Red Hat is still in the process of being swallowed up by IBM, which means there was still time for the open source stalwart to make an acquisition of their own. I’ve had some briefings with NooBaa in the past, so I was surprised to see that Red Hat was acquiring the company late last year.
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Pondering Red Hat’s Future with IBM
Like a lot of people in IT, Chin-Fah Heoh is coming to terms with what the OBM acquisition of Red Hat will mean. For him, it takes the open-source darling and pairs it with a “nonplussed tech giant” in IBM.
Maxta and Red Hat Team Up For Hypervisor Choice
Maxta has offered a software-centric approach to hyperconverged infrastructure for a while. The company now support easy migrations in Red Hat to KVM, giving organizations more choice on how best to implement HCI for their needs.
Red Hat Launches the PodCTL Podcast
If you’re looking for a weekly dose of the latest containers and Kubernetes news, Red Hat just launched a new podcast just for you. Hosted by Brian Gracely and Tyler Britten, the first episode does a good job of introducing the show. They unsurprisingly spend a decent amount of time talking about OpenShift 3.6, although the show claims to try to be company agnostic, which I think most listeners would prefer.
CentOS joins forces with RedHat
Matt Simmons, the Standalone Sysadmin comments: There are a lot of people scratching their heads on this, because there’s a widely perceived notion that CentOS is a direct competitor to RHEL, but that’s actually not the case. While I’m sure RedHat would love to make paying customers out of every one of the CentOS users […]