Kirsten Newcomer, senior director of hybrid cloud platforms at Red Hat, said partners should see ‘a huge opportunity with OpenShift virtualization,’ especially with continued disappointment over pricing changes at rival VMware.

Updates to Red Hat OpenShift, OpenShift AI, edge devices and Developer Hub should offer partners more ways to do business with customers, executives at the open source tool vendor and IBM subsidiary tell CRN.
Improved capabilities around virtualization in OpenShift, more model training support in OpenShift AI, improved capabilities for lower latency in edge devices, and new artificial intelligence templates in the Developer Hub are some of the biggest news the Raleigh, NC-based vendor announced at the annual KubeCon event. Removed during. , which runs through Friday in Salt Lake City.
In response to a question from CRN during a virtual press conference, Kirsten Newcomer, senior director of hybrid cloud platforms at Red Hat, said partners should see “a huge opportunity with OpenShift virtualization,” especially given continued pricing changes at rival VMware. With disappointment.
He also encouraged partners to move VMware workloads to Red Hat, looking at Red Hat’s migration toolkit and talking to customers about other ways to modernize applications and move them to the cloud through OpenShift or even through OpenShift. Enabled to run apps in on-premises.
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“It’s SI, for consultancy, to help customers with that migration and to help the teams responsible for OpenShift, to help the teams responsible for apps running in VMs, help them adopt this environment, get comfortable with it, get familiar with it.” There is a great opportunity to help. ,” said the newcomer. “It really sets an organization on a path that improves their ability to modernize their applications because they can become familiar with the environment, even if they have yet to move into microservices or other types of more modern applications.” Don’t be prepared for.”
Red Hat among CRN’s 2024 channel heads Said About 80 per cent of total sales come through indirect channels and alliance relationships and it expects to increase the number of channel partners it works with within the next 12 months.
One of the major announcements from Red Hat at KubeCon 2024 was the general availability (GA) of OpenShift 4.17. According to Red Hat, this version improves safe memory oversubscription for virtual machines and gives users a technical preview of storage live migration between devices and classes while the VM is running.
Also in the technology preview is native network isolation for namespaces and a confidential computation verification operator to improve data protection and security.
Red Hat also revealed that its OpenShift Lightspeed AI-powered virtual assistant has been moved to Technology Preview.

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According to the vendor, Red Hat OpenShift AI 2.15 will become generally available later this month.
OpenShift, released last year, supports AI model development, training, service, automation, and other predictive and generative AI use cases. Part of the updates include a technical preview of a model registry to manage versions, metadata and model artifacts, and tools to detect data drift and bias.
According to Red Hat, the new OpenShift AI also supports Nvidia Nimh microservices and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) graphics processing units (GPUs).
Jeff DeMoss, Red Hat’s AI product management director, said on the call that solution providers should see “tremendous opportunities” to develop domain- and industry-specific offerings through OpenShift AI.
“They can leverage their knowledge in a specific domain or industry, and not just for general use cases,” DeMoss said. “They can solve more packaged use cases and patterns that they’re seeing that are unique to specific verticals.”

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Version 4.17 of Red Hat’s Device Edge includes new low latency and near real-time capabilities to appeal to use cases ranging from autonomous vehicles to industrial settings.
In response to a question from CRN during a virtual press conference, Shobhan Lakkapragada, Red Hat’s senior director of product management for Edge, called Edge a “huge opportunity area in which consultants, global systems integrators can play a big role.” Because there’s a lot of industry-specific changes, industry-specific knowledge that our SI partners and MSPs can bring as well.”
“We are very interested in partnering with SIs and advisors to expand into this new market,” Lakkapragada said. “We are relatively new in this area. I would say, a few years. Therefore many end customers in this sector are business-related decision-makers. And they are seeing all the changes happening in the IT world. And that’s what they want to bring to operations technology. This is where SI can play a big role in helping end customers make the transition.”

Red Hat Developer Hub

Red Hat created five new templates focused on common AI use cases available in its Developer Hub offering: audio-to-text, chatbots, code generation, object detection, and retrieval augmented generation (RAG) chatbots.
According to Red Hat, the developer hub, which launched this year, has more than 20,000 developers on the platform.
In response to a question from CRN during a virtual press conference, Balaji Sivasubramanian, Red Hat’s senior director of developer tools, said that the Developer Hub is “a great play for our value-added OR service partners” and “definitely “It’s a great job” opportunity, especially when it comes to driving customer AI adoption and developer productivity.
“Deloitte, they’re actually working on the Developer Hub not only for their internal use case – the internal developers themselves – but they’re also offering solutions based on the Developer Hub to their end customers,” Sivasubramanian said.
The high level of customization of the Developer Hub to internal developer portals within enterprises “creates a tremendous opportunity for these value-added services, SI partners are able to take this and customize it for the customer offering and use case, ” he said. “I see a lot of partners already lining up to take over and market our product.”

neural magic acquisition

During CubeCon, Red Hat also revealed that it has signed a deal to purchase Neural Magic, a Somerville, Mass.-based upstart that provides software and algorithms for generative AI inference workloads.
Part of Red Hat’s attraction to neural magic is the upstart’s leadership in VLLM, which spun out of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2018, an open source project for model serving that supports all major model families and advanced inference acceleration research. Supports.
VLLM also supports AMD GPUs, Amazon Web Services’ Neuron, Google Tensor Processing Units (TPU), Intel Gaudi, Nvidia GPU, x86 Central Processing Units (CPU). And other hardware backends, according to Red Hat.
Although Red Hat did not say when it expected to close the acquisition, the seller expects the partners to benefit.
“Together with Red Hat and Neural Magic, general computing and infrastructure partners powering AI will be able to better scale AI across all platforms and accelerators,” Red Hat said in a statement.
The vendor said that “ISV partners building valuable solutions to help meet today’s unique business challenges will receive stronger estimates and performance to integrate with their offerings” and “OEM partners will have better open source access to GenAI.” Will be able to take advantage of the infrastructure.” ,