Red Hat Cloud Infrastructure 5 enables organizations to manage
OpenStack and virtualization environments via a unified platform
PARIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, today announced the general availability of Red Hat Cloud
Infrastructure Version 5, featuring the powerful systems management
capabilities of Red Hat Satellite. Red Hat Cloud Infrastructure is a
comprehensive solution that supports organizations on their journey from
traditional datacenter virtualization to OpenStack-powered clouds. With
Red Hat Cloud Infrastructure Version 5, users can now manage their
virtualization and OpenStack environments simultaneously, via a single
platform.
IT organizations are in the midst of a shift from traditional
virtualization to more cloud-enabled architectures, and charting the
course to move application workloads from one architecture to another
while maintaining manageability and policies across discrete platforms.
Red Hat Cloud Infrastructure is designed to address this need and
enables organizations to build and manage a private cloud
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) based upon datacenter virtualization
and management technologies for traditional workloads, while providing
an on-ramp to a highly scalable public-cloud-like infrastructure based
on Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform.
With the debut of Red Hat Cloud Infrastructure 5, the single
subscription offering now includes:
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Red Hat CloudForms, an open hybrid cloud management solution
that provides visibility and control over existing heterogeneous
virtual infrastructures and lets users deploy, monitor, and manage
cloud services across virtualization environments and public, private,
and hybrid clouds.
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Red Hat Satellite, a comprehensive solution providing complete
lifecycle management across all components of Red Hat Cloud
Infrastructure, including physical infrastructure and tenant workloads.
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform, a highly scalable
IaaS solution that delivers an open, flexible, and enterprise-ready
private cloud foundation built on the community OpenStack project
integrated with and optimized for Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
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Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, a comprehensive datacenter
virtualization product for Linux and Windows workloads that enables
users to build an agile, secure virtualization foundation with the
features needed for traditional enterprise application workloads.
The integration between these components of Red Hat Cloud Infrastructure
provides true value and environment management for customers. Red Hat
CloudForms provides self-service portals, provisioning, chargeback,
metering of services on Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform and
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, while Red Hat Satellite performs Red
Hat Enterprise Linux provisioning and lifecycle management tasks
including discovery, drift remediation and Red Hat Enterprise Linux
guest provisioning.
In September 2014, Red Hat debuted Red
Hat Satellite 6, providing a single management console and
methodology for managing the tools required to build, deploy, run and
retire a system. Red Hat also expanded its hybrid cloud management
capabilities in CloudForms earlier
this year, adding private and public cloud platform support across a
variety of hosting options, including OpenStack, Red Hat Enterprise
Virtualization, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft System Center Virtual
Machine Manager, and VMware.
Supporting Quotes
Gary Chen, Research Manager, Cloud and Virtualization System
Software, IDC
"As more organizations continue to deploy traditional enterprise
workloads and adopt new cloud native applications, it can be a challenge
to blend the two environments and support the dynamics of both workload
types. Red Hat Cloud Infrastructure's varied capabilities enables users
to create their own blend of cloud resources at their own pace, with a
management system spanning resources for workloads across virtualized,
private cloud, and public cloud environments."
Joe Fitzgerald, vice president and general manager, Cloud Management,
Red Hat
"Hybrid environments are simply the reality of today's IT organizations,
and organizations want to get to the cloud on their own terms and
timeline. Red Hat Cloud Infrastructure acknowledges that reality, and by
bringing software lifecycle and configuration management capabilities
that span physical, virtual and cloud systems to users via the addition
of Red Hat Satellite, we're helping to establish Red Hat Cloud
Infrastructure as one of the most comprehensive and premier cloud
infrastructure solutions for enterprises."
Frank Seiferth, Senior Director, Strategic Business Development, IIS
Technology
"For our customers looking to build out their next generation IT
infrastructure, Red Hat Cloud Infrastructure 5 presents a strong and
appealing value proposition. As these customers move to heterogeneous,
hybrid clouds, Red Hat Cloud Infrastructure can help them find
significant cost savings in an easy to procure and consume model."
Webcast
To learn more, you are invited to attend a webcast on Nov. 19, 2014,
titled "Building and Managing a Hybrid Cloud with Red Hat Cloud
Infrastructure." The event will feature IDC Research Manager Gary Chen
and Red Hat's James Labocki, product manager for Red Hat Cloud
Infrastructure.
Register here: https://vts.inxpo.com/Launch/QReg.htm?ShowKey=22424
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