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Arabian Post
7 days ago
- Business
- Arabian Post
Red Hat and Rocky Linux Advance RISC-V Integration
Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Rocky Linux are accelerating efforts to support the RISC-V architecture, signalling a significant shift in the enterprise Linux landscape. This development reflects the growing momentum behind RISC-V, an open-source instruction set architecture that is reshaping hardware innovation amid challenges in traditional chip supply chains and rising demand for customisable, energy-efficient computing. Red Hat, a subsidiary of IBM and a dominant force in the enterprise Linux market, has publicly confirmed its roadmap for incorporating RISC-V support into future releases of Red Hat Enterprise Linux . Similarly, the community-driven Rocky Linux project, a popular downstream fork of RHEL designed to provide enterprise-grade stability, has also announced ongoing work to integrate RISC-V compatibility. These parallel initiatives demonstrate broad industry recognition of RISC-V's potential to disrupt conventional processor markets dominated by x86 and ARM architectures. RISC-V's open standard removes licensing costs and restrictions typically associated with proprietary CPU designs, encouraging a diverse ecosystem of chip manufacturers, academic researchers, and software developers. This flexibility allows companies to tailor processor designs for specific workloads, which is particularly appealing for embedded systems, Internet of Things devices, and edge computing applications. Both Red Hat and Rocky Linux see this as a critical advantage for future-proofing their operating systems and meeting evolving customer needs. ADVERTISEMENT The move to support RISC-V involves extensive technical adaptation, as much of the existing software stack has been optimised for x86-64 and ARM64 platforms. Red Hat's engineering teams have been collaborating with hardware vendors and the wider open-source community to ensure that core components of RHEL, including the kernel, system libraries, and security modules, perform efficiently on RISC-V hardware. The company's investment in this area underscores its commitment to maintaining leadership across diverse infrastructure environments, including cloud, on-premises, and hybrid deployments. Rocky Linux, founded in the wake of CentOS's shift away from its traditional model, has quickly gained traction among enterprises seeking stable, free alternatives to RHEL. Its embrace of RISC-V support aligns with its mission to offer a robust platform compatible with the latest computing technologies. Developers contributing to Rocky Linux have been porting essential packages and testing workloads on early RISC-V development boards, working to iron out architecture-specific bugs and ensure seamless user experience. Industry analysts observe that this dual commitment to RISC-V by both a commercial giant and a grassroots community project indicates growing confidence in the architecture's viability for production environments. Although RISC-V chips currently lag behind in raw performance compared to established x86 and ARM processors, ongoing improvements in silicon design and fabrication suggest this gap will narrow. Support from major Linux distributions is pivotal to accelerating software ecosystem maturity, which has been a critical barrier to wider RISC-V adoption. Hardware manufacturers such as SiFive, Microchip, and Alibaba's semiconductor division are developing increasingly powerful RISC-V processors targeting servers and high-performance computing. Red Hat's engagement with these vendors is expected to facilitate optimisation efforts and certification programmes, ensuring that RHEL runs reliably on certified RISC-V platforms. This cooperation is vital as enterprises require not only compatibility but also assurances around security, stability, and long-term support when deploying new architectures. The initiative also ties into broader trends within the open-source community and the tech industry. Governments and large organisations are seeking to reduce dependency on single-source suppliers, especially in light of geopolitical tensions and supply chain vulnerabilities exposed in recent years. Open hardware initiatives like RISC-V are viewed as strategic assets that can drive innovation while enhancing security and sovereignty over critical technology infrastructure. ADVERTISEMENT Despite enthusiasm, challenges remain. Software ecosystem maturity is uneven; many applications and development tools require adaptation to fully leverage RISC-V capabilities. Furthermore, mainstream cloud providers have yet to offer widespread RISC-V hosting options, limiting deployment scenarios primarily to on-premises and experimental settings for now. However, companies such as Amazon Web Services have begun exploratory work with RISC-V instances, signalling potential expansion in the near term. Red Hat and Rocky Linux's pursuit of RISC-V support follows a pattern of early adoption seen in other Linux distributions such as Fedora, where RISC-V packages have been under development for some time. Their progress benefits from this groundwork, yet enterprise-grade readiness demands rigorous validation and comprehensive documentation to meet customer expectations. The growing adoption of RISC-V by major Linux providers may also stimulate innovation in adjacent fields. For example, edge computing deployments prioritising low power consumption and customised instruction sets stand to gain from enhanced RISC-V Linux support. Academic and research institutions involved in processor architecture development also benefit from improved access to stable operating systems, enabling faster prototyping and experimentation.
Business Standard
21-05-2025
- Business
- Business Standard
Red Hat Unveils Cloud-Optimized Red Hat Enterprise Linux
NewsVoir New Delhi [India], May 21: Red Hat, the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced jointly-engineered, integrated and supported images for Red Hat Enterprise Linux across Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure. Available with the launch of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10, these cloud-optimized offerings are tailored to specific hyperscaler environments, providing users with pre-tuned, ready-to-run images to more seamlessly build, deploy and manage workloads in the cloud. In collaboration with AWS, Google Cloud and Microsoft, Red Hat offers a ready-to-use approach for Red Hat Enterprise Linux deployments, facilitating smoother workload migrations, enhancing management and visibility for cloud deployments and delivering built-in security functions. The result is an out-of-the-box Red Hat Enterprise Linux experience that enables organizations to build faster with an optimized Linux platform in the public cloud of their choosing. These cloud-centric offerings for Red Hat Enterprise Linux provide: * Optimized performance in the cloud: Pre-configured, specifically-tuned profiles enable organizations to maintain consistency between reboots and modify settings for various subsystems without disrupting workflows. * Contained drift and accelerated delivery: Image mode for Red Hat Enterprise Linux uses container-native tooling to allow organizations to deploy Red Hat Enterprise Linux as a bootc container image in the cloud, helping to streamline cloud-native application development and IT operations into a single pipeline. * Enhanced observability and reporting: Built-in telemetry options offer a comprehensive view of organizations' Red Hat Enterprise Linux estate alongside other cloud services for unified visibility within the cloud provider dashboard. * Improved security from boot to runtime: Image attestation and top-down memory encryption through Secure Boot, Confidential Computing and Confidential Hypervisor provide a streamlined approach to cloud deployments with a stronger security footprint. Red Hat Enterprise Linux delivers a consistent foundation upon which organizations can standardize and scale, reducing complexity and providing a unified experience across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. By tuning Red Hat Enterprise Linux to meet unique cloud specifications, organizations can speed up application development, simplify management and increase efficiency to scale applications more dynamically while maintaining reliability. Availability Cloud-optimized Red Hat Enterprise Linux offerings are now available on AWS, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure. Organizations can use their existing Red Hat Enterprise Linux subscriptions to migrate to the cloud or purchase pay-as-you-go options from their cloud marketplace of choice. Red Hat Enterprise Linux qualifies for committed spend programs with AWS, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure, and organizations can also participate in Red Hat's hybrid committed spend program for further procurement flexibility. Red Hat Summit Join the Red Hat Summit keynotes to hear the latest from Red Hat executives, customers and partners: * Modernized infrastructure meets enterprise-ready AI -- Tuesday, May 20, 8-10 a.m. EDT (YouTube) * Hybrid cloud evolves to deliver enterprise innovation -- Wednesday, May 21, 8-9:30 a.m. EDT (YouTube) Supporting Quotes Gunnar Hellekson, Vice President and General Manager, Red Hat Enterprise Linux Business Unit, Red Hat, "Red Hat's collaboration with AWS, Google Cloud and Microsoft mark a significant leap forward in delivering cloud-ready, purpose-built offerings of the world's leading enterprise Linux platform directly into the hands of our customers. By engineering tailored experiences for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the cloud, we are empowering organizations to accelerate their cloud transformations and deployments, enabling them to more rapidly achieve their business objectives and scale to embrace the next wave of IT innovation." Manu Parbhakar, Director, Worldwide Business Application Partners, AWS, "AWS customers gain immediate differentiated value from this Red Hat collaboration through performance-optimized Red Hat Enterprise Linux profiles that work harmoniously with our world-class cloud services ecosystem. By combining Red Hat's container-native tooling with AWS's comprehensive security features and observability dashboard, organizations achieve a level of operational efficiency and global scale that simply isn't available elsewhere in the market." Mark Lohmeyer, Vice President and General Manager, AI & Computing Infrastructure, Google Cloud, "Google Cloud is committed to providing our customers with the flexibility and tools they need to innovate and scale their operations. Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Google Cloud offers our customers a streamlined path to migrate, deploy and scale their workloads faster across the hybrid cloud, all while benefiting from integrated security capabilities and a simplified management experience. This collaboration further empowers organizations to achieve their business goals and accelerate their digital transformation on Google Cloud." Brendan Burns, Corporate Vice President, Azure Compute at Microsoft, "Microsoft and Red Hat share a commitment to enabling organizations with a more seamless and comprehensive hybrid cloud experience. Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Microsoft Azure offers a powerful solution for organizations to achieve enhanced consistency across environments and more effectively manage usage and costs, helping them unlock greater business value in the cloud." Additional Resources Read more about Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Explore the benefits of Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the cloud Learn more about Red Hat Summit See all of Red Hat's announcements this week in the Red Hat Summit newsroom Follow @RedHatSummit or #RHSummit on X for event-specific updates Connect with Red Hat Learn more about Red Hat Get more news in the Red Hat newsroom Read the Red Hat blog Follow Red Hat on X Follow Red Hat on Instagram Follow Red Hat on LinkedIn Watch Red Hat videos on YouTube Red Hat is the open hybrid cloud technology leader, delivering a trusted, consistent, and comprehensive foundation for transformative IT innovation and AI applications. Its portfolio of cloud, developer, AI, Linux, automation, and application platform technologies enables any application, anywhere--from the datacenter to the edge. As the world's leading provider of enterprise open source software solutions, Red Hat invests in open ecosystems and communities to solve tomorrow's IT challenges. Collaborating with partners and customers, Red Hat helps them build, connect, automate, secure, and manage their IT environments, supported by consulting services and award-winning training and certification offerings. Forward-Looking Statements Except for the historical information and discussions contained herein, statements contained in this press release may constitute forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements are based on the company's current assumptions regarding future business and financial performance. These statements involve a number of risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual results to differ materially. Any forward-looking statement in this press release speaks only as of the date on which it is made. Except as required by law, the company assumes no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements.
Business Wire
21-05-2025
- Business
- Business Wire
Turkish Airlines Pioneers AI-led Innovation for Aviation with Red Hat OpenShift AI
BOSTON – RED HAT SUMMIT--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Red Hat, the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Turkish Airlines (IST: THYAO), Türkiye's flagship carrier airline, selected Red Hat to help it transform into a data- and AI-driven organization. Using Red Hat OpenShift AI and Red Hat OpenShift, Turkish Airlines was able to create new development environments in minutes rather than hours, and has doubled the speed of deployment times while empowering its data scientists to harness data from across the organisation. Turkish Airlines, the airline that flies to more countries than any other, operates an extensive global network of scheduled flights to 353 destinations across Europe, Asia, Oceania, Africa and the Americas. With nearly 90,000 employees, the airline serves a diverse range of customers, including both business-to-consumer (B2C) and business-to-business (B2B) segments. Scalability through open source AI platforms Turkish Airlines sought to improve operational efficiency across all of its processes and services, optimize technical maintenance, increase employee productivity and drive both employee and customer satisfaction with the help of AI. To support this goal, Turkish Airlines chose Red Hat due to its need for extensive scalability and open source nature. Open source technology was key to Turkish Airlines for avoiding vendor lock-in, while helping meet the carrier's long-term goal of moving to a hybrid cloud environment as demand for both predictive and generative AI (gen AI) grows. In collaboration with Red Hat Consulting, Turkish Airlines was able to implement a Red Hat OpenShift AI environment and integrate it with existing systems and requirements, including creating custom development environments, automated deployment for AI models and pipelines and custom monitoring and alerts. When renewing or creating new applications, infrastructure teams used the world's leading enterprise Linux platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, for added integration benefits. Project scaling is now done automatically thanks to Red Hat OpenShift AI's provisioning and autoscaling capabilities, freeing up operations teams to focus on value-add projects, while embedded monitoring saves further time by automating fixes which enables teams to be more independent while decreasing maintenance costs. Blockers around resource reallocation can now be avoided, allowing multiple data scientists to use the same datasets equally. Running on Red Hat OpenShift, new bespoke environments for engineers can be built in minutes as opposed to hours, opening up teams to innovate and explore the new technology quickly. Everyday AI made real Enabling teams to use AI in their everyday operations was a big focus for Turkish Airlines, as it wanted to create a new generation of citizen data scientists able to develop their own AI projects. With the new platform, both business and data teams are able to access and develop with greater ease, with Turkish Technology's AI projects targeted to boost revenue while reducing operational costs. As part of this rollout, using Red Hat OpenShift AI has also enhanced productivity in the deployment phase, making the process more efficient thereby doubling deployment speed. Choosing Red Hat for its open source AI platform, Turkish Airlines has been able to improve services in the following ways: Improved accuracy of dynamic pricing models for airline ticket sales Enhanced models for fraud prevention – whether for customer card payments or via its loyalty program, Miles&Smiles – Turkish Airlines is able to screen with a higher degree of accuracy Customer service chatbots, built on Red Hat OpenShift AI and deployed on open source large language models (LLMs), rolled out to boost both customer satisfaction and employee productivity Detail assignment optimization, taking into account flight routes, aircraft details and fuel consumption, models can be used to confirm that the correct aircraft is picked for every route, leading to increased fuel consumption savings Added insights into operations for smoother service, including improved performance on ground plan prediction, block time prediction, and on-time performance (OTP) prediction, where operations teams are able to act proactively in the event of a bad prediction to minimise delays. AI initiatives at Turkish Airlines currently span more than 60 live models, with at least 40 more in development. Currently, more than 200 Turkish Airlines employees are working on AI-based development, with the number set to grow. Red Hat was able to help build trust in the platform among Turkish Airlines staff and contribute to its growing use, as well as break down barriers between teams by supporting data scientists in using Red Hat OpenShift AI and Red Hat OpenShift and opening new lines of communication between teams. A more open approach to experimenting and innovating with new technologies is now evident across the organization, primed to support future ambitions and growth. Red Hat's vision: Any model, any accelerator, any cloud. The future of AI must be defined by limitless opportunity, not constrained by infrastructure silos. Red Hat sees a horizon where organizations can deploy any model, on any accelerator, across any cloud, delivering an exceptional, more consistent user experience without exorbitant costs. To unlock the true potential of gen AI investments, enterprises require a universal inference platform - a standard for more seamless, high-performance AI innovation, both today and in the years to come. Red Hat Summit Join the Red Hat Summit keynotes to hear the latest from Red Hat executives, customers and partners: Modernized infrastructure meets enterprise-ready AI — Tuesday, May 20, 8-10 a.m. EDT (YouTube) Hybrid cloud evolves to deliver enterprise innovation — Wednesday, May 21, 8-9:30 a.m. EDT (YouTube) Supporting Quotes Haluk Tekin, country manager, Türkiye and CIS, Red Hat 'Creating citizen data scientists is a crucial achievement to enterprise-wide AI adoption, and we are honoured to collaborate with Turkish Airlines, the airline flying to more countries than any other, in this pursuit by making AI tools and platforms more accessible to every employee. Red Hat is committed to supporting the wide-scale cultural and technological transformation at Turkish Airlines, while also helping to improve operational flexibility, IT agility and AI application development speed through cross-team collaboration.' Serdar Gürbüz, General Manager, Turkish Technology, a Turkish Airlines subsidiary 'As Turkish Airlines continues its journey to becoming a fully data-driven organization, our focus is on embedding AI across every aspect of the business. From operational efficiency to customer experience, AI is strongly supporting our strategic decision-making processes. To enable this transformation, we have built a secure, scalable infrastructure based on open architectures. In this journey, Red Hat has served not just as a technology provider, but as a partner whose open source philosophy aligns closely with our own. Platforms like Red Hat OpenShift AI allow us to keep data on-premises while accelerating model development and enabling business units to leverage AI capabilities in a flexible way. This approach is helping us move AI beyond isolated use cases and into a scalable, organization-wide capability. As Turkish Airlines, we believe that the use of AI will play a vital role in enhancing our key achievements in the aviation industry.' Additional Resources Learn about recent enhancements to Red Hat OpenShift AI Learn more about Turkish Airlines Learn more about Red Hat OpenShift AI Read more Red Hat customer success stories Learn more about Red Hat Summit See all of Red Hat's announcements this week in the Red Hat Summit newsroom Follow @RedHatSummit or #RHSummit on X for event-specific updates Connect with Red Hat About Red Hat Red Hat is the open hybrid cloud technology leader, delivering a trusted, consistent and comprehensive foundation for transformative IT innovation and AI applications. Its portfolio of cloud, developer, AI, Linux, automation and application platform technologies enables any application, anywhere—from the datacenter to the edge. As the world's leading provider of enterprise open source software solutions, Red Hat invests in open ecosystems and communities to solve tomorrow's IT challenges. Collaborating with partners and customers, Red Hat helps them build, connect, automate, secure and manage their IT environments, supported by consulting services and award-winning training and certification offerings. About Turkish Airlines and Turkish Technology Established in 1933 with a fleet of five aircraft, Star Alliance member Turkish Airlines has a fleet of 479 (passenger and cargo) aircraft flying to 353 worldwide destinations as 300 international and 53 domestics in 131 countries. Founded in 2021, Turkish Technology is the leading airline's IT subsidiary, developing software that addresses the technological needs of the aviation and air cargo industries. Forward-Looking Statements Except for the historical information and discussions contained herein, statements contained in this press release may constitute forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements are based on the company's current assumptions regarding future business and financial performance. These statements involve a number of risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual results to differ materially. Any forward-looking statement in this press release speaks only as of the date on which it is made. Except as required by law, the company assumes no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements. Red Hat, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, the Red Hat logo and OpenShift are trademarks or registered trademarks of Red Hat, Inc. or its subsidiaries in the U.S. and other countries. Linux® is the registered trademark of Linus Torvalds in the U.S. and other countries.
Fashion Value Chain
21-05-2025
- Business
- Fashion Value Chain
Red Hat Unveils Cloud-Optimized Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Red Hat, the worlds leading provider of open source solutions, today announced jointly-engineered, integrated and supported images for Red Hat Enterprise Linux across Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure. Available with the launch of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10, these cloud-optimized offerings are tailored to specific hyperscaler environments, providing users with pre-tuned, ready-to-run images to more seamlessly build, deploy and manage workloads in the cloud. In collaboration with AWS, Google Cloud and Microsoft, Red Hat offers a ready-to-use approach for Red Hat Enterprise Linux deployments, facilitating smoother workload migrations, enhancing management and visibility for cloud deployments and delivering built-in security functions. The result is an out-of-the-box Red Hat Enterprise Linux experience that enables organizations to build faster with an optimized Linux platform in the public cloud of their choosing. These cloud-centric offerings for Red Hat Enterprise Linux provide: Optimized performance in the cloud: Pre-configured, specifically-tuned profiles enable organizations to maintain consistency between reboots and modify settings for various subsystems without disrupting workflows. Contained drift and accelerated delivery: Image mode for Red Hat Enterprise Linux uses container-native tooling to allow organizations to deploy Red Hat Enterprise Linux as a bootc container image in the cloud, helping to streamline cloud-native application development and IT operations into a single pipeline. Enhanced observability and reporting: Built-in telemetry options offer a comprehensive view of organizations Red Hat Enterprise Linux estate alongside other cloud services for unified visibility within the cloud provider dashboard. Improved security from boot to runtime: Image attestation and top-down memory encryption through Secure Boot, Confidential Computing and Confidential Hypervisor provide a streamlined approach to cloud deployments with a stronger security footprint. Red Hat Enterprise Linux delivers a consistent foundation upon which organizations can standardize and scale, reducing complexity and providing a unified experience across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. By tuning Red Hat Enterprise Linux to meet unique cloud specifications, organizations can speed up application development, simplify management and increase efficiency to scale applications more dynamically while maintaining reliability. Availability Cloud-optimized Red Hat Enterprise Linux offerings are now available on AWS, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure. Organizations can use their existing Red Hat Enterprise Linux subscriptions to migrate to the cloud or purchase pay-as-you-go options from their cloud marketplace of choice. Red Hat Enterprise Linux qualifies for committed spend programs with AWS, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure, and organizations can also participate in Red Hat's hybrid committed spend program for further procurement flexibility. Red Hat Summit Join the Red Hat Summit keynotes to hear the latest from Red Hat executives, customers and partners: Modernized infrastructure meets enterprise-ready AI – Tuesday, May 20, 8-10 a.m. EDT (YouTube) Hybrid cloud evolves to deliver enterprise innovation – Wednesday, May 21, 8-9:30 a.m. EDT (YouTube) Supporting Quotes Gunnar Hellekson, Vice President and General Manager, Red Hat Enterprise Linux Business Unit, Red Hat, 'Red Hats collaboration with AWS, Google Cloud and Microsoft mark a significant leap forward in delivering cloud-ready, purpose-built offerings of the world's leading enterprise Linux platform directly into the hands of our customers. By engineering tailored experiences for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the cloud, we are empowering organizations to accelerate their cloud transformations and deployments, enabling them to more rapidly achieve their business objectives and scale to embrace the next wave of IT innovation.' Manu Parbhakar, Director, Worldwide Business Application Partners, AWS, 'AWS customers gain immediate differentiated value from this Red Hat collaboration through performance-optimized Red Hat Enterprise Linux profiles that work harmoniously with our world-class cloud services ecosystem. By combining Red Hats container-native tooling with AWSs comprehensive security features and observability dashboard, organizations achieve a level of operational efficiency and global scale that simply isnt available elsewhere in the market.' Mark Lohmeyer, Vice President and General Manager, AI & Computing Infrastructure, Google Cloud, 'Google Cloud is committed to providing our customers with the flexibility and tools they need to innovate and scale their operations. Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Google Cloud offers our customers a streamlined path to migrate, deploy and scale their workloads faster across the hybrid cloud, all while benefiting from integrated security capabilities and a simplified management experience. This collaboration further empowers organizations to achieve their business goals and accelerate their digital transformation on Google Cloud.' Brendan Burns, Corporate Vice President, Azure Compute at Microsoft, 'Microsoft and Red Hat share a commitment to enabling organizations with a more seamless and comprehensive hybrid cloud experience. Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Microsoft Azure offers a powerful solution for organizations to achieve enhanced consistency across environments and more effectively manage usage and costs, helping them unlock greater business value in the cloud.' Additional Resources Read more about Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Explore the benefits of Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the cloud Learn more about Red Hat Summit See all of Red Hat's announcements this week in the Red Hat Summit newsroom Follow @RedHatSummit or #RHSummit on X for event-specific updates Connect with Red Hat Learn more about Red Hat Get more news in the Red Hat newsroom Read the Red Hat blog Follow Red Hat on X Follow Red Hat on Instagram Follow Red Hat on LinkedIn Watch Red Hat videos on YouTube About Red Hat Red Hat is the open hybrid cloud technology leader, delivering a trusted, consistent, and comprehensive foundation for transformative IT innovation and AI applications. Its portfolio of cloud, developer, AI, Linux, automation, and application platform technologies enables any application, anywhere-from the datacenter to the edge. As the worlds leading provider of enterprise open source software solutions, Red Hat invests in open ecosystems and communities to solve tomorrows IT challenges. Collaborating with partners and customers, Red Hat helps them build, connect, automate, secure, and manage their IT environments, supported by consulting services and award-winning training and certification offerings. Forward-Looking Statements Except for the historical information and discussions contained herein, statements contained in this press release may constitute forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements are based on the company's current assumptions regarding future business and financial performance. These statements involve a number of risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual results to differ materially. Any forward-looking statement in this press release speaks only as of the date on which it is made. Except as required by law, the company assumes no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements.
Business Wire
21-05-2025
- Business
- Business Wire
TIVIT Adopts Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization to Build More Flexible and Efficient Cloud Solutions
BOSTON – RED HAT SUMMIT--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Red Hat, the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that TIVIT, a multinational private cloud provider with operations across Latin America, has adopted Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization for greater cost efficiency in its virtualized infrastructure while reducing vendor lock-in. A capability of Red Hat OpenShift, Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization provides TIVIT with a modern virtualization platform, underscoring TIVIT's commitment to providing its extensive customer base with agile, scalable and economically-sound cloud solutions. TIVIT expands cost-efficient virtualized infrastructure choice with adoption of Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization. Share A hybrid private cloud provider, TIVIT employs more than 6,900 people and engages with more than 1,500 customer IT projects annually. The company maintains close collaborations with major technology providers, including Red Hat, AWS, Azure, Google, IBM, Oracle and VMware, offering hybrid and private cloud solutions that span bare-metal environments for restricted virtualization cases to high-performance, low-latency connectivity with public cloud services for in-datacenter deployments. The company's operations include a private cloud offering with regions in 10 countries including Brazil where it operates in 7 of the country's 10 largest companies, with robust disaster recovery and synchronous replication capabilities, as well as availability zones across Latin America. In response to changing market dynamics, TIVIT sought an additional alternative to its existing virtualization platform to become more cost-efficient and to reduce its reliance on a single vendor for critical technology. TIVIT already had a decade and half long relationship with Red Hat, having already built customer and infrastructure offerings around Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat OpenShift, so exploring Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization provided a further extension of this trusted collaboration. Using the Red Hat migration toolkit for virtualization, TIVIT can more efficiently bring workloads in virtualization environments to Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization while maintaining critical security standards. The provider's Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization environment now supports roughly 1,500 virtual servers and uses segmented networking for high-performance and enhanced security of operations. It also incorporates dedicated networks to manage cluster control, virtual machine (VM) communication, storage replication and more to allow for easier integration with OpenShift, public cloud and other provider workloads. With Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization, TIVIT gains several advantages including: Support for hybrid and multicloud deployments with a common platform based on open standards that can operate in whatever environment is required. Significant cost savings of up to 73% when using Red Hat Enterprise Linux in conjunction with Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization. Critical modern virtualization capabilities including over-provisioning of vCPUs, live workload migration, built-in cloning and snapshot tools and more. TIVIT emphasizes aligning an organization's cloud strategy with its ultimate business objectives, helping deliver effective, choice-driven cloud platforms to meet a variety of use cases. With Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization, TIVIT is able to focus on bringing value to its clients without concerns over vendor lock-in or skyrocketing infrastructure costs, built on an existing trusted collaboration with Red Hat. Red Hat Summit Join the Red Hat Summit keynotes to hear the latest from Red Hat executives, customers and partners: Modernized infrastructure meets enterprise-ready AI — Tuesday, May 20, 8-10 a.m. EDT (YouTube) Hybrid cloud evolves to deliver enterprise innovation YouTube) Supporting Quotes Mike Barrett, vice president and general manager, Hybrid Platforms, Red Hat 'Technology providers need to be laser-focused on delivering customer value, not on deciphering the changing dynamics of the virtualization vendor landscape. TIVIT's adoption of Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization, built on our long history of trusted collaboration, enables the company to focus purely on its customers' needs with the knowledge that its operations are supported by a production-ready, open and supported virtualization platform.' Additional Resources Connect with Red Hat About Red Hat Red Hat is the open hybrid cloud technology leader, delivering a trusted, consistent and comprehensive foundation for transformative IT innovation and AI applications. Its portfolio of cloud, developer, AI, Linux, automation and application platform technologies enables any application, anywhere—from the datacenter to the edge. As the world's leading provider of enterprise open source software solutions, Red Hat invests in open ecosystems and communities to solve tomorrow's IT challenges. Collaborating with partners and customers, Red Hat helps them build, connect, automate, secure and manage their IT environments, supported by consulting services and award-winning training and certification offerings. Forward-Looking Statements Except for the historical information and discussions contained herein, statements contained in this press release may constitute forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements are based on the company's current assumptions regarding future business and financial performance. These statements involve a number of risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual results to differ materially. Any forward-looking statement in this press release speaks only as of the date on which it is made. Except as required by law, the company assumes no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements. Red Hat, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, the Red Hat logo and OpenShift are trademarks or registered trademarks of Red Hat, Inc. or its subsidiaries in the U.S. and other countries. Linux® is the registered trademark of Linus Torvalds in the U.S. and other countries.
