I am writing this week’s newsletter from Boston, MA, at Red Hat Summit. AI was central to this year’s keynote, with Red Hat announcing various infrastructure components for AI inference, which did not come as a surprise. Red Hat set the de facto standard for Linux in the enterprise environments. Their goal is to also set the de facto standard for running AI inference in production. Selling shovels during the AI Gold Rush makes sense.
At the summit, Red Hat released RHEL 10. During the presentation, I noticed that RHEL was the first item on the slide, before both OpenShift (Kubernetes) and OpenShift Virtualization (KubeVirt & KVM). They recall that their success builds on the foundation of a Linux distribution, Open Source, and the Linux kernel. Of course, we at LINBIT had our software packages prepared and ready for RHEL10 on the day of release as well.
I also noticed Red Hat’s very polite way of saying that users got a price hike, for which they did not ask, regarding their proprietary, legacy enterprise virtualization stack – their way of saying Broadcom unsettled VMware customers and probably killed the product in the long run. Red Hat profits from that, of course, by offering an enterprise virtualization stack based on Open Source technologies.
These factors also create a positive environment for LINBIT. We continue to see a lot of interest in LINBIT SDS from people with big-data-processing-Kubernetes needs (=AI) as well as those who come from the legacy enterprise virtualization stack.
After this very business-oriented conference, I will attend the Tech Internals Conference on May 26 in Berlin, where I have a prominent speaker slot for my presentation, ‘DRBD deep dive’. I look forward to plenty of detail-rich conversations on the technical challenges that attract me so much.
Regarding the latest LINBIT content, we released two blog posts titled ‘Using LINSTOR with Storj S3 Storage for Disaster Recovery’ and ‘Create a Highly Available iSCSI Target Using a LINSTOR Gateway Cluster.’ To round up our recent focus on LINSTOR, we also published a case study about how LINSTOR helped ControlIT provide better levels of service at a highly competitive value to its clients.
I will once again conclude this edition with the latest software updates. Since I last wrote, we have released the LINSTOR GUI v1.9.6, and linstor-server 1.31.1.
