Red Hat expands commitment to open platform development and customer
choice; Industry-leading management vendors align with Red Hat
Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform
RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, today announced a new cloud management certification for Red
Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform as part of the Red Hat OpenStack
Cloud Infrastructure Partner Network, the world's largest commercial
ecosystem for OpenStack. Red Hat will enable cloud management solutions
from partners to interoperate with and manage Red Hat Enterprise Linux
OpenStack Platform. The certification offers customers confidence that
their OpenStack-based clouds and management solutions have been fully
tested together and are supported jointly by Red Hat and the
participating companies.
As datacenter infrastructures advance in their journey to the cloud,
today's enterprise reality is heterogeneity of virtualized
infrastructure and the need for integrated management solutions. With
Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform, Red Hat is maintaining its
deep commitment to several key benefits, including a long and stable
product lifecycle; tested and secure enterprise-grade solutions; and
robust integration through standard interfaces and APIs. The expansion
of Red Hat's certification program to include cloud management solutions
enables customers who want to deploy Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack
Platform at scale in a private cloud to also use their management
solution of choice.
Red Hat is working closely with many management solution providers,
including industry leaders BMC and HP. As members of the Red Hat
OpenStack Cloud Infrastructure Partner Network, these vendors have
provided key insight, feedback and support for the management
certification and are all in various stages of the certification process.
Since its inception in April 2013, Red Hat's OpenStack partner ecosystem
has grown from a select group of early adopters to a vast and diverse
set of companies, from infrastructure vendors - including independent
hardware vendors (IHVs) and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs),
systems integrators, and independent software vendors (ISVs). Today, the
Red Hat OpenStack Cloud Infrastructure Partner Network includes hundreds
of technology companies from all global regions that are collaborating
with Red Hat to deliver a robust portfolio of enterprise-grade OpenStack
solutions to joint customers. Red Hat's OpenStack ecosystem represents a
wide range of vertical industries, including telecommunications, where
industry shifts including software-defined networking (SDN) and network
functions virtualization (NFV) are driving interest in OpenStack.
Supporting Quotes
Radhesh Balakrishnan, general manager, virtualization and OpenStack,
Red Hat
"As OpenStack is becoming a core element of the enterprise cloud
strategy for many customers, Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform
is architected and backed by the broadest partner ecosystem to be the
preferred platform. The growth and maturity of the ecosystem reflects
the evolution of the product moving from addressing
infrastructure-centric alignment to help with early deployments to now
be well-managed, to be part of enterprise hybrid cloud implementations."
Chris Keene, president, BMC Cloud
"It has always been a priority for BMC to ensure that our customers have
both choice of underlying cloud infrastructure and the security of IT
process governance and compliance in the cloud. As enterprises expand
their production use of cloud computing, they are increasingly
challenged by managing hybrid cloud complexity and ensuring operational
and regulatory compliance. We are happy to collaborate with Red Hat on
their Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform to ensure that BMC
Cloud Lifecycle Management continues to deliver the platform neutrality
and cloud compliance needed for successful enterprise hybrid cloud
management."
Atul Garg, vice president and general manager, Cloud and Automation,
HP
"We are excited to work with Red Hat to certify HP Cloud Service
Automation and its solutions with Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack
Platform, to help our mutual customers build and manage private and
hybrid cloud services. Our joint efforts are aimed at enabling customers
to have choice and flexibility as they deploy cloud environments which
can easily flex and adapt to business needs while supporting
heterogeneity and leveraging existing investments in the datacenter."
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