Oracle and Red Hat Expand Partnership to Boost Hybrid Cloud and AI Capabilities

On May 20, Oracle Corporation (NYSE:ORCL) and Red Hat announced an expanded collaboration to accelerate hybrid cloud adoption and enhance AI integration.

This partnership will provide a more consistent, cloud-native foundation for next-gen workloads, such as AI, by extending Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat OpenShift support to more deployment options on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure/OCI.

Oracle and Red Hat Expand Partnership to Boost Hybrid Cloud and AI Capabilities on OCI

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These deployment options now include government, sovereign, and distributed cloud services, as well as OCI Roving Edge Infrastructure, Oracle Compute Cloud@Customer, and Oracle Private Cloud Appliance. The expanded collaboration also includes the certification of Red Hat OpenShift AI on OCI, specifically validated on OCI’s NVIDIA A100 and H100 GPU shapes, which enables high-performance model training and inference for demanding AI/ML workloads.

Oracle is also actively validating key applications, such as Oracle WebLogic Server and the Oracle Cloud Scale Monetization portfolio, to run seamlessly on Red Hat OpenShift containers. The collaboration ensures continued certification of Oracle Database, including Oracle Real Application Clusters/RAC, on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, with new validation efforts for Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization to support Oracle Database customers.The partnership is expected to positively impact Oracle Corporation’s (NYSE:ORCL) future revenue and earnings forecasts by strengthening its position in the cloud services sector, attracting new clients, and expanding its cloud market share.

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