Enterprise leaders collaborate to enable
container adoption across heterogeneous datacenter infrastructure
and Microsoft Azure with new capabilities and product support
Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) and Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT)
today announced an expansion of the two companies’ alliance with
plans for new initiatives aimed at enabling enterprises to more
easily adopt containers. This includes native support for Windows
Server containers on Red Hat OpenShift, Red Hat OpenShift Dedicated
on Microsoft Azure, and SQL Server on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and
Red Hat OpenShift. These additions to the companies’ joint roadmap
will focus on simplifying container technologies to help enterprise
customers increase the agility and drive digital transformation
using hybrid cloud.
Continuing their commitment to deliver choice and flexibility to
enterprise customers, Microsoft and Red Hat will extend the
integrated, co-located Microsoft and Red Hat support to enable
these new offerings across platforms. This helps to assure IT
organizations that whatever challenges they face on their path to
digital transformation, Microsoft and Red Hat will stand by them
together.
Windows Server containers on Red Hat OpenShift
Enterprises see the benefit in using containerized applications
to run their mission-critical workloads, but most IT organizations
are not standardized on a single infrastructure stack. These
heterogeneous environments often carry both Windows and Linux
platforms, siloing applications and making it difficult for a
business to modernize and scale their operations.
Today’s announcement simplifies these challenges, as Windows
Server containers will be natively supported on Red Hat OpenShift,
a leading enterprise-grade, Kubernetes-based container application
platform. Red Hat OpenShift will be the first container application
platform built from the open source Kubernetes project to support
both Linux and Windows container workloads in a single platform
across the multiple environments of the hybrid cloud, breaking down
silos and making it easier for enterprises to pursue their
cloud-native agenda.
This capability was demonstrated at Red Hat Summit in May 2017,
and is expected to be available as a Technology Preview in Spring
2018.
Red Hat OpenShift Dedicated on Microsoft Azure and Red Hat
Enterprise Linux on Microsoft Azure Stack
Cloud-native applications and the container platforms that power
them are critical components to digital transformation, but
managing the infrastructure for these technologies can be complex
and time-consuming for already-stretched IT teams. Red Hat and
Microsoft will address this by offering Red Hat OpenShift Dedicated
on Azure. Red Hat OpenShift Dedicated is a container platform
delivered as a cloud service, managed by Red Hat. With today’s
announcement, this service is planned for availability on Azure,
Microsoft’s enterprise-grade cloud platform with availability
announced across 42 regions globally - more than any other public
cloud provider. Microsoft and Red Hat engineers are working closely
to optimize OpenShift while running on Azure, helping to deliver
standardized enterprise performance and matching integrated
support.
In addition, Red Hat OpenShift Dedicated on Microsoft Azure
allows enterprise IT teams to focus on delivering business value
and fostering innovation rather than keeping the lights on and
micro-managing resources. Red Hat OpenShift Dedicated on Microsoft
Azure is expected to be available in early 2018.
The companies also plan to collaborate on delivering enterprise
performance standards and integrated support for Red Hat Enterprise
Linux workloads running in Microsoft Azure Stack. Azure Stack is an
on-premises extension of Azure that brings cloud computing to
on-premises environments, running on certified hardware from Dell,
HP, Lenovo and Cisco that enables enterprises to quickly and easily
stand up a cloud experience in their datacenter.
SQL Server on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat
OpenShift
As customers continue leveraging containers to increase agility
in a cloud-native world, Red Hat and Microsoft are committed to
helping them harness open innovation. Yesterday, Red Hat announced
the availability of .NET Core 2.0 as a container in OpenShift, and
in the coming months, the two companies plan to bring the power and
scale of SQL Server for Linux to Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red
Hat OpenShift.
As with all Red Hat and Microsoft joint initiatives, SQL Server
for Linux on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat OpenShift
Container Platform will be jointly supported by both Microsoft and
Red Hat.
Supporting Quotes
Matthew Hicks, vice president, Software Engineering, OpenShift
and Management, Red Hat“Alongside Microsoft, Red Hat is providing a
way for organizations to make technology choices that matter to
them, from containerized workloads to public cloud services,
without adding complexity. Combined with our integrated support
teams, we’re able to offer a pathway to digital transformation that
offers the capabilities, flexibility and choice required to power
the future of enterprise IT.”
John Gossman, Lead Azure Architect, Microsoft Corp.“Microsoft
and Red Hat are aligned in our commitment to bring enterprise
customers the hybrid cloud solutions they need to modernize their
businesses as they shift to operate in a cloud-native world. Today,
we’re extending this commitment as we again join forces to bring
fully integrated solutions that simplify container adoption and
help customers make the most of their hybrid cloud strategies.”
Additional Resources
- Watch a video highlighting the
expansion of the Red Hat and Microsoft alliance
- Read a blog post about Windows Server
containers on Red Hat OpenShift
- Read a blog post from Microsoft about
working with Red Hat to accelerate enterprise container
adoption
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