LAS VEGAS, March 20, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM
InterConnect -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE:
RHT) today announced a strategic collaboration designed to help
enterprises benefit from the OpenStack platform's speed and
economics while more easily extending their existing Red Hat
virtualized and cloud workloads to the IBM Private Cloud.
As part of this new collaboration, IBM has become a Red Hat
Certified Cloud and Service Provider, giving clients greater
confidence that they can use Red Hat OpenStack Platform and Red Hat
Ceph Storage on IBM Private Cloud when the offering launches for
general availability at the end of March
2017.
Additionally, as part of the agreement, Red Hat Cloud Access
will be available for IBM Cloud by the end of Q2 2017, allowing Red
Hat customers to move eligible, unused Red Hat Enterprise Linux
subscriptions from their data center to a public, virtualized cloud
environment in IBM Cloud Data Centers worldwide. This enables
companies to better preserve and extend their Red Hat software
investments while providing the global scale and efficiency of IBM
Cloud.
"Our collaboration with IBM is aimed at helping enterprise
customers more quickly and easily embrace hybrid cloud," said
Radhesh Balakrishnan, General
Manager of OpenStack, Red Hat. "Now, customers who don't have
in-house expertise to manage an OpenStack infrastructure can more
confidently consume Red Hat OpenStack Platform and Red Hat Ceph
Storage on IBM Private Cloud."
Leading hybrid cloud application management company Cloudsoft is
already using the service in beta and has deployed its Red Hat
Enterprise Linux workloads in the IBM Private Cloud.
"Deploying our Cloudsoft Application Management Platform (AMP)
on IBM Bluemix Private Cloud with Red Hat has been effortless for
us," said Duncan Johnston-Watt, CEO
of Cloudsoft Corporation. "We're getting cost and efficiency
benefits of running on the public cloud with added security
features, control and performance of a leading private cloud
environment."
Additional key benefits that customers can expect from the joint
offerings include:
- IBM and Red Hat will provide the hybrid cloud infrastructure to
help customers more efficiently run cloud applications using
OpenStack APIs.
- Clients will have the ability to more quickly provision cloud
infrastructure and, via Red Hat Cloud Access, migrate existing
workloads and Red Hat subscriptions to IBM Cloud or use the
software and infrastructure on a pay-as-you-go basis.
- Companies can have additional reach and scale to more easily
start locally and scale globally with cloud capabilities and to
more easily comply with data residency and other regulatory
mandates.
IBM and Red Hat plan to jointly market and sell the new
offerings for private cloud deployments, including workload
migrations, disaster recovery, capacity expansion and data center
consolidation.
"A cloud-first strategy has become the new normal for a majority
of our enterprise clients worldwide who are leveraging IBM Cloud as
a key driver for digital transformation," said Zane Adam, vice president, IBM Cloud. "The
strategic collaboration between IBM and Red Hat is designed to
enable clients to more easily adopt open source products and
OpenStack cloud software while preserving their existing
investments and creating new business opportunities."
InterConnect is IBM's cloud and cognitive conference where more
than 20,000 developers, clients and partners are being introduced
to the latest advancements in cloud computing through 2,000
sessions, labs and certifications. IBM is positioning both
enterprise and startup clients for success with a complete
portfolio of cloud services and marquee partnerships, supporting a
wide range of applications including: big data, analytics,
blockchain and cognitive computing.
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visit: https://www.ibm.com/cloud-computing/. For the IBM
InterConnect Press Kit,
visit: www.ibm.biz/IBMInterConnect2017. Engage in the
conversation through @IBMCloud and #ibminterconnect.
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