{"id":2973,"date":"2020-05-05T09:54:41","date_gmt":"2020-05-05T05:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/?p=2973"},"modified":"2020-07-24T15:56:32","modified_gmt":"2020-07-24T11:56:32","slug":"ibm-and-red-hat-expand-their-telco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/ibm-and-red-hat-expand-their-telco\/","title":{"rendered":"IBM and Red Hat expand their telco"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

At its Think Digital conference, IBM <\/strong><\/a> and Red Hat today announced a number of new services that all center around 5G edge and AI. The fact that the company is focusing on these two areas doesn\u2019t come as a surprise, given that both edge and AI are two of the fastest-growing businesses in enterprise computing. Virtually every telecom company is now looking at how to best capitalize on the upcoming 5G rollouts, and most forward-looking enterprises are trying to figure out how to best plan around this for their own needs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As IBM\u2019s recently minted president Jim Whitehurst told me ahead of today\u2019s announcement, he believes that IBM (in combination with Red Hat) <\/strong><\/a> is able to offer enterprises a very differentiated service because, unlike the large hyper clouds, IBM isn\u2019t interested in locking these companies into a homogeneous cloud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhere IBM is competitively differentiated, is around how we think about helping clients on a journey to what we call hybrid cloud,\u201d said Whitehurst, who hasn\u2019t done a lot of media interviews since he took the new role, which still includes managing Red Hat. \u201cHonestly, everybody has hybrid clouds. I wish we had a more differentiated term. One of the things that\u2019s different is how we\u2019re talking about how you think about an application portfolio that, by necessity, you\u2019re going to have in multiple ways. If you\u2019re a large enterprise, you probably have a mainframe running a set of transactional workloads that probably are going to stay there for a long time because there\u2019s not a great alternative. And there\u2019s going to be a set of applications you\u2019re going to want to run in a distributed environment that need to access that data \u2014 all the way out to you running a factory floor and you want to make sure that the paint sprayer doesn\u2019t have any defects while it\u2019s painting a door.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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He argues that IBM, at its core, is all about helping enterprises think about how to best run their workloads software, hardware and services perspective. \u201cPublic clouds are phenomenal, but they are exposing a set of services in a homogeneous way to enterprises,\u201d he noted, while he argues that IBM is trying to weave all of these different pieces together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Later in our discussion, he argued that the large public clouds essentially force enterprises to fit their workloads to those clouds\u2019 service. \u201cThe public clouds do extraordinary things and they\u2019re great partners of ours, but their primary business is creating these homogeneous services, at massive volumes, and saying \u2018if your workloads fit into this, we can run it better, faster, cheaper etc.\u2019 And they have obviously expanded out. They\u2019ve added services. They are not saying we can put a box on-premise, but you\u2019re still fitting into their model.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the news side, IBM is launching new services to automate business planning<\/a>, budgeting and forecasting, for example, as well as new AI-driven tools for building and running automation apps that can handle routine tasks either autonomously or with the help of a human counterpart. The company is also launching new tools for call-center automation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The most important AI announcement is surely Watson <\/strong><\/a> AIOps, though, which is meant to help enterprises detect, diagnose and respond to IT anomalies in order to reduce the effects of incidents and outages for a company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the telco side, IBM<\/a> is launching new tools like the Edge Application Manager, for example, to make it easier to enable AI, analytics and IoT workloads on the edge, powered by IBM\u2019s open-source\u00a0Open Horizon<\/a>\u00a0edge computing project. The company is also launching a new Telco Network Cloud manager built on top of Red Hat OpenShift and the ability to also leverage the Red Hat OpenStack Platform (which remains to be an important platform for telcos and represents a growing business for IBM\/Red Hat). In addition, IBM is launching a new dedicated IBM Services team for edge computing and telco cloud to help these customers build out their 5G and edge-enabled solutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Telcos are also betting big on a lot of different open-source technologies that often form the core of their 5G and edge deployments. Red Hat was already a major player in this space, but the acquisition has only accelerated this, Whitehurst argued. \u201cSince the acquisition [\u2026] telcos have a lot more confidence in IBM\u2019s capabilities to serve them long term and be able to serve them in mission-critical context. But importantly, IBM also has the capability to actually make it real now.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A lot of the new telco edge and hybrid cloud deployments, he also noted, are built on Red Hat technologies but built by IBM, and neither IBM nor Red Hat could have really brought these to fruition in the same way. Red Hat never had the size, breadth and skills to pull off some of these projects, Whitehurst argued.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whitehurst also argued that part of the Red Hat DNA that he\u2019s bringing to the table now is helping IBM to think more in terms of ecosystems. \u201cThe DNA that I think matters a lot that Red Hat brings to the table with IBM \u2014 and I think IBM is adopting and we\u2019re running with it \u2014 is the importance of ecosystems,\u201d he said. \u201cAll of Red Hat\u2019s software is open source. And so really, what you\u2019re bringing to the table is ecosystems.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s maybe no surprise then that the telco initiatives are backed by partners like Cisco, Dell Technologies, Juniper, Intel, Nvidia, Samsung, Packet, Equinix, Hazelcast, Sysdig, Turbonomics, Portworx, Humio, Indra Minsait, EuroTech, Arrow, ADLINK, Acromove, Geniatech, SmartCone, CloudHedge, Altiostar, Metaswitch, F5 Networks and ADVA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In many ways, Red Hat pioneered the open-source business model and Whitehurst argued that having Red Hat as part of the IBM family means it\u2019s now easier for the company to make the decision to invest even more in open source. \u201cAs we accelerate into this hybrid cloud world, we\u2019re going to do our best to leverage open-source technologies to make them real,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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