The company has also simplified the installation process, which is now run off a single image and configured for specific workloads. Security features in its SE Linux version are built in to RHEL 5.
RHEL 5 also features new management capabilities which, the company claims, allows system administrators to manage five times the number of Red Hat servers as Windows servers. Yeaton said that Red Hat will continue to work with VMWare, despite building in virtualisation technologies to RHEL 5. Yeaton had little data on virtualisation adoption within the current strata of Red Hat customers, but expected the technology to 'lead to a whole set of uses for which this could be compelling'. Quite what virtualisation means for Red Hat was unclear. The Red Hat Network has also been extended for virtualised and part-virtualised environments. The Xen-enabled virtualisation capabilities of RHEL 5 form one of the main new advances in the platform, as is support for the power-saving and 64-bit features of the latest chip hardware, including x86 32- and 64-bit processors, from AMD and Intel, and Itanium2 and IBM Power mainframe hardware. "If you don't have virtualised storage," said Yeaton, "You lose a lot of the benefits. Each Advanced Platform licence allows the user to run as many virtualised instances of RHEL 5 as they like on a system. This means customers don't have to count users, installations or cores.
The company is also trying to bolster its reputation among business leaders by offering a new subscription model based on a per machine licence, bringing it into line with other established software providers. Tim Yeaton, senior vice president of marketing at Red Hat told us that the core message of this latest release is simplification. Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 includes several new features and sees the company implement a revised set of subscription prices. Neither Red Hat nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.Linux vendor Red Hat has unveiled the latest version of its open source operating system for the business market. Watch the complete video interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of AWS re:Invent. And we’re excited to be working with AWS directly on it, and I think it’s going to be a fascinating next two years on ARM, personally.
We’ve been working with AWS for over two years supporting Graviton, and I’m seeing more enthusiasm now in terms of developers, especially for very horizontal, large-scale applications. What does it mean for customers?Įvans: It’s a pretty fascinating area for me. Tell us more about the Red Hat strategy with Graviton and ARM architecture specifically. We saw that RHEL now supports AWS Graviton instances. So both AWS and Red Hat are now continuing to invest in accelerating the roadmap of the service on our platform. There are customers both that are running OpenShift on-premises that are standardized on ROSA, and then there are large sets of customers that are running RHEL on that want to use the ROSA service. Parbhakar: ROSA is part of our container portfolio services, along with EKS, ECS and any other services that we just launched earlier this year. What do you think of ROSA versus Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) and Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS)? It’s got to be rock solid.’ And so we came to an agreement with AWS as the best way to do that was to build it in the console. We’re going to be building and deploying serious applications at incredible scale on it, and it’s really got to have joint high-quality support, joint high-quality engineering. And over the next few years, we’ll continue to increase our investment on the product roadmap here.Įvans: We did it because customers were asking both of us, ‘Look, OpenShift is a platform. So it’s a huge priority for our container service. Parbhakar: We are seeing solid adoption, both in terms of adoption by a customer, as well as the partners and how our partners are helping our customers in modernizing from VMs to containers. Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA) launched in April 2021. They discussed the newest addition to the AWS and Red Hat partnership, ROSA, as well as RHEL updates. Manu Parbhakar (pictured, left), head of strategic partnerships for AWS, and Mike Evans (pictured, right), vice president for technical business development at Red Hat, spoke with John Furrier, host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio, during AWS re:Invent. The largest addition to their partnership recently was the Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (or ROSA), a managed version of OpenShift for container-based applications, which launched in April. have been partnering since 2008, the pace of innovation has only increased over the past few years.