With the Red Hat Summit a week behind us, we’ve rounded up a few updates to the company. Red Hat, a Linux company, is on its way to becoming a cloud powerhouse. Over 2 decades ago, Red Hat started with a mission to create better open source technology for customers. Red Hat is continuing to prove themselves by constantly improving their technology and services.
Red Hat has just introduced Red Hat Access Insights (RHAI) 6, as well as expansions in Red Hat Cloud Infrastructure, Red Hat CloudForms, and Red Hat Satellite. RHAI is designed to prevent and resolve issues impacting cloud operations. By alerting managers of potential issues ahead of time, users have the ability to prevent huge disasters.
Red Hat also brings two new programs: Red Hat Ceph Storage (RHCS) 1.3 and Red Hat Gluster Storage (RHGS) 3.1. Ceph is ideal for cloud workloads, while Gluster is ideal for large amounts of data and big data analysis. Both programs have been modified to improve speed and increase I/O consistency.
Ceph’s management platform, Calamari, can now support multiple users. RHCS is now equipped with solid state devices and read-ahead caching. Disk fragmentation has also been limited. RHGS can now support erasure-coded dispersed storage volumes and tiers for automated movement of data. This latest version of RHGS does not require RAID to ensure data integrity and can even guard against bit rot, which gradually decays files.
Red Hat has also introduced Red Hat Mobile Backend-as-a-Service (MBaas). Formerly known as FeedHenry, the new application platform allows users to code in any language, present it as you wish, and implement it on any platform.
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