REDMOND, Wash., and
RALEIGH, N.C., Nov. 4, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Microsoft Corp.
(Nasdaq "MSFT") and Red Hat Inc. (NYSE: RHT) on Wednesday announced
a partnership that will help customers embrace hybrid cloud
computing by providing greater choice and flexibility deploying Red
Hat solutions on Microsoft Azure. As a key component of today's
announcement, Microsoft is offering Red Hat Enterprise Linux as the
preferred choice for enterprise Linux workloads on Microsoft Azure.
In addition, Microsoft and Red Hat are also working together to
address common enterprise, ISV and developer needs for building,
deploying and managing applications on Red Hat software across
private and public clouds.
The two companies will host a webcast at 11 a.m. EST/8 a.m. PST
Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2015, to share more details.
Key elements of the partnership include the following:
- Red Hat solutions available natively to Microsoft Azure
customers. In the coming weeks, Microsoft Azure will become a
Red Hat Certified Cloud and Service Provider, enabling customers to
run their Red Hat Enterprise Linux applications and workloads on
Microsoft Azure. Red Hat Cloud Access subscribers will be able to
bring their own virtual machine images to run in Microsoft Azure.
Microsoft Azure customers can also take advantage of the full value
of Red Hat's application platform, including Red Hat JBoss
Enterprise Application Platform, Red Hat JBoss Web Server, Red Hat
Gluster Storage and OpenShift, Red Hat's platform-as-a-service
offering. In the coming months, Microsoft and Red Hat plan to
provide Red Hat On-Demand — "pay-as-you-go" Red Hat Enterprise
Linux images available in the Azure Marketplace, supported by Red
Hat.
- Integrated enterprise-grade support spanning hybrid
environments. Customers will be offered cross-platform,
cross-company support spanning the Microsoft and Red Hat offerings
in an integrated way, unlike any previous partnership in the public
cloud. By co-locating support teams on the same premises, the
experience will be simple and seamless, at cloud speed.
- Unified workload management across hybrid cloud
deployments. Red Hat CloudForms will interoperate with
Microsoft Azure and Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine
Manager, offering Red Hat CloudForms customers the ability to
manage Red Hat Enterprise Linux on both Hyper-V and Microsoft
Azure. Support for managing Azure workloads from Red Hat CloudForms
is expected to be added in the next few months, extending the
existing System Center capabilities for managing Red Hat Enterprise
Linux.
- Collaboration on .NET for a new generation of application
development capabilities. Expanding on the preview of .NET on
Linux announced by Microsoft in April, developers will have access
to .NET technologies across Red Hat offerings, including Red Hat
OpenShift and Red Hat Enterprise Linux, jointly backed by Microsoft
and Red Hat. Red Hat Enterprise Linux will be the primary
development and reference operating system for .NET Core on
Linux.
"This partnership is a powerful win for enterprises, ISVs and
developers," said Scott Guthrie,
executive vice president for Microsoft's Cloud and Enterprise
division. "With this partnership, we are expanding our commitment
to offering unmatched choice and flexibility in the cloud today,
meeting customers where they are so they can do more with their
hybrid cloud deployments — all while fulfilling the rigorous
security and scalability requirements that enterprises demand."
"The datacenter is heterogeneous, and the cloud is hybrid," said
Paul Cormier, president, Products
and Technologies, Red Hat. "With Red Hat and the leader in
enterprise cloud workloads joining forces, our customers are the
winners today, as we unite on common solutions to help them solve
challenges in this hybrid cloud. Together, we're offering the most
comprehensive support agreement for our mixed technologies to
support customers."
Additional information on the partnership is available on The
Official Microsoft Blog and the Red Hat Blog. A live webcast with
executives from both companies will begin at 11 a.m. EST/8 a.m. PST
Wednesday and can be accessed by the general public at
https://vts.inxpo.com/Launch/QReg.htm?ShowKey=28455. Following
executive remarks, there will be a question and answer session. A
replay of the webcast will be available shortly after the live
event has ended.
About Red Hat Inc.
Red Hat is the world's leading provider of open source software
solutions, using a community-powered approach to reliable and
high-performing cloud, Linux, middleware, storage and
virtualization technologies. Red Hat also offers award-winning
support, training, and consulting services. As the connective hub
in a global network of enterprises, partners, and open source
communities, Red Hat helps create relevant, innovative technologies
that liberate resources for growth and prepare customers for the
future of IT. Learn more at http://www.redhat.com.
About Microsoft
Microsoft (Nasdaq "MSFT" @microsoft) is the leading platform and
productivity company for the mobile-first, cloud-first world, and
its mission is to empower every person and every organization on
the planet to achieve more.
Red Hat, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, JBoss, Gluster, OpenShift,
CloudForms and the Shadowman logo are trademarks of Red Hat, Inc.,
registered in the U.S. and other countries. Linux® is
the registered trademark of Linus Torvalds in the U.S. and other
countries. The use of the word "partnership" does not imply a legal
partnership between Red Hat and any other company.
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