Red Hat and Nutanix Announce Strategic Partnership to Deliver Open Hybrid Multicloud Solutions

Red Hat and Nutanix today announced a strategic part­ner­ship to enable a powerful solution for building, scaling and managing cloud-native appli­ca­tions on-premises and in hybrid clouds. The colla­bo­ra­tion brings together industry-leading tech­no­lo­gies, enabling instal­la­tion, inter­o­pe­ra­bi­lity and mana­ge­ment of Red Hat OpenShift and Red Hat Enter­prise Linux with Nutanix Cloud Platform, including Nutanix AOS and AHV.

Key elements of the part­ner­ship include:

• Red Hat OpenShift as the preferred choice for enter­prise full stack Kuber­netes on Nutanix Cloud Platform. Customers looking to run Red Hat Enter­prise Linux and Red Hat OpenShift on hyper­con­verged infra­struc­ture (HCI) will be able to use an industry-leading cloud platform from Nutanix, which includes both Nutanix AOS and AHV.
• Nutanix Cloud Platform is now a preferred choice for HCI for Red Hat Enter­prise Linux and Red Hat OpenShift. This will enable customers to deploy virtu­a­lized and contai­ne­rized workloads on a hyper­con­verged infra­struc­ture, building on the combined benefits of Red Hat’s open hybrid cloud tech­no­lo­gies and Nutanix’s hyper­con­verged offerings.
• Nutanix AHV is now a Red Hat certified hyper­visor enabling full support for Red Hat Enter­prise Linux and OpenShift on Nutanix Cloud Platform. The certi­fi­ca­tion of the Nutanix built-in hyper­visor, AHV, for Red Hat Enter­prise Linux and OpenShift offers enter­prise customers a simpli­fied full stack solution for their contai­ne­rized and virtu­a­lized cloud-native appli­ca­tions. This certi­fi­ca­tion delivers Red Hat customers addi­ti­onal choice in hyper­visor deploy­ments, espe­ci­ally as many orga­ni­za­tions explore inno­va­tive, modern virtu­a­li­za­tion technologies.
• Joint engi­nee­ring roadmap providing robust inter­o­pe­ra­bi­lity. Red Hat and Nutanix will focus on deli­ve­ring conti­nuous testing of Red Hat Enter­prise Linux and Red Hat OpenShift with Nutanix AHV to provide robust inter­o­pe­ra­bi­lity. The companies will also colla­bo­rate to deliver more timely support by aligning product roadmaps.
• More seamless support expe­rience providing faster reso­lu­tion times for joint customers. Customers will be able to contact either company with support issues. The two companies are colla­bo­ra­ting to deliver a best-in-class support expe­rience for the inter­o­pe­ra­bi­lity of the certified products.

Because of its distri­buted archi­tec­ture, Nutanix Cloud Platform delivers an IT envi­ron­ment that is highly scalable and resilient, and well-suited for enter­prise deploy­ments of Red Hat OpenShift at scale. The platform also includes fully inte­grated unified storage, addres­sing many tough chal­lenges operators routinely face in confi­gu­ring and managing storage for stateful containers.

Rajiv Ramaswami, president and CEO, Nutanix, said: “This part­ner­ship brings together Red Hat’s industry-leading cloud native solutions with the simpli­city, flexi­bi­lity and resi­lience of the Nutanix Cloud Platform. Together, our solutions provide customers with a full stack platform to build, scale, and manage contai­ne­rized and virtu­a­lized cloud native appli­ca­tions in a hybrid multi­cloud environment.”

Paul Cormier, president and CEO, Red Hat: “We have a vision to enable open hybrid clouds, where customers have choice and flexi­bi­lity. Our part­ner­ship with Nutanix brings a leading hyper­con­verged offering to the open hybrid cloud, driving greater choice for our joint customers in how they deploy their contai­ne­rized workloads and backed by a joint support experience.”

Eric Sheppard, research vice president, IDC, added: “Orga­ni­za­tions around the world are deploying an incre­a­singly diverse mix of modern and cloud-native workloads. This Red Hat and Nutanix part­ner­ship, and in parti­cular the colla­bo­ra­tive support agreement between the two companies, helps to bring virtu­a­lized appli­ca­tions and Red Hat OpenShift-based contai­ne­rized workloads running on Nutanix’s Cloud Platform together in a way that will benefit exactly these types of orga­ni­za­tions and help to drive increased simpli­city, agility, scala­bi­lity within today’s complex hybrid-cloud world.”

Ritch Houdek, senior vice president, Tech­no­logy, Kohl’s: “We are thrilled to see two of our tech­no­logy partners announce this strategic rela­ti­onship. As we manage the complexi­ties of hybrid cloud, we believe this rela­ti­onship will unlock new hosting and deploy­ment options for VM and container-based workloads. These new options will support our goals of being fast, efficient and friction-free as we deliver new expe­riences to our customers.”

Gautam Roy, chief tech­no­logy officer, Unum: “The insurance industry is in the midst of a trans­for­ma­tion to rapidly adapt to customers’ demands. We protect 39 million lives around the world with our products and services. As we work to modernize our IT infra­struc­ture to support a seamless digital expe­rience for our customers and employees, Nutanix and Red Hat help simplify our tech­no­logy stack and advance our cloud transformation.”