New virtual appliance for Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform
gives users hands-on experience with Red Hat's enterprise-ready
OpenStack platform
RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, today announced Open Virtual Appliance for Red Hat Enterprise
Linux OpenStack Platform, enabling organizations with VMware-based
infrastructures to easily and rapidly deploy and evaluate Red Hat
Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform for proof of concept deployments.
Designed to meet growing interest in Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack
Platform from users, Open Virtual Appliance for Red Hat Enterprise Linux
OpenStack Platform is designed to enable users to have a working
deployment of OpenStack in mere minutes.
Open Virtual Appliance for Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform
eases the installation process, providing organizations the ability to
run Red Hat's enterprise-ready OpenStack platform and experience the
power of OpenStack firsthand. With only a few clicks and basic VMware
environment information, customers can use Open Virtual Appliance for
Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform to quickly and easily deploy
a non-production OpenStack environment on an evaluation basis at no cost.
For customers interested in a fully supported version of OpenStack, Red
Hat offers Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform, an
enterprise-ready distribution of OpenStack, designed to bring customers
the same value and benefits they have long associated with Red Hat,
including a long and stable product lifecycle, award-winning global
support, services and training. Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack
Platform is backed by the industry's largest OpenStack ecosystem,
resulting in a robust catalog of tested and secure enterprise-grade
solutions; and robust integration through standard interfaces and APIs.
Availability
Open Virtual Appliance for Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform
is expected to be available in the coming week for users to download
from the Red
Hat Customer Portal Page for use in their Red Hat Enterprise Linux
OpenStack Platform or VMware, vSphere or vCloud Suite environments.
Consulting and Training Offerings for Red Hat Enterprise Linux
OpenStack Platform
Red Hat Global Services offers a variety of consulting and training
offerings designed to deploy and optimize Red Hat Enterprise Linux
OpenStack Platform. Using validated methods for installing and
configuring the technology, Red Hat Consulting works with customers to
determine needs and define a technology roadmap, architect and deploy
Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform, migrate workloads, and
provide guidance on best practices for ongoing success.
Red Hat Training complements these engagements with courses designed to
provide customers with skills needed to install, configure, and manage
Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform. With four different
OpenStack courses offered globally in modalities ranging from classroom
to on-site to online learning, Red Hat Training also offers a
performance-based certification exam, Red Hat Certified System
Administrator in Red Hat OpenStack, which validates skills needed to
create, configure, and manage private clouds using the technology.
Supporting Quote
Radhesh Balakrishnan, general manager, Virtualization and OpenStack,
Red Hat
"The Open Virtual Appliance for Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack
Platform is designed to meet the customer need to make OpenStack easy to
evaluate in environments with existing VMware vSphere and vCloud Suite
infrastructures. In addition, this underscores our broader efforts
already in motion around development, hardening and QE to make OpenStack
enterprise-ready."
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