HPE and Red Hat to work on expanding container adoption at the enterprise level

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has partnered with Red Hat, the provider of open source solutions, to enable enterprises to adopt and deploy containers in production rapidly and at scale.

While developers can already use containerised applications in their development and test environments, enterprises often require container scalability, added security features, persistent storage, and ease if use when they deploy containers in production. HPE and Red Hat are collaborating to optimise Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform on HPE platforms, including HPE Synergy, the industry’s first composable infrastructure. They are also collaborating to offer services to help customers adopt Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform with HPE platforms all the way from proof of concept right though to going live.

“Deploying large-scale container environments to the enterprise data centre is not simple,” said Neil MacDonald, VP & GM, HPE Synergy & HPE BladeSystem. “Through our longstanding collaboration with Red Hat, we’re aiming to accelerate the adoption and deployment of the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform with HPE solutions from proof of concept to large scale deployment. Customers of both companies can now modernise their platform leveraging each of our services, support, and validated Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform technology stacks on HPE Synergy and HPE Nimble and 3PAR storage arrays."

“DevOps and agile application development are helping customers to deliver on the promise of digital transformation with accelerated application development and microservices architectures,” said Ashesh Badani, VP & GM, OpenShift, Red Hat. “Together, Red Hat and HPE aim to deliver a container-based solution that enables customers to not only build new cloud-native apps and microservices, but also to modernise legacy applications.”

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform has become a leader in the container space by offering an integrated, enterprise-grade container platform based on industry standards, including Linux containers and Kubernetes. HPE will pair key components of its hybrid IT portfolio of products and services with the following capabilities for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform:

- Containerisation services 

- A reference architecture 

- Composable infrastructure for containers 

- Persistent storage for containers 

- Faster deployment and automation - a production-ready Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform environment can be deployed in under two hours.

- Container data protection 

- Stronger security

HPE Pointnext also offers advisory and professional services supporting application containerisation and Kubernetes integration. In late 2018, HPE Pointnext plans to expand the offering with additional services to help customers adopt Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform with HPE solutions and migrate to containers.

Details:

The HPE technology stack will be available in September 2018. A reference architecture for HPE Synergy with Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform featuring the Gluster File System is already available today.

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