![]() "IBM is putting OpenShift at the center of what it's doing and Red Hat is now highly leveraging offerings like Ansible and Advanced Cluster Management." "Increasingly over the past few months you see why IBM spent that kind of money to buy Red Hat," Hurwitz said. Tying OpenShift more tightly to the company's other software offerings is an indication of not only the strategic importance of OpenShift, but the growing importance of those applications to the edge strategies of Red Hat RHEL and IBM. Lastly, version 8.4 better enables Red Hat Data Services to store, analyze and distribute data more efficiently across both edge and data centers. Working with the Red Hat Integration product, RHEL 8.4 can connect applications and data across edge deployments using an open hybrid cloud. The new offering also works with Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes, which extends centralized IT control of distant edge locations, the company said. With OpenShift's support for three-node clusters and remote worker nodes, it's easier to deploy Kubernetes in resource-constrained locations - including in outer space. Some of RHEL 8.4's new features improve the way the operating system works with several of the company's bread-and-butter products, including OpenShift. "This version tells you telecommunications is not an afterthought with them." ![]() "Red Hat is going after users in several verticals with this version, but its strongest vertical has been the telecommunications industry," said Judith Hurwitz, president of Hurwitz & Associates, a consultancy in Needham, Mass. ![]() The focus on telecommunications doesn't come as a surprise to most analysts. The new release aims at a handful of vertical markets including transportation, enterprise devices and smart automobiles, particularly the telecommunications market. If you’re not aware, RHEL is a paid product but the Linux community do create separate distributions such as CentOS which largely replicate the functionality of RHEL 8 but do not offer paid support.Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8.4, which will serve as the foundation for the Red Hat Edge initiative, delivers the capabilities of several products and services in the company's portfolio to edge applications. ![]() If you’d like to learn more about the new RHEL 8, be sure to check out its new product page. Spanning the entirety of the hybrid cloud, the world’s leading enterprise Linux platform provides a catalyst for IT organizations to do more than simply meet today’s challenges it gives them the foundation and tools to launch their own future, wherever they want it to be.” ![]() Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 embraces the role of Linux as IT’s innovation engine, crystallizing it into an accessible, trusted and more secure platform. “Innovation and Linux are inseparable - from building the Internet’s backbone to forming the first neurons of AI, Linux drives IT’s present and future. Additionally, App Streams are now supported, giving developers access to newer tools without impacting the core resources used in RHEL.ĭiscussing the new update, Stefanie Chiras, vice president and general manager, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat, said: This change was made in Fedora a while ago but now the change has arrived in RHEL delivering support for modular content and increased performance. Other changes that users will notice is that the YUM package manager is now based on DNF. ![]()
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