Spanning more than 20 years, the partnership between Red Hat Inc. and Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. has focused on delivering open-source solutions underpinned by Red Hat Ansible Automation, Red Hat Enterprise Linux and the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform.

With a year having passed since HPE GreenLake for Red Hat OpenShift was announced, how is the joint offering delivering value and resonating with both companies’ userbase?

“One of the reasons why we see this as a really important relationship for us is because HPE and Red Hat have been on this same hybrid multicloud journey together as partners and industry leaders,” said Helen Kim (pictured, right), global vice president for partner ecosystem marketing at Red Hat. “HPE is our largest OEM partner, which means that we’ve got thousands of joint customers together using our solutions. We’ve been invested heavily in bringing our products into GreenLake, making those available in these new delivery formats so that our customers can have a choice and optionality as they move to their future states.”

Kim and Tom Hempfield (left), vice president and general manager of worldwide ecosystems sales at Hewlett Packard Enterprise spoke with theCUBE industry analysts John Furrier and Paul Gillin at Red Hat Summit, during an exclusive broadcast on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio. They discussed the longstanding HPE/Red Hat collaboration. (* Disclosure below.)

Delivering OpenShift in the SaaS flavor

HPE GreenLake started out with Red Hat as an OEM offering its solutions. But as both companies began to work closely, the tie-in has now evolved to where Red Hat products are housed natively on the GreenLake platform, according to Hempfield.

“In terms of where we’re taking it to the next level, what we’ve done is we’ve developed solutions whereby we’ve enabled all of the Red Hat products to be housed on our GreenLake platform,” Hempfield said. “As a result of that, we’re now able to provide an as-a-service solution for the entire suite of Red Hat products, as we do with our own IT infrastructure.”

Hybrid has been an important foundation for both companies as they move in lockstep to unlock new capabilities, within their shared solution, in areas such as artificial intelligence, Kim added.

“In our partnership with HPE, one of the things that, like the beauty of bringing it all together, is that with the addition of Red Hat products on HPE GreenLake, we are now able to fully realize our open hybrid cloud strategy,” Kim said.

Here’s the complete video interview, part of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of Red Hat Summit:

(* Disclosure: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. sponsored this segment of theCUBE. Neither HPE nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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