Aiming for the Clouds: The Red Hat Q&A
There were a couple of releases accompanying Red Hat’s call on the 7th, but the two most interesting pieces of news as far as I’m concerned were the announcement of its Appliance Operating System (AOS) and the revelation that Red Hat would be available on top of Amazon’s EC2 platform.
Q: What is your expectation of the impact of these developments?
A: Before we get to that, it’s worth considering what Red Hat itself expects. Senor Shankland apparently heard the same thing I did on the call, as he quotes Paul Cormier (EVP worldwide engineering) as saying the following: “We will more than double our market share to power more than 50 percent of the world’s servers by 2015.” It’s the lack of qualifiers there that’s of particular interest.
Q: Let’s dig into some of the details, then. Let’s start from the back: what’s the significance of the Amazon/EC2 partnership?
A: While some are inclined to dismiss EC2 and other competitive offerings as little more than tweaked hosting, I’m convinced that the model represents the - or at least a - future of hardware consumption. In awarding the Amazon folks my technical achievement award for 2006, I outlined the promise of Hardware-as-a-Service (HaaS) as follows:
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