On the first day of the Red Hat Summit, Linux vendor Red Hat makes some incremental container announcements and belittles its competitors.
When Docker got started back in 2013, Red Hat was the first major vendor to embrace the new container approach. Now three years later, Docker containers are poised to revolutionize enterprise IT, and at the Red Hat Summit in San Francisco, Red Hat is emphasizing that it has built out an entire portfolio of products to enable the container revolution.
In a press conference at the Red Hat Summit, Paul Cormier, president of Products and Technologies at Red Hat, declared that his company is now expanding its enterprise container offerings. “We’re building on what we’ve already built with Red Hat Enterprise Linux [RHEL] into our RHEL containers,” Cormier said. “Container technology has been around for a long time, but why the time has now come is because of hybrid cloud.”