{"id":34929,"date":"2018-05-11T11:22:50","date_gmt":"2018-05-11T11:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/?guid=c2ddfb53378f7707ec718ba73cc486d4"},"modified":"2018-05-11T11:22:50","modified_gmt":"2018-05-11T11:22:50","slug":"view-from-the-airport-red-hat-summit-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/view-from-the-airport-red-hat-summit-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"View from the airport: Red Hat Summit 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"


\n Dale Walker<\/a><\/span>
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11 May, 2018<\/span><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Red Hat’s annual meet is a chance for the company and its customers, to celebrate all things open source; yet this year’s summit was about something more important.<\/p>\n

With the weight of 25 years behind it, the pressure was on the company to make a bold stand, proving to the industry that it can ward against the likes of Amazon and other goliaths looking to wrestle control of the highly lucrative hybrid cloud market.<\/p>\n

The past few days have proved one thing. Red Hat is poised to become the dominant force in hybrid cloud and open source.<\/p>\n

Setting the tone of the conference, Red Hat immediately announced that IBM would be fully containerising its entire WebSphere application portfolio<\/a> over to Red Hat’s OpenShift platform – a direct rival moving its services over to Red Hat technology. It’s precisely the sort of knockout announcement the company needed.<\/p>\n

If that wasn’t enough to persuade its customers of its value in the market, Red Hat also announced a partnership with Microsoft on the creation of the industry’s first jointly-managed container platform – essentially OpenShift running on Microsoft Azure, including both its on-premise and hybrid cloud platforms.<\/p>\n

With those two major announcements aside, Red Hat took the time to detail its plans for the integration of CoreOS into its wider portfolio<\/a>, something that customers have been waiting for since the acquisition was announced in January.<\/p>\n

The integration, alongside new offerings through IBM and Microsoft, means that over the next few months the company will have access to a far greater number of potential customers, with a greater portfolio of products to offer them.<\/p>\n

It’s no wonder then that Red Hat is confident it will extend its earnings winning streak, having already marked 64 consecutive quarters of revenue growth – an unprecedented feat. While the company is far from the monetary value of tech’s biggest players, it’s fast becoming the most important company in the open source space.<\/p>\n

Red Hat considers itself to be the Switzerland of the tech industry, and while that message may be nauseating, it’s difficult to argue against the notion of removing vendor lock-in for customers, nor doubt Red Hat’s ability to sway traditional technology giants over to open source.<\/p>\n

While executives expressed a willingness to engage<\/a> with trends they see as being future growth opportunities – namely serverless computing and automation – it will be another Summit or two before we see any meaningful action on those fronts. For the time being, hybrid remains Red Hat’s focus.<\/p>\n

Red Hat will be one to watch over the next year. With IBM and Microsoft already on side, it’s anyone’s guess which technology giant will be lured next. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dale Walker<\/p>\n

11 May, 2018 <\/p>\n

Red Hat’s annual meet is a chance for the company and its customers, to celebrate all things open source; yet this year’s summit was about something more important.
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