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Red Hat Sets New Standard for Trusted, Enterprise-Grade Containers with Industry's First Container Health IndexRed Hat (News - Alert), Inc. (NYSE:RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today introduced the industry's first Container Health Index, setting a new standard for enterprise-grade Linux containers. Based upon Red Hat's track record of delivering enterprise-grade open source technologies, including the world's leading enterprise Linux platform, the Container Health Index provides the most comprehensive image detail of any enterprise container service. The index grades all of Red Hat's containerized products as well as the Red Hat base layer of containers from certified independent software vendor (ISV) partners, with Red Hat planning to certify containerized products from 20 ISVs within the next 90 days. While container-based applications have begun moving into production, not all containers are created or maintained equally. Every container starts with a Linux base layer, which means that every ISV building container images is distributing Linux content. For these containers to be used in production environments, this content needs to be free from known vulnerabilities. While other companies, including several Red Hat partners, offer container scanners to help identify security flaws, Red Hat goes further by providing a comprehensive security impact metric, the Container Health Index, as well as access to updated container images addressing known security issues.
Healthy containers, backed by leading software security expertise The aggregate ratings provided by the Container Health Index are more than just "pass-throughs" of external security data. They provide a concise picture of the impact (or nonimpact) posed by a given Linux container image, backed by the extensive knowledge and technical skill of Red Hat's Product Security team in delivering more secure, enterprise-grade open source software. Combining the Container Health Index with Red Hat's enterprise-grade products and the company's certified ISV ecosystem gives customers a higher degree of confidence that containers deployed into production are more secure, stable and supported.
Red Hat Container Catalog
More secure container innovation made partner-ready ISVs initially participating include: 6fusion; Aporeto (News - Alert); Avi Networks; Black Duck Software; CloudBees; Collabnet; Couchbase; Dynatrace; EnterpriseDB; F5 Networks; GitLab; NGINX; Redis Labs, Inc.; Sonatype; Sysdig; and Univa (News - Alert) Corporation.
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Press Conference To join the webcast or view the replay after the event, visit: https://vts.inxpo.com/Launch/Event.htm?ShowKey=39441
Supporting Quotes
Edward Sharp (News - Alert), chief security officer, Avi Networks
Lou Shipley, CEO, Black Duck
Narayan Sundareswaran, vice president, Business Development, Couchbase
Franz Karlsberger, director, Strategic Partnerships, Dynatrace
Eliran Mesika, director, Strategic Partnerships, GitLab
Wayne Jackson, CEO, Sonatype Additional Resources
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About Red Hat, Inc. Red Hat is the world's leading provider of open source software solutions, using a community-powered approach to provide reliable and high-performing cloud, Linux, middleware, storage and virtualization technologies. Red Hat also offers award-winning support, training, and consulting services. As a connective hub in a global network of enterprises, partners, and open source communities, Red Hat helps create relevant, innovative technologies that liberate resources for growth and prepare customers for the future of IT. Learn more at http://www.redhat.com. Forward-Looking Statements Certain statements contained in this press release may constitute "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements provide current expectations of future events based on certain assumptions and include any statement that does not directly relate to any historical or current fact. Actual results may differ materially from those indicated by such forward-looking statements as a result of various important factors, including: risks related to the ability of the Company to compete effectively; the ability to deliver and stimulate demand for new products and technological innovations on a timely basis; delays or reductions in information technology spending; the integration of acquisitions and the ability to market successfully acquired technologies and products; fluctuations in exchange rates; the effects of industry consolidation; uncertainty and adverse results in litigation and related settlements; the inability to adequately protect Company intellectual property and the potential for infringement or breach of license claims of or relating to third party intellectual property; risks related to data and information security vulnerabilities; changes in and a dependence on key personnel; the ability to meet financial and operational challenges encountered in our international operations; and ineffective management of, and control over, the Company's growth and international operations, as well as other factors contained in our most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K (copies of which may be accessed through the Securities and Exchange Commission's website at http://www.sec.gov), including those found therein under the captions "Risk Factors" and "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations". In addition to these factors, actual future performance, outcomes, and results may differ materially because of more general factors including (without limitation) general industry and market conditions and growth rates, economic and political conditions, governmental and public policy changes and the impact of natural disasters such as earthquakes and floods. The forward-looking statements included in this press release represent the Company's views as of the date of this press release and these views could change. However, while the Company may elect to update these forward-looking statements at some point in the future, the Company specifically disclaims any obligation to do so. These forward-looking statements should not be relied upon as representing the Company's views as of any date subsequent to the date of this press release. Red Hat, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, the Shadowman logo, JBoss, Red Hat Satellite, Container Health Index and OpenShift are trademarks or registered trademarks of Red Hat, Inc. or its subsidiaries in the U.S. and other countries. Linux® is the registered trademark of Linus Torvalds in the U.S. and other countries. View source version on businesswire.com: http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20170502005623/en/ |