Red Hat Teams With Intel

A component to the big data and
open hybrid cloud direction Red Hat, Inc.
announced on February 20 is the collaboration with big data software
and hardware providers to offer enterprise features and interoperability.

The intended result of this community-driven innovation will be a set of
co-developed reference architectures that provide enterprise customers with big
data solutions. In a press release from Intel announcing Intel
Distribution for Apache Hadoop software, Red Hat has
extended its strategic collaboration with Intel to jointly innovate and develop
enterprise big data solutions through the open source community.

As the first step in its big data
collaboration, Red Hat plans to build solutions using Intel Distribution
integrated with Red Hat solutions, such as Red Hat Storage Server 2.0 and Enterprise Linux.

Big data solutions resulting from the expanded Red Hat
and Intel alliance will be designed to meet enterprise expectations for
availability, performance, and compatibility.

As we described on February 20, Red Hat plans
to work  with a small set of pilot customers to develop several
certified reference architectures. In parallel, it is working through Red Hat
ecosystem partners to enable them to deliver these certified solutions to big
data enterprise customers. Also, Red Hat announced it intends to make its
Hadoop plug-in for Red Hat Storage available to the Hadoop community later this
year. Currently in technology preview, the Red Hat Storage Apache Hadoop
plug-in provides a new storage option for enterprise Hadoop deployments that
delivers enterprise storage features while maintaining the API compatibility
and local data access the Hadoop community.

The goal is to evolve the Red Hat product portfolio, including Red Hat JBoss
Middleware and Enterprise Virtualization, toward the open hybrid cloud
model enterprise big data customers desire, which includes working closely
with partners such as Intel.

The open source community projects Red Hat is
involved in, including OpenStack and OpenShift Origin, aim to enable
enterprises to utilize the open hybrid cloud model by moving big data workloads
easily between public and private clouds.