-VMware rivalry intensifies with OpenShift virtualisation

Red Hat has baked in virtualisation features in OpenShift amid the growing rivalry between the open source bigwig and virtualisation giant VMware to draw enterprises to their respective Kubernetes platforms.

During its virtual summit this week, Red Hat said the virtualisation capabilities, derived from the upstream KubeVirt open source project, will enable enterprises to develop, deploy and manage applications running in virtual machines (VMs) alongside container and serverless deployments.

Kaloom Allies with Red Hat to Create Virtual Networks on the Edge

Kaloom announced today it has partnered with Red Hat to make it easier to deliver network services to edge computing applications built using the Red Hat OpenShift Platform.

Company CTO Suresh Krishnan says most of the applications built for the edge will be based on microservices running on a distribution of Kubernetes in the form of Red Hat OpenShift. Each of those microservices will now be able to access the Cloud Edge Fabric from Kaloom, which is a set of network services that run on a virtual instance of a switch that runs natively in a Kubernetes platform, he says.

Unveiled during the Red Hat Summit online conference, the alliance provides a framework for running microservices-based applications capable of accessing both 4G and 5G wireless networking services at the edge, adds Krishnan.

Kaloom Sings Red Hat OpenShift Tune for 5G Edge

Kaloom today announced an expansion of its partnership with Red Hat to provide network operators with a more comprehensive approach to distributed edge computing. By integrating its Cloud Edge Fabric with Red Hat OpenShift, Kaloom aims to reduce the costs of edge infrastructure and further facilitate its use for 5G use cases.

Kaloom, Red Hat Collaborate On Unified Solution For Edge Sites

The new offering will allow network, compute and storage nodes to share the same underlying container-based execution environment.

By integrating Kaloom’s Cloud Edge Fabric with Red Hat OpenShift helps the platform to simplify complex next-generation networks and accelerate time to market of new services while reducing the costs of edge infrastructure.

Red Hat Adds Tools for ‘Open Hybrid Cloud’

Others, like IBM (NYSE: IBM) and its high-flying Red Hat subsidiary are taking a more egalitarian tact, dubbing their Linux-based approach the “open, hybrid cloud.” That was theme of this week’s virtual Red Hat summit event.

Noting that the “Linux innovation cycle” has so far delivered virtual infrastructure, application containers, Kubernetes cluster orchestration and, lately, edge computing, Red Hat said 31 percent of its growing roster of customers are deploying hybrid clouds. Hence, the IBM unit sees another opportunity to leverage those Linux-based tools to “bridge traditional datacenter technologies to the hybrid cloud world,” according to Red Hat CEO Paul Cormier.

Red Hat and its competitors primarily seek to move cloud computing and storage to the network edge, where all the big data resides.

Red Hat’s current and former CEOs in conversation about open source

The Red Hat Summit was supposed to be held in San Francisco this year, but instead took place online.

The open source company’s in-person events are grand affairs - the conference centre seems to be stained red as thousands of customers, partners, staff and the media flock to what must be the largest gathering of open source enthusiasts on the planet.

One benefit of holding the conference online is that more people can attend; 38 000 signed up for Red Hat Summit 2020 Virtual Experience, which took place from 28 to 29 April.

Red Hat: Contributions out of Asia for open source could be improved

Unsurprisingly, open source has come a long way since Red Hat first came about, but according to the company's APAC office of technology vice president Frank Feldmann, there could be more coming out of the Asia Pacific region.

"The general sense, we have come a heck of a long way, right, and we just imagine when Red Hat as a company started, open source wasn't really that well understood," he told ZDNet during Red Hat Summit.

"Today it is a default for pretty much any area of technology innovation, the majority of programming languages and products out there are either built or derived from open source initiatives, even the practices around open source in terms of how we innovate and collaborate."

With a focus on Asia Pacific, however, Feldmann said contributions out of the region could be improved.

"I think in Asia specifically, we can always do better in terms of open-source adoption, I think the contributions out of Asia for open source is an area that can be improved and Red Hat certainly tries to influence it and drive it where we can," he said.

New CEO Keeps Red Hat On Open Hybrid Cloud Course

Red Hat’s new CEO says his appointment won’t change the company’s ongoing “open hybrid cloud” strategy.

Paul Cormier, a long time Red Hat employee who took over as CEO following Jim Whitehurst’s departure to new owner IBM, used this year’s virtual keynote to recommit the open source giant to meeting its customers wherever and however they want to work.

“It’s what we’ve been building in and around our platforms for many, many years. Open hybrid cloud is what we are delivering to our customers and building with our partners every day. Today and tomorrow.”

Red Hat accelerates open hybrid cloud to help orgs weather the storm and scale critical services

Red Hat, the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, announced new offerings to help organizations of all sizes and industries optimize, scale or simply protect IT operations in the face of shifting global dynamics.

Red Hat has long championed technology evolutions and wants to enable customers to build any application and deploy everywhere with the consistency and flexibility an open hybrid cloud foundation provides.

Building on this vision, Red Hat’s new offerings are designed to improve the delivery, accessibility and stability of critical services and applications on a worldwide scale on the backbone of the hybrid cloud.

Red Hat Summit 2020 stresses the importance of open innovation and collaboration

While everyone in the world is separated from their friends, families, and co-workers during the COVID-19 pandemic, Red Hat wants to remind us about the importance of staying connected and collaborating. The company kicked off its first virtual Red Hat Summit this week to talk about its open hybrid cloud vision, products and partnerships.

“We still think it is really important for us to gather and exchange ideas on the state of open source and the state of enterprise IT industry and where it is all going,” said Paul Cormier, keynoting his first summit as president and CEO of Red Hat. “It may be even more important at this time to take this time to be with you, listen to you and figure out how we can help each other.”

Cormier opened the virtual event by talking to Jim Whitehurst, former Red Hat CEO and now president of IBM, about Red Hat and IBM’s new dynamic. Red Hat was acquired by IBM last year for $34 billion, and since then the two companies have worked to keep Red Hat separate.

Snyk and Red Hat Collaborate To Enhance Security for OpenShift and Kubernetes Workloads [Ed: Red Hat is helping FOSS-hostile companies]

Managing Kubernetes Workloads Becomes Easy with Snyk and Red Hat Collaboration: Security is an Added Bonus

Snyk and Red Hat collaborate to enhance the security of Kubernetes and container deployments

Red Hat Summit 2020 virtual experience [Ed: Comparing apples to oranges; people who fly to an event aren't the same thing as someone momentarily tuning into a webstream]

In the last couple days, Red Hat was able to demonstrate that an online technical conference can succeed. The Summit, normally held in Boston or San Francisco, was held online thanks to the Covid-19 pandemic still gripping the world.

The fact that 80,000 people attended the online event warrants a huge applause. By comparison, last year’s in-person conference broke the record with only 8,900 attendees.

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Will Systemd 245 Bring Major Changes to Linux's Home Directory Management?

Leannart Poettering is proposing homed to alter the way Linux systems handle user management. All user information will be placed in a cryptographically signed JSON record, such as username, group membership, and password hashes. The venerable /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow will be a thing of the past. One of the claimed advantages will be home directory portability.

"Because the /home directory will no longer depend on the trifecta of systemd, /etc/passwd, and /etc/shadow, users and admins will then be able to easily migrate directories within /home," writes Jack Wallen at TechRepublic. "Imagine being able to move your /home/USER (where USER is your username) directory to a portable flash drive and use it on any system that works with systemd-homed. You could easily transport your /home/USER directory between home and work, or between systems within your company."

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