Red Hat’s Friday Five — April 14, 2017
The Friday Five is a weekly Red Hat® blog post with 5 of the week’s top news items and ideas from or about Red Hat and the technology industry. Consider it your weekly digest of things that caught our eye.
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IN THE NEWS:
CRN – Red Hat CEO Whitehurst On Soaring Stock Success, Open-Source Technologies And Being The ‘Last Man Standing’ In OpenStack
Red Hat, in many ways, is the last man standing. We said in early days that OpenStack is so deeply tied to the operating system that you need an operating system vendor to be able to deliver that, and I think that’s what you’re seeing now. We’ve said that three of four $20-plus million deals this past quarter were OpenStack so we’re starting to see some real traction there. We have over 500 customers of material size running OpenStack. However, we’re in the trough of disillusionment a little bit. I think the vendors all got on board too early in OpenStack and so people wanted to try to deliver OpenStack out to customers because they didn’t want to be late. People were delivering things that just weren’t mature enough. And you can’t stop that, it’s open source. But now you have a [Red Hat] distribution that everyone can certify to. It becomes much easier to put it into production use and so we’re seeing a significant uptick now in OpenStack. All these new innovations, big data, microservices, machine learning, they all happen on a Linux platform. Containers are Linux containers. OpenStack is a Linux component. And Red Hat is the leader in that.
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IN THE NEWS:
Red Hat Delivers Advanced Network Automation with Latest Version of Ansible
Red Hat announced the general availability of Ansible 2.3, the latest version of the leading simple, powerful, and agentless open source IT automation framework. The upstream Ansible project is one of the most popular open source automation projects on GitHub with an active and engaged community. Ansible 2.3 provides performance enhancements and advanced networking capabilities, including adding connection methods designed to increase flexibility and improve performance.
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IN THE NEWS:
Red Hat Brings Kubernetes to New Application Workloads with Latest Version of Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform
Red Hat announced the general availability of Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.5, the latest version of
Red Hat’s enterprise-grade, Kubernetes-native container application platform. While enabling enterprises like Swiss Railways, Produban and Pioneer to actively embrace cloud-native applications in mission-critical roles, Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.5 also helps enterprises retain existing IT investments through expanded support for traditional business applications. This dual application support is provided by new security enhancements as well as several innovations emerging from the Kubernetes upstream community.
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