New technological alliance between two heavyweights in the sector. Oracle, a company specializing in the development of cloud and local solutions, and Red Hat, a benchmark in open source solutions, announce a new collaboration with the aim of offering customers a wide variety of operating systems to run on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)
This alliance, which will take place throughout different phases, gives its first step with Red Hat Enterprise Linux running on OCI as the supported operating system. This will help improve the experience for companies working on both OCI and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. At the same time, it helps them on their way to a complete digital transformation and in the migration of mission-critical applications to the cloud.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux is the core tool in Red Hat’s hybrid cloud technology portfolio, which includes Red Hat OpenShift. Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform and additional technologies to support the modern cloud-native stack.
With this strategic collaboration, certified configurations of OCI Flexible Virtual Machines can now run Red Hat Enterprise Linux. While customers can migrate existing workloads already running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux to Red Hat Enterprise Linux on OCI with more confidence.
In addition, other advantages are offered. OCI Flexible Virtual Machines can be scaled in increments as small as a single CPU and thus optimize the price-performance ratio, in addition to minimizing the waste of resources.
Also, customers will be able to contact both Red Hat and Oracle support to help resolve potential issues. Y create a foundation for future computing implementations on Red Hat Enterprise Linuxwhile preserving the value of existing IT investments.
The benefits of Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Red Hat Enterprise Linux is certified on OCI Flexible Virtual Machinesoffering from one to 80 CPU cores in one CPU increments, and from 1 GB of memory per CPU to a total of 1024 GB, depending on the processor.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux initially supports the latest OCI virtual machine shapes using AMD, Intel, and Arm processors.
In addition, it provides a flexible and stable Linux foundation to support hybrid cloud innovation. Where critical applications and workloads can be built, deployed, and managed faster and more efficiently, with greater consistency across physical, virtual, private, public cloud, and edge deployments.
This platform allows to incorporate security and compliance features infrastructure at development time, as well as more easily maintain stability throughout the production lifecycle.
Thanks to Red Hat Enterprise Linux, IT organizations can operate with greater security and confidence using a platform that powers innovation and increases operational efficiencies within your organization, regardless of where you decide to run.
What the OCI distributed cloud offers
Roughly speaking, the advantages of the cloud with a Greater control over data location, localization, and authority, even across multiple clouds. In addition, it is multicloud where its capabilities such as Oracle Database Service for Microsoft Azure and MySQL HeatWave offer customers the possibility of choosing the best cloud provider for their applications and databases.
Also an on-premises hybrid cloud, through Oracle Exadata Cloud@Customer which manages infrastructures in more than 60 countries. A public cloud, as OCI operates 41 OCI regions in 22 countries, with 9 more planned, including two cloud regions for the EU. And a dedicated cloud, by offering dedicated regions for customers to run all of Oracle’s cloud services in their own data centers.
“A significant number of customers rely on both Red Hat and OCI to run their operations and need more options than ever for distributed cloud deployments. 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. Deepening our collaboration going forward will see us support additional products and workloads on OCI to give customers more flexibility,” said Clay Magouyrk, executive vice president of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
While David Kerr, leader of the Red Hat Global Strategic Alliance, said: “We are delighted to see how our global alliance partners Oracle and Red Hat offer greater choice to customers by introducing support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in OCI. . Kyndryl and Red Hat jointly support nearly 900 customers around the world, who constantly stress the importance of reliable support for their computing environments. We are pleased to offer Red Hat Enterprise Linux on OCI as the delivery platform on which we design, build, manage, and modernize mission-critical IT systems for customers.”
A context where the public cloud does not stop growing
And all this taking into account a context where according to the Gartner Forecast Report: Public Cloud Services, Worldwide, 2020-2026, 4Q22 Updateworldwide public cloud services are projected to grow by 18.5% in 2023.
While organizations will continue to accelerate cloud adoptiona situation that is driving a five-year compound annual growth rate of 19.6%.
A growth that indicates the need for a extensive customer choice supportboth in terms of the cloud provider and the operating system that underpins the cloud environments.
80% of Fortune 500 companies now rely on solutions from Red Hat and Oracle. For many of these companies, Red Hat Enterprise Linux serves as the foundation of their operating system, and OCI provides high-performance, mission-critical cloud services to power digital-forward operations. Now these organizations can standardize their cloud operations with Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
