On-Ramp to Enterprise OpenStack Aims to Educate Enterprise Users,
Simplify Evaluation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform
RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, today announced a new initiative called On-Ramp to
Enterprise OpenStack to drive enterprise adoption of OpenStack, the
popular framework for building and managing private, public, and hybrid
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) clouds. Red Hat is closely
collaborating with Intel on the On-Ramp to Enterprise OpenStack program,
educating customers on the benefits and capabilities of Red Hat
Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform running on Intel® Architecture and
making it easier for organizations to evaluate and validate Red Hat
Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform for their private and hybrid cloud
initiatives.
"Red Hat's longstanding relationship with Intel has played a key role in
the adoption of Linux as the strong enterprise platform we see today,"
Radhesh Balakrishnan, general manager, Virtualization, Red Hat. "Like
Linux in its early days, collaboration among technology industry leaders
can help foster enterprise adoption of OpenStack. As Red Hat's OpenStack
vision and solutions gain momentum, On-Ramp to Enterprise OpenStack
represents the next level of our collaboration with Intel, and I am
excited about the opportunity we mutually face to help demystify
OpenStack and show enterprise organizations its true potential."
"The On-Ramp to Enterprise OpenStack program for private, public, and
hybrid cloud deployments is a natural extension of Intel and Red Hat's
long-standing collaboration in enterprise Linux," said Imad Sousou, vice
president and general manager of Intel's Open Source Technology Center.
"The combination of Intel Architecture and Red Hat Enterprise Linux
OpenStack Platform helps form a secure, trusted, high-performance
platform for these cloud deployments and provides end users a quick and
easy way to evaluate, learn about, and deploy important use cases like
trusted compute pools."
For more than a decade, Red Hat has collaborated with technology
industry leaders, including Intel, to bring enterprise-grade features,
including security, reliability, scalability, and performance, to Red
Hat Enterprise Linux. Red Hat has also worked with Intel to optimize
kernel-based virtual machine (KVM) since its inception and to enhance
KVM virtualization management in oVirt and Red Hat Enterprise
Virtualization. Most recently, Red Hat has enhanced the security of open
hybrid clouds with trusted compute pools using Intel® Trusted Execution
Technology (Intel® TXT). Trusted compute pools with Intel TXT help
protect servers from BIOS and firmware attacks and provide
hardware-based verification for use in meeting enterprise compliance
requirements.
In June 2013, Red
Hat announced its OpenStack-powered product offerings, including Red
Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform, a solution that serves as the
foundation for advanced cloud users who are seeking to build an
OpenStack-powered cloud, and Red Hat Cloud Infrastructure, a
comprehensive offering designed to support organizations on their
journey from traditional datacenter virtualization to OpenStack-powered
clouds. Through the new On-Ramp to Enterprise OpenStack program,
organizations can build their open hybrid cloud strategy via education
and easily evaluate Red Hat's OpenStack solutions.
The On-Ramp to Enterprise OpenStack program has two specific components,
including:
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform on Intel Architecture
TestFlight, a hosted, multi-tenant implementation of Red Hat
Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform on Intel® Xeon® processor-based
servers that organizations can use to build proofs of concept and
demonstrations to evaluate Red Hat's OpenStack offerings; and the
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On-Ramp to Enterprise OpenStack Road Tour, a series of
workshops in North America and Europe, consisting of instructor-led
training and hands-on workshops within the TestFlight environment
utilizing Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform on Intel
Architecture. The On-Ramp to Enterprise OpenStack Road Tour series
will begin early 2014. More information is available on line at http://www.redhat.com/onramp.
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