Red Hat borrows power ecosystem against cloud, big data

With the development of cloud computing, Linux is becoming more and more concerned by enterprise users, and even becomes the preferred operating system for enterprise cloud computing. The Red Hat, which has been focused on open source technology, still adheres to the credo of open source and strengthens its cooperation with upstream and downstream partners to build a perfect ecosystem and promote open source solutions. It is also because of the importance of the Red hat to the ecosystem that the Red Hat has been able to do well in cloud computing and large data fields in recent years. We might as well review the Red Hat's efforts and gains in the ecosystem over the years.

Starting with a KVM embedded in Linux, Red Hat has been driving the development of the KVM ecosystem, and in September 2011, Red Hat, together with IBM, HP, Intel and other manufacturers, established the Open Virtualization Alliance (Openvirtualizationalliance,ova), Committed to driving KVM into the data center, the OVA Alliance has become the core force driving KVM development.

In addition, Red hat is constantly strengthening the cooperation between KVM and software vendors, so that more enterprise-critical applications can be better run on the KVM platform. July 6, 2012, Red Hat works with SAP to help users configure and run SAP software more easily in a red hat physical, virtual environment, or cloud. The test results show that the KVM based Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0 is now available for SAP solution production environments.

In order to enable Linux platform based solutions to help users better build the cloud platform, Red Hat is working with many partners to promote Linux's high availability, flexibility and so on. September 18, 2012, Red Hat announced the cooperation with Symantec to create a highly available, flexible linux-based solution, designed to help customers deploy flexible private cloud, hybrid cloud, build a highly resilient data center, so that the Linux platform to better host critical business applications.

The cooperation involved in engineering, technical support, sales and marketing and other departments. As the core of the Red Hat Hybrid cloud solution, Linux has been the area that Red Hat attaches great importance to, and it is revealed that Red Hat and IBM are ready to collaborate based on the RHEL6.4 version. REDHATSTORAGESERVER2.0 uses a hashing algorithm to locate data in a storage pool instead of using a metadata server, which enables it to eliminate I/O bottlenecks and single points of failure.

In addition to virtualization and cloud computing, Red Hat is also starting to explore in large data areas, trying to build a large data solution for users on the basis of open source technology and products to help customers cope with the challenges of structured and unstructured data, Red Hat also has a deep understanding that the same must be helped by the power of ecosystems. In October 2011, Red Hat acquired the Open-source storage software provider gluster with 136 million dollars and launched Redhatstorageserver on a gluster basis, the industry's first file storage system to easily integrate with object storage. At the same time, Red Hat also announced a partnership ecosystem that includes Cisco, Groupware, Intel, mainline and SYNNEX products.

March 1, 2013, Red Hat United Intel to promote open source Big data innovation, Red Hat Company plans to use Intel product integrated Red Hat solution way (such as RedHatStorageServer2.0 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux) to build the solution, Designed specifically for the availability, functionality, and compatibility required by enterprise users. Red Hat Storage Division general Manager Rangarangachari that open source storage systems and a large number of x86 servers are likely to change the storage market, just as Linux and x86 servers are combined to change the server. In fact, in addition to cooperation with the x86 platform, Red Hat is also working with a number of innovative arm chip manufacturers, so that the gluster and Fedora operating systems are well compatible with the ARM platform to jointly promote the development of low-power solutions.

It is because of the importance of Red hat to the ecosystem construction, only the success of the Red Hat in the Linux field, it is because the red hat to the ecosystem construction attention, just have red hat in cloud computing and large data field success, also just let it become the first open source net income more than 1 billion of the company. "Red Hat will continue to play a crucial role in the next shift in the IT field, working with partners, users and the open source community," said Red Hat CEO Jimwichs in his 2013 New Year address.

In the IT field, ecosystems are a very important concept, because without ecosystem support, no good technology can achieve its value. In fact, many open source communities are often able to create very advanced features and products, but most of the time, because of the lack of ecosystem support, these features and products can only flow on paper, become geeks of the plaything, can not be used in actual production. Linux cannot be a mainstream operating system in a data center, just as manufacturers continue to drive Linux and upstream partners without red hats.

(Responsible editor: Fumingli)