Red Hat and Nutanix in Partnership

• Red Hat OpenShift becomes the preferred enterprise full stack Kubernetes solution on Nutanix Cloud Platform with AHV
• Collaboration enables customers to more easily build, scale and manage containerized and virtualized cloud-native applications

Red Hat, Inc. and Nutanix, Inc. 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 technologies, enabling installation, interoperability and management of Red Hat OpenShift and Red Hat Enterprise Linux with Nutanix Cloud Platform, including Nutanix AOS and AHV.

“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 options will support our goals of being fast, efficient and friction-free as we deliver new experiences to our customers,” said Ritch Houdek, SVP, technology, Kohl’s, Inc.

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 HCI will be able to use an industry cloud platform from Nutanix, which includes both Nutanix AOS and AHV.
• Nutanix Cloud Platform is 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 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. The 2 partners will focus on delivering continuous testing of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat OpenShift with Nutanix AHV to provide interoperability. The companies will also collaborate to deliver more timely support by aligning product roadmaps.
• More support experience providing faster resolution times for joint customers. Customers will be able to contact either company with support issues. The 2 companies are collaborating to deliver a support experience for the interoperability of the certified products.

Because of its distributed architecture, Nutanix Cloud Platform delivers an IT environment that is scalable and resilient, and suited for enterprise deployments of Red Hat OpenShift at scale. The platform also includes an 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, said: “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 VP, IDC, said “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 2 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, SVP technology, Kohl’s, said: “We are thrilled to see 2 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, CTO, Unum Group, said: “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.“

More information on the partnership