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Red Hat, Nutanix form strategic partnership

Staff Writer
By Staff Writer, ITWeb
Johannesburg, 02 Aug 2021

Red Hat and Nutanix have signed a strategic partnership that will see the companies treating each other as 'preferred' option when it comes to building, scaling and managing cloud-native applications.

As part of the partnership, Red Hat OpenShift will become the preferred option for running Kubernetes on the Nutanix Cloud Platform. Customers looking to run Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat OpenShift on hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) will be able to use a cloud platform from Nutanix, which includes both Nutanix Acropolis Operating System (AOS) and its built-in hypervisor, AHV.

In addition, Nutanix Cloud Platform will be the preferred choice for HCI for Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red HatOpenShift, which the companies say will enable customers to deploy virtualised and containerised workloads on a HCI, building on the combined benefits of Red Hat’s open hybrid cloud technologies and Nutanix’s hyper converged offerings.

In addition, Nutanix AHV has now become a Red Hat certified hypervisor enabling full support for Red Hat Enterprise Linuxand OpenShift on Nutanix Cloud Platform. The certification of the Nutanix built-in hypervisor, AHV, for RedHat Enterprise Linux and OpenShift offers enterprise customers a simplified full stack solution for their containerised and virtualised cloud-native applications.

This certification gives Red Hat customers more choice in hypervisor deployments, particularly as they explore modern virtualisation technologies, the companies add.

The two giants will have a joint engineering roadmap and will focus on delivering continuous testing of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat OpenShift with Nutanix AHV to provide robust interoperability.

They also promise a more seamless support experience and faster resolution times for joint customers who will be able to contact either company with support issues.

Because of its distributed architecture, Nutanix Cloud Platform delivers an IT environment that is highly scalable and resilient, and well-suited for enterprise deployments of Red Hat OpenShift at scale, the companies say.

The platform also includes fully integrated unified storage, addressing many tough challenges operators routinely face in configuring and managing storage for stateful containers.

Rajiv Ramaswami, president and CEO of Nutanix, says the combined solutions will give customers a full stack platform to build, scale and manage containerised and virtualised cloud native-applications in a hybrid multi-cloud environment.

“We have a vision to enable open hybrid clouds, where customers have choice and flexibility,” adds Paul Cormier, president and CEO of Red Hat. “Our partnership with Nutanix brings a leading hyperconverged offering to the open hybrid cloud."

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