Red Hat will sell Microsoft Business Solutions in Azure platform.

Once upon a time, Microsoft and Red Hat are rivals, but in the 4th was jointly announced the establishment of a partnership, now has been able to choose a commercial solution for Red Hat in the Azure platform, while the two sides will work together to provide customers with Red Hat's technical support to encouraging more business customers to switch to the cloud platform.

Microsoft will become the Red Hat authorized reseller partners

Microsoft and Red Hat announced on the 4th on the official blog partnership, effective immediately, has been able to select Red Hat's business solutions on Microsoft Azure platform, by both parties as well as provide technical support.

Attend Tim Yeaton, senior vice president of Red Hat Forum 2015, held on the 5th Red Hat to Unwire.pro representation in Hong Kong, Red Hat emphasizes "Open", and therefore does not exclude cooperation with Microsoft. Red Hat has been cooperation with Amazon and Google, is second with Microsoft's cooperation will be expanded ecosystem of Red Hat's Openstack further promote open IT architecture.

Microsoft Azure platform impressive achievements in recent years, cloud services have increased significantly, according to Microsoft's official blog said that eighty percent of global Fortune 500 companies have adopted the platform, through collaboration with Red Hat will help encourage more business customers, according to their own circumstances to migrate to the cloud.

Once upon a time, Microsoft is quite hostile to Red Hat and Linux ecosystem, former Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer even "cancer" to describe the phenomenon of erosion Windows platform Linux market, but since taking office Satya Nadella has completely changed the style, and even publicly declared: "Microsoft I love Linux ". This partnership is further practice of Microsoft's commitment to Linux open.

Cloud platform sales in line with future trends.

Tim Yeaton said that modern IT infrastructure has become increasingly rely on the cloud, through its rapid establishment features to promote business innovation. He refers to the present, about three percent of corporate data has been the center of the cloud, virtualization, see the future there will be more companies will develop in this direction, so Red Hat also must develop in this direction.

Because of the cloud trend, companies get the channel program from the traditional sales channels to the cloud, and Red Hat is currently no public cloud services, through Azure and AWS platform marketing programs have become more reasonable. Tim Yeaton think cooperation will allow more corporate customers trust Red Hat's open ecosystem.