Make RHEL your Hybrid

Cloud Equalizer
Red Hat Enterprise Linux, A consistent foundation
for hybrid and multicloud

Nate Lager
Sr. Technical Marketing
Manager, RHCE

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63%
of organizations now run more
than 25% of their workloads
in public cloud environments.1

Source: Flexera. “Flexera 2022 State of the Cloud Report,” March 2022.
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Move workload from

datacenter to public cloud

Actions taken
According to a recent survey of more than past 12 months

1,200 IT professionals, across all major Actions expected in

two years

industries spanning all major geographic

areas, the majority of respondents (58%)
Deploy net new for
have a hybrid cloud strategy, with active the public cloud

integration and migration. Actions taken

past 12 months

Actions expected in
two years

Source:Red Hat ebook. “State of Linux in the public cloud,” August 2022.
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40% of respondents selected "standardizing

on an operating system" as the preferred
approach to migrate workloads

The most popular action respondents took to ensure

a smoother migration to cloud was to standardize on
Linux for both on-premises and cloud deployments.

Source: Flexera. “Flexera 2022 State of the Cloud Report,” March 2022.
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Benefits of moving to the cloud

Unify your datacenter and cloud environments

Increase flexibility and scalability

Improve performance

Streamline operations and management

Optimize costs with convenient purchasing options

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However…adding cloud platforms create complexity

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Hybrid and multicloud challenges

Access
Features, capabilities, and access to applications are inconsistent
or unavailable across clouds and services.

Compliance and Security

Cloud compliance and security authorizations
differ across cloud providers.

Data control
Many cloud providers offer bulk data migration for import, but
few have options for export, contributing to vendor lock-in.

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Simplify the complexity with a consistent platform

Red Hat Enterprise Linux is trusted by 95% of enterprise companies

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Simplify the complexity at the edge with a consistent platform

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Red Hat Enterprise Linux

A flexible foundation for your hybrid cloud and multicloud strategy

Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® provides a flexible and stable foundation to support hybrid
cloud innovation. Deploy applications and critical workloads faster with a consistent
experience across physical, virtual, private and public cloud, and edge deployments.

Innovate Optimize
Innovating against friction Navigating infrastructure complexity

Protect Trust
Mitigating risk across the Ensuring long-term success
hybrid cloud

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Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the cloud

Benefits

The Red Hat Enterprise Linux cloud experience delivers the same
superior security, performance, scalability, manageability, and
reliability that our customers have come to expect. It empowers
organizations to retain skills, standards, processes, best practices,
and management tools.

▸ Standardize across all footprints and avoid lock-in

▸ Increase agility and reduce time to market

▸ Enable management, monitoring, and automation

across environments with Red Hat Insights

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 Red Hat image builder

Introducing: Red Hat Enterprise Linux

image builder

● Quickly create consistent, customized gold images

● Suitable for most hybrid-cloud environments
● Simple integration into deployment workflows
● Used to build Red Hat provided cloud images
● Automatically push images to your favorite cloud

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 Tools provided by Red Hat

Image builder
Image builder comes in two flavors

Hosted image builder Image builder

The power of image builder, wrapped up Image builder on your infrastructure,
in a UI and hosted by Red Hat. anywhere you run RHEL.

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 How does image builder work?

Steps for using image builder

1. Choose 3. Create 5. Deploy

platform blueprint instance
Physical, private cloud, Define and customize Push image to the cloud provider
public cloud, or edge the image of your choice or download to your
datacenter

2. Select 4. Build
image builder tool the image
Red Hat Insights Image builder Create a variety of images
console.redhat.com including Red Hat OpenStack,
Image builder Amazon Web Services, VMware,
On-premises private build and Microsoft Azure, and more

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What is Red Hat Insights?

Helping you better manage your hybrid cloud environments

Predicting risks

Recommending actions

Analyzing costs

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Why use Red Hat Insights with Red Hat Enterprise Linux?
Easily and quickly ensure proper system configuration across on-site and cloud environments

Protect your systems Reduce downtime

Find and remediate security Find and address availability risks
vulnerabilities before a breach occurs. before they cause downtime.

Comply with regulations Optimize your costs

Maintain compliance with policies and Track subscription use and right-size
easily generate audit reports. public cloud resources.

Maximize performance
Red Hat Insights is included with all active
Optimize system configurations based
on workload and context. Red Hat Enterprise Linux subscriptions.

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Red Hat Insights for Red Hat Enterprise Linux

What’s New Highlights - Summit 2023

Standardizing on custom image builds

▸ Insights Image Builder
･ Quickly build a standard operating environment
▸ Support for third party repositories
･ Easily add third party packages
▸ Cloud deployment of images
･ Deploy direct to the cloud

Active Management for RHEL

▸ Patch templates
▸ Remediation capabilities now included with all RHEL
subscriptions - no Satellite required.
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Simplify your cloud journey with Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
in the hybrid cloud Red Hat Enterprise Linux: An ideal operating system for the cloud

Hybrid cloud with Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Red Hat Enterprise Linux cloud experience overview video

Red Hat Enterprise Linux product page

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