Red Hat Extends Private, Public and Hybrid Cloud Management
Capabilities with CloudForms 3.0
HONG KONG--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, today announced the next release of its cloud management
platform, Red Hat CloudForms 3.0. Based on a robust feature set stemming
from Red Hat's acquisition of ManageIQ in 2012, this new release of
CloudForms adds enterprise-grade cloud management capabilities for Red
Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform as well as enhanced
management capabilities for Amazon Web Services (AWS).
CloudForms already provided essential enterprise-level management and
automation capabilities for various infrastructure platforms, such as
VMware vSphere, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, and Amazon AWS.
CloudForms 3.0 expands support of these features to the Red Hat
Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform, providing cloud administrators and
operators with both new capabilities for managing OpenStack as well as
the ability to integrate OpenStack into existing environments through
unified management. CloudForms 3.0 also expands its support for AWS,
enabling users to seamlessly manage workloads running in public clouds
together with workloads in their private clouds. With CloudForms 3.0,
organizations now have greater choice and flexibility in building both
their private and hybrid clouds.
"OpenStack-based cloud management solutions are increasingly viewed by
Gartner clients as a means to mitigate risk of lock-in and expand vendor
choice in private and hybrid cloud deployments," according to Gartner in
its "2014
Planning Guide for Private Cloud, Data Center Modernization and Desktop
Transformation," report published Oct. 13, 2013.
CloudForms installs as a virtual appliance, enabling users to centrally
manage and automate workload lifecycles through self-service
provisioning and IT process workflows, assess capacity and utilization,
enforce quotas, intelligent workload placement, and orchestrate
post-provisioning operations. CloudForms' unique Adaptive Management
Platform™ anchors powerful features to automate OpenStack and other
cloud infrastructure platforms, including:
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Seamless Self-service Portals that provide users with
role-delegated, automated self-provisioning of catalog-driven IT
services, with requisite request approvals and integration with
enterprise service catalogs. Cloud Lifecycle Service Management spans
from provisioning to retirement, with automatic aging, tracking and
monitoring of services.
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Advanced Chargeback, Quotas and Metering, with detailed usage
tracking by configurable classifications and support for multiple
rates tables (fixed cost, allocation and usage) and reservation based
chargeback.
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Continuous Discovery and Insight from automatic, agent-free
discovery of OpenStack instances and relationships and capacity and
utilization, along with configuration tracking and drift comparison.
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Unified Operations Management, offering multi-site federation
that provides "single pane of glass" visibility across cloud and
virtual infrastructures, including runtime operations, service
configuration, utilization, events, timelines, reports and
customizable dashboard mash-ups.
CloudForms: Hybrid Cloud Management
Enterprises looking for ways to flexibly extend datacenter capacity and
achieve greater efficiencies and cost savings are, in many cases, moving
workloads to public clouds such as AWS. With CloudForms 3.0, enterprise
users can now seamlessly view, request and deploy workloads in AWS from
the same management framework they use to manage services in their
private cloud and virtual infrastructures. CloudForms leverages AWS'
capabilities for end-to-end lifecycle management of Amazon workloads,
including abilities to:
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Provision Amazon Machine Instances (AMIs) in a policy
controlled manner, through enterprise defined self-service portals and
service catalogs. State policies are enforced on source AMI's as well
as instance placement into destination regions and availability zones.
Identity and group affiliations also condition what can or cannot be
provisioned per enterprise regulatory, business and IT rules.
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Support Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), a logically
isolated section of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud containing
user defined virtual networks. Users can select authorized VPC/subnets
to provision and run their workloads, which are managed by CloudForm's
policies.
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Integrate with Amazon's Identity and Access Management (IAM),
which, together with CloudForm's Role Based Access Control (RBAC) and
permissions, give enterprises complete control over provisioning and
managing Amazon workloads and resources.
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Track Amazon workload performance and usage, alerting
administrators and users to performance thresholds.
CloudForms is also offered as part of Red Hat Cloud Infrastructure, a
comprehensive offering introduced
in June 2013, designed to support organizations on their journey
from traditional datacenter virtualization to OpenStack-powered clouds.
Red Hat Cloud Infrastructure combines Red Hat CloudForms, Red Hat
Enterprise Virtualization, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack
Platform for comprehensive open hybrid cloud enablement.
Availability
CloudForms 3.0 is generally available.
Supporting Quote
Bryan Che, general manager, Cloud, Red Hat
"With CloudForms 3.0, Red Hat continues to expand our open hybrid cloud
solutions to include critical cloud management capabilities. Red Hat
offers a comprehensive cloud portfolio to build private and public
clouds including an enterprise-ready OpenStack for cloud infrastructure,
Platform-as-a-Service with OpenShift by Red Hat, open software-defined
storage with Red Hat Storage, and CloudForms for comprehensive hybrid
cloud management."
Webcast
Red Hat's Bryan Che, general manager, Cloud, and Mike Werner, senior
director, Global Ecosystems, will host a webcast to discuss today's
announcements at 11 a.m. ET. Following remarks, press and analysts are
invited to participate in a question and answer session.
To join the webcast or view a replay, visit: https://vts.inxpo.com/Launch/QReg.htm?ShowKey=17243.
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