Friday Five — September 25, 2020

IN THE NEWS:

Red Hat Advances Cloud-Native Analytics with New Kubernetes-Based Data Services

With the release of Red Hat OpenShift Container Storage 4.5, Red Hat is delivering Kubernetes-based data services for modern, cloud-native applications across the open hybrid cloud. Tightly integrated with Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, the industry’s leading enterprise Kubernetes platform, Red Hat OpenShift Container Storage 4.5 is designed to help organizations enable a more seamless data services architecture for applications.

 

CUSTOMER SUCCESS:

Poste Italiane Speeds Up Cloud-Native Application Development by 80% Using Red Hat’s Open Hybrid Cloud Technologies

Poste Italiane Group is building an innovation platform based on Red Hat’s open hybrid cloud portfolio, including Red Hat OpenShift. The platform is intended to support more and deeper connections with ecosystem partners, provide a more seamless customer experience to the Group’s 35 million customers along with access to an extensive, timely product and services portfolio, and support Italy’s growing digital economy.

 

NEW ON THE BLOG:

Red Hat brings its expo experience directly to you

We know that our users and customers are looking for more information about enterprise open source technologies and how to use them for real-world workloads. Delivering that information in person is one of the highlights of being at Red Hat—but now, we embraced the opportunity to reach the open source community from all over the world through a first-of-its-kind online experience.

CHECK IT OUT:

The Edge Markets - Red Hat OpenShift named as most widely deployed multicloud container platform

Red Hat OpenShift has been named as the most widely deployed multicloud container platform, boosting powerful development and unified operations experiences across many public and on-premises platforms. OpenShift received the highest scores among evaluated products, with the maximum possible score in both the strategy and market presence categories.

GOOD READ:

Ceph scales to 10 billion objects

Ceph, the open source integrated file, block and object storage software, can support one billion objects. But can it scale to 10 billion objects and deliver good and predictable performance? Yes, according to Russ Fellows and Mohammad Rabin of the Evaluator Group who set up a Ceph cluster lab and, by using a huge metadata cache, scaled from zero to 10 billion 64KB objects.