“Accelerated cloud performance” was, according to IBM CEO, Ginny Rometty, responsible for driving a majority of the firm’s Q4 growth which ended with $21.8 billion in revenue. Its Red Hat investment is paying off with a reported 24% increase in quarterly Red Hat revenue and a 21% increase in cloud revenue overall.
Continuing its charge, Red Hat this past week announced an update to Red Hat Runtimes, its toolset for developing and maintaining cloud-native applications. It now features Red Hat Single Sign-on; Open Liberty, an addition to the runtimes portfolio; a single distribution of Node.js; and several new Kubernetes Operators for Red Hat Runtimes.