New community based on ManageIQ code aims to drive OpenStack adoption
and advance cloud management
ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, today announced the formation of the ManageIQ community,
which aims to provide the industry's leading open source cloud
management platform with advanced governance and automation
capabilities. Red Hat will contribute software acquired from ManageIQ,
Inc., which currently serves as the basis for its Red Hat CloudForms
open hybrid cloud management product. In addition to its software
contributions, Red Hat will also provide integration and orchestration
content for lab automation. This platform and content pairing help ease
the building of development and testing clouds based on OpenStack.
Additional content will be provided by a rich partner ecosystem joining
Red Hat in the ManageIQ community, including AutoTrader Group, Booz
Allen Hamilton, and CiRBA and Chef.
The ManageIQ community is Red Hat's latest significant contribution to
the OpenStack ecosystem, and this community takes the next step in
bringing together developers, service providers, system integrators,
researchers and users for collaborating and driving innovation in the
management of OpenStack and open hybrid clouds. In addition to being the
leading corporate contributor of code to the OpenStack Grizzly, Havana
and IceHouse
releases, Red Hat invests heavily in a number of core technologies that
complement the OpenStack ecosystem. Long-standing contributions advance
the Open Daylight community for software-defined networking, along with
new commitments to the Gluster and Ceph
communities for scale-out, open software-defined storage.
As more developers turn to OpenStack to build and integrate their
private cloud deployments, lab automation continues to be a critical
piece of these solutions. ManageIQ can provide the additional management
capabilities developers need, integrating with a number of OpenStack
technologies and projects, including Nova, Glance, Ceilometer and Heat,
allowing them to extend their OpenStack experience to lab automation for
a richer developer experience. By creating the ManageIQ community, Red
Hat extends its deep commitment to open source software and aims to
advance cloud management by driving open source innovation.
Beyond enabling development and test lab environments, ManageIQ will
also provide a rich set of management and operational capabilities for
all cloud deployments, from chargeback to tag-based policy and
orchestration, to capacity management. As enterprises and service
providers build their cloud infrastructure using OpenStack, they will be
able to use the open source ManageIQ platform to manage those
environments.
Red Hat provides Red Hat CloudForms as a commercial offering based on
the ManageIQ technologies for enterprises and service providers who
require an enterprise-grade, highly secure and integrated cloud
management solution. CloudForms provides heterogeneous support for the
management of hybrid clouds built on OpenStack, VMware, KVM, Microsoft
and Amazon technologies and includes essential lifecycle management
capabilities, certified integration with cloud providers, infrastructure
and enterprise systems management solutions, design and implementation
services, reference architectures and global 24/7 support. An integral
part of Red Hat Cloud Infrastructure, CloudForms enables organizations
to rapidly evolve to OpenStack for cloud workloads while also managing
traditional workloads across private and hybrid clouds.
Red Hat expects to launch the new ManageIQ open source community in the
coming weeks. Interested customers and developers can learn more about
joining the community at ManageIQ.org.
Supporting Quotes
Joe Fitzgerald, general manager, cloud management, Red Hat
"While some industry players have focused on building an open source
cloud infrastructure with OpenStack and selling expensive, proprietary
management software on top of that. We believe the entire cloud should
be open with no lock-in, so we are contributing this valuable code base
to open up the management stack for the first time."
Michael Coté, Research Director, Infrastructure Software, 451 Group
"OpenStack has been evolving at breakneck speed and it's clear that
proper monitoring and management is needed, from the basics of red/green
light monitoring to higher-level orchestration. As the OpenStack
infrastructure layers build out, it's encouraging to see people like Red
Hat focusing on solving these cloud management problems and open
sourcing ManageIQ will help provide an interesting, mature code base to
the community, not to mention, the product itself."
Jason Cantrell, Vice President, Technology, AutoTrader Group
"AutoTrader uses Red Hat CloudForms technology to help consolidate and
manage our cloud infrastructure, and we are excited to participate in
the ManageIQ community to drive features and requirements that truly
benefit the end-user."
Michael Farber, Executive Vice President, Booz Allen Hamilton
"We believe that a multi-cloud environment should leverage deep
integration across domains and processes, and we have developed rich
content that leverages the strength of the ManageIQ platform to do just
that. By actively participating in the community, we will be focusing on
advancing the key integration aspects of the platform."
Ken Cheney, VP of Business Development, Chef
"Success in today's digitally-driven economy means delighting customers,
which is only possible by using web-scale IT to move at extreme speed
and scale. Red Hat's ManageIQ Community brings together best-of-breed
open source, cloud computing, and IT automation technologies - all core
components of web-scale IT - and offers them on a single, open platform.
We're excited to join with Red Hat in driving faster, leaner, more agile
business and IT strategies through the ManageIQ Community."
Andrew Hillier, Co-Founder and CTO, CiRBA
"CiRBA is looking forward to contributing to the ManageIQ community and
enable integration between capacity control analytics and cloud
management. The combination will enable intelligent balancing of
application demand and capacity supply within and across clouds."
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