Dell and Red Hat Will Announce a Big Cloud-Computing Alliance Today
December 12, 2013
Grazed from AllThingsD. Author: Arik Hesseldahl.
Dell, the newly private computing company, will later today announce an alliance with the software company Red Hat that will become a significant piece of its cloud-computing strategy going forward. In what one source described as the “closest relationship that Red Hat has ever had,” Dell will announce plans to conduct deep engineering work on Red Hat’s version of OpenStack, the open-source cloud-computing platform.
In a move similar to a broad collaboration they launched around the Linux operating system more than a decade ago, Dell and Red Hat will cooperatively develop an enterprise-grade version of OpenStack based on the latest version, code-named Havana. The announcement will be made at a Dell event in Austin, Texas, later this morning…
Red Hat announced last month that OpenStack would be bundled with its Enterprise Linux Version 6.5. The companies will describe the relationship as “cooperative engineering,” and will announce a series of 10 different OpenStack enhancements they will release within the next 90 days…
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