Some of the biggest reveals during #RHSummit include the upcoming Red Hat AI 3.4 and Ansible Automation Platform 2.7, as well as closer integration with NVIDIA.
Red Hat Chief Product Officer and Senior Vice President Ashesh Badani said in his keynote address that the vendor is investing deeply in its systems integrator ecosystem to help address the “virtualization cost crisis.” Badani didn’t name Broadcom’s VMware, but the virtualization vendor’s price changes have prompted a variety of solution providers and their customers to seek alternatives such as Red Hat.
Badani played down the benefits of customers moving everything onto the big three hyperscalers, saying that users lose consistency because of the different operational model, tooling, security models and networking primitives on each cloud, and touting Red Hat OpenShift instead.
Here’s what else Badani and the following Red Hat executives shared at Red Hat Summit, as well as partner perspective from Bo Gebbie, president of IBM and Red Hat solution provider Evolving Solutions:
- Michael Barrett, Red Hat’s vice president and general manager of hybrid platforms
- Matt Hicks, Red Hat’s CEO
- Joe Fernandes, Red Hat’s vice president and general manager for the company’s AI business unit
- Sathish Balakrishnan, vice president and general manager of Red Hat’s Ansible business unit
- Gunnar Hellekson, Red Hat’s vice president and general manager for its Red Hat Enterprise Linux business
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