Linux Distributors Are All Over the Cloud
November 5, 2014
Grazed from VirtualizationReview. Author: Dan Kusnetsky.
Two of the major Linux distributors, Red Hat Inc. and SUSE, appear to believe that becoming the dominant supplier of cloud services and technology will allow them to continue to battle mainframes, Windows and single-vendor Unix in both corporate and services provider datacenters. Both of these suppliers have made recent announcements based on cloud-related products and services. Let’s take a look at what they’re doing.
The Red Hat Cloud Strategy
Red Hat has made a number of announcements centering on the cloud. A July 2014 press release described its latest integration with OpenStack, Red Hat OpenStack Platform 5. It offered the most recent edition of OpenStack and enfolded it in its usual support policies in the hopes of making open source technology a safe and reliable choice for enterprises. It also tied in strongly with VMware Inc. infrastructure…
Today, Red Hat and Dell Inc. announced a starter pack for DevOps that includes Dell hardware and Red Hat OpenShift software. Here’s a snippet from the Red Hat/Dell announcement:…
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