Focused on eliminating barriers to hybrid cloud adoption, Red Hat and Oracle have recently expanded their strategic alliance. This new joint effort provides a more consistent cloud-native foundation, essential for next-generation workloads, including artificial intelligence (AI), by bringing support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat OpenShift to more deployment options in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), including governmental, sovereign, and distributed cloud services.
According to Gartner, “90% of organizations will adopt a hybrid cloud approach by 2027, and the most urgent GenAI challenge to be addressed next year will be data synchronization across the hybrid cloud environment.” This makes the continuous availability of critical software in hybrid cloud environments a top priority. Red Hat and Oracle are proactively meeting this demand by strengthening support and validation for foundational technologies that will enable IT teams to operate effectively both now and in an AI-driven future.
Red Hat’s hybrid cloud enhancements for OCI
Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat OpenShift on OCI now offer a wide range of validated configurations. This extends their reach even to the most sensitive and regulated computing environments, including high-security government clouds and sovereign deployments following specific regional mandates.
Red Hat OpenShift is now certified to run on OCI Roving Edge Infrastructure, Oracle Compute Cloud@Customer, and Oracle Private Cloud Appliance.
Additionally, OCI customers can now use Red Hat Enterprise Linux in both OCI Dedicated Region Cloud and Oracle Alloy environments. Both environments offer OCI’s 200+ cloud and AI services directly in customers’ data centers. With Oracle Alloy, customers can also become cloud providers by reselling OCI services to their own end users.
Furthermore, Red Hat OpenShift now supports OCI Compute bare metal instances with NVIDIA A100 GPUs and OCI Compute bare metal instances with NVIDIA H100 GPUs. This support expands the options available to organizations building and scaling AI-powered applications, enabling high-performance model training and inference for demanding AI/ML workloads.
Oracle software: now validated for Red Hat OpenShift
Oracle is actively validating key applications and software, such as Oracle WebLogic Server, to run seamlessly in Red Hat OpenShift containers. This commitment delivers a premium experience with joint support, allowing users to leverage the full potential of Oracle software with the flexibility, scalability, and power of Red Hat OpenShift, whether on-premises or in the cloud.
Additionally, the newly validated Oracle Cloud Scale Monetization portfolio on Red Hat OpenShift offers a significant advantage to communication service providers (CSPs). By deploying this pre-integrated billing and revenue management portfolio on OpenShift, CSPs gain greater infrastructure flexibility for unified and comprehensive business support systems.
Red Hat and Oracle Database: ongoing collaboration
Oracle Database, including Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC), remains certified to run on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Additionally, Red Hat has begun a validation effort for Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization to better support Oracle Database customers on this evolving platform. As part of this initiative, Red Hat will review supported and most-used configurations in on-premises environments and provide guidance on deploying Oracle Database, including Oracle RAC where applicable, on OpenShift Virtualization.
