Red Hat (RHT, Financial) is coordinating with its partners and customers for delivering superior and innovative technologies to the venture. Red Hat is primarily focused on supporting its customers to easily transition to the open hybrid cloud.
Growth in demand
The company is also witnessing significant demand for its emerging and innovative technologies. This innovation includes the launch of RHEL OSP 5 technology which is designed on the OpenStack Icehouse architecture and is closely linked with RHEL to offer improved reliability, performance and a variety of certified ecosystem for applications released on OpenStack clouds.
The new version also includes many innovative features such as first, a major certified OpenStack partner ecosystem, being the world’s largest and an innovative three-year support lifecycle offered by Red Hat's worldwide support services team.
Second, it allows integration with VMware infrastructure, focused around storage, networking, management and virtualization.
Third, it offers improved security for virtual machines by supporting new cryptographic security needs for the United Kingdom and the United States.
Fourth, Red Hat offers enhanced interoperability of networking stacks. The innovative architecture shows a way to customers having heterogeneous networking surroundings and wishes to leverage mixed networking solutions in their OpenStack setting.
Concurrent to the introduction of RHEL OSP 5, Red Hat released an open virtual appliance for RHEL OSP for simplifying the installation process and allows organizations using OpenStack with an ability to witness this unique tool. Further, the company released Red Hat, Inktank Ceph Enterprise 1.2, which is a branded version of its blocked and object storage solution. This new version comprises of innovative features for enabling customers to manage and store data in bulk ranging from hot mission-critical data to cold archival data.
Increasing opportunities
Red Hat is also making accelerated innovative investments for the future including, the acquisition of FeedHenry which is a Mobile Backend as a Service Center. Mobile computing is believed to be a rapidly expanding IT segment with enterprises keen on solutions that allow them to expand current applications to mobile devices and for developing innovative applications attracting key mobile users.
The acquisition of FeedHenry is believed to add further value to Red Hat and expand its strengths, OpenShift Platform-as-a-Service and Enterprise Middleware technology. Actually, its OpenShift Online just reached a key milestone with $2 million applications developed on the platform, doubling on year-over-year basis. These combined application integration technologies are estimated to support its customers in meeting their expanding mobile needs and drive healthy shareholder value.
Red Hat expanded its reach and market share by entering into a strategic partnership with Cisco that includes Red Hat's widespread portfolio of cloud technologies. Red Hat combined with Cisco offered several key customers with matching solutions for executing new workloads. Hence, Cisco is keen on leveraging Red Hat's cloud infrastructure and management, its Middleware storage, OpenShift, Linux OpenStack and open-source-based solutions.
Several customers of Cisco are driving excellent demand for Red Hat’s OpenStack solutions.
After Cisco’s declaration, Nokia and Red Hat jointly decided to expand their operations together for allowing mobile operators to develop highly efficient and dependable telco cloud infrastructure. The agreement comprises of cloud application management products, carrier grade virtualized core applications and Nokia networks, integrated with Red Hat's Enterprise Linux OpenStack platform.
Conclusion
Therefore, Red Hat is successfully expanding its commercial ecosystem with the addition of Dell (DELL, Financial), Alcatel-Lucent (ALU, Financial) and now Nokia (NOK, Financial) for delivering Network Function Virtualization or NFV technology to the carriers.
