Federal agencies are deepening their adoption of cloud technologies—especially open hybrid cloud—to deliver software, infrastructure, and applications. Red Hat experts outlined 8 best practices for cloud adoption.
In this executive brief, learn why federal agencies increasingly view open hybrid cloud platforms, such as Red Hat® Cloud Infrastructure, as effective tools to modernize IT and adopt agile development approaches.
Ansible by Red Hat® can help organizations achieve an effective approach to business automation, but the path to DevOps can be long and complex. Outdated habits must be replaced with more efficient practices, but new tools and processes require buy-in from various stakeholders across the organization. Additionally, groups must be taught the specific best practices for their work. Red Hat Consulting helps customers successfully adopt and integrate Ansible to create and sustain standardized, centralized automation practices that add business and market value and build a solid foundation for DevOps.
Red Hat Open Innovation Labs is an immersive residency that arms customers with the skills, tools, and process to deliver better software, more quickly, to meet the mandates of today’s market.
Whether it’s co-creating a disruptive product, catalyzing cultural transformation in the enterprise, or discovering what’s possible with a suite of proven and open tools and methods — Open Innovation Labs is designed to accelerate organizations’ most innovative ideas
One thing is clear when you look back at the past decades of IT and software engineering: everything changes. Periods of gradual improvement in hardware, language, infrastructure, and methodology are punctuated by paradigm-shifting innovation.
This evolution has allowed IT to stay ahead of ever-changing business demands, but it has not been easy or cheap. Many IT budgets are consumed by maintaining the old stuff and staying current with upgrades and migrations can deplete funding and resources before business benefits are realized. With the right approach, it is possible to modernize a portfolio of applications in a way that yields value quicker and at lower cost — making it easier and less expensive to stay current as products and technologies continue to evolve.
In this whitepaper, Red Hat takes a look at three specific software development patterns to modernize existing applications. These modernization patterns address transitioning existing applications to more modern architectures and infrastructure and making them accessible to new applications. This paper also examines the conditions that lead to rewriting when that is the only option. These patterns help enterprises figure out how to get the most out of existing applications and establish a practice for continuous modernization that will serve the business now and in the future.
Businesses are increasingly interested in the value of container adoption. In the next two years, over 90% of organizations will make new investments in containers and other emerging technologies that facilitate DevOps. Seventy-one percent of organizations anticipate using containers for cloud applications or are already using them.
These figures can be attributed to the results organizations are already achieving with containers: nearly three quarters of businesses who use them report that they can now ship new software up to 10% faster.
In many leading companies, IT must provide tools to help the business respond to competition, comply with industry regulations, and engage customers. IT is expected to provide solutions that are high quality, flexible enough for rapid, frequent change, and available at predictable preferably low cost.
Custom software development and business automation are two ways to give business stakeholders the solutions they want, when they want them. But the two approaches have different benefits and drawbacks. Software development is an engineering discipline with rigorous, but historically slow, processes. Business automation reduces time to market by letting nontechnical stakeholders codify business logic, resulting in increased risk.
Advances in software development infrastructure and approaches provide the tools and opportunity to modernize business automation. A design approach that applies best practices from modern software development to business automation can help organizations take advantage of this opportunity by adding rigorous engineering practices while eliminating additional risk. Using this approach to business automation, businesses can engage subject matter experts to codify business logic in a way that ensures the higher quality, faster time to market, and lower, predictable cost associated with modern software development.
Linux containers are on course to change DevOps forever. Container technology will also impact how we think about persistent storage for applications and microservices.
In turn, software-defined storage will impact how storage is dynamically provisioned and managed for containerized applications. Using close integration with orchestration frameworks, such as Kubernetes and private Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) such as OpenShift, Red Hat® Storage extends the current limit of performance by providing seamless, enterprise-grade storage for critical applications in containers.
Watch this video to learn about the future of storage in a container-driven datacenter.
Learn why choosing a dynamic storage foundation for OpenStack® is important. The current plight of the storage professional and the push towards robust cloud environments and software-defined datacenters invites a new type of storage—software-defined storage, the kind delivered by Red Hat.
This 451 Research report explains the forces driving enterprise storage, today's user pain points, the disruption on traditional storage by these factors, and how a more modern storage approach is required by cloud and the OpenStack Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) framework.
In its first-ever Magic Quadrant for Distributed File Systems and Object Storage, Gartner places Red Hat storage solutions in the Visionary quadrant. Download this complimentary report to:
Government agencies want to migrate and modernize their applications. This might be as straight forward as migrating from a proprietary application server to an open source Java™ application server, or the modernization of a monolith application into a more modular microservice-driven application. Choosing the right infrastructure to host these migrated or modernized applications is a looming question for clients.
Join this webinar as Red Hat discusses pathways to:
Speakers:
Zohaib Khan, app migration practice lead and PaaS Community of Practice manager, Red Hat
Jason Corey, middleware sales manager, Public Sector, Red Hat