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Red Hat offers free training

Posted on March 7, 2022 by - News

Red Hat has pledged to run its Training and Certification courses to its partners for no extra cost.

The outfit said that it really needs hybrid cloud skills at the partner level so will be offering its self-paced online courses for free to help build knowledge around technologies such as cloud computing, containers, virtualisation, and automation.

The curriculum consists of 17 courses that are available in eight languages and can provide the foundational knowledge needed to develop skills in hybrid cloud computing. These can then be used to pursue further accreditation and certification away from Red Hat.

Blue Blue snaps up cloudy Neudesic

Posted on February 17, 2022 by - News

Biggish Blue has acquired Microsoft Azure partner Neudesic to expand the tech vendor’s portfolio of hybrid multi-cloud and artificial intelligence services.

IBM said that Neudesic gives it more Azure cloud, data engineering and data analytics capabilities The company has more than 1,500 cloud and data workers in the US and India.

IBM and Neudesic signed a definitive agreement for the acquisition in the fourth quarter of 2021, according to the statement.

Tech Data expands self service operation

Posted on September 14, 2021 by - News

Tech Data is increasing investment in its Software Store self-service renewals platform introducing a monthly data pack option for partners that have a large number of upcoming renewals and providing dedicated business development support.

The company said it is seeing steady growth in usage of the nine portals via which software and service renewals can be tracked, quoted for, and ordered, and is on track to achieve half of all software licensing renewals through them by the end of the year.

Michael Holden, Tech Data, UK and Ireland, business development manager eCommerce, said that the new data pack option will provide larger reseller partners with all pertinent information on their up-and-coming renewals for automatic input into their own internal systems.

“Larger partners may have thousands of renewals they want to track and might need to give access to many different users while ensuring they conform to security and data policies. We’ve developed the data pack option to provide partners with an uncomplicated way to get all the information they need to automate their renewals business, whilst ensuring they are compliant.”

Red Hat boosts partner support

Posted on September 9, 2021 by - News

Red Hat is increasing its partner support package.

The outfit’s director of partners for Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), Kevin Bland, said there was a need to increase the support it gives to traditional solution provider partners.

The firm has dedicated leaders that cover global systems integrators (GSIs), cloud providers and independent software vendors (ISVs), but Bland felt it needed something similar for the general reseller base.

He said that the company was a point of evolution where the majority, in terms of the number of partners, that sits within our ecosystem as traditional solution providers and those partners deserved a leader at the vendor to focus on their needs.

“We’ve got to connect these partners with our GSI partners, with our ISVs, with CCSPs [certified cloud security partners]. Some will turn into cloud service providers, some will evolve into ISVs, some will be a good route to market for those organisations, and some will supplement it with skills and services”, said Bland.

Red Hat teams up with Nutanix

Posted on July 30, 2021 by - News

Open saucy Red Hat has coupled with the cloudy firm Nutanix to build, scale, and manage cloud-native applications on-premises and hybrid clouds.

The collaboration brings together different technologies, enabling installation, interoperability and management of Red Hat OpenShift and Red Hat Enterprise Linux with Nutanix Cloud Platform, including Nutanix AOS and AHV.

Under the plan, Red Hat OpenShift is the preferred choice for enterprise full stack Kubernetes on the Nutanix Cloud Platform. In addition, customers looking to run Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat OpenShift on hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) will be able to use an industry-leading cloud platform from Nutanix, which includes both Nutanix AOS and AHV.

Nutanix Cloud Platform will be the preferred choice for HCI for Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat OpenShift. This will enable customers to deploy virtualised and containerised workloads on a hyperconverged infrastructure, building on the combined benefits of Red Hat’s open hybrid cloud technologies and Nutanix’s hyperconverged offerings.

Red Hat wants partners to help with its hybrid world plans

Posted on April 29, 2021 by - News

Red Hat wants its partners to help customers navigate a hybrid cloud world.

Speaking to the virtual gathered throngs at the Red Hat Summit CEO Paul Cormier, said open source underpinned hybrid cloud and that market continued to expand, increasing opportunities for its channel.

“Open source has taken off so quickly over the last number of years and it really is the predominant development technology in the infrastructure and development world today,” he said. “It’s here to stay because it’s really the foundation of delivering on hybrid cloud. It’s too big for any one company to solve – we can’t do this without our partners. Together, we can really deliver industry-relevant solutions to our customers.”

Cormier said the firm wanted better alignment of its partners across geographies because that was the way most of its customers were operating.

Red Hat and AWS extend partnership

Posted on May 15, 2020 by - News

Red Hat and AWS have extended their partnership to deliver Amazon Red Hat OpenShift, a jointly-managed and jointly-supported enterprise Kubernetes service on AWS.

Red Hat, vice president Sathish Balakrishnan, said Amazon Red Hat OpenShift will be a fully managed service that enables IT organisations to more quickly build and deploy applications in AWS on Red Hat’s powerful, enterprise Kubernetes platform, using the same tools and APIs.

“Developers will be able to build containerised applications that integrate natively with the more than 170+ integrated AWS cloud-native services to enhance agility, innovation and scalability. By blending Red Hat’s and AWS’ decades of enterprise IT knowledge and experience into Amazon Red Hat OpenShift, IT organizations will be able to launch cloud-native systems that can retain enterprise-grade security, be more agile and see improved performance while driving cost efficiencies”, he said.

Amazon Red Hat OpenShift will offer customers the ability to launch Red Hat OpenShift clusters and provide the benefit of an AWS integrated experience for cluster creation and management, AWS Console listing, on-demand (hourly) billing model, single invoice for AWS deployments and the ability to contact AWS for support.

Red Hat gets new CEO

Posted on April 7, 2020 by - News

Red Hat announced that it has named Paul Cormier as president and chief executive officer of Red Hat, effective now. Cormier, who previously served as Red Hat’s president of Products and Technologies, succeeds Jim Whitehurst, who is now president of IBM.

Cormier is credited with pioneering the subscription model that transformed Red Hat from an open source “disruptor” to an enterprise technology company, moving Red Hat Linux from a freely downloadable operating system to Red Hat Enterprise Linux, the industry’s leading enterprise Linux platform that today powers more than 90 percent of Fortune 500 organisations.

Cormier has driven more than 25 acquisitions at Red Hat, moving the company beyond its Linux roots and helped create a modern IT stack based on open source.

Blue Prism partners with Red Hat on Robots

Posted on March 10, 2020 by - News

Robotic expert Blue Prism has announced a new collaboration with Red Hat, designed to create next-generation intelligent automation capabilities and services for the enterprise.

The initiative will see Red Hat’s Process Automation Manager platform integrated with Blue Prism’s connected-RPA suite to enable businesses to create a more comprehensive automation strategy that can increase process efficiencies and improve ROI.

Available now on Blue Prism’s Digital Exchange (DX) portal, the integration allows users to quickly build and deploy executable, automated processes to tackle tasks such as processing claims, filling orders reducing inventory and onboarding customers, it’s claimed.

IBM figures saved by Red Hat

Posted on January 23, 2020 by - News

IBM has closed 2019 with thin sales growth which was saved by a thriving cloud business and propped up by its acquisition of Red Hat.

Revenues increased by 0.07 percent for the fourth quarter of 2019 to $21.78 billion. For the full 2019 year, revenues increased by 0.2 percent to $77.1 billion adjusted for divested businesses and currency. Without these adjustments, revenues dipped by 3.1 percent. Pre-tax operating income, however, dropped by 10 percent to $10.17 billion.

IBM and Red Hat channels kept apart

Posted on July 17, 2019 by - News

Big Blue has said that it will not be merging its partner programme with that of Red Hat after the completion of its $34 billion acquisition deal.

IBM is keen to keep Red Hat’s continued independence and position as “the Switzerland of IT”.

IBM’s senior vice president for cloud and cognitive software Arvind Krishna said that Red Hat supports every hardware vendor out there and that is going to continue.

Red Hat’s channel revenue gets boost

Posted on June 25, 2018 by - News

Open saucy specialist Red Hat has said that at the end of its first quarter three-quarters of its services business is going through the channel

Red Hat’s channel business has continued to grow with the open source specialist reporting increases in indirect revenues.

The firm reported that 75 percent of its business now goes through the channel as of its fiscal Q1, which was up from 72 percent a year earlier.

The vendor issued its first-quarter numbers, for the three months ended 31 May, giving investors the mixed bag of a Q1 with a 20 percent revenue increase to $814 million.

The results show that Red Hat is a bit worried about the rest of the year because of exchange rate issues.

Red Hat executive vice president and CFO Eric Shander said: “We are focused on building our strategic partnerships within our mid-market customers. In Q1, our mid-market deals greater than $250,000 increased 138% year-over-year from 21 deals to 50 deals, with notable growth in Ansible and OpenShift.”

Red Hat buys Codenvy for its cunning cloud plans

Posted on May 26, 2017 by - News

Open saucy outfit Red Hat has written a cheque for the cloud application developer Codenvy.

The company’s hybrid cloud services development software will be shoved under the bonnet of Red Hat’s OpenShift.io hosted environment.

In a statement announcing the acquisition, Red Hat said: “Historically, software engineers have spent more time each week on administration and other tasks, including environment management, than actual coding.

“Often, developers can find themselves working on multiple projects concurrently, but in different programming languages, “the company said.

The aim is that as more IT organisations move to continuous delivery with DevOps and containers to speed the delivery of modern, cloud-native applications, developers have turned to new tools like Codenvy that can enable development teams to build complex applications faster with fewer inconsistencies across environments, the spokesHat said.

Tyler Jewell, CEO at Codenvy, said: “Cloud workspaces make contributing to software projects easy.

“Our container-based approach to development aligns with Red Hat’s focus on improving security features, reliability and performance in its container offerings. Joining Red Hat opens up opportunities to expand our reach among developers, giving them modern tools to build containerised apps from within their web browser.”

Red Hat calls on partners for $5 billion boost

Posted on April 6, 2016 by - News

Linux outfit Red Hat is calling on its partners to help it become a $5 billion company in five years.

CEO Jim Whitehurst told roughly 250 partners attending its North American Partner Conference in New Orleans that to reach $5 billion it will have to dramatically scale its business, and why the channel is important.

In his keynote address, Whitehurst told partners that Red Hat has 9,000 employees, but to make $5 billion the way it’s going now, it projects needing 20,000 in five years. With attrition, that means hiring 17,000 people.

“We would really love to have your help so we don’t necessarily have to bring that many people into the company,” he said.

If partners help alleviate the staffing dilemma, “the single largest challenge we have as a company,” they will have to generate $4 billion of the $5 billion in annual revenue.

He did not say much else which was specific. But he did say that the problems enterprise customers are having -and the capabilities they need to address those problems are “just naturally in the open-source DNA,” Whitehurst said.

He thinks that there are shedloads of opportuntities for Red Hat partners.

“Each of you has a piece of that $4 billion,” Whitehurst told attendees.