Want to future ready your data center? Try using containers to develop applications. Containers consist of complete runtime environments bundled in single packages. Growing in use, they enable several applications to run smoothly on a server. They also enable software to run reliably when moved from one computing environment to another. As a development tool, they increase efficiency and scalability and accelerate time to market.

But bringing containers to the enterprise is a challenge. No doubt about it. To deliver both cloud-based and traditional applications using containers, enterprises need a solid foundation that allows developers to run multi-container based applications simultaneously. That’s where the Red Hat Atomic Enterprise Platform comes in.

Red Hat to The Rescue – The Atomic Platform

The Red Hat Platform is an optimized infrastructure platform designed specifically for deploying, running, and managing multi-container-based applications at scale, including both cloud-based and traditional applications. Based on Red Hat Linux Platform 7, one of the world’s top enterprise Linux platforms, the Red Hat Atomic Platform provides a foundation that allows you to adopt additional capabilities as needed.

A small footprint container host that provides numerous benefits, the Red Hat Platform platform is:

• Designed just for running containers
• Deployable across the open Hybrid Cloud
• Developed for easy updating and rollback
• Based on an open source cluster manager (Kubernetes)
• Equipped with military-grad security
• Available with Linux container images and building containers

Put simply, the Red Hat Platform is the ideal building block on which to develop a complete container strategy.

One key to the Red Hat Platform is Atomic Host. This proven design pattern for distributions lets you build on an existing distribution, eliminating the need to create a new operating system while developing a container deployment environment. Atomic Host makes developing, configuring, deploying, running, and administering containers in distributed environments quicker and easier.

A Powerful Combination – The Dell FX Servers

A second building block for developing a complete container strategy is Dell’s FX series servers. When combined with the Red Hat Platform, they provide a powerful combination that facilitates container usage in the enterprise. These servers, which include the FC430, FC630, FC830, and FM120x4, combine modular server, storage, and networking blocks in a compact, converged 2U rack chassis. They help boost data center efficiency, agility, and productivity.

The FX servers embody Dell’s FX converged architecture technology, which provides efficient management with flexible “building blocks” to optimize your data center for both modern and legacy workloads. The server blocks that are at the heart of this architecture technology include the latest version of the Intel® Xeon® processor and the FD 332 storage module.

The FX servers are ideal for meeting the demands of a highly mobile, cloud-driven, data-analytics heavy environment. They enable you to scale workloads quickly, as you need to, by adding resources unit by unit without the costs and inefficiency that overprovisioning brings. They also enable you to generate an exceptionally high level of infrastructure density and improved workload performance.

The Dell FX servers and the Red Hat Atomic Enterprise Platform can help bring containers to your enterprise. That, in turn, can help you re-invent your data center to meet the demand’s of today’s enterprises.

For help in boosting the performance of your data center, contact Cxrus Solutions. We’ll help you install the building blocks you need to overcome the challenge of bringing containers to the enterprise.