Word of the Day: Red Hat

Word of the Day Daily updates on the latest technology terms | October 30, 2018 Red Hat Red Hat is a software company that assembles open source components for the Linux operating system and related programs into distribution packages that can easily be ordered and implemented. On October 28, 2018, it was announced that IBM (Big Blue) would be acquiring Red Hat. Red Hat is expected to join IBM?s Hybrid Cloud team as an independent business unit and Big Blue has promised to preserve the neutrality of Red Hat?s open source development heritage. In past years, IBM and Red Hat have collaborated to create enterprise-class versions of Linux and, more recently, to market Kubernetes and hybrid cloud offerings for larger corporate shops. Red Hat was one of the first companies to realize that "free" software could be sold as a product. After examining the successful marketing campaign of Evian water, Red Hat executives concluded that in order to be successful, the company had to create more Linux users and brand Red Hat as the Linux name that customers preferred. Today, the "Red Hat Plan" is often discussed in business schools as a model for making customer support a company's primary product. Current Red Hat products include: Red Hat Ansible - an open source IT configuration management (CM) and automation platform. Red Hat Atomic Host - a variant of Red Hat Enterprise Linux with optimizations for container hosting. Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) - a distribution of the Linux operating system developed for the business market. Red Hat OpenShift - an open source container application platform. Red Hat OpenStack Platform - a commercially supported distribution of open source OpenStack software designed to build and manage large pools of compute, storage and networking resources in public and private clouds. Red hat Package Manager - a program for installing, uninstalling, and managing software packages in Linux. Red Hat Satellite - an IT infrastructure management tool primarily used to monitor and manage Red Hat Enterprise Linux environments. Satellite is part of Red Hat's four-piece systems management tool set for enterprise IT, which also includes Ansible, CloudForms and the Red Hat Insights service. Red Hat Storage (RHS) - a distributed file system that acts as a scale-out network-attached storage (NAS) and object storage software solution. Red Hat Virtualization (RHV) - an enterprise-class virtualization platform. Quote of the Day "IBM and Red Hat plan to build a raft of complementary open source products to capture a huge hunk of the hybrid cloud market, but not offend their respective partners." - Ed Scannell Trending Terms open source storage Ansible OpenShift Red Hat OpenStack Platform Red Hat Satellite Kubernetes containerization Learning Center IBM acquires Red Hat in $34bn hybrid cloud push IBM and Red Hat senior leadership teams confirm imminent merger, which they claim will help accelerate migration of enterprise workloads to the hybrid cloud. IBM, Red Hat customers should watch acquisition closely Red Hat customers should expect the company to remain autonomous after IBM completes its landmark $34 billion deal, analysts say. IBM-Red Hat juggernaut targets hybrid clouds The proposed IBM-Red Hat combination aims to use each other's strengths in open source technologies to establish a beachhead in the hybrid cloud market. But the companies must sort out overlaps with each other's offerings and partnerships with competitors. Ansible roadmap steers toward network, security via integrations Ansible packed its roadmap with developments largely aimed at networking and security specialists who need to speak the same automation language as infrastructure and application teams. Your Red Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure questions answered The Red Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure platform hit the market almost exactly one year ago. The company combined existing open source software offerings already in its portfolio into a suite for organizations looking for a DIY HCI system that can be deployed on existing hardware. Quiz Yourself In a hybrid cloud, sensitive data and computing resources may be maintained in two _________ environments. A. separate B. seperate Answer Stay in Touch For feedback about any of our definitions or to suggest a new definition, please contact me at: mrouse@techtarget.com Visit the Word of the Day Archives and catch up on what you've missed! FOLLOW US About This E-Newsletter This e-newsletter is published by the TechTarget network. To unsubscribe from Whatis.com, click here. Please note, this will not affect any other subscriptions you have signed up for. TechTarget, Whatis, 275 Grove Street, Newton, MA 02466. Contact: webmaster@techtarget.com Copyright 2018 TechTarget. All rights reserved.