April 21, 2020
by sjvn01
Comments Off on Here comes Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2
Red Hat is kicking rump and taking names now that it’s part of IBM. Red Hat revenue was up 18% in the last quarter and up almost 50% over last year. Why? One reason, as IBM CFO Jim Kavanaugh said, … Continue reading
April 6, 2020
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Comments Off on Why not the best? Red Hat vet Paul Cormier takes over as CEO
In 2001, it was anyone’s guess who would be the dominant business Linux company. Yes, Red Hat was in the running, but so was Caldera, SUSE, and TurboLinux. And, there was still a reasonable chance that Sun with Solaris could … Continue reading
March 18, 2020
by sjvn01
Comments Off on Ansible DevOps comes to the mainframe
I cut my teeth on mainframe computers. My first system administration language wasn’t — as you might guess from my Unix/Linux background — Borrne or C shell, but rather, IBM 360 mainframe Job Control Language (JCL). So, the notion that … Continue reading
March 16, 2020
by sjvn01
Comments Off on How Red Hat tackles security
Red Hat historically has had the best record of all the Linux companies in finding and fixing Linux and open-source security bugs. Here’s how the Raleigh, NC-based company does it. First, Red Hat Product Security is in charge of both … Continue reading
March 12, 2020
by sjvn01
Comments Off on Red Hat Ceph Storage 4 arrives
Do you need really serious software-defined storage to handle petabytes of data? Then, Red Hat, with the latest edition of Red Hat Ceph Storage (RHCS), has the technology you need. RHCS is based on the Nautilus version of the Ceph open-source storage project. It’s … Continue reading
February 20, 2020
by sjvn01
Comments Off on Red Hat OpenStack lives on in a new release
SUSE may have given up on the OpenStack Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud, but Red Hat hasn’t. The Raleigh, N.C.-based company has just released its latest OpenStack distribution, Red Hat OpenStack Platform (RHOP) 16. Red Hat OpenStack lives on in a new release More>