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Boston, MA, USA – Red Hat Summit 2019 – May 07-09, 2019

• Co-developed solution brings the industry’s most comprehensive enterprise Kubernetes platform to Microsoft Azure

• First jointly managed OpenShift offering in the public cloud now available

Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, and Microsoft Corp. today announced the general availability of Azure Red Hat OpenShift, which brings a jointly-managed enterprise-grade Kubernetes solution to Microsoft’s a leading public cloud, Microsoft Azure.

Jim Whitehurst, President and CEO, Red Hat and Satya Nadella, CEO at Microsoft. Red Hat Summit 2019 - Boston, MA, USA - May 07-09, 2019. Photo courtesy of Red Hat

Azure Red Hat OpenShift provides a powerful on-ramp to hybrid cloud computing, enabling IT organizations to use Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform in their datacenters and more seamlessly extend these workloads to use the power and scale of Azure services.

The availability of Azure Red Hat OpenShift marks the first jointly managed OpenShift offering in the public cloud.

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Both Red Hat and Microsoft recognize the importance of hybrid cloud computing to modern IT, as organizations look to expand resources with public cloud infrastructure while maintaining existing on-premises investments.

Kubernetes provides a common bridge between the datacenter and public cloud environments, making it a key technology in enabling true hybrid cloud computing.

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Azure Red Hat OpenShift combines the innovation of enterprise Kubernetes with the world’s leading enterprise Linux platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, running on the scale and power of Azure.

Together, these technologies provide a powerful solution for more easily managing and orchestrating cloud-native workloads across a hybrid cloud environment.

Nine of the top 10 public clouds run on Linux. Private cloud technologies, such as Red Hat OpenStack, are based on Linux. Container and Kubernetes platforms, such as Red Hat OpenShift, are based on Linux. Photo courtesy of Red Hat

With Azure Red Hat OpenShift, customers can also bring containerized applications into workflows where they exist, while mitigating many of the inherent complexities of container management.

Jim Whitehurst, President and CEO, Red Hat. Photo courtesy of Red Hat

A fully-managed, jointly-operated service, Azure Red Hat OpenShift is backed by both the open source expertise of Red Hat and the public cloud might of Microsoft.

Customers receive an integrated experience, including unified sign-up, on-boarding, service management and technical support.

The service is added into customers’ existing Azure bill, further streamlining the user experience.

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Additionally, Azure Red Hat OpenShift offers enterprise developers and operations teams:

• Fully managed clusters with master, infrastructure and application nodes managed by Microsoft and Red Hat; plus, no VMs to operate and no patching required.

• Regulatory compliance will be provided through compliance certifications similar to other Azure services.

• Enhanced flexibility to more freely move applications from on-premise environments to the Azure public cloud via the consistent foundation of OpenShift.

• Greater speed to connect to Azure services from on-premises OpenShift deployments.

• Extended productivity with easier access to Azure public cloud services such as Azure Cosmos DB, Azure Machine Learning and Azure SQL DB for building the next-generation of cloud-native enterprise applications.

Satya Nadella at Red Hat Summit keynote, speaking on the impact of innovation done the open source way to make every business competitive. Red Hat Summit 2019, Boston Convention & Exhibition Center. May 07, 2019. Photo courtesy of Red Hat

Azure Red Hat OpenShift represents Red Hat and Microsoft’s continued mutual commitment to provide a powerful, supported and more secure choice for developing and deploying hybrid cloud workloads.

Jointly supported by both companies, IT organizations can have greater confidence in adopting hybrid cloud innovation that meets the requirements of mission-critical workloads in production.

Red Hat & Microsoft together on the same stage. Red Hat Summit 2019 - Boston, MA, USA - May 07, 2019. Photo courtesy of Red Hat

Microsoft and Red Hat are also collaborating to bring customers containerized solutions with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 on Azure, Red Hat Ansible Engine 2.8 and Ansible Certified modules.

In addition, the two companies are working to deliver SQL Server 2019 with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 support and performance enhancements.


Availability

Azure Red Hat OpenShift is available now via Microsoft Azure.

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Supporting Quotes

Paul Cormier, president,  Products and Technologies,  Red Hat:

“Hybrid cloud provides a clear vision into the future of enterprise computing, where public cloud services stand alongside virtualization, Linux containers and bare-metal servers. Together, this forms the new datacenter in the hybrid cloud world. Azure Red Hat OpenShift provides a consistent Kubernetes foundation for enterprises to realize the benefits of this hybrid cloud model. This enables IT leaders to innovate with a platform that offers a common fabric for both app developers and operations.”

Paul Cormier, President, Products and Technologies, Red Hat. Photo courtesy of Red Hat

Scott Guthrie, executive vice president, Cloud and AI Group,  Microsoft:

“Microsoft and Red Hat share a common goal of empowering enterprises to create a hybrid cloud environment that meets their current and future business needs. Azure Red Hat OpenShift combines the enterprise leadership of Azure with the power of Red Hat OpenShift to simplify container management on Kubernetes and help customers innovate on their cloud journeys.”

Satya Nadella at Red Hat Summit keynote, speaking on the impact of innovation done the open source way to make every business competitive. Red Hat Summit 2019, Boston Convention & Exhibition Center. May 07, 2019. Photo courtesy of Red Hat

Dave More, senior vice president, Travel Solutions Development Platform, Sabre:

“Hybrid cloud technologies fuel our next generation platform, with Red Hat OpenShift forming the common, modern foundation for us to build innovative, cloud-native applications that can span from our data centers to the public cloud. Red Hat OpenShift simplifies our ability to create services that work more seamlessly across hybrid cloud architectures, letting us consume cloud-scale resources, including on Azure, while also enabling us to move workloads wherever and whenever needed through Red Hat OpenShift.”

Jim Whitehurst, President and CEO, Red Hat. Red Hat Summit 2019, Boston Convention & Exhibition Center. May 07, 2019. Photo courtesy of Red Hat

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About Red Hat, Inc.

Red Hat is the world’s leading provider of enterprise open source software solutions, using a community-powered approach to deliver reliable and high-performing Linux, hybrid cloud, container, and Kubernetes technologies.

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