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Red Hat, Oracle to Provide More OS Options with OCI
Red Hat, a developer of open source solutions, and Oracle formed a multi-stage partnership to give clients more operating system options to use with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).
Red Hat Enterprise Linux running on OCI as a supported operating system marks the beginning of the strategic partnership. Customers in India will also have access to this international cooperation.
“Customers can easily plan to migrate existing workloads which are currently on Red Hat Enterprise Linux to OCI without many changes in the stack”, says P Saravanan, Vice President, Cloud Engineering, Oracle India.
This is the first step in a larger partnership between Red Hat and Oracle, while the most of the information focused on the OCI integration. RHEL will be accessible on VMs from Oracle that range in size from 1 to 80 CPU cores and from 1GB to 1024GB of memory. The more recent OCI virtual machine designs, which employ AMD, Intel, and Arm CPUs, will only receive initial support.
“We've had separate propositions out there for many years, but many of our customers depend on us together. And the ability to have Red Hat Enterprise Linux available on the Oracle Cloud has been desperately in demand from our customers and so it's an exciting time to make this happen and to begin that partnership,” says Habgood
Through this strategic partnership, clients can now transfer existing workloads already operating on Red Hat Enterprise Linux to Red Hat Enterprise Linux on OCI, and certified configurations of OCI flexible virtual machines can now run Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
“This collaboration will allow companies to accelerate their digital transformation efforts in a much smoother way”.
Additionally, according to Dave McCarthy, vice president of global infrastructure at IDC, the two businesses already have a shared customer base, which provides them with another motivation to collaborate. That differs from Oracle's prior strategy for the market.
“We've had separate propositions out there for many years, but many of our customers depend on us together. And the ability to have Red Hat Enterprise Linux available on the Oracle Cloud has been desperately in demand from our customers and so it's an exciting time to make this happen and to begin that partnership,” says Habgood.
