Dell and Red Hat expand collaboration in bid to accelerate DevOps in multi-cloud
It comes after Gartner predicted that 90 per cent of global organisations will run containerised applications in production by 2027
Dell and Red Hat have entered a new partnership as they look to offer new solutions that simplify deploying and managing on-premises containerised infrastructure in multi-cloud environments.
It comes as the two companies announced they are expanding their strategic collaboration amid rising challenges associated with deploying and managing container deployments across organisations.
The IT giant says the deal will help companies speed development and operations of cloud-native applications while removing IT management barriers.
"The Dell and Red Hat collaboration is key to our efforts to build a multi-cloud ecosystem that offers customers greater flexibility and choice as they develop new applications and modernise existing ones in multi-cloud environments," said Jeff Boudreau, president of infrastructure solutions group at Dell.
"With Dell APEX and Red Hat OpenShift, developers can focus on delivering innovative products and services and alleviate supporting infrastructure concerns."
Among the new solutions include Dell APEX Containers for Red Hat OpenShift, which is said to offer an on-premises, Dell-managed container-as-a-Service solution.
Delivered as a subscription, Dell oversees infrastructure management activities and operations.
"With Red Hat OpenShift, the service allows customers to meet the needs of their developers without the need to build and manage their own physical infrastructure," the IT giant said.
The company is also offering a Dell Validated Platform for Red Hat OpenShift.
Dell says this "streamlines" deployment processes and management of on-premises infrastructure for container orchestration with documented deployment and configuration guidance.
"Customers can more quickly get their on-premises infrastructure up and running and can more predictably operate a Red Hat OpenShift environment on Dell PowerFlex software-defined infrastructure," it added.
Finally, Dell and Red Hat are co-engineer a hybrid cloud solution designed for consistent management across all IT locations.
This will be designed using Dell software to integrate Red Hat OpenShift on scalable Dell infrastructure, while IBM artificial intelligence software is available as an option.
"When available, this will offer customers the option of additional visibility and actionable insights, across the full stack, from infrastructure through business applications," Dell said.
Ashesh Badani, senior vice president and head of products at Red Hat, said expanding its partnership with Dell gives customers more flexibility.
"By extending our existing collaboration with Dell, we're giving customers even more choice and flexibility in their hybrid cloud operations, pairing the industry's leading enterprise Kubernetes platform in Red Hat OpenShift with Dell's powerful infrastructure technologies," he said.