Reference architecture will help organizations build easily managed,
scalable, reliable, and interoperable private and hybrid clouds
ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, today announced collaboration with NetApp to deliver an open
hybrid cloud reference architecture based on OpenStack IceHouse, the
newest version of the rapidly maturing open source cloud software
platform. Based on open technologies, the architecture will help
organizations build agile, interoperable private and hybrid clouds that
are easily managed, massively scalable, and highly reliable. This
reference architecture will be designed to enable customers to more
closely integrate Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform with NetApp®
storage and data management technology.
For more than a decade, Red Hat and NetApp have collaborated to support
industry standards that give enterprises greater choice when deploying
new IT environments. The combination of Red Hat open source software
with NetApp storage and data management provides an open, interoperable,
standards-based foundation for new hybrid IT delivery models requiring a
mix of resources across physical, virtual, public, and private cloud
infrastructures. The Red Hat and NetApp solution for open hybrid cloud
with OpenStack features enterprise-level security, performance,
availability, and data management to reduce implementation risk, and
lower overall total cost of ownership.
The collaboration between the two companies extends to a support
relationship as Red Hat and NetApp work to provide highly collaborative
support to customers. Using combined best practices, the joint support
teams have adopted a process to quickly and efficiently engage the right
engineers to troubleshoot customer issues to resolution. Combining best
practices, adopting a collaborative process, and participating in
training exchanges and service reviews are the first steps in our
on-going commitment to providing an ideal support experience for our
customers.
NetApp and Red Hat continue to contribute to the success of OpenStack by
more tightly integrating their products and services with OpenStack.
Both companies announced their intent to drive file services standards
through Manila,
a new OpenStack project under consideration. Having diverse applications
critical to enterprise business, from server virtualization to
relational or distributed databases depends on the tight integration of
those services with file-based systems, such as NetApp products and
services. Manila aims to drive enterprise adoption of OpenStack by
creating tighter integration with the file-based storage market.
Additionally, Red Hat and NetApp have integrated key technologies with
the OpenStack Icehouse release. Red Hat was one of the leading corporate
contributors to OpenStack Icehouse, and is involved in many core and
emerging OpenStack projects. These contributions, along with the
pre-compiled installer to ease deployment, and integration with Red Hat
Enterprise Linux provide the security, reliability, and performance
needed to support mission critical workloads. Icehouse focuses on
maturity and stability as illustrated by its attention to rolling
upgrades amidst ongoing production deployment. NetApp's direct
contributions to OpenStack provide closely integrated access to storage
efficiency, data protection, continuous availability, scalability, and
quality of services features designed to accelerate and simplify
delivery of differentiated cloud services.
As part of Icehouse development, NetApp was actively engaged with
OpenStack to help bring enhanced block storage to enable tighter
integration with NetApp's storage and data management solutions,
expanding support and integration from the clustered Data ONTAP
operating system and FAS to SANtricity® software and the E-Series. The
Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform provides the foundation to
build a private or public infrastructure-as-a-service cloud that is more
tightly integrated with NetApp's products and services. It offers a
massively scalable, fault-tolerant platform for the development of
cloud-enabled workloads.
Supporting Quotes
Radhesh Balakrishnan, general manager, Virtualization and OpenStack,
Red Hat
"Many organizations don't have the resources to build an OpenStack
solution from scratch and deploy it into production. Red Hat and NetApp
are teaming to simplify this integration and implementation process and
deliver highly collaborative support for production workloads. The
combination of Red Hat's OpenStack and NetApp's storage and data
management offerings enable customers to implement an enterprise-class
OpenStack. We are excited about teaming with NetApp to take the
guesswork out of integration and implementation and thereby fuel the
enterprise adoption of OpenStack."
Phil Brotherton, vice president, Cloud Solutions Group, NetApp
"NetApp and Red Hat are helping enterprises deliver the cloud on their
terms with open, interoperable architectures built on accepted industry
standards. Together, we're contributing to the success of OpenStack with
a reference architecture designed to speed the deployment of scalable,
reliable and easily managed hybrid cloud solutions."
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