Red Hat OpenStack Early Adopter Program and Establishment of Open
Source RDO Community to Help Customers Realize the Benefit of
Community-Powered Innovation
RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, today announced updates to its OpenStack enterprise and
community technologies and roadmap, including the advancement of its
enterprise Red Hat OpenStack offering into an Early Adopter Program and
the availability of RDO, a community-supported distribution of OpenStack
that runs on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Fedora and their derivatives. In
addition, Red Hat today also announced
Red Hat OpenStack Cloud Infrastructure Partner Network, a global
ecosystem of technology and services partners to help accelerate the
adoption of Red Hat Cloud Infrastructure solutions.
Red Hat OpenStack Early Adopter Program
In August 2012, Red Hat announced the availability of the preview
release of its Red Hat OpenStack distribution, based on the popular
OpenStack framework for building and managing private, public and hybrid
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) clouds. With this, Red Hat delivered
on the first 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.
Today, Red Hat announces that its Red Hat OpenStack distribution has
advanced from the preview version into an Early Adopter Program. The Red
Hat OpenStack Preview was based on the community Essex release. Today's
Red Hat OpenStack Early Adopter Program is based on the community Folsom
release, of which Red Hat was the second top corporate code contributor.
In the OpenStack.org community's most recent release this month,
Grizzly, Red Hat moved to become the number one corporate code
contributor.
Red Hat OpenStack provides a foundation for organizations to build a
private or public IaaS cloud for cloud-enabled workloads. Red Hat
OpenStack allows customers to leverage OpenStack technologies, while
maintaining the security, stability and enterprise readiness of a
platform built on Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Open Source RDO Community Launched
Accessible beginning today, RDO is a freely available,
community-supported distribution of OpenStack that runs on Red Hat
Enterprise Linux, Fedora and their derivatives. It offers a pure
upstream OpenStack experience with the latest stable release from
OpenStack.org, packaged, integrated and easy to deploy on Red Hat
platforms. The community at openstack.redhat.com offers the opportunity
to interact with other users of OpenStack on Red Hat platforms, to share
knowledge and build capacity.
RDO brings the core OpenStack components — Nova, Glance, Keystone,
Cinder, Quantum, Swift and Horizon — as well as incubating projects
Heat, for cloud application orchestration, and Ceilometer, for resource
monitoring and metering. Installation is made easy with the Red
Hat-developed installation tool, PackStack.
In addition to providing a set of software packages, RDO is also a place
for users of the cloud computing platform on Red Hat operating systems
to get help and compare notes on running OpenStack. Users of Red Hat
Enterprise Linux and its derivatives now have a place where they can get
official packages of the latest software released by the upstream
OpenStack project, for their platform of choice.
Availability
RDO is available for download today. Customers interested in the Red Hat
OpenStack Early Adopter Program can contact their Red Hat sales
representative. The Red Hat OpenStack Early Adopter code is now
available via a free 90-day evaluation.
Supporting Quotes
Brian Stevens, CTO and vice president, Worldwide Engineering, Red Hat
"OpenStack represents an ideal example of community-powered innovation
in the cloud, and Red Hat is committed to bringing a
community-to-subscription model around the OpenStack technology that
aims to redefine IT. We support the OpenStack ecosystem through software
development and community engagement and are excited to continue
advancing these technologies with the community through RDO and for our
enterprise customers with advancements with our Red Hat OpenStack
distribution today."
Stephen O'Grady, principal analyst, RedMonk
"As open source projects mature, one of the key factors in their wider
adoption becomes packaging. With its RDO distribution, Red Hat is
clearly looking to streamline the implementation process for OpenStack
thus widening the project's market."
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