In the past few years, Red Hat has been emphasizing the interaction of four IT forms: physical servers, virtual machines, private clouds, and public clouds. Whether viewed from the competitive situation or from the changing customer needs, a single environment is unlikely to be easily extended to meet the needs of modern enterprises.
In hybrid clouds, workloads and resources can span these deployment options, so hybrid clouds are now a key component of digital transformation, and so is consistency. CIOs need to know that their applications and services will respond consistently anywhere, anytime, in any way.
None of this is new – you’ve heard this from me, Red Hat and the Red Hat Global Summit before.
But the following is the new content: these four forms of IT become invisible to the end users. Mixed clouds are becoming the default technology choice — companies want the best solution to their problems, regardless of which IT form exists or which vendor provides it.
I think we’ve reached a turning point in corporate IT: the underlying foundations of the technology stack have been commercialized, like the plumbing and wiring of a house. When building houses, the quality of materials chosen by builders and the way they build houses are usuallyIt will affect the final quality, but most of the problems in this area are not visible to homeowners.
Technology is also true. In most cases, no one cares about what is behind the scenes of IT. For enterprise users, regardless of their roles, their concerns are whether the technology stack meets their needs, is stable, is secure enough, and can be extended to meet future needs.
Before the advent of cloud computing, all sorts of custom UNIX dominated custom, multimillion-dollar, boring server chassis; Red Hat was already up to the challenge. Red Hat Enterprise Linux breaks through the complex and expensive island of customized operating systems, while at the same timeThe popular but proprietary Windows server market has been a thorn in the woods, enabling rapid hardware innovation to flourish while maintaining stability at the operating system level, which in fact affects mission-critical systems.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux has become a popular option for hardware and software companies to standardize their ecosystems, and for business and enterprise developers to build applications and solutions across four IT forms.
Today we are facing a similar situation – the rise of public cloud services has brought innovation far beyond the ability of companies to use it. Together with lots of traditional hardware, sprawling virtualization deployments, and existing private clouds, companies seem to face a binary choice: either give up millions of dollars (or even billions).The IT investment of the US dollar will be forced to lose ground in the surging cloud computing innovation.
But once again, we offer the answer: Red Hat intends to provide a common platform for building stable, consistent, and reliable architectures across four IT forms, regardless of the underlying hardware, services, or vendors. This provides consistency and abstraction, enabling IT teams to focus on innovation rather than enterprise.The graph splits together the traditional technology and the spewing cloud service desperately.
Broadly speaking, this platform is Kubernetes; specifically, this platform is red hat OpenShift.
