Global availability of updated products across traditional
virtualization, OpenStack-powered Infrastructure-as-a-Service and
integrated cloud infrastructure
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-powered cloud
infrastructure offering, Red Hat Cloud Infrastructure. Red Hat Cloud
Infrastructure 4.0 gives enterprises an on-ramp to a highly scalable,
public cloud-like infrastructure based on OpenStack while providing
infrastructure and cost efficiency. The new version of Red Hat Cloud
Infrastructure features tighter integration between its virtualization,
cloud and platform components, enabling users to reduce image
inconsistencies and duplications by only creating a single set of
virtual images.
As an ongoing effort to meet growing business demands, enterprises are
quickly realizing the benefits of a cloud infrastructure, in addition to
leveraging their existing data center investments. Red Hat Cloud
Infrastructure 4.0 provides organizations with a comprehensive
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) platform that bridges operations over
existing traditional virtualization environments, as well as new private
and public cloud resources. It offers an alternative traditional
virtualization solution based on Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for
traditional workloads, as well as a tightly integrated OpenStack cloud
framework with the world's most trusted Linux operating environment, Red
Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform. Finally, it also includes Red
Hat CloudForms, a heterogeneous management tool to unify operations for
multiple hypervisor environments and cloud technologies, enabling
enterprises to deploy traditional and elastic workloads to the private
cloud, public cloud, and the datacenter as one cohesive environment. An
integrated open private cloud stack is a first step toward building an
open hybrid cloud, and Red Hat Cloud Infrastructure 4.0 provides
organizations this comprehensive cloud infrastructure as a
single-subscription offering.
Red Hat Cloud Infrastructure also includes Red Hat Enterprise Linux
OpenStack Platform, which provides enterprises the stability of Red Hat
Enterprise Linux, backed by Red Hat's trusted leadership in open source
and the OpenStack community. Engineered with Red Hat-hardened OpenStack
Havana code, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5, and the Red Hat Enterprise
Virtualization Hypervisor built on Kernel-based Virtual Machine, Red Hat
Cloud Infrastructure 4.0 provides the underlying support enterprises
need to meet their unique private cloud needs and was recently named "IaaS/PaaS
Product of the Year" by IDG publication TechWorld.
The updates to Red Hat Cloud Infrastructure come at a time when Red Hat
has refreshed its portfolio of Cloud Infrastructure offerings to
continue delivering on its open hybrid cloud vision. In December 2013,
Red Hat announced
the general
availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 4.0, and
along with today's announcement on Red Hat Cloud Infrastructure, Red Hat
today announced the general availability of Red
Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.3. The combined strength of these
upgraded virtualization and cloud infrastructure offerings provide a
highly secure, full-featured virtualization solution fully equipped to
manage heterogeneous cloud environments across Red Hat Enterprise
Virtualization, VMware vSphere, and Microsoft Hyper-V. The
virtualization layer also offers access to more sophisticated networking
through integration with Software-Defined Networking (SDN) technologies.
In addition to cloud management, Red Hat Cloud Infrastructure offers a
compelling infrastructure for cloud-enabled applications in a variety of
environments with the combination of Red Hat CloudForms and Red Hat
Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 4.0 with discovery, chargeback,
self-service provisioning, and more. Additionally, Red Hat Enterprise
Virtualization and Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform share
networking and image library services through Neutron and Glance,
respectively, so users can create, edit, and run OpenStack images from
one storage repository. In addition to saving on storage hardware costs,
a single set of images reduces inconsistencies, streamlines compliance
with security regulations, and decreases inefficient rounds of auditing.
Availability
Red Hat Cloud Infrastructure 4.0 is available immediately to existing
customers through their Red Hat Cloud Infrastructure subscription, and
to new customers by contacting Red Hat sales.
Virtual Event
Red Hat's general manager of Virtualization and OpenStack, Radhesh
Balakrishnan, will host a live webcast, to discuss Red Hat Cloud
Infrastructure's advancements at 11:00 a.m. ET on Jan. 22, 2014.
Following remarks, press and analysts are invited to participate in a
question and answer session. The virtual event will also include six
sessions to give attendees a product overview of Red Hat Cloud
Infrastructure, Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform, Red Hat
Enterprise Virtualization, Red Hat CloudForms, Red Hat Enterprise Linux
and Red Hat Storage Server.
To join the webcast or view the replay after the event, visit https://vts.inxpo.com/Launch/QReg.htm?ShowKey=17657.
Supporting Quotes
Radhesh Balakrishnan, general manager, virtualization, Red Hat
"Red Hat is excited about the updated offerings to meet the datacenter
virtualization and elastic cloud needs of customers structuring their
journey to an open hybrid cloud. These offerings are engineered to help
build a more productive and efficient open private cloud and provide a
more reliable infrastructure for IT and cloud operators. Now backed by
the worlds largest OpenStack partner ecosystem, Red Hat Cloud
Infrastructure helps IT to bridge datacenter infrastructure silos and
more effectively meet user needs."
Jimmy Pike, Vice President, senior fellow and chief architect, Dell
Enterprise Solutions Group
"Initial customer enthusiasm for Dell and Red Hat's joint engineering
agreement for OpenStack has been positive and we are encouraged by the
conversations and response. The combination of Dell's enterprise
experience and Red Hat Cloud Infrastructure's customer base offers
compelling value for businesses who wish to combine private cloud and
datacenter resources to match the pace of business needs." - Jimmy Pike,
Vice President, Senior Fellow and Chief Architect, Dell Enterprise
Solutions Group.
Ram Peddibhotla, director of Planning, Software & Services Group,
Intel
"With the updates to Red Had Cloud Infrastructure, Intel looks forward
to continuing its longstanding relationship with Red Hat to help more
enterprises to see the full potential of Red Hat Enterprise Linux
OpenStack Platform running on Intel® Xeon® processor-based servers. Red
Hat and Intel continue our long history of solving customer problems
with OpenStack-powered offerings such as the On-Ramp to Enterprise
OpenStack Program, accessible by all levels of users seeking to move
from traditional datacenter virtualization to an OpenStack cloud."
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