Source code, ready-to-use builds, forums and user videos now
available for developers on new ManageIQ website
RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Red Hat Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, today announced the launch of the ManageIQ
community with the availability of ManageIQ's fully open-sourced
code repository and the first builds of the project. The ManageIQ
community aims to provide the industry's leading open source cloud
management platform with advanced governance and automation
capabilities. Since plans for the ManageIQ community were announced
in May 2014, several additional partners have joined the community,
including BBVA, Cloudsoft, Gandi.net, ICE Systems, and VMTurbo.
Red Hat believes deeply in community-powered innovation and has long
been committed to open-sourcing the technology it acquires. By
contributing the software Red Hat acquired
from ManageIQ, Inc., which currently serves as the basis for its Red
Hat CloudForms open hybrid cloud management product, Red Hat continues
its significant contributions to the open source community, aiming to
advance cloud management through open source innovation. Today's
announcement fulfills a promise from Red Hat to release ManageIQ as an
open source project.
The ManageIQ community brings together developers, service providers,
systems integrators, researchers and users to collaborate and drive
innovation in the management of OpenStack and open hybrid clouds.
ManageIQ offers hybrid cloud governance and automation capabilities, as
well as the ability to build development and test clouds based on
OpenStack and other virtualization platforms as users look to move
toward a private Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) architecture. Users
now have more choice to automate and orchestrate their hybrid cloud
workloads on OpenStack, Amazon, KVM, Microsoft, and VMware technologies.
In addition to automating a broad set of hybrid cloud workloads,
ManageIQ has significant benefits for developers and administrators
exploring the world of DevOps. Instead of separately targeting multiple
platforms, an open hybrid platform facilitates access to DevOps with a
single interface and API for resource utilization and chargebacks across
all cloud platforms. The ManageIQ community expects to enhance these
capabilities for open hybrid cloud management and integrate
contributions as the community grows.
New Ecosystem Partners
Joining the contributing partners announced in April 2014, the ManageIQ
community has added several new partners, including:
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BBVA,
a multinational group providing financial services in over 30
countries and to 50 million customers throughout the world.
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Cloudsoft,
specializing in multi-cloud application management and offering
their Application Management Platform for enterprises to develop,
deploy and manage large-scale distributed applications across multiple
clouds;
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Gandi.net,
a major international domain name registrar and cloud-hosting
provider, managing more than 1.3 million domain names and 245
extensions;
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ICE
Systems, providing enterprise open source, infrastructure and
cloud management solutions and services for designing, implementing
and supporting future-proof infrastructure and cloud management
solutions; and
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VMTurbo,
a cloud and virtualization control company enabling organizations to
manage cloud and enterprise virtualization environments to maximize
infrastructure investments while assuring application performance
through their Software-Driven Control platform.
Supporting Quotes
John Mark Walker, community manager, ManageIQ community, Red Hat
"We are excited to see the positive industry response surrounding the
initial launch of the MangeIQ community and look forward to continuing
the work of advancing open cloud management to create a truly open
hybrid cloud. As more partners and contributors join the ManageIQ
community, we hope to see a more adaptive environment emerge for those
moving to an OpenStack-based cloud infrastructure."
Mary Johnston Turner, Research Vice President, Enterprise Systems
Management Software, IDC Research
"As more organizations begin to plan for OpenStack based clouds, we are
seeing increasing interest in open source cloud management solutions
that can build on OpenStack APIs and core technologies to provide robust
chargeback, monitoring and metering for private/hybrid clouds. With the
full release of the ManageIQ code, Red Hat is making an important
contribution towards the development of an open cloud management
ecosystem."
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