Looking to eliminate barriers to hybrid cloud adoption, Red Hat and Oracle have just expanded their strategic alliance. This new joint effort provides a more consistent native cloud 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 onOracle Cloud Infrastructure(OCI), including government, sovereign, and distributed cloud services.
According to Gartner, "90% of organizations will adopt a hybrid cloud approach by 2027, and the most urgent challenge for GenAI to address in the coming 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 addressing this demand by strengthening support and validation of key technologies that will enable IT teams to operate effectively both now and in an AI-driven future.
Red Hat hybrid cloud enhancements for OCI
Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat OpenShift on OCI now offer a wide range of validated configurations. It extends your reach even to 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.
Additionally, OCI customers can now use Red Hat Enterprise Linux both in OCI Dedicated Region Cloud environments and in Oracle Alloy. Both environments offer OCI's over 200 cloud and AI services directly in the clients' data centers. With Oracle Alloy, customers can also become cloud providers by reselling OCI services to their own end users.
Additionally, 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 available options for organizations that create and scale applications with AI technology, 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 applications and key software, such as Oracle WebLogic Server, to operate seamlessly in Red Hat OpenShift containers. This commitment offers 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.
Furthermore, the recently validated Oracle Cloud Scale Monetization portfolio on Red Hat OpenShift offers a significant advantage for communication service providers (CSPs). By deploying this pre-integrated billing and revenue management portfolio on OpenShift, CSPs have greater infrastructure flexibility for unified and comprehensive business support systems.
Red Hat and Oracle Database: ongoing collaboration
The 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 in order 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.
