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Microsoft and Red Hat announced a partnership that will help customers embrace hybrid cloud computing, providing greater choice and flexibility in deploying Red Hat solutions to Microsoft Azure. As a key component of the announcement, Microsoft is offering Red Hat Enterprise Linux as the preferred choice for enterprise Linux-to-Microsoft Azure job submissions. In addition, Microsoft and Red Hat are also working together to address the common needs of enterprises, ISVs, and developers to build, deploy, and manage applications on Red Hat software across private and public clouds.
Key elements of the partnership include the following:
 
• Red Hat on-premises solutions available to Microsoft Azure customers.  In the coming weeks, Microsoft Azure will become a Red Hat Certified Cloud and Service Provider, allowing customers to run their Red Hat Enterprise Linux applications and job submissions to Microsoft Azure. Subscribers to Red Hat Cloud access will be able to bring their own virtual machine images to run on Microsoft Azure. Microsoft Azure customers will also be able to take advantage of the full value of Red Hat's application platform, including Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, Red Hat JBoss Web Server, Red Hat Gluster and OpenShift Storage, a platform service from Red Hat. In the coming months, Microsoft and Red Hat plan to deliver Red Hat On-Demand – “pay-as-you-go” Red Hat Enterprise Linux images are available on the Azure Marketplace, backed by Red Hat.
 
• Integrated enterprise-grade support spanning hybrid environments. Cross-platform customers will be offered cross-company support that measures Microsoft's and Red Hat's offerings seamlessly, unlike any previous public cloud partnership. Through co-location support teams in the same facilities, the experience will be simple and seamless, at the speed of the cloud.
 
• Unified load management in hybrid cloud deployments. Red Hat CloudForms will interoperate with Microsoft Azure and Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager, giving Red Hat CloudForms customers the ability to manage Red Hat Enterprise Linux on both Hyper-V and Microsoft Azure. Support for managing Azure job submissions from Red Hat CloudForms is expected to be added in the coming months, extending System Center's existing capabilities for managing Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
 
• .NET collaboration for a new generation of application development capabilities. Expanding on the .NET preview on Linux announced by Microsoft in April, developers will have access to .NET technologies across Red Hat's offerings, including Red Hat OpenShift and Red Hat Enterprise Linux, jointly supported by Microsoft and Red Hat. Red Hat Enterprise Linux will be the primary development and reference operating system for .NET Core on Linux.

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