Customers can extend Red Hat Enterprise MRG Grid subscriptions to Amazon
EC2 via Red Hat Cloud Access
RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, today announced that it is expanding its offerings on Amazon
Web Services with the addition of Red Hat Enterprise MRG Grid via Red
Hat Cloud Access.
Red Hat Cloud Access is a capability that enables Red Hat customers to
move their subscriptions between traditional on-premise servers and
off-premise clouds hosted by Red Hat Premier Certified Cloud Providers,
such as Amazon Web Services. Red Hat initially extended its Red Hat
Enterprise Linux subscriptions into the cloud with Red Hat Cloud Access
in April 2010. Today, the company adds Red Hat Enterprise MRG Grid
subscriptions as the second product able to take advantage of the Red
Hat Cloud Access program. This results in improved deployment
portability, easier subscription management and cost advantages for
deploying in the cloud.
Red Hat Enterprise MRG incorporates Messaging, Realtime and Grid
functionality that offers improved performance, response time and
compute grid management. Enterprise MRG's Grid technology provides a
highly scalable and manageable platform for High Throughput Computing
(HTC) and High Performance Computing (HPC) environments, and includes
the ability to schedule to local grids, remote grids, virtual machines
and rented cloud infrastructure. At its launch in 2008, Enterprise MRG
was the first HPC product that could integrate with private
virtualization and public clouds.
Red Hat Enterprise MRG Grid was recently extended to Amazon Web Services
via DevPay, allowing customers to build hybrid clouds or use Enterprise
MRG in the cloud for managing traffic and on-demand HPC capabilities.
Now, with Cloud Access, customers can use their Red Hat subscription for
Enterprise MRG in Amazon Web Services deployments. As a Red Hat
Certified Cloud Provider, Amazon Web Services allows customers to use
the same images both on-premise and in-cloud, through an in-cloud update
service provided by Red Hat. Errata and updates are made available
through the in-cloud service, so customers on a Red Hat Certified Public
Cloud that are Cloud Access-enabled have confidence that they have
up-to-date images. With this, users can manage and update thousands of
servers with ease. A primary benefit of Red Hat's approach to cloud
computing is that it is built on standardized open source technology,
providing a consistent application platform across physical, virtualized
and cloud environments. This gives customers the flexibility to adapt to
new computing models as their business needs dictate, simply and cost
effectively, while also eliminating the vendor lock-in associated with
other cloud computing solutions.
"Red Hat Cloud Access allows our customers to benefit from the valuable
support they receive directly from Red Hat experts through their Red Hat
subscription, while also allowing them to take advantage of the benefits
of deploying in a certified public cloud," said Scott Crenshaw, vice
president and general manager, Cloud Business Unit at Red Hat. "This
level of flexibility gives enterprises the ability to bring their
infrastructure to the cloud more easily and now encompasses both our Red
Hat Enterprise Linux operating system and Red Hat Enterprise MRG Grid
technologies, offering more choice for public clouds."
"Our continued relationship with Red Hat demonstrates collaboration
focused on providing on-demand, pay-as-you-go cloud solutions for our
existing and future customers," said Terry Wise, director of Business
Development at Amazon Web Services. "We started with support for Red Hat
Cloud Access capabilities with Red Hat Enterprise Linux and are excited
that our customers can now take advantage of Red Hat Enterprise MRG Grid
via Cloud Access."
Red Hat Enterprise MRG Grid is globally available for Amazon Elastic
Compute Cloud (EC2) today.
To learn more about this news and Red Hat's open approach to the cloud,
join an announcement webcast presented by Red Hat executives at 11am ET
on Wednesday, February 15, 2012 by visiting https://vts.inxpo.com/Launch/QReg.htm?ShowKey=8347.
The webcast will also be available on demand following the live event.
For more information about Red Hat Enterprise MRG, visit www.redhat.com/mrg.
For more information about Red Hat Cloud Access, visit http://www.redhat.com/solutions/cloud/access/.
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