Red Hat Shares ― (More) hybrid cloud

Like other industry experts, we believe hybrid cloud is the future of IT. Why?

Digital transformation.

Some say this phrase is a buzzword, but whatever you call it, it’s the future of business, and open hybrid cloud is the best way to prepare.

We help a lot of organizations deploy open hybrid cloud environments. (Not to boast, but recent research* shows Red Hat^® customers are further along in hybrid cloud adoption than the general market.) To help others by sharing what we know, we’ll continue offering hybrid cloud advice, insights, and more in Red Hat Shares―starting with Irshad Raihan’s blog post:

THE WHY, WHAT, & HOW OF OPEN HYBRID CLOUD

*Red Hat customers are more likely to be beyond the hybrid cloud adoption planning stage (55%) than the general market (43%). Source: Cloud Technology Research, May 2018. Red Hat and Qualtrics.

We commissioned Forrester Consulting to evaluate cloud migration strategies. Red Hat’s Gordon Haff summarizes part of the research findings.

Money talks

We surveyed 1,000+ IT professionals familiar with cloud technologies at their organizations.

• 23% said agility is the most desired outcome from adopting hybrid cloud.
• 93% said performance is very or extremely important for a hybrid cloud vendor.
• 31% of those who manage multiple cloud environments said they manage each individually using separate tools.

Source: Cloud Technology Research, May 2018. Red Hat and Qualtrics.

• Hybrid cloud security: 5 key strategies
• How to find the right home for a hybrid cloud workload: 5 security questions
• Hybrid cloud security: Emerging lessons

To help airlines avoid delays and cancellations, Lufthansa Technik built a digital platform, AVIATAR, on a hybrid cloud infrastructure based on enterprise open source software. See why the company expects this solution to improve the travel experience for passengers and save millions of euros per airline.

First-class efficiency upgrade

If you missed these breakout sessions, the video recordings are worth watching.

• 3 pitfalls everyone should avoid with hybrid multicloud (38:35)
• Automating security and compliance for hybrid environments (49:47)
• Istio: Solving challenges of hybrid cloud (43:30)

• Red Hat Virtualization 4.2
• Red Hat OpenStack^® Platform 13
• Red Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure for Cloud
• Red Hat Process Automation Manager 7
• Red Hat Fuse 7 and Red Hat Fuse Online
• Red Hat Ansible^® Engine 2.6
• Red Hat OpenShift^® Container Platform 3.10

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