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Red Hat and Microsoft simplify containers to
help enterprises accelerate to the hybrid cloud
Microsoft and Red Hat have announced an
expansion of the two companies’ alliance
with plans for new initiatives aimed at
enabling enterprises to more easily adopt
containers. This includes native support
for Windows Server containers on Red Hat
OpenShift, Red Hat OpenShift Dedicated on
Microsoft Azure, and SQL Server on Red Hat
Enterprise Linux and Red Hat OpenShift.
These additions to the companies’ joint
roadmap will focus on simplifying container
technologies to help enterprise customers
increase the agility and drive digital
transformation using hybrid cloud.
Continuing their commitment to
deliver choice and flexibility to enterprise
customers, Microsoft and Red Hat will
extend the integrated, co-located Microsoft
and Red Hat support to enable these
new offerings across platforms. This
helps to assure IT organisations that
whatever challenges they face on their
path to digital transformation, Microsoft
and Red Hat will stand by them together.
Matthew Hicks, Vice President,
Software Engineering, OpenShift and
Management, Red Hat said: “Alongside
Microsoft, Red Hat is providing a way for
organisations to make technology choices
that matter to them, from containerised
workloads to public cloud services,
without adding complexity. Combined
with our integrated support teams,
we’re able to offer a pathway to digital
transformation that offers the capabilities,
flexibility and choice required to power
the future of enterprise IT.”
John Gossman, Lead Azure Architect,
Microsoft Corp added: “Microsoft and Red
Hat are aligned in our commitment to bring
enterprise customers the hybrid cloud
solutions they need to modernise their
businesses as they shift to operate in a
cloud-native world. Today, we’re extending
this commitment as we again join forces to
bring fully integrated solutions that simplify
container adoption and help customers make
the most of their hybrid cloud strategies.”
FASYL joins IFS Partner Network as a channel partner
Gawie van der Merwe, Managing Director
of IFS South Africa.
IFS, the global enterprise applications
company, has announced that FASYL,
as a business partner for sub-Saharan
Africa, will join the IFS Partner Network
to empower more businesses across the
African continent with leading business
solutions from IFS. FASYL and IFS
will work together to offer enterprise
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resource planning (ERP), enterprise
asset management (EAM) and service
management solutions to companies in
asset- and product-centric sectors such as
manufacturing and utilities.
FASYL currently operates in 11 countries
in Africa: Cote d’Ivoire, Ghana, Kenya,
Mauritius, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, South
Africa, Tanzania, Tunisia, Zambia and
Zimbabwe. It has extensive experience in
implementing ERP systems for complex,
multinational, multilingual organisations.
Resources from FASYL will be certified
through the IFS Academy, the official training
and certification programme. They will be
equipped with the skills and knowledge
they need to ensure customers realise
the most value from IFS Applications.
Ademola Babalola, CEO at FASYL, said: “We
are excited to work with IFS to implement
robust ERP, operational intelligence and
asset management solutions that help
companies grow their businesses and
optimise efficiencies. Along with IFS, we
offer applications and services that enable
organisations to achieve the agility to
respond to a dynamic market, as well as
to use resources in a way that delivers and
achieves optimal business performance.”
Gawie van der Merwe, Managing Director
of IFS South Africa added: “FASYL’s vertical
specialisations and its commitment to
service excellence are closely aligned with
our plans to grow our presence in Africa.
Together, we are well positioned to help
African organisations implement high-
quality end-to-end solutions that enable
them to achieve their full potential.”
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