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TECHx
4 days ago
- Business
- TECHx
GBM Joins Red Hat Partner Practice Accelerator
Home » Emerging technologies » Cloud Computing » GBM Joins Red Hat Partner Practice Accelerator Gulf Business Machines (GBM), an end-to-end digital solutions provider, has announced its participation in the Red Hat Partner Practice Accelerator. GBM is the first company in the MEA and GCC region to join this global initiative, which focuses on application development. Red Hat's Partner Practice Accelerator recognizes partners that demonstrate advanced technical expertise, service delivery excellence, and hold Red Hat certifications. GBM qualified by meeting rigorous training and validation standards. With this recognition, GBM is now positioned as a trusted expert in application modernization using Red Hat OpenShift. This hybrid cloud application platform, powered by Kubernetes, enables GBM to design, implement, and configure enterprise-grade solutions tailored to customers' needs. Additionally, GBM gains access to enhanced Red Hat resources and co-delivery opportunities. These include full lifecycle implementation services from design to deployment and scalable, future-ready cloud solutions aligned with business goals. GBM is the first in MEA/GCC to join the Red Hat initiative. The partnership strengthens GBM's hybrid cloud and Kubernetes expertise. Customers benefit from GBM's certified services and global delivery model. This milestone reinforces GBM's commitment to innovation, operational excellence, and customer success through Red Hat technologies. Red Hat Partner Practice Accelerator is part of Red Hat's global engagement model designed to drive co-creation and hybrid cloud advancement.
Yahoo
30-04-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
BNP Paribas extends alliance with IBM Cloud
BNP Paribas has renewed its partnership with IBM Cloud, extending their collaboration for an additional ten years. This agreement aims to accelerate the bank's cloud-native strategy and support the advancement of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI). The partnership is part of BNP Paribas' technology investment and multicloud strategy. Since 2019, BNP Paribas has hosted IBM Cloud within its data centres, a move that has contributed to the establishment of a technological infrastructure essential for the bank's digital transformation. As part of the renewed agreement, BNP Paribas plans to allocate a new area in its data centres for IBM Cloud, with completion expected by 2028. This investment is intended to bolster the bank's resilience and ensure the continuity of critical banking services, such as payments, while safeguarding customer data and the integrity of the bank's information systems. The renewed partnership will enable BNP Paribas to enhance its capabilities by utilising GPUs on IBM Cloud, integrated with the bank's existing cloud infrastructure. This integration is designed to support various business units in exploring and implementing generative AI applications. BNP Paribas chief information officer Marc Camus said: 'By combining GPUs as a service, a dedicated, state-of-the-art environment within our data centers, and a cloud-native infrastructure, we are strengthening our technological foundation, as well as the security and the compliance of our information systems.' Furthermore, BNP Paribas is advancing its application modernisation efforts through a cloud-native approach, utilising containers via Red Hat OpenShift, IBM's Kubernetes container management platform. This strategy aims to facilitate the development of modular, scalable, and portable applications, thereby increasing flexibility and responsiveness in managing banking services, particularly in the realm of payment systems. The initiative aligns with the European DORA (Digital Operational Resilience Act) regulation, which aims to enhance the operational resilience of financial institutions, particularly in business continuity and IT risk management. IBM Cloud general manager Alan Peacock said: 'For decades, IBM and BNP Paribas have worked together to build the banking infrastructure of the future, underpinned by the necessary resilience.' In July 2024, BNP Paribas and Ant International partnered to improve cross-border payment solutions for European merchants and consumers. "BNP Paribas extends alliance with IBM Cloud" was originally created and published by Retail Banker International, a GlobalData owned brand. The information on this site has been included in good faith for general informational purposes only. It is not intended to amount to advice on which you should rely, and we give no representation, warranty or guarantee, whether express or implied as to its accuracy or completeness. You must obtain professional or specialist advice before taking, or refraining from, any action on the basis of the content on our site. Sign in to access your portfolio
Mid East Info
06-03-2025
- Business
- Mid East Info
Red Hat Enhances Security and Virtualization Experience with Latest Version of Red Hat OpenShift - Middle East Business News and Information
New features increase security, flexibility and simplify operations across both virtual machines and containers. Red Hat, Inc., the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the general availability of Red Hat OpenShift 4.18, the latest version of the industry's leading hybrid cloud application platform powered by Kubernetes. Red Hat OpenShift 4.18 introduces new features and capabilities designed to streamline operations and security across IT environments and deliver greater consistency to all applications, from cloud-native and AI-enabled to virtualized and traditional. According to the Gartner® press release Top Trends Impacting Infrastructure and Operations for 2025, revirtualization/devirtualization is one of the top trends facing organizations for 2025. As shifts in the virtualization market require organizations to reevaluate their virtualized infrastructure and strategies, for many it is an opportunity to implement technologies that will both deliver on their current IT requirements as well as help them meet the needs of tomorrow. The latest enhancements to Red Hat OpenShift are designed to simplify the management of virtual machines and containers while providing organizations with a common infrastructure to bring their generative AI (gen AI) plans to life. Enhanced virtualization experience: Red Hat OpenShift 4.18 introduces new virtualization enhancements that improve networking, simplify storage migration, and streamline VM management. These updates reduce operational complexity, enhance flexibility and improve resource efficiency — making it easier to manage and adapt virtualized environments as needs evolve. VM-friendly networking provides support for common VM networking use cases with the general availability of user-defined networks, making it easier for users to get their virtualization platform up and running. Also available with OpenShift on AWS and Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS, this allows users to have similar networking capabilities for secondary networks on AWS as they do on-premises, allowing for more hybrid cloud flexibility. VM storage migration, available as a technology preview, now includes additional enhancements that allow for non-disruptive movement of data between storage devices and storage classes while a VM is running, enabling users to be more agile as storage needs change. Tree-view navigation, available as a technology preview, enables users to logically group VMs into folders which allows for a more granular grouping. Additionally, with logical grouping, also available as a technology preview, users have a quicker and easier way to navigate between VMs using a single click. Red Hat OpenShift 4.18 also enhances user-defined networks with Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), which improves segmentation and supports advanced use cases like VM static IP assignment, live migration and stronger multi-tenancy. Extending choice for greater hybrid cloud innovation: Red Hat OpenShift 4.18 expands support to additional public cloud providers, providing users with increased flexibility for how and where they choose to run their workloads. Red Hat OpenShift now supports bare-metal deployments on Google Cloud and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Additionally, for users looking for virtualization in the public cloud, Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization is now available on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure as a technology preview. Simplified operations for security: Red Hat OpenShift 4.18 introduces new security features designed to help drive more resilient operations while decreasing potential risks. Secret store container storage interface (CSI) driver is now generally available and provide:s users with a vendor-agnostic solution for managing credentials and sensitive information for applications. Workloads on Red Hat OpenShift can access external secrets managers without storing secrets on the cluster, enhancing overall security hygiene and simplifying credential management. This allows for clusters to remain unaware of secrets, thereby further reducing risk. Additionally, Secret Store CSI Driver enhances complementary solutions, such as OpenShift GitOps and OpenShift Pipelines, by enabling them to consume secrets from an external secrets manager in a more secure way. Availability: Red Hat OpenShift 4.18 is now generally available. More information, including how to upgrade to the latest version, is available here. Supporting Quotes: Mike Barrett, vice president and general manager, Hybrid Cloud Platforms, Red Hat 'Many organizations have reached an inflection point with their virtualized infrastructure, needing to make decisions quickly on their future direction. Red Hat OpenShift meets today's virtualization needs and offers a simplified pathway to migration, but also enables organizations to keep an eye on the future via application modernization. With Red Hat OpenShift, organizations are able to protect their traditional investments while adopting a platformthat enables them to seamlessly transition to an AI future.' 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