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Red Hat launches new partner programme

Posted on January 19, 2024 by - News

Open saucy Red Hat is shaking up its partner programme to make it easier, better, and faster for partners to cash in.

The company is rolling out new tools to help partners work together and get their paws on the hottest technology, training, and resources.

A new report by IDC says that 70 per cent of tech sellers will follow a customer-led approach by 2025, meaning they have to team up with partners to offer the best solutions, services, and flexibility that customers want now.

Red Hat wants to be ahead of the game by simplifying its partner model to make it clear and fair for everyone in the ecosystem and to focus on the customer’s needs.

Mendix teams up with Red Hat

Posted on October 11, 2023 by - News

Siemens-owned Mendix has partnered with the open saucy Red Hat.

The idea is to mix Menix’s to mix its agility and speed low code platform with the scalability and flexibility of Red Hat OpenShift.

Mendix said that working with Red Hat in this capacity will help organisations build scalable, flexible, and security-focused applications and make it easier to deploy and manage Mendix applications across various cloud environments and on-premises infrastructure using Red Hat OpenShift.

Red Hat vice president of partner ecosystem success Penny Philpot said that the partnership will change how how organisations develop and deploy applications.

IBM adds Red Hat to storage business

Posted on October 5, 2022 by - News

Biggish Blue has announced that it will add Red Hat storage product roadmaps and Red Hat associate teams to the IBM Storage business unit.

The cunning plan is to integrate the storage technologies from Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation (ODF) as the foundation for IBM Spectrum Fusion. This combines IBM and Red Hat’s container storage technologies for data services and helps accelerate IBM’s capabilities in the burgeoning Kubernetes platform market.

In addition, IBM wants to offer new Ceph solutions delivering a unified and software-defined storage platform that bridges the architectural divide between the data centre and cloud providers. This further advances IBM’s leadership in the software-defined storage and Kubernetes platform markets.

Red Hat and Dell team up on containers

Posted on September 19, 2022 by - News

Dell and Red Hat have entered a new partnership which they think will simplify deploying and managing on-premises containerised infrastructure in multi-cloud environments.

Dell says the deal will help companies speed the development and operations of cloud-native applications while removing IT management barriers.

Dell president of infrastructure solutions Jeff Boudreau said: “The Dell and Red Hat collaboration is key to our efforts to build a multi-cloud ecosystem that offers customers greater flexibility and choice as they develop new applications and modernise existing ones in multi-cloud environments,”

Red Hat offers free training

Posted on March 7, 2022 by - News

​Red Hat has pledged to run its Training and Certification courses to its partners for no extra cost.

The outfit said that it really needs hybrid cloud skills at the partner level so will be offering its self-paced online courses for free to help build knowledge around technologies such as cloud computing, containers, virtualisation, and automation.

The curriculum consists of 17 courses that are available in eight languages and can provide the foundational knowledge needed to develop skills in hybrid cloud computing. These can then be used to pursue further accreditation and certification away from Red Hat.

Blue Blue snaps up cloudy Neudesic

Posted on February 17, 2022 by - News

Biggish Blue has acquired Microsoft Azure partner Neudesic to expand the tech vendor’s portfolio of hybrid multi-cloud and artificial intelligence services.

IBM said that Neudesic gives it more Azure cloud, data engineering and data analytics capabilities  The company has more than 1,500 cloud and data workers in the US and India.

IBM and Neudesic signed a definitive agreement for the acquisition in the fourth quarter of 2021, according to the statement.

Tech Data expands self service operation

Posted on September 14, 2021 by - Moving People, News

Tech Data is increasing investment in its Software Store self-service renewals platform introducing a monthly data pack option for partners that have a large number of upcoming renewals and providing dedicated business development support.

The company said it is seeing steady growth in usage of the nine portals via which software and service renewals can be tracked, quoted for, and ordered, and is on track to achieve half of all software licensing renewals through them by the end of the year.

Michael Holden, Tech Data, UK and Ireland, business development manager eCommerce, said that the new data pack option will provide larger reseller partners with all pertinent information on their up-and-coming renewals for automatic input into their own internal systems.

“Larger partners may have thousands of renewals they want to track and might need to give access to many different users while ensuring they conform to security and data policies. We’ve developed the data pack option to provide partners with an uncomplicated way to get all the information they need to automate their renewals business, whilst ensuring they are compliant.”

Red Hat boosts partner support

Posted on September 9, 2021 by - News

Red Hat is increasing its partner support package.

The outfit’s director of partners for Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), Kevin Bland, said there was a need to increase the support it gives to traditional solution provider partners.

The firm has dedicated leaders that cover global systems integrators (GSIs), cloud providers and independent software vendors (ISVs), but Bland felt it needed something similar for the general reseller base.

He said that the company was a point of evolution where the majority, in terms of the number of partners, that sits within our ecosystem as traditional solution providers and those partners deserved a leader at the vendor to focus on their needs.

“We’ve got to connect these partners with our GSI partners, with our ISVs, with CCSPs [certified cloud security partners]. Some will turn into cloud service providers, some will evolve into ISVs, some will be a good route to market for those organisations, and some will supplement it with skills and services”, said Bland.

Red Hat teams up with Nutanix

Posted on July 30, 2021 by - News

Open saucy Red Hat has coupled with the cloudy firm Nutanix to build, scale, and manage cloud-native applications on-premises and hybrid clouds.

The collaboration brings together different technologies, enabling installation, interoperability and management of Red Hat OpenShift and Red Hat Enterprise Linux with Nutanix Cloud Platform, including Nutanix AOS and AHV.

Under the plan, Red Hat OpenShift is the preferred choice for enterprise full stack Kubernetes on the Nutanix Cloud Platform. In addition, customers looking to run Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat OpenShift on hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) will be able to use an industry-leading cloud platform from Nutanix, which includes both Nutanix AOS and AHV.

Nutanix Cloud Platform will be the preferred choice for HCI for Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat OpenShift. This will enable customers to deploy virtualised and containerised workloads on a hyperconverged infrastructure, building on the combined benefits of Red Hat’s open hybrid cloud technologies and Nutanix’s hyperconverged offerings.

Red Hat wants partners to help with its hybrid world plans

Posted on April 29, 2021 by - News

Red Hat wants its partners to help customers navigate a hybrid cloud world.

Speaking to the virtual gathered throngs at the Red Hat Summit CEO Paul Cormier, said open source underpinned hybrid cloud and that market continued to expand, increasing opportunities for its channel.

“Open source has taken off so quickly over the last number of years and it really is the predominant development technology in the infrastructure and development world today,” he said. “It’s here to stay because it’s really the foundation of delivering on hybrid cloud. It’s too big for any one company to solve – we can’t do this without our partners. Together, we can really deliver industry-relevant solutions to our customers.”

Cormier said the firm wanted better alignment of its partners across geographies because that was the way most of its customers were operating.

Red Hat and AWS extend partnership

Posted on May 15, 2020 by - News

Red Hat and AWS  have extended their partnership to deliver Amazon Red Hat OpenShift, a jointly-managed and jointly-supported enterprise Kubernetes service on AWS.

Red Hat, vice president Sathish Balakrishnan, said Amazon Red Hat OpenShift will be a fully managed service that enables IT organisations to more quickly build and deploy applications in AWS on Red Hat’s powerful, enterprise Kubernetes platform, using the same tools and APIs.

“Developers will be able to build containerised applications that integrate natively with the more than 170+ integrated AWS cloud-native services to enhance agility, innovation and scalability. By blending Red Hat’s and AWS’ decades of enterprise IT knowledge and experience into Amazon Red Hat OpenShift, IT organizations will be able to launch cloud-native systems that can retain enterprise-grade security, be more agile and see improved performance while driving cost efficiencies”, he said.

Amazon Red Hat OpenShift will offer customers the ability to launch Red Hat OpenShift clusters and provide the benefit of an AWS integrated experience for cluster creation and management, AWS Console listing, on-demand (hourly) billing model, single invoice for AWS deployments and the ability to contact AWS for support.

Red Hat gets new CEO

Posted on April 7, 2020 by - News

Red Hat announced that it has named Paul Cormier as president and chief executive officer of Red Hat, effective now. Cormier, who previously served as Red Hat’s president of Products and Technologies, succeeds Jim Whitehurst, who is now president of IBM.

Cormier is credited with pioneering the subscription model that transformed Red Hat from an open source “disruptor” to an enterprise technology company, moving Red Hat Linux from a freely downloadable operating system to Red Hat Enterprise Linux, the industry’s leading enterprise Linux platform that today powers more than 90 percent  of Fortune 500 organisations.

Cormier has driven more than 25 acquisitions at Red Hat, moving the company beyond its Linux roots and helped create a modern IT stack based on open source.  

Blue Prism partners with Red Hat on Robots

Posted on March 10, 2020 by - News

Robotic expert Blue Prism has announced a new collaboration with Red Hat, designed to create next-generation intelligent automation capabilities and services for the enterprise.

The initiative will see Red Hat’s Process Automation Manager platform integrated with Blue Prism’s connected-RPA suite to enable businesses to create a more comprehensive automation strategy that can increase process efficiencies and improve ROI.

Available now on Blue Prism’s Digital Exchange (DX) portal, the integration allows users to quickly build and deploy executable, automated processes to tackle tasks such as processing claims, filling orders reducing inventory and onboarding customers, it’s claimed.

IBM figures saved by Red Hat

Posted on January 23, 2020 by - News

IBM has closed 2019 with thin sales growth which was saved by a thriving cloud business and propped up by its acquisition of Red Hat.

Revenues increased by 0.07 percent for the fourth quarter of 2019 to $21.78 billion. For the full 2019 year, revenues increased by 0.2 percent to $77.1 billion adjusted for divested businesses and currency. Without these adjustments, revenues dipped by 3.1 percent. Pre-tax operating income, however, dropped by 10 percent to $10.17 billion.

IBM and Red Hat channels kept apart

Posted on July 17, 2019 by - News

Big Blue has said that it will not be merging its partner programme with that of Red Hat after the completion of its $34 billion acquisition deal.

IBM is keen to keep Red Hat’s continued independence and position as “the Switzerland of IT”.

IBM’s senior vice president for cloud and cognitive software Arvind Krishna said that Red Hat supports every hardware vendor out there and that is going to continue.