Red Hat CEO Whitehurst on VMware, OpenStack and CentOS
July 14, 2014
Grazed from ZDNet. Author: Larry Dignan.
Red Hat has been on an acquisition run with the aim of building an open source stack that leads the hybrid data center. The primary rival: VMware. How the Red Hat vs. VMware duel plays out remains to be seen, but Jim Whitehurst, CEO of Red Hat, argued that open source will ultimately define the enterprise IT architectures of the future. I caught up with Whitehurst to talk cloud, open source and Red Hat’s master plan. Here’s a look at some of the key themes from my conversation with Whitehurst:
Recent acquisitions and the big picture. Red Hat recently acquired OpenStack integrator eNovance and Inktank, a software defined storage company known for Ceph, an enterprise platform. Whitehurst said that Red Hat "is looking to create an open source stack for infrastructure and platform as a service." Red Hat makes acquisitions not based on intellectual property as much as people and involvement with innovative open source projects like Ceph, an object and block storage platform…
Ceph is a way to play scale-out storage. Whitehurst argued that storage will move to open source because of cloud computing and new analytic workloads. OpenStack will also mean that technologies such as Ceph will be adopted over time…
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