LAS VEGAS, Sept. 19, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- (IBM
EDGE) - IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), a
leading provider of open source solutions, today announced
enhancements and growth in their long-standing alliance to better
help clients embrace hybrid cloud. Through joint engineering and
deeper product collaboration, the two companies plan to deliver
solutions built on key components of Red Hat's portfolio of open
source products, including Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat
Virtualization, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux High Availability
offerings. This move will help position IBM Power Systems as a
featured component of Red Hat's hybrid cloud strategy spanning
platform infrastructure located both on and off premises.
IBM and Red Hat have a long tradition of innovation to advance
product offerings across IBM platforms. Through expanded
collaboration both in upstream technologies and product
development, the companies aim to enable greater compatibility
between their respective platforms, bringing Red Hat's offerings to
clients who previously worked in distributed environments.
Specifically, IBM and Red Hat are working together to build
functionality and jointly engineer solutions across IBM Power
Systems and productized in the Red Hat portfolio by:
- Enabling Red Hat solutions on IBM's
next-generation Power Systems;
- Introducing new high performance computing (HPC)
capabilities for leading edge research deployments;
- Developing high availability capabilities for Power
Systems.
"Red Hat believes that the next generation of applications and
hybrid cloud services will be powered by modern, hyperscale
hardware and software that span both public clouds, like IBM Cloud,
and on-premise platforms," said Jim
Totton, vice president and general manager, Platforms
Business Unit, Red Hat. "Red Hat and IBM are expanding their
long-standing alliance to address this opportunity. Through joint
engineering and deeper product collaboration, we are excited to
deliver world-class solutions built on Red Hat's portfolio of
enterprise open source solutions and IBM's Power Systems
platform."
"Clients choose open source capabilities to achieve new levels
of agility and flexibility in their hybrid cloud environments, but
they need access to optimal support," said Scott Crowder, CTO, IBM Systems. "Clients have
long turned to Red Hat and IBM to support their enterprise
computing needs. Now, we are expanding that relationship with Red
Hat to provide new systems designed for enterprise-grade open
source solutions that go far beyond what commodity infrastructure
has offered."
To learn more about the IBM Systems portfolio, visit the
blog.
To learn more about Red Hat's open hybrid cloud portfolio, visit
http://www.redhat.com/.
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