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Red Hat Simplifies Standard Operating Environments Across the Hybrid Cloud with Latest Version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux

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Mittwoch, Mai 1, 2024

Red Hat, Inc., the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the general availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4, the latest version of the world’s leading enterprise Linux platform.

Key Points: 
  • Red Hat, Inc., the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the general availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4, the latest version of the world’s leading enterprise Linux platform.
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4, and the forthcoming Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.10, show Red Hat’s continued commitment to lowering the barriers of entry to Linux in general, as well as making it more manageable and scalable to address evolving demands.
  • Additionally, the Red Hat Hybrid Cloud Console virtual assistant can help guide users in creating Red Hat Enterprise Linux images, enabling custom content and even launching Red Hat Enterprise Linux images on supported cloud providers.
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4 is now available for existing Red Hat customers via the Red Hat Customer Portal.

Hitachi Vantara Announces Availability of Virtual Storage Platform One, Providing the Data Foundation for Unified Hybrid Cloud Storage

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Dienstag, April 16, 2024

SANTA CLARA, Calif., April 16, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- As businesses face unprecedented challenges managing data among the proliferation of generative AI, cloud technologies, and exponential data growth, Hitachi Vantara, the data storage, infrastructure, and hybrid cloud management subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. (TSE: 6501), today announced the availability of Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform One. The hybrid cloud platform is poised to transform how organizations manage and leverage their data in today's rapidly evolving technological landscape.

Key Points: 
  • Unbreakable hybrid cloud platform seamlessly integrates structured and unstructured data, redefining data management efficiency and flexibility for enterprises
    SANTA CLARA, Calif., April 16, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- As businesses face unprecedented challenges managing data among the proliferation of generative AI, cloud technologies, and exponential data growth, Hitachi Vantara, the data storage, infrastructure, and hybrid cloud management subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. (TSE: 6501), today announced the availability of Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform One .
  • The hybrid cloud platform is poised to transform how organizations manage and leverage their data in today's rapidly evolving technological landscape.
  • At the heart of Virtual Storage Platform One lies a unified data ecosystem that seamlessly integrates block and file storage, eliminating data silos and fragmented landscapes.
  • The hybrid cloud platform sets itself apart from competitors with key differentiators that redefine the data management landscape:
    One Data Plane: Extending our storage portfolio into the public cloud with Virtual Storage Platform One SDS Cloud running natively on AWS.

Zones’ Managed Cloud Services named Product Challenger by ISG Provider Lens

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Montag, Januar 22, 2024

Zones, a global provider of end-to-end IT Solutions, has been positioned by ISG as a ‘Product Challenger’ in Managed Services for Mid-Market in the U.S. in Multi Public Cloud Services 2023.

Key Points: 
  • Zones, a global provider of end-to-end IT Solutions, has been positioned by ISG as a ‘Product Challenger’ in Managed Services for Mid-Market in the U.S. in Multi Public Cloud Services 2023.
  • The ISG report recognized that Zones brings in end-to-end capabilities in Cloud Services, ranging from cloud licensing, cloud advisory, migration and modernization, management and cloud governance.
  • ISG highlighted Zones’ exceptional strengths in four critical areas: Firstly, their automation-enabled services leverage tools like Grafana and Ansible, ensuring heightened efficiency and cost savings throughout the cloud resource lifecycle.
  • Beyond our robust presence in Azure, we're expanding our services across major public cloud platforms like AWS and GCP.

Itential Named a Representative Vendor in the 2023 Gartner® Market Guide for Network Automation Platforms for the Fourth Consecutive Time

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Montag, November 20, 2023

ATLANTA, Nov. 20, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Itential, the leading cloud-based network automation and orchestration platform, today announced it has been named a Representative Vendor in the 2023 Gartner® Market Guide for Network Automation Platforms, for the fourth consecutive time.

Key Points: 
  • ATLANTA, Nov. 20, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Itential , the leading cloud-based network automation and orchestration platform, today announced it has been named a Representative Vendor in the 2023 Gartner® Market Guide for Network Automation Platforms, for the fourth consecutive time.
  • Furthermore, Gartner cites that network automation platforms are well-suited to add value on top of existing point network automation tools by orchestrating end-to-end network workflows across existing automation tools.
  • "The network automation market has recognized the split between automation and orchestration and acknowledges the unique attributes across automation domain's such as Data Center, Cloud, SD-WAN," said Chris Wade, CTO Itential.
  • For Infrastructure and Operations (I&O) leaders to move beyond siloed or tactical network automation implementations, Gartner recommends evaluating network automation platforms that provide the ability to:
    Leverage your existing network automation investments by supporting existing network automation tools already in place (Ansible or Python, for example).

Mythics, LLC. Recognized as Oracle Linux Partner of the Year for 2023

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Donnerstag, November 9, 2023

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va., Nov. 9, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Mythics, LLC has been named the 2023 Oracle Linux and Virtualization North America Partner of the Year.

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  • VIRGINIA BEACH, Va., Nov. 9, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Mythics, LLC has been named the 2023 Oracle Linux and Virtualization North America Partner of the Year.
  • This recognition was apart of the annual Oracle Linux Partner Summit for North America, which aims to acknowledge and honor partners for continued efforts to solve customer's business challenges.
  • Mythics, LLC has been named the 2023 Oracle Linux and Virtualization North America Partner of the Year.
  • "We are thrilled to be recognized as the 2023 Oracle Linux and Virtualization North America Partner of the Year," said Sloan Frey, Senior Vice President of Sales for Mythics.

Red Hat Launches Next Versions of the World’s Leading Enterprise Linux Platform

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Mittwoch, November 8, 2023

Red Hat, Inc., the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the general availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.3 and the forthcoming availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.9.

Key Points: 
  • Red Hat, Inc., the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the general availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.3 and the forthcoming availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.9.
  • As with Red Hat Enterprise Linux releases before them, both Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.3 and 8.9 natively include the capabilities of Podman , a daemonless tool for deploying, running, building and sharing Linux containers.
  • All Red Hat Enterprise Linux subscriptions, including Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.3 and 8.9, include Red Hat Insights , a suite of hosted services that use Red Hat’s decades of experience in developing and managing Linux platforms at scale to proactively detect, analyze and mitigate potential system issues.
  • For users considering a migration to Red Hat Enterprise Linux, the convert2rhel tool now supports additional Red Hat Enterprise Linux-derived distributions, smoothing the transition to the world’s leading enterprise Linux platform.

Grafana Labs Launches Major New Infrastructure and Cost Monitoring Capabilities

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Donnerstag, November 2, 2023

Grafana Labs, the company behind the world’s most ubiquitous, open and composable operational dashboards, today is announcing new Grafana Cloud capabilities designed for Kubernetes platform teams seeking to reduce cloud costs and gain more unified monitoring experiences across their entire cloud native infrastructure.

Key Points: 
  • Grafana Labs, the company behind the world’s most ubiquitous, open and composable operational dashboards, today is announcing new Grafana Cloud capabilities designed for Kubernetes platform teams seeking to reduce cloud costs and gain more unified monitoring experiences across their entire cloud native infrastructure.
  • Grafana Labs engineers Mark Poko and JuanJo Ciarlante will discuss Grafana Labs' journey toward cost observability and lessons learned in optimizing cloud spend.
  • Grafana Cloud has bundled all of these integrations into a single solution themed for various monitoring use cases.
  • You can also learn more about these developments at the following KubeCon talks featuring Grafana Labs engineers.

Red Hat Launches Red Hat Ansible Lightspeed with IBM watsonx Code Assistant for AI-Driven Enterprise IT Automation

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Mittwoch, November 1, 2023

Red Hat, Inc., the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the general availability of Red Hat Ansible Lightspeed with IBM watsonx Code Assistant, a generative AI service to help enterprises accelerate IT automation across an organization.

Key Points: 
  • Red Hat, Inc., the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the general availability of Red Hat Ansible Lightspeed with IBM watsonx Code Assistant, a generative AI service to help enterprises accelerate IT automation across an organization.
  • Ansible Lightspeed with watsonx Code Assistant helps translate existing subject matter expertise into more compliant Ansible automation content and best practices that scale across teams and the enterprise.
  • Red Hat Ansible Lightspeed is now generally available with your Ansible Automation Platform subscription, with IBM watsonx Code Assistant available for purchase separately.
  • During the technical preview for watsonx Code Assistant for Red Hat Ansible Lightspeed, we observed initial build productivity improvements in the range of 20-45%.

IBM Launches watsonx Code Assistant, Delivers Generative AI-powered Code Generation Capabilities Built for Enterprise Application Modernization

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Donnerstag, Oktober 26, 2023

ARMONK, N.Y., Oct. 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Today IBM (NYSE: IBM) launched watsonx Code Assistant, a generative AI-powered assistant that helps enterprise developers and IT operators code more quickly and more accurately using natural language prompts. The product currently delivers on two specific enterprise use cases. First, IT Automation with watsonx Code Assistant for Red Hat Ansible Lightspeed, for tasks such as network configuration and code deployment. Second, mainframe application modernization with watsonx Code Assistant for Z, for translation of COBOL to Java on IBM Z.1

Key Points: 
  • First, IT Automation with watsonx Code Assistant for Red Hat Ansible Lightspeed , for tasks such as network configuration and code deployment.
  • IBM is exploring opportunities to tune watsonx Code Assistant with additional domain-specific generative AI capabilities to assist in code generation, code explanation, and the full end-to-end software development lifecycle to continue to drive enterprise application modernization.
  • Finally, watsonx Code Assistant for Z leverages generative AI to transform individual COBOL business services into object-oriented Java code.
  • IBM Consulting brings deep industry expertise in application modernization, IT automation and generative AI via dedicated Red Hat and watsonx practices that work closely with IBM Research, IBM Technology and Red Hat.

IBM Launches watsonx Code Assistant, Delivers Generative AI-powered Code Generation Capabilities Built for Enterprise Application Modernization

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Donnerstag, Oktober 26, 2023

ARMONK, N.Y., Oct. 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Today IBM (NYSE: IBM) launched watsonx Code Assistant, a generative AI-powered assistant that helps enterprise developers and IT operators code more quickly and more accurately using natural language prompts. The product currently delivers on two specific enterprise use cases. First, IT Automation with watsonx Code Assistant for Red Hat Ansible Lightspeed, for tasks such as network configuration and code deployment. Second, mainframe application modernization with watsonx Code Assistant for Z, for translation of COBOL to Java on IBM Z.1

Key Points: 
  • First, IT Automation with watsonx Code Assistant for Red Hat Ansible Lightspeed , for tasks such as network configuration and code deployment.
  • IBM is exploring opportunities to tune watsonx Code Assistant with additional domain-specific generative AI capabilities to assist in code generation, code explanation, and the full end-to-end software development lifecycle to continue to drive enterprise application modernization.
  • Finally, watsonx Code Assistant for Z leverages generative AI to transform individual COBOL business services into object-oriented Java code.
  • IBM Consulting brings deep industry expertise in application modernization, IT automation and generative AI via dedicated Red Hat and watsonx practices that work closely with IBM Research, IBM Technology and Red Hat.