Dell
Technologies is expanding its long-standing strategic relationship
with Red Hat to offer new solutions that simplify deploying and managing
on-premises, containerized infrastructure in multicloud environments.
Gartner
predicts that 90% of global organizations will run containerized applications
in production by 2027. However, as adoption has grown, so have the
challenges associated with deploying and managing container deployments across
organizations and finding IT staff with container skills. Combined Dell and Red
Hat solutions will help organizations speed development and operations (DevOps)
of cloud-native applications while removing IT management barriers.
"The
Dell and Red Hat collaboration is key to our efforts to build a multicloud
ecosystem that offers customers greater flexibility and choice as they develop
new applications and modernize existing ones in multicloud environments," said
Jeff Boudreau, president, Infrastructure Solutions Group, Dell Technologies.
"With Dell APEX and Red Hat OpenShift, developers can focus on delivering
innovative products and services and alleviate supporting infrastructure
concerns."
"Customers
want to be able to run their applications wherever they need to, with the
flexibility to shift from the datacenter to the edge to multiple public clouds
as business needs dictate," said Ashesh Badani, senior vice president,
Head of Products, Red Hat. "By extending our existing collaboration with
Dell, we're giving customers even more choice and flexibility in their hybrid
cloud operations, pairing the industry's leading enterprise Kubernetes platform
in Red Hat OpenShift with Dell's powerful infrastructure technologies. This
joint work will help simplify how organizations address the changing dynamics
of enterprise IT, enabling IT teams to build applications once for on premises
deployment but retain the agility to also run them wherever needed across the
breadth of the open hybrid cloud."
Dell
APEX Containers for Red Hat OpenShift offers an on-premises, Dell-managed
Container-as-a-Service solution to empower developer innovation
APEX
Containers for Red Hat OpenShift provides IT organizations and their developers
with a Dell-managed, on-premises Container-as-a-Service solution on Dell
infrastructure. With Red Hat OpenShift, the service allows customers to meet
the needs of their developers without the need to build and manage their own
physical infrastructure.
Delivered
as a subscription, Dell oversees infrastructure management activities and
operations. An assigned APEX Customer Success Manager offers customers a
trusted advisor to help ensure a worry-free APEX experience throughout the
service.
Dell
Validated Platform simplifies deployment and management of on-premises, Red Hat
OpenShift infrastructure
The
Dell Validated Platform for Red Hat OpenShift, powered by Intel, streamlines
deployment processes and management of on-premises infrastructure for container
orchestration with fully documented deployment and configuration guidance.
Customers can more quickly get their on-premises infrastructure up and running
and can more predictably operate a Red Hat OpenShift environment on Dell
PowerFlex software-defined infrastructure.
Co-developed
to run Red Hat OpenShift on bare metal, DevOps teams can more rapidly provision
compute and storage resources and provide infrastructure-as-code while
automating DevOps processes, empowering developers to become an innovation
engine for their businesses.
Dell
and Red Hat to co-engineer a hybrid cloud solution designed for consistent
management across all IT locations
Dell
and Red Hat are co-engineering a hybrid cloud solution
that extends management of on-premises Red Hat OpenShift deployments across
public clouds and the edge more consistently.
This automated infrastructure will be designed to use Dell
software for full stack integration of Red Hat OpenShift on scalable Dell
software-defined storage and compute to deliver cloud flexibility and help
simplify on-premises operations. With application agility being critical for
businesses to remain competitive, tight integration will make it easier for
organizations to develop applications once and deploy them anywhere with a
common operational model.
Dell
and IBM intend to offer artificial intelligence for IT operations (AIOps) and intelligent automation capabilities to help enable high
availability, uptime and performance of customers' mission-critical
applications at any scale. When available, this will offer customers the option
of additional visibility and actionable insights, across the full stack, from
infrastructure through business applications.
"We're
pleased to see Dell and RedHat joining forces to ease the complexity of moving
to and operating in a multi-hybrid cloud world. We look forward to building on
our long-standing, successful collaborations with both companies by
co-developing DevOps and cloud-native initiatives that help enterprises reduce
technical debt, ramp up organizational agility and accelerate their reinvention
on cloud." --
Raj
Wickramasinghe, lead for Hybrid and Emerging Platforms, Accenture
"AIOps
solutions are increasingly critical to help organizations enable application
performance and cut IT costs without jeopardizing the end user experience.
That's why IBM is working with its ecosystem partners to provide clients with
intelligent automation capabilities like IBM Instana Observability designed to
help deliver actionable insights and optimize the performance of applications
running in hybrid, multicloud environments." -- Dinesh
Nirmal, general manager, IBM Data, AI and Automation
"The
shift towards containerization, hybrid cloud architectures, and DevOps requires
seamless integration of the latest innovations from Intel, Dell Technologies
and Red Hat, so our mutual customers can derive business value from their
hybrid cloud deployments. Intel is excited to be collaborating with Dell and
Red Hat to ensure the latest Intel technologies are enabled, so they are
performant, secure and energy efficient." --
Jeremy
Rader, general manager, Intel Enterprise Strategy and Solutions
Availability
- Dell
APEX Containers for Red Hat OpenShift has planned availability in the US
in early 2023 with broader availability to follow.
- Dell
Validated Platform for Red Hat OpenShift is available globally on
September 30, 2022.
- The
Dell hybrid cloud solution with Red Hat OpenShift has planned availability
in 2023.