Published on the 05/11/2015 | Written by Newsdesk
Microsoft and Red Hat announce partnership to drive hybrid cloud computing…
What a long way the open source and proprietary software worlds have come. With this announcement, Microsoft is offering Red Hat Enterprise Linux as the preferred choice for enterprise Linux workloads on Azure, while in addition, the vendors say they are 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.
In terms of the new partnership deal, Azure will become a Red Hat Certified Cloud and Service Provider. Red Hat Cloud Access subscribers will be able to bring their own virtual machine images to run in Azure, while Azure customers can access Red Hat’s application platform, including JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, JBoss Web Server, Gluster Storage and OpenShift, Red Hat’s platform-as-a-service offering.
In the coming months, the vendors jointly plan to provide Red Hat On-Demand — “pay-as-you-go” Enterprise Linux images available in the Azure Marketplace, supported by Red Hat.
The companies also said the partnership will deliver integrated enterprise-grade support spanning hybrid environments, ‘unlike any previous partnership in the public cloud’, with co-located support teams on the same premises; unified workload management across hybrid cloud deployments; and collaboration on .NET for application development capabilities.
Scott Guthrie, EVP for Microsoft’s Cloud and Enterprise division said the partnership provides more choice and flexibility in the cloud “while fulfilling the rigorous security and scalability requirements that enterprises demand.”
Paul Cormier, president, Products and Technologies, Red Hat said “The datacentre is heterogeneous, and the cloud is hybrid. Together [with Microsoft], we’re offering the most comprehensive support agreement for our mixed technologies to support customers.”
