Company takes first step in delivering a trusted enterprise distribution
based on OpenStack and its community-powered innovation
RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, today announced the immediate availability of the preview
release of Red Hat's OpenStack distribution based on the popular open
source OpenStack framework for building and managing private, public and
hybrid Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) clouds. With this, Red Hat
delivers the next step in its plans for the industry's only
enterprise-ready OpenStack distribution with Red Hat's award-winning
commercial support, certified ecosystem of hardware and application
vendors and leadership in delivering trusted open source clouds for
organizations worldwide requiring enterprise-grade solutions and support.
OpenStack is an open source framework for building private and public
IaaS clouds that complements Red Hat's portfolio of open source cloud
solutions. The core software projects provide compute, storage and
networking management services, with a shared identity service and
dashboard. Red Hat has long been contributing to OpenStack and has
steadily increased its participation and contributions over time. At the
OpenStack Summit 2012 in April, it was recognized that Red Hat is the
third overall contributor to OpenStack. In April 2012, in cooperation
with other industry leaders, Red Hat also announced its intention to
support the OpenStack Foundation, the governing body for maintaining the
OpenStack project, as a Platinum Member.
The OpenStack project has quickly developed into an open source solution
capable of providing organizations with performance, features and
functionality for their private and public clouds. The announcement of
the forthcoming OpenStack Foundation accelerated this development, as
well as highlighted the need for commercial supportability to accelerate
enterprise adoption. With this preview release of Red Hat's OpenStack
distribution, Red Hat delivers on the next step in its commitment to
deliver a trusted enterprise distribution of OpenStack, leveraging its
long track record of providing supported commercial-grade open source
products. Red Hat's OpenStack distribution will further extend and
complement the company's open hybrid cloud portfolio, which today
includes Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization,
Red Hat CloudFormsTM, Red Hat Storage and Red Hat OpenShiftTM
Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS).
Red Hat has been working with an early group of customers who have been
strong advocates for a commercial release of OpenStack from Red Hat, and
who have been instrumental in providing the feedback and testing
required to bring this preview release to completion. The company now
seeks to work with a wider group of customers to further develop Red
Hat's OpenStack distribution and its usage with other Red Hat products.
In addition, Red Hat is working closely with key partners such as
Rackspace to provide fully managed Red Hat OpenStack-powered clouds in
the future.
Customers who sign up for Red Hat's OpenStack distribution will be able
to provide feedback to Red Hat's OpenStack team and collaborate with
each other through community tools provided through the preview program.
Availability
The unsupported public preview version of Red Hat's OpenStack
distribution based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 is available for
download immediately at www.redhat.com/tryopenstack.
A fully supported release for Red Hat customers is expected to be
delivered in 2013.
Supporting Quotes
Brian Stevens, CTO and vice president, Worldwide Engineering, Red Hat
"Through our expanding involvement with OpenStack, we've seen a thriving
community develop and are excited in reaching this milestone along the
way to delivering an enterprise-class product based on this open cloud
technology. Our current productization efforts are focused around
hardening an integrated solution of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and
OpenStack to deliver an enterprise-ready solution that enables
enterprises worldwide to realize infrastructure clouds. We invite
OpenStack enthusiasts and enterprises interested in the technology to
download our preview and provide feedback to help us accelerate the
delivery of a stable OpenStack enterprise platform for the industry."
Lew Tucker, chief technology officer for cloud computing, Cisco
"Cisco believes strongly that deploying cloud platforms needs to be made
easier, open and accessible. Just as Cisco collaborates with many
partners within the OpenStack community, we see Red Hat's preview
release of its enterprise-ready OpenStack distribution as an important
step in this direction."
John Igoe, executive director of open source cloud and big data
solutions, Dell
"Dell has made a commitment to the OpenStack project as both a sponsor
and an adopter of OpenStack cloud solutions, and our collaboration with
Red Hat and the solutions that IT enables is an important piece of that
commitment. As the datacenter moves to the cloud, open source software
and standards-based hardware are essential to migrate IT operations to
the cloud. By combining OpenStack's enterprise-leading cloud software
solution with Dell PowerEdge C servers and Dell software including
Crowbar, enterprise-leading cloud servers customers can accelerate and
embrace movement to the cloud."
Billy Cox, director, Intel Cloud Strategy
"As an early adopter of OpenStack and a key proponent of open source,
Intel welcomes the leadership of Red Hat to help evolve this open source
project into a robust cloud operating system. Our long-standing
collaboration with leading companies like Red Hat help make enterprise
Linux and open source virtualization successful. Intel looks forward to
working with the OpenStack community and Red Hat to help enterprises
deploy open, trusted clouds."
Jim Curry, general manager of Rackspace Private Cloud Business
"As founders of OpenStack, Rackspace is excited to see Red Hat
implementing the OpenStack technology in its product offerings and
delivering those solutions to its customers. Red Hat is a pioneer in the
open source software space and we look forward to working with them on
our private cloud offerings and managed services in the very near
future."
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