Research Note: Red Hat Releases OpenShift 4.18
Red Hat recently released OpenShift 4.18, bringing enhancements to the solution for networking, virtualization, security, and deployment flexibility.
Research Report: Understanding VMware Alternatives
Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware has left a lasting impact on the enterprise IT landscape. Promising simplification, Broadcom’s licensing and bundling changes have instead created confusion, increased costs, and led to widespread dissatisfaction among VMware customers. Many of these customers are actively exploring alternatives, driven by frustration and the need to future-proof their IT environments. This Research Report takes a look at how to best approach looking for a VMware alternative.
NAND Insider Newsletter: January 21, 2025
Every week NAND Research puts out a newsletter for our industry customers. Below is an excerpt from this week’s.
Research Note: Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization Engine
Red Hat announced the general availability of Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization Engine, a tailored version of its OpenShift orchestration platform for virtualization workloads.
The new offering utilizes the open-source KVM hypervisor and can run on-premises hardware with Red Hat Enterprise Linux and bare-metal cloud services.
IT Infrastructure Round-Up: Emerging Trends in Infrastructure and Connectivity (Nov 2024)
November was a busy month of announcements in infrastructure and connectivity, revealing a convergence of innovation to meet the stringent demands of AI-driven workloads, scalability, and cost efficiency.
Research Note: Red Hat Acquires Neural Magic
Red Hat announced a definitive agreement to acquire Neural Magic, an AI company specializing in software solutions to optimize generative AI inference workloads. The acquisition supports Red Hat’s strategy of advancing open-source AI technologies deployed across various environments within hybrid cloud infrastructures.
Research Note: Dell and Red Hat Collaboration on APEX/OpenShift
Dell Technologies and Red Hat announced a deepening of their partnership. The companies will focus on the convergence of virtualization, containerization, and AI to simplify enterprise IT operations.
The collaboration integrates Red Hat’s OpenShift container orchestration platform into Dell’s APEX Cloud Platform, enabling virtual machines (VMs) and containerized applications to coexist within the same architecture.
Research Note: Red Hat Summit 2024 AI Announcements
At its recent Red Hat Summit, Red Hat announced several new products and enhancements, many of which simplify or enable the use of AI within the enterprise. These include its new OpenShift AI, OpenShift LightSpeed enhancements, and a new RHEL AI release.
Research Note: IBM InstructLab LLM Tool Kit
At IBM’s 2024 Think conference in Boston, IBM Research unveiled InstructLab, developed in collaboration with Red Hat, to address the inefficiencies of existing training approaches by enabling collaborative, cost-effective model customization.
Quick Take: 2024 Red Hat Summit Wrap-Up
Red Hat held its annual Red Hat in Denver, Colorado, showcasing significant innovations in AI and policy automation, reinforcing Red Hat’s commitment to advancing AI applications within the enterprise sector. Key highlights included the introduction of “Policy as Code” in the Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, expansions in the Red Hat Lightspeed portfolio to incorporate […]
Research Note: NEC & Partners Demonstrate Breakthrough in Open vRAN Technology
NEC Corporation, along with Arm, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., Red Hat, and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) recently showcased a successful demonstration of Open Virtual Radio Access Network (vRAN) and 5G Core Virtual User Plane Function (vUPF) technology in Tokyo.