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Red Hat Summit 2017: Inside the latest with open source tech
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MIT's Open Agriculture Initiative illustrates open source users
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How open source impacts lives
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Middleware-layer performance issues: How to plan and who's in charge
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Top three questions for API strategy planning
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Editor's note
The 2017 Red Hat Summit in Boston was about giving and taking away, both very good things for mobile and cloud application developers. Red Hat is giving developers profound piece of mind with the Red Hat Container Index, a new service that assigns scores based on an examination of the security, performance, and version currency of every container that constitutes Red Hat's own products along with those of its ISV partners. And taking away the need to ever again install development tools on local workstations thanks to the launch of OpenShift.io, a complete, end-to-end online development environment for designing, creating, testing, and deploying hybrid cloud services through automated CI/CD pipelines.
During the Summit, a couple of major themes stood out clearly. First, enterprise organizations have warmed up towards the use of open source software, if they are not already embracing it for major production workloads. Not only are they using open source, they’re actually "doing" open source – putting open source principles to work inside the development team to speed up delivery, a process many are calling "inner source."
As a major proponent of open source technology, Red Hat is uniquely positioned in the market. It's made some in the company eager to teach everyone the "rules for playing nicely in the open source world." But it's also the biggest open source cheerleader around, convincing even IBM to step in to help make enterprises more comfortable. Some would even say Red Hat is an open source conglomerate, with all the benefits -- and challenges -- that entails. Get the latest from the Red Hat 2017 Summit.
1On virtualization
What are the latest Red Hat virtualization offerings? Find out about RHEL 6.8 and what to expect from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3 in this section on Red Hat's virtualization tools.
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What are the virtualization choices for Red Hat?
While the KVM functionality in Red Hat Enterprise Linux can help admins manage VMs on a few servers, larger deployments may call for RHEV and OpenStack. Read Now
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RHEL offerings include VPN tools and new archiving
The most common data center operating system gets its final 6.x updates with the addition of a local backup archiving tool before transitioning to just security and stability updates. Read Now
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Learn about Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3 gives admins more granular control over security, DR and containers, while laying the foundation for IoT workloads -- something RHEL 8 will likely build on. Read Now
2On containers and API management
How are containers transforming APIs? Learn about Red Hat's transitions in API management and what updates have been made to existing services and data storage areas in this section on API management and containers.
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Learning about Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform is a developer-focused PaaS that supports application development teams in a range of industries and business sizes. Read Now
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Red Hat's latest Gluster storage boosts container performance
Red Hat's latest Gluster storage update improves performance, deepens container support and introduces space-saving alternative to three-way replication to ensure data integrity. Read Now
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Why PaaS is changing with containers
New PaaS offerings have put their best foot forward in terms of container orchestration and management, which has attracted a new generation of IT ops pros. Read Now
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What is included in the Red Hat Ceph update release?
Red Hat showed off a major new Ceph storage release and a Gluster update more tightly integrated to work with application containers to launch its annual summit. Read Now
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Red Hat talks acquisition of 3scale
Enterprise-class API management tools are central to cloud application development and integration. Red Hat is acquiring 3scale to fill a glaring gap in its product line. Read Now
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Managing data and services with API technology
As the number of APIs used by enterprises soars, tight control and security must be balanced against unfettered access and ease of use. Such is the state of API technology. Listen Now
3On open source
Learn why Red Hat continues to remain a huge conglomerate in the open source market. Get insight into open source success strategies, how IBM influences the OpenStack platform and why you should consider RHEL in this open source section.
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Red Hat's eight steps to open source success
Everyone wants to use and participate in an open source software environment but sadly not everyone knows how to do it right. This is the perspective of Matt Hicks, vice president of engineering ... Read Now
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Why Red Hat is the conglomerate of open source
Red Hat has become a major provider of infrastructure software and tools and faces the same challenges as any technology vendor with a broad product portfolio. However, it remains loyal to the open ... Read Now
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How Red Hat OpenStack platform got enterprise-friendly
By the end of the month, enterprises can get the Red Hat OpenStack Platform through the IBM Cloud. The offering is expected to make the software for private clouds easier to use. Read Now
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Red Hat announces no-cost RHEL
Red Hat has announced the availability of a no-cost Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) subscription, available as part of the Red Hat Developer Program. Read Now
4Looking back
As you get ready for Red Hat Summit 2017, take a look back at last year's event. Learn about Ansible configuration management, why Microsoft integration is necessary and the other big news related to Red Hat 2016.
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Ansible configuration management points to automation
Ansible configuration management's roadmap points to more automation in more areas of the enterprise IT infrastructure. Read Now
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Why Red Hat's future includes Microsoft integration
With RHEL hitting platform maturity, Red Hat's future includes Microsoft integration, expanded management and a smaller footprint. Read Now
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What's happening at Red Hat Summit 2016
At its recent annual summit, Red Hat disclosed a rebranded OS platform, some updates and a new version of OpenShift, its container provisioning platform. Read Now
5Red Hat terms
Review these important terms, which were ever-present at this year's summit.
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Red Hat OpenShift
Red Hat OpenShift is a multifaceted, open source container application platform from Red Hat Inc. for the development, deployment and management of applications. Read Now
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Red Hat
Red Hat is a leading software company in the business of assembling open source components for the Linux operating system and related programs into a distribution package that can easily be ordered and implemented. Read Now
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Red Hat Certified Cloud Provider
A Red Hat Certified Cloud Provider is a member in the company's cloud partner program that has met requirements to offer Red Hat products and services in a cloud computing environment. Read Now
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is a distribution of the Linux operating system developed for the business market... (Continued) Read Now
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Red Hat Virtualization (RHV)
Red Hat Virtualization (RHV) is an enterprise-class virtualization platform produced by Red Hat. Read Now