Red Hat and Oracle extend collaboration to accelerate hybrid cloud transformation

With an eye on removing barriers to hybrid cloud adoption, Red Hat and Oracle have just 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 for more deployment options in the cloud Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), including government, sovereign and distributed cloud services.

According to Gartner, organizations' “90% will adopt a hybrid cloud approach by 2027, and GenAI's most urgent challenge next year will be data synchronization across the entire hybrid cloud environment”. This makes the continued availability of critical software in hybrid cloud environments a priority need. Red Hat and Oracle are proactively meeting this demand by strengthening the support and validation of core technologies that will enable IT teams to act effectively in both the present and an AI-driven future.

Red Hat hybrid cloud enhancements for OCI

Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat OpenShift at OCI now offer a wide range of validated configurations.This extends its reach to even the most sensitive and regulated computing environments, including high-security government clouds and sovereign deployments that follow 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.

In addition, OCI customers can now utilize Red Hat Enterprise Linux in both OCI Dedicated Region Cloud and Oracle Alloy environments. Both environments offer more than 200 OCI cloud and AI services directly in customer data centers.With Oracle Alloy, customers can also become cloud providers by reselling OCI services to their own end users.

In addition, 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 training and inference of high-performance models 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 operate seamlessly in Red Hat OpenShift containers.This commitment offers a premium experience with joint support, enabling 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.

In addition, the recently validated Oracle Cloud Scale Monetization portfolio in Red Hat OpenShift provides a significant advantage for communication service providers (CSPs). By deploying this pre-integrated billing and revenue management portfolio in OpenShift, CSPs have greater infrastructure flexibility for unified and comprehensive business support systems.

Red Hat and Oracle Database: continuous collaboration

Oracle Database, including Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC), remains certified to operate on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Additionally, Red Hat has initiated 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 commonly used configurations in on-premises environments and provide guidance on how to deploy Oracle Database, including Oracle RAC when applicable, on OpenShift Virtualization.