New program embraces key open standards and practices; enables
partner collaboration around datacenter innovations based on 64-bit ARM®
architecture
RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, today announced the launch of the Red Hat ARM Partner Early
Access Program to enhance partner collaboration and facilitate
partner-initiated system designs based on the 64-bit capable ARMv8-A
architecture that include Red Hat software. The program will be aimed at
silicon vendors, independent hardware vendors (IHVs), original equipment
manufacturers (OEMs), and original design manufacturers (ODMs), and
launches with participation and support from several ARM ecosystem
leaders, including AMD, American Megatrends, Inc., AppliedMicro, ARM,
Broadcom, Cavium, Dell, HP and Linaro.
During the evolution of the 64-bit ARM ecosystem, Red Hat has
consistently worked to establish open source and industry standards as
integral components of the emerging architecture. Through founding participation
in the Linaro Enterprise Group (LEG), Red Hat has driven the
development of open source software for ARM architectures in a
collaborative and transparent environment. More recently, Red Hat
participated in the creation of the Server
Base System Architecture (SBSA) specification released by ARM to
help accelerate software development and enable support across multiple
64-bit ARM platforms.
Today's ARM Partner Early Access Program announcement enables Red Hat
and its partners to better address the evolving ARM ecosystem by:
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Supplying participants with early stage development software,
documentation and tools.
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Collaborating with partners to create a singular 64-bit ARM server
software platform that relies on common standards.
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Enabling faster innovation within ecosystem organizations, such as
LEG, by providing a common development platform to enable deployment
ready future 64-bit ARM software.
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Gathering requirements around partner needs within the ARM ecosystem
and using this information to create a unified common software
platform capable of supporting multiple hardware designs.
Red Hat expects the participants in its ARM Partner Early Access Program
to contribute to more streamlined and applicable implementations of
64-bit ARM standards and practices. Additionally, through collaboration
with program participants, Red Hat will be able to evaluate technical
features across various market segments, develop feedback-based targeted
use cases, and perform market demand assessments that could influence
future product decisions.
Supporting Quotes
Jim Totton, vice president and general manager, Platform Business
Unit, Red Hat
"The Red Hat ARM Partner Early Access Program continues Red Hat's
efforts to drive open standards and best practices within the 64-bit ARM
ecosystem, enabling tighter collaboration with leading innovators in the
ARM ecosystem. By providing our participating partners with the tools,
resources and support needed to build a common development platform, we
can help facilitate partner-driven 64-bit ARM solutions that are based
upon Red Hat technologies."
Suresh Gopalakrishnan, general manager and corporate vice president,
Server Business Unit, AMD
"The Red Hat ARM Partner Early Access Program is an excellent vehicle to
help accelerate a robust ecosystem for ARM-based servers. In addition to
our participation in the Red Hat ARM PEAP, AMD is pleased to support
this growing community with standard ARM Cortex-A57 ARMv8 based hardware
alongside the newly announced AMD Opteron A1100-Series processor
development platform."
Subramonian Shankar, president and CEO, American Megatrends, Inc.
"AMI is fully committed to its role as a leading provider of BIOS and
UEFI solutions for 64-bit ARM platforms, by being the first independent
BIOS vendor to offer a complete early stage solution for the 64-bit ARM
ecosystem. Working closely with industry stalwarts such as Red Hat
enables AMI to deliver more compelling and engaging solutions for the
64-bit ARM ecosystem including debug and diagnostic tools as well as a
complete integrated development environment for UEFI. The end result of
our collaboration is a deeper, more efficient platform design and
development experience, which in turn enables the creation of the next
generation of 64-bit ARM platforms to meet the demands of tomorrow's
high efficiency, high performance server platforms."
Gaurav Singh, vice president, Technical Strategy, AppliedMicro
"For more than three years, Red Hat and AppliedMicro have collaborated
on support for the 64-bit ARMv8 Architecture within the Linux community,
demonstrating open source technologies running on AppliedMicro's X-GeneTM
Server-on-a-ChipTM at every major step along the road. As the
only silicon provider with a 64-bit ARM-based server solution in
production today, we appreciate the importance of creating a common
development platform based upon Red Hat technologies. We look forward to
continuing our collaboration as part of the Red Hat ARM PEAP program to
provide additional solutions and tools to our customers as they enter
the ARM enterprise server space."
James McNiven, general manager, systems and software group, ARM
"Red Hat's early access program will accelerate the development of a
robust enterprise ecosystem, built on a strong open source foundation.
Collaboration and standardization are vital cornerstones of the ARM
ecosystem, ensuring C-Suite decision makers have the freedom to choose
from a diverse range of infrastructure solutions. Today marks a major
milestone for the open source community and the ARM server ecosystem on
the path to broader adoption of the ARM architecture throughout the
enterprise."
Chuck Tato, product marketing director, Broadcom
"We are excited to be part of Red Hat's ARM Early Access Program.
Through our participation, Broadcom will have access to early code drops
of Red Hat software for the 64-bit ARM ecosystem and will work with them
to develop a more streamlined and optimized operating environment for
Broadcom's high performance ARM-based SoCs."
Larry Wikelius, director, Thunder Ecosystems and Partner Enablement,
Cavium
"Cavium has played a leading role in defining key ARM standards such as
SBSA, UEFI and ACPI and has also contributed significantly to the ARM
open source ecosystem. Having successfully tested Red Hat software
independently on our ThunderX SDK, we are pleased to be able to expand
this work through participation in the Red Hat ARM Partner Early Access
Program to the ultimate benefit of partners and end users looking to
take full advantage of next-generation datacenter and cloud
technologies."
Robert Hormuth, executive director, Enterprise Platform Architecture
& Technology, Dell
"Dell has been at the forefront of innovation in the development of
low-power technologies and an integral proponent of open and standard
based designs for decades. Enabling the ARM ecosystem will provide
exceptional gains for our customers when it comes to performance per
dollar and performance per watt. We are excited to be part of the Red
Hat ARM Partner Early Access Program to help foster collaboration within
the community and extend our deep expertise in developing workload
optimized ARM solutions."
Paul Santeler, vice president and general manager, HP Moonshot
"HP and Red Hat have a long history of working together to deliver
innovative open source and open standards-based solutions that enable
customers to optimize internet-scale applications, achieve breakthrough
economics, and enable IT to support the rate and pace of business
growth. We look forward to the role that the HP Moonshot 64-bit ARM
system, which is ideal for software development and production workload
deployments, will play in the Red Hat ARM Partner Early Access Program
and advancing the ARM ecosystem."
George Grey, CEO, Linaro
"Linaro is very pleased to participate in the Red Hat ARM Partner Early
Access Program, which we believe is key to enabling the broader ARM
ecosystem. We look forward to using the program's releases for our open
source software efforts, including development, optimization and
validation of open source technologies for the ARM server ecosystem on
our member's server-class hardware platforms. This furthers our strong
collaboration with Red Hat, a founding member of the Linaro Enterprise
Group, while leveraging Linaro's unique position to support core
industry standards for Enterprise-grade Operating Systems including
UEFI, ACPI, OpenJDK, Hadoop and OpenStack."
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