Today, Red Hat announced a partnership with Google that allows Red Hat customers to transfer Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) licenses from on-premise workloads to Google’s cloud platform. The partnership builds upon Google’s acceptance into the Red Hat Certified Cloud Provider program in November 2013 whereby Google, like other Red Hat Certified Cloud Providers, was certified by Red Hat as “a trusted destination for Red Hat customers, independent software vendors (ISVs), and partners to use Red Hat technologies on public clouds.” Red Hat has certified 29 Red Hat Certified Cloud Providers including the likes of Amazon Web Services, Autonomic Resources, IBM, Savvis, Tier 3, Verizon Terremark and Virtustream in addition to Google, to date. With today’s news, however, Google becomes only the second Red Hat Certified Cloud Provider to enjoy the Red Hat Cloud Access-enabled partner designation alongside Amazon Web Services. Red Hat Cloud Access-enabled partners such as Google can offer their customers a “bring your own subscription” (BYOS) model that enables them to transfer RHEL subscriptions from on-premise environments to Google’s Compute Engine platform. The announcement of Google’s graduation to the status of Red Hat Cloud Access-enabled partner represents a huge coup for Google Compute Engine (GCE), which recently slashed prices and announced product enhancements that elicited a corresponding price cut from Amazon Web Services, within days. GCE customers now have enhanced flexibility with the deployment of their RHEL licenses in relation to on-premise and public cloud deployments and can more easily create hybrid cloud infrastructures. More importantly, today’s announcement is likely to accelerate public cloud adoption amongst enterprises by transforming the economics of porting RHEL licenses from on-premise to public cloud environments such as Google Compute Engine.
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Red Hat and 10gen Partner To Enhance Security and Identity Management Of MongoDB
10gen and Red Hat recently announced that the centralized identity management features of Red Hat Enterprise Linux extend to 10gen’s MongoDB platform as an auxiliary application within the RHEL platform. The integration of MongoDB with RHEL’s identity management functionality means that administrators can centrally configure MongoDB users, passwords and permissions from the same backend database used to manage the permissions of RHEL users more generally. As a result, IT administrators can now leverage single sign-on functionality across an organization for MongoDB in addition to other applications included within RHEL’s integrated identity management functionality. Red Hat added identity management to RHEL version 6.4 by means of a solution that uses the LDAP protocol. The resulting integration enhances the security of MongoDB and enables streamlined identity management for enterprises and IT administrators.
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