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IBM Announces Native Cloud Capabilities for Software Line via Red Hat Containers
- By Becky Nagel
- August 1, 2019
IBM today announced that its software portfolio is now "cloud-native" and primed to run via Red Hat's OpenShift enterprise Kubernetes container solution on all of the most popular public cloud platforms, including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, IBM Cloud and Google Cloud, as well as private cloud setups.
IBM says it's delivering this capability via IBM Cloud "Paks." These bundles provide "containerized software [that will] provide a common operating model and common set of services -- including identity management, security, monitoring and logging -- and are designed to improve visibility and control across clouds together with a unified and intuitive dashboard."
According to the announcement made on Aug. 1, more than 100 IBM products will be optimized to run on Red Hat OpenShift.
IBM also announced Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud, a new offering that offers a "one-click" deploy option for OpenShift on IBM Cloud; Red Hat Open Shift on IBM Z and Linux ONE, an offering customized for these platforms; and related Red Hat consulting services.
Live launch dates for the above were not provided.
IBM announced it was acquiring Red Hat last year, and completed the acquisition in June.
About the Author
Becky Nagel is vice president of AI for 1105 Media, where she specializes in training internal and external customers on maximizing their business potential via a wide variety of generative AI technologies as well as developing cutting-edge AI content and events. She's the author of "ChatGPT Prompt 101 Guide for Business Uses," regularly leads research studies on generative AI business usage, and serves as the director of AI Boardroom, a new resource for C-level executives looking to excel in the AI era. Prior to her current position she was a technical leader for 1105 Media's Web, advertising and production teams as well as editorial director for a suite of enterprise technology publications, including serving as founding editor of PureAI.com. She has 20 years of enterprise technology journalism experience, and regularly speaks and writes about generative AI, AI, edge computing and other cutting-edge technologies. She can be reached at [email protected].