Partnerships are the backbone upon which innovation is sustained in the enterprise computing space.

Dell Technologies Inc. has strengthened its partnership with Red Hat Inc. to co-engineer a hybrid solution that ensures the consistent extension of on-premise Red Hat OpenShift deployments across public clouds and the edge.

“We’ve been a partner with Red Hat for 20+ years, but we really feel like we’ve doubled down on the partnership over the last year or so,” said Todd Pavone (pictured, right), president of strategic partnerships at Dell. “That was the big announcement this morning. When we talk about double down, we talk about co-engineering and innovating new offers and solutions. And today we had a big announcement with Dell APEX Cloud for Red Hat OpenShift and we’re really excited about that enabling our 30,000 to 40,000 global sellers around the world to take this to our customers, our hundreds of partners. ”

Pavone and Greg Ernst (left), corporate vice president of Intel sales and marketing and general manager of Americas sales at Intel Corp. spoke with theCUBE industry analyst John Furrier and Rob Strechay at Red Hat Summit, during an exclusive broadcast on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio. They discussed the three-way collaboration between Dell, Intel and Red Hat for AI and edge-related cloud use cases. (* Disclosure below.)

Intel powering through with hardware

Dell and Red Hat aim to attack artificial intelligence operations use cases with this offering. For such compute-intensive operations, the need for competent hardware horsepower is paramount. That’s where Intel enters the mix.

“At Intel, we love it. We’re geeks. Spin the propeller nonstop about hardware,” Ernst said. “One example right now, we launched our fourth-generation Xeon a few months ago, and it’s got built-in accelerators for matrix math … AI performs really well in matrix math.”

For Intel, its confidence in Red Hat lies in the ability to take full advantage of those hardware accelerators, Ernst added.

“That’s one of the reasons why we work closely with Red Hat,” Ernst stated. “cause while Red Hat, what you’re able to do is almost take a straw straight down in the CPU and make those accelerators accessible for all the applications that run on top.”

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

(* Disclosure: Dell Technologies Inc. sponsored this segment of theCUBE. Neither Dell Technologies nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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