Red Hat, Intel Ally For Open Source Big Data Innovations

Red Hat has announced its intention to team up with Intel for open source Big Data innovations.

Commenting on this, Ranga Rangachari, Vice President and General Manager, Red Hat Storage, said, “A significant component to the Big Data and open hybrid cloud direction Red Hat announced on Feb 20 is our collaboration with leading Big Data software and hardware providers to offer enterprise features and interoperability. The intended result of this community-driven innovation will be a set of co-developed reference architectures that provide enterprise customers with comprehensive big data solutions. In a press release from Intel, announcing Intel Distribution for Apache Hadoop software (Intel Distribution), Red Hat has extended its strategic collaboration with Intel to jointly innovate and develop enterprise Big Data solutions through the open source community.”

He added, “As the first step in its Big Data collaboration, Red Hat plans to build solutions using Intel Distribution integrated with Red Hat solutions, such as Red Hat Storage Server 2.0 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Big Data solutions resulting from the expanded Red Hat and Intel alliance will be designed to meet enterprise expectations for availability, performance, and compatibility.”

Rangachari said, “Our goal is to evolve the Red Hat product portfolio, including Red Hat JBoss Middleware and Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, toward the open hybrid cloud model our enterprise Big Data customers desire, which includes working closely with partners such as Intel.”