Red Hat has signed a major partnership with Oracle to bring Red Hat Enterprise Linux to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
Red Hat is a leading Linux and open source company, with its RHEL being one of the most popular enterprise Linux offerings and the backbone of the company’s hybrid cloud tech. The expanded partnership with Oracle will see RHEL running as a supported operating system on OCI.
“Starting today, customers can deploy Red Hat Enterprise Linux on OCI and receive full support for these certified configurations from both Red Hat and Oracle,” said Clay Magouyrk, executive vice president, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. “Deepening our collaboration in the future will see us support additional products and workloads on OCI so customers have more flexibility.”
The two companies clearly see a chance to capitalize on their combined popularity.
Ninety percent of the Fortune 500 currently rely on Red Hat and Oracle solutions. For many of these companies, Red Hat Enterprise Linux serves as their operating system foundation and OCI offers them high-performing, mission-critical cloud services, to power digital-forward operations. Now these organizations are able to standardize their cloud operations with Red Hat Enterprise Linux running on OCI, which enables customers to gain a common platform that stretches from their datacenter to the OCI distributed cloud.
“Customer choice, from hardware to cloud provider, is a crucial commitment for Red Hat, whether these organizations are running operations in their own datacenters, on multiple public clouds or at the far edge,” said Ashesh Badani, senior vice president, head of Products, Red Hat. “Our collaboration with Oracle to deliver full support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux on OCI further cements this commitment to choice by extending cloud deployment options for our customers, and laying the foundation to make additional Red Hat solutions available to customers digitally transforming on OCI.”
The deal is a big win for Red Hat and its parent company IBM, as well as for Linux in general.
Nvidia is — at long last — open-sourcing its GPU kernel drivers for Linux, potentially ending a major pain point for users.
Hardware support for Linux has come miles in recent years, but Nvidia drivers have continued to be a sore point for many users. Unlike AMD, Nvidia steadfastly refused to open-source its drivers. Users with Nvidia cards have had to use Nvidia’s proprietary drivers. Depending on the specific Linux distribution (distro), accessing Nvidia’s drivers could range from easy to painfully difficult.
According to Phoronix, Nvidia has finally agreed to open-source its drivers. This means that even the most free and open source (FOSS) focused distro will now be able to include the drivers in their standard repositories (repos). Canonical / Ubuntu, Red Hat, and SUSE are already preparing to include the drivers. While Ubuntu already made it easy to install non-FOSS drivers and software, Red Hat and SUSE required users to enable specific, non-official repos to access the drivers.
Nvidia’s previous stance not only drew constant criticism from the open source community, but it also drew the wrath of hackers. The Lapsus$ ransomware group stole Nvidia code, demanding the company open-source its drivers if it wanted to avoid having its source code leaked to the world. While company CEO Jensen Huang called the breach a “wake-up call,” few suspected the company would go this far.
Either way, Nvidia’s decision is a major win for Linux users and FOSS advocates alike.
Red Hat has suspended operations in Russia, dealing another blow to the country over its invasion of Ukraine.
Red Hat is a subsidiary of IBM and the maker of the popular Red Hat Enterprise Linux, widely used to power servers around the world. The company has now joined the plethora of companies that are pulling out of Russia.
While relevant sanctions must guide many of our actions, we’ve taken additional measures as a company. Effective immediately, Red Hat is discontinuing sales and services in Russia and Belarus (for both organizations located in or headquartered in Russia or Belarus). This includes discontinuing partner relationships with organizations based in or headquartered in Russia or Belarus.
In addition to suspending operations in Russia, Red Hat is also working to help its employees in Ukraine get to safety.
The safety, security, and well-being of our associates remain our top priority. The cross-functional team we established several weeks ago has connected directly with every Red Hatter in Ukraine and Russia and will continue to ensure they have the support and resources they need. We have helped Red Hatters in Ukraine and their families (including spouses, children and family members) move safely to nearby countries and continue to help those who remain in the country in any way possible.
“It’s a question of understanding what’s hybrid as opposed to pure public,” says IBM CEO Arvind Krishna. “I look at both Microsoft and Amazon as likely partners in this journey, not as being the one and two. In the hybrid world, the question is where does the client want to decide where the workload runs? They can run it on Amazon, they can run it on Microsoft, they can run it on IBM, or they can run it on private. What is the technology platform that goes across all of those? Red Hat gives a great answer to that technology platform.”
“There are many capabilities people need around integration and cybersecurity,” adds Krishna. “We’ll bring those to bear. Then we will bring our services to bear for those clients who would like to get that help both in improving the skills of their own people or for us to do the work for them. That is why you see us report $24 billion dollars in the trailing 12 months on total cloud revenue. That’s a hybrid market and not a singular public cloud market.”
IBM CEO Arvind Krishna On Hybrid Cloud: Microsoft and Amazon Likely Partners
Financial services firm Financial Network, Inc. (FNI) is leaving Oracle’s platform in favor of MariaDB SkySQL.
MariaDB was forked from MySQL when Oracle acquired the database engine in 2009. Developers were concerned about the future of MySQL under Oracle, and wanted a version of the database that would remain independent of Oracle, while at the same time maintaining full compatibility.
MariaDB Corporation pairs the database with SkySQL for “the first and only database-as-a-service (DBaaS) to bring the full power of MariaDB Platform to the cloud, combining powerful enterprise features and world-class support with unrivaled ease of use and groundbreaking innovation.”
SkySQL is offered as a DBaaS on Google Cloud Platform, and MariaDB is used by Google, Mozilla, Deutsche Bank, DBS Bank, Nasdaq, Red Hat, ServiceNow, Verizon and Walgreens. Now, FNI is leaving Oracle in favor of MariaDB and SkySQL.
“MariaDB has been a true collaborative partner for us in our journey to the cloud,” said Bryan Bancroft, lead database administrator at FNI. “With SkySQL, we don’t have to bother with containers or managing the database, that’s left to the database professionals at MariaDB. We also have the option of easily expanding our applications to leverage blended transactions and analytics when the time is right. Moving to MariaDB from Oracle was a key strategic business decision for us and has ultimately saved us up to 80% in database costs – allowing us to reinvest the savings into delivering new, critical solutions for our customers.”
The announcement is a big win for MariaDB and a loss for Oracle, just as the company is doubling down in an effort to take on its bigger cloud rivals.
Lenovo has announced it will soon make Fedora Workstation available on its ThinkPad line of laptops.
Lenovo joins Dell as one of the few PC makers to include an OEM Linux install. Unlike Dell, which is bundling the Ubuntu distribution, Lenovo has chosen to bundle Fedora. Fedora has a long history in the Linux community, and is sponsored by Red Hat.
According to Fedora Magazine, “the Lenovo team has been working with folks at Red Hat who work on Fedora desktop technologies to make sure that the upcoming Fedora 32 Workstation is ready to go on their laptops. The best part about this is that we’re not bending our rules for them. Lenovo is following our existing trademark guidelines and respects our open source principles. That’s right—these laptops ship with software exclusively from the official Fedora repos!”
This is great news for individuals, businesses and organizations of all types looking for a fully supported Windows alternative.
After eight years as CEO of IBM, Ginni Rometty is stepping down and Arvind Krishna has been elected to replace her, according to a company press release.
Rometty is the first woman to hold the top position at IBM and oversaw the company during a period of transformation and disruption within the tech industry. She led IBM as it dealt with the rise of cloud computing, artificial intelligence and more. During her tenure, the company bet big on the hybrid cloud market, as well as its acquisition of open-source software company Red Hat.
Arvind Krishna will pick up where Rometty left off. In fact, Krishna is responsible for some of IBM’s strategic moves under Rometty. Specifically, he was the architect of the Red Hat deal, and has been a staunch proponent of IBM’s hybrid cloud approach.
“Arvind is the right CEO for the next era at IBM,” said Rometty in the press release. “He is a brilliant technologist who has played a significant role in developing our key technologies such as artificial intelligence, cloud, quantum computing and blockchain. He is also a superb operational leader, able to win today while building the business of tomorrow. Arvind has grown IBM’s Cloud and Cognitive Software business and led the largest acquisition in the company’s history. Through his multiple experiences running businesses in IBM, Arvind has built an outstanding track record of bold transformations and proven business results, and is an authentic, values-driven leader. He is well-positioned to lead IBM and its clients into the cloud and cognitive era.”
Krishna struck an optimistic tone that IBM will continue to innovate and play a pivotal role in the tech industry.
“I am thrilled and humbled to be elected as the next Chief Executive Officer of IBM, and appreciate the confidence that Ginni and the Board have placed in me,” said Krishna. “IBM has such talented people and technology that we can bring together to help our clients solve their toughest problems. I am looking forward to working with IBMers, Red Hatters and clients around the world at this unique time of fast-paced change in the IT industry. We have great opportunities ahead to help our clients advance the transformation of their business while also remaining the global leader in the trusted stewardship of technology.”
CNN is reporting that investors are growing increasingly restless with IBM’s cloud strategy and are anxious to see results.
IBM may be one of the most trusted names in the tech industry, with a history going back decades, but that hasn’t prevented it from losing investors’ confidence. Recent years have seen it fall behind in the move to the cloud, surpassed by Amazon, Microsoft and Google.
According to CNN, Morgan Stanley analyst Katy Huberty cut her price target on IBM and commented: “Despite significant investments, IBM remains challenged as workloads shift to cloud.” She also said that “views of IBM’s positioning in cloud haven’t improved materially and in some cases deteriorated over the past year.”
Some analysts believe a change at the top could help, along with a major cloud strategy announcement. Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst is considered a prime candidate. Whitehurst was brought into the company when IBM acquired Red Hat in 2018. Several years prior, in 2014, he announced Red Hat’s own shift to a cloud-based strategy, and his leadership could be a valuable asset in the top role at IBM.
There has even been talk of activist investors buying a stake in the company in an effort to force a shakeup of the status quo. With Microsoft, Amazon and Google getting the lion’s share of the cloud market and news, IBM will need to do something to keep investors happy.
IBM is in the midst of being reinvented and the acquisition of Red Hat is a big part of that. A primary business for IBM is helping companies integrate their mission-critical work into a multi-cloud world in a secure way. “All of us know the big job is how to manage it, access controls, security, know what data is where, and how much data you want flowing,” says IBM CEO Ginni Rometty. “We will be number one in what the world calls hybrid cloud.”
Ginni Rometty, CEO of IBM, recently discussed on Fox Business at Davos 2019 how the acquisition of Red Hat is part of the reinvention of IBM and how this is part of their strategy to be number one in hybrid cloud:
We Have Been Reinventing IBM
We have been reinventing IBM. We just had our earnings and 50 percent of the company has moved into these new products and services which are always redoing the portfolio. One of the things with the Red Hat acquisition is really what I see in front of us, which I call chapter two of the cloud. For most enterprises, chapter one was the easy things that they moved. Pretty low hanging fruit. If you sized it, 20 percent is what’s moved to the cloud. The other 80 percent is not just more complex, it’s got a different complexion.
Most companies weren’t born yesterday. It’s like if you have a house already. You’ve got your house. You say these rooms I’m not going to touch, I’m going to leave them as they are. These rooms are going to get remodeled, moved to the public cloud. These are so sensitive, I’m going to keep them right here and put them in a private cloud.
Greatest Proponent of Open and Open Source
That’s really what Red Hat and us together says to all of our clients out there. With this journey now, you are going to have multiple clouds. They are difficult to manage with security and moving of data. Don’t get locked into any single cloud. We now become the greatest proponent of open and open source.
Part of Red Hat is how you build things so they can move from private to multiple clouds. This allows clients to move to a multi-cloud era, open so they are not locked in, in a very secure way, so they make their cloud journey from where they start. It really allows us to own the starting point and the ending point of a cloud journey. That’s part of the portfolio.
Number One in Hybrid Cloud
When you think of IBM, think of your mission-critical work. We believe it will be a multi-cloud world, but we believe we will have the most secure public cloud for mission-critical work. We will also help you manage and integrate all of these other clouds together. We are the cloud for business. That’s how I would differentiate us. For big business as well as small. You will see a different mix between what percentage runs on a public cloud versus a private cloud.
Most clients may have their CRM system with Salesforce, their HR system with SAP or Workday, etc. They already have all of this different real estate. All of us know the big job is how to manage it, access controls, security, know what data is where, and how much data you want flowing. We will be number one in what the world calls hybrid cloud.
IBM is the Greatest Supporter of Open Source
Our familiarity and investment in Linux goes back 20 years. Linux is the open operating system and what people mostly think about when they think of open. We are one of the top contributors to all the projects out there. So I think counter to what may be the perception out there, IBM is the greatest supporter of open source. Take blockchain, for instance, that’s all open source. We open sourced that on purpose to make it fly.
Red Hat Linux is the number one operating system in on-premise as well as number one in the cloud. This year it took over number one over the others. We view this a part of our DNA to be open. I don’t see it cultural. It’s really important for what they do that it not just run on IBM. It’s going to run on all of our competitors. This is friendly competition as well since these are our clients that use all these. It will be on all the other clouds.
We want to preserve that and make sure that they have equal opportunity with what they do. Then what we do is we take the same products from Red Hat and we add to it and then we also compete in that world. We have a strategic imperative around cloud, around analytics, and around mobility. That’s the part of the business that is now close 50 percent of the company.
Box CEO Aaron Levie says that the IBM-Red Hat Deal showed what the underlying value of incumbent technology companies like Salesforce, ServiceNow, and “hopefully Box” is potentially worth.
Aaron Levie, CEO of Box, was interviewed on CNBC about the impact of the IBM-Red Hat deal on Box:
Red Hat Deal Puts IBM in a Great Position
Red Hat is a leader in commercial open source technology which is really the future of computing in any real IT environment or software development and IBM now has one of the world’s best companies in the open source space and the multi-cloud space.
I think it puts them in an incredible position to help enterprises that are moving to a multi-cloud environment be able to run their data centers and run their operations, whether it’s in the cloud or on-premises and a hybrid model for the future. It puts IBM in a great position.
IBM-Red Hat Deal Shows Increased Underlying Value
This is obviously an incredibly bold move on the part of Ginni (Ginni Rometty, CEO, IBM) and the rest of the team but one that I think we will look back in five or ten years and say that was a very defining decision. IBM is a great partner and we obviously want to root for their success but we partner with probably the majority of software and technology companies in the industry, so our job is to be interoperable and integrate with all the major technologies our customers use.
What the (IBM-Red Hat) deal showed was that the underlying value of some of these significant players is in many cases worth a lot – especially big incumbents. I think in general, companies like Workday, Salesforce, ServiceNow, and hopefully Box, we’re trying to build industry defining companies that will last quite some time.
Becoming a Core Part of the Technology Stack
I think, in general, when you think about enterprise IT, enterprise IT buyers are making long-term investments in the future of their technology architecture. It’s very sticky and there are massive modes in the technology that are being built out and if we do our job and continue to innovate we will become a core part of the technology stack of how the future of all enterprises operate.
That’s why these deals end up actually looking pretty good in hindsight when you can see how powerful these platforms are.
IBM’s $33 billion all-cash deal for Red Hat is expected to literally reset the cloud landscape says IBM CEO Ginni Rometty. “This now changes the cloud battle to open, which is what we both are together, to proprietary. This allows them to move mission-critical work safely and securely,” said Rometty.
It’s All About Resetting the Cloud Landscape
For us, it’s all about resetting the cloud landscape. This is to create the number one company that will be the number one hybrid cloud provider. If you look at this with our clients, right now, it’s everyone moving to the cloud, but it’s really only 20 percent though. I call that chapter one. Chapter two is to move the next 80 percent and that’s what this is about. But to move that 80 percent they are going to need what this combination brings them.
Based on the hundreds of notes I know Jim (Jim Whitehurst, CEO, Red Hat) and I both got, clients see this very clearly. Chapter two is about hybrid cloud. This is how they move the remaining 80 percent of their work to the cloud… you have to be hybrid, you have to be able to handle multiple clouds, you have to be open technologies, you have to do multi-cloud management, and that’s what we can do.
It’s $1 Trillion and Clients Don’t Want Lock-Ins
We’ve been investing in cloud a long time, a $19 billion cloud right now and this is what makes us number one for this next chapter of the cloud. This is a $1 trillion emerging market and that’s what we’re going after. It’s $1 trillion and clients don’t want lock-ins.
This gives them a portable answer here. They want to be able to run on-prem, in a private cloud, in a public cloud, multiple public clouds, and that’s what we do together. I think the world doesn’t realize that Linux is now the number one platform, not just on-prem, it’s the destination in the cloud. Now we own the number one starting point and the destination.
This is About Lifting All of IBM
This is a very fair price if anyone understood the prized asset we’re buying and Jim’s built a great company. Unlike others, Red Hat has high growth, high profit, and cash. This is why I think really the most important thing for our investors is that this is about lifting all of IBM. It is accretive to our high-value model.
This is about being accretive in year one for free cash flow and gross margin. Most important, we are still going to go ahead with a very strong growing dividend and that is really key to our shareholders.
This Changes the Cloud Battle
This makes perfect sense. This is what these clients tell me day in and day out they need for chapter two, that 80 percent of their work can’t move without what we bring them and they don’t want lock-in. This now changes the cloud battle to open, which is what we both are together, to proprietary. This allows them to move mission-critical work safely and securely. We can secure this from the firmware up. This is about making open source safe end-to-end mission-critical work moving accretive to IBM’s high-value model, strong continued growing dividend, all around everyone wins.
Microsoft and Red Hat haveannounced their collaboration in offering the first jointly managed OpenShift on Azure, the former’s public cloud. At the Red Hat Summit that opened on Tuesday, the teamup will allow enterprise developers to run container-based applications across on-premises and public clouds.
Red Hat OpenShift, the company’s Kubernetes container application platform, has been identified as the industry’s most comprehensive solution. With its availability on Azure, container management will become easier since it will be a fully managed service by Microsoft and Red Hat.
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So, how does container application platform works? Runtime components, such as files, environment variables, and libraries needed in executing an application, are distributed into so-called containers. They use fewer resources since app containers can share with the host’s operating system in order to run, unlike virtual machines that have their own OS.
Red Hat president Paul Cormier pointed out that several organizations often have a mixture of on-premises and public cloud footprint for their IT operations. Its partnership with Microsoft gives customers the opportunity to tap into an innovative hybrid cloud platform without making major adjustments in their existing operations.
During the summit, Burr Sutter of Red Hat demonstrated how users can load-balance across a hybrid cloud comprised of an on-site rack, Azure in Texas, and Amazon Web Services in Ohio. He showed that the task could be done automatically and in real time using Kubernetes.
As more companies turn to containerized applications as part of the digital transformation, the demand for managed services around containers is also increasing,observed Red Hat vice president Mike Ferris. Red Hat OpenShift on Azure gives enterprises the flexibility to move workloads around and across on- and off-premises, such as the public cloud. Moreover, OpenShift customers no longer need to manage Kubernetes themselves – astrategy that Microsoft has been nudging on.
Other advantages of the collaboration to developers include faster connections with enhanced security under hybrid networking, and access to managed services like Azure Cosmos DB, Azure Machine Learning, and Azure SQL DB. Thanks to available extensive technology platforms, OpenShift customers can now build cloud-native apps and update existing ones. There will be an overarching support for containerized applications, operating systems, infrastructure, and orchestrator.
“Microsoft and Red Hat are aligned in our vision to deliver simplicity, choice, and flexibility to enterprise developers building cloud-native applications,” said Scott Guthrie, Microsoft’s executive vice president for cloud and enterprise. “Today, we’re combining both companies’ leadership in Kubernetes, hybrid cloud, and enterprise operating systems to simplify the complex process of container management, with an industry-first solution on Azure.”
The rollout of the collaboration will happen in two phases, with support for the OpenShift Container Platform and Red Hat Enterprise Linux on Azure. Meanwhile, the jointly developed and managed Red Hat OpenShift on Azure is slated for preview in the coming months.
Microsoft announced some new options for Azure, including that starting now, you can deploy Red Hat Enterprise Linux instances from the Azure Marketplace.
Microsoft announced a partnership with Red Hat back in November, and this is Microsoft delivering on that announcement.
“Using these instances, customers of Red Hat and Microsoft will now be able to rapidly and seamlessly deploy instances for on-demand workloads, dev-test, and cloud bursting – all with the simplicity, scalability, agility and unique per-minute billing flexibility of Azure,” says Azure director of program management Corey Sanders. “The Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.7 and 7.2 images are now live in all regions, except China and US Government, and can be deployed directly from the Azure Marketplace.”
“Since we announced our partnership in November, we’ve seen strong interest and momentum from our customers looking to bring their Red Hat investments to Azure,” he adds. “We offer the best enterprise-grade support of the public cloud, by offering a fully integrated support experience with co-located Red Hat and Microsoft support engineers sitting side-by-side to help you when you need it!”
Microsoft and Red Hat worked together to see that Red Hat subscriptions purchased through the Azure Marketplace provide integrated support through direct access to the Red Hat customer portal.
Other announcements are that the Azure Container Service preview is now available for everyone and that Microsoft is certifying for the Azure Marketplace a group of Linux images created by Bitnami. They’re also enabling OneOps on Azure. More info on all of this here.
Microsoft announced on Wednesday that it has entered a partnership with Red Hat to include Red Hat solutions on Microsoft Azure. Red Hat Enterprise Linux is to be offered as the preferred choice for enterprise Linux workloads.
The two companies are also working together to address enterprise, ISV and developer needs for building, deploying, and managing applications on Red Hat software across private and public clouds.
Azure will soon become a Red Hat Certified Cloud and Service Provider so customers can run their Red Hat Enterprise Linux applications and workloads on it. Red Hat Cloud Access subscribers will be able to bring their own virtual machine images to run in Azure. Azure customers will be able to utilize Red Hat’s application platform, including Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, Red Hat JBoss Web Server, Red Hat Gluster Storage, and OpenShift.
Customers will also get the benefit of cross-platform support with both companies offering support in an integrated way. According to Microsoft, this is unlike any previous partnership in the public cloud. Support teams will actually reside on the same premises.
“Red Hat CloudForms will interoperate with Microsoft Azure and Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager, offering Red Hat CloudForms customers the ability to manage Red Hat Enterprise Linux on both Hyper-V and Microsoft Azure,” Microsoft says. “Support for managing Azure workloads from Red Hat CloudForms is expected to be added in the next few months, extending the existing System Center capabilities for managing Red Hat Enterprise Linux.”
“Expanding on the preview of .NET on Linux announced by Microsoft in April, developers will have access to .NET technologies across Red Hat offerings, including Red Hat OpenShift and Red Hat Enterprise Linux, jointly backed by Microsoft and Red Hat,” it adds. “Red Hat Enterprise Linux will be the primary development and reference operating system for .NET Core on Linux.”
Red Hat discusses the partnership more in a blog post, as does Microsoft. They’ll be hosting a webcast later on Wednesday to discuss it further.
Red Hat announced that Red Hat Enterprise Linux for the SAP HANA platform is now available to be deployed across the open hybrid cloud. This of course includes via those public cloud providers certified by Red Hat.
Red Hat says the additions of new cloud provider partners through its Certified Cloud Provider program and new SAP-certified hardware from Hitachi gives Enterprise Linux for SAP HANA customers more choice in deployment options for big data apps.
“By extending Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP HANA to the public cloud, we are providing a stable, secure and reliable platform for deployments of SAP HANA across the breadth of the open hybrid cloud,” says Jim Totton, vice president and general manager of Platforms Business Unit at Red Hat. “These cloud-based offerings, combined with additional certified providers and configurations of hardware for SAP HANA as well as the scale-up and scale-out certifications of our launch partners, deliver a set of solutions to help meet the growing enterprise demand for big data applications, all standardized on the world’s leading enterprise Linux platform.”
Greg McStravick, general manager and global head, Database & Technology at SAP adds, “SAP HANA enables enterprises to focus on innovation while providing IT simplicity and customer choice. With the expanded support from new hardware providers and cloud partners for Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP HANA, customers have even greater choice upon which to deploy their SAP solutions – whether on premises or in cloud environments, including public, private or hybrid services.”
“The powerful combination of the robust Hitachi Unified Compute Platform with Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP HANA addresses enterprise requirements and delivers desired business outcomes for even the most demanding, mission-critical data management use cases,” says Jim Beckman, vice president, global alliances at Hitachi Data Systems. “It provides the predictable results; enterprise-class scalability; persistent, high-performance data storage; and high availability that partners and customers have come to expect.”
Customers of Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP HANA can utilize Red Hat certified cloud partners, including Virtustream and Secure-24.
More on Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP HANA here. More on certified hardware partners here.
Percona recently announced that Percona XtraDB Cluster, Percona Toolkit for MySQL, and Percona XtraBackup are now included in the Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Long Term Support) release of Linux.
Percona XtraDB Cluster is also now certified for the Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform (RHEL OSP).
“Ubuntu and Red Hat are two of the most widely used Linux distributions, and the inclusion and certification assure users that they can implement their MySQL strategies on these platforms using Percona software,” the company says. “Percona software is currently included or certified for 65 percent of the OpenStack distributions with Ubuntu and RHEL OSP, according to the November 2013 OpenStack User Survey conducted by the OpenStack User Committee and Foundation.”
Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.5, Percona Toolkit, and Percona XtraBackup, are now included in the Ubuntu 14.04 LTS distribution, which you can find at the Ubuntu website.
“According to the OpenStack survey, Ubuntu is the most popular host operating system for OpenStack with 55 percent of deployments,” Percona says. ‘With the inclusion of Percona XtraDB Cluster in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and the availability of the Percona XtraDB Cluster Juju Charm for Active/Active MySQL, constructing a High Availability deployment of OpenStack is easier than ever. With Juju, Percona XtraDB Cluster can be deployed as a drop-in replacement for the MySQL charm in an Ubuntu 14.04 OpenStack deployment.”
Percona Toolkit and Percona XtraBackup are also included in the current testing release (Jessie) of Debian.
