Red Hat, Inc.\nannounced new offerings to help organizations of all sizes and industries\noptimize, scale or simply protect IT operations in the face of shifting global\ndynamics. Red Hat\u2019s new offerings are designed to improve the delivery, accessibility\nand stability of critical services and applications on a worldwide scale on the\nbackbone of the hybrid cloud. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Nearly every\nindustry, including healthcare, logistics, retail, financial services,\ngovernment, education and more, is adapting in real-time to meet demand for\nfaster, more widespread access to essential applications and services while\nmaintaining operational stability. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
With open source\ntechnologies like Linux and Kubernetes, organizations not only have access to\ninnovation that can help them build what’s next and keep them at the forefront\nof their industries, but also automate, adapt and scale existing operations\nacross IT environments with greater flexibility than proprietary vendors can\nprovide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Traditional and cloud-native applications, unified and\nmanaged from the core to the edge<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Red Hat OpenShift is trusted by customers<\/a> across industries because of this differentiated approach. To help further eliminate the barriers between traditional and cloud-native applications, RedHat is introducing capabilities that enable new workloads on OpenShift and that meet customers<\/a> where they are. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Red Hat announced:<\/p>\n\n\n\n OpenShift virtualization<\/strong>, a new feature available as a Technology Preview within Red Hat\nOpenShift, derived from the KubeVirt open source project. It enables\norganizations to develop, deploy and manage applications consisting of virtual\nmachines alongside containers and serverless, all in one modern platform that\nunifies cloud-native and traditional workloads. While some vendors seek to\nprotect legacy technology stacks by dragging Kubernetes and cloud-native\nfunctionality backwards to preserve proprietary virtualization, Red Hat does\nthe opposite: Bringing traditional application stacks forward into a layer of\nopen innovation, enabling customers to truly transform at their speed, not at\nthe whims of proprietary lock-in<\/p>\n\n\n\n Red Hat OpenShift 4.4<\/strong>, the latest version of the industry\u2019s leading enterprise Kubernetes\nplatform, which builds on the simplicity and scale of Kubernetes Operators.\nRebased on Kubernetes 1.17, OpenShift 4.4 introduces a developer-centric view\nof platform metrics and monitoring for application workloads; monitoring\nintegration for Red Hat Operators; cost management for assessing the resources\nand costs used for specific applications across the hybrid cloud; and much\nmore. <\/p>\n\n\n\n To\naddress the management challenges of running cloud-native applications across\nlarge-scale, production and distributed Kubernetes clusters, Red Hat is also\nintroducing a new management solution. Red\nHat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes<\/strong>, soon available as a\nTechnology Preview, provides a single, simplified control point for the\nmonitoring and deployment of OpenShift clusters at scale, offering\npolicy-driven governance and application lifecycle management.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Delivering a foundation for innovation, everywhere and\nanywhere<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Innovation is more\nthan simply delivering new technologies. As with Red Hat\u2019s entire open hybrid\ncloud portfolio, these solutions are backed by a complete ecosystem of\nsupporting software, hardware and services and by Red Hat\u2019s extensive expertise\nin integrating and operating open innovation. Red Hat also delivers production\nconfidence by maintaining a long-life, enterprise-class lifecycle for its\nentire product portfolio including these newly launched offerings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n These advancements\nare not contingent on a single piece of hardware or a sole cloud provider, as\nRed Hat delivers innovation fully across hybrid and multicloud footprints,\nincluding:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Beyond these new\ntechnologies, Red Hat has invested in helping organizations get the most from\nexisting infrastructure. This includes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n