New cloud solution significantly simplifies the technologies needed
for enterprises to develop and run applications at scale
VANCOUVER, British Columbia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, today announced Red Hat Cloud Suite for Applications, an
accelerated way to develop, deploy, and manage applications at scale
using open source technologies.
As organizations move to the cloud, many are evolving toward
microservices architectures that run within containers to increase
scalability, portability, and efficiency. These new architectures
require massively scalable infrastructure in order to realize their full
benefit. However, many organizations also have a high volume of
workloads not yet adapted for a microservices or container-based
architecture, but which could benefit from having a solution that
supports both applications running within virtual machines and new
container-based application architectures. For example, developers may
require storage services that are necessary for stateful application
development, alongside a new container-based service. The ability to
deploy both types of workloads on a single platform with unified
management can enable an organization to realize new efficiencies.
Customers are increasingly seeking a complete, open source solution that
provides both scalable infrastructure and increased developer
productivity - with a broad choice of hardware and certified software
vendors.
Red Hat Cloud Suite for Applications helps solve these challenges by
providing both Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) for massive
scalability and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) for faster application
delivery, combined with a unified management framework that supports
hybrid deployment models. As the industry's first fully open source,
integrated IaaS and PaaS solution, Red Hat Cloud Suite for Applications
enables customers to avoid cloud silos and empowers them to select their
service model of choice to best meet changing business requirements.
Red Hat Cloud Suite for Applications integrates Red Hat's award-winning
PaaS, IaaS and hybrid cloud management offerings - OpenShift by Red Hat,
Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform, and Red Hat CloudForms,
respectively. With seamless management of both OpenShift and OpenStack
with Red Hat CloudForms, an enterprise management solution that enables
open hybrid clouds by providing consistent visibility across virtual
infrastructure and public cloud platforms, operators can more
effectively manage both PaaS and IaaS from a single console.
By integrating OpenShift with OpenStack, users not only have access to a
faster way to develop, deploy, and manage applications, they also have
access to a full suite of middleware and mobility services. In addition,
Red Hat Cloud Suite for Applications also supports a broad range of
certified hardware, servers and third-party plugins, bringing users
expanded choices for their cloud stack.
Availability
Red Hat Cloud Suite for Applications is available via an Early Access
Program. General availability for Red Hat Cloud Suite for Applications
will be announced at a later date.
Supporting Quotes
Paul Cormier, president, Products and Technologies, Red Hat
"Combining these powerful cloud offerings addresses a significant
customer need to reduce silos and enable more efficient OpenStack cloud
deployments. While other companies can provide one or two of the
building blocks for a cloud, Red Hat is the only vendor that can offer
IaaS, PaaS and management in an open environment, backed by the strength
of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and the ability to leverage certified
hardware of their choice."
Gary Chen, research manager, Cloud and Virtualization System
Software, IDC
"Open source is driving significant innovations in cloud computing.
Today, we see increasing convergence between IaaS and PaaS. By bringing
these open source solutions together, along with integrated management,
Red Hat is enabling customers to take advantage of this cloud
convergence with a fully open source, integrated stack offering."
Jim Ganthier, VP and GM of Engineered Solutions and Cloud, Dell
"Cloud developers have often faced long lead times and cumbersome
processes to host and run development environments on their
infrastructure. Bringing Platform-as-a-Service and
Infrastructure-as-a-Service together gives software developers and
architects the benefits of both a scalable infrastructure and improved
productivity. The delivery of an industry first, open source, integrated
(IaaS and PaaS) application suite is one way that Dell and Red Hat are
working together to provide customers with a simpler, faster, more cost
effective path to a future ready hybrid cloud that meets their needs now
and helps them prepare for the future."
Anuj Bhalla, VP and Global Business Head - Products and System
Integration Services, Wipro Limited
"Wipro has long pioneered Open Source Adoption for its customers
and offers Open Datacenter and Open Apps offerings to address customer
needs to migrate to open source platforms and manage them. Wipro and Red
Hat have strategically invested in creating reference architecture in
the area of Hybrid Cloud and DevOps Automation. We see a clear need for
addressing heterogeneous client infrastructure through a vertically
integrated stack. Through Red Hat's robust offering, Red Hat Cloud Suite
for Applications, we believe we will be able to continue working
together to offer container-based DevOps solutions with OpenShift and
scalable infrastructure using Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack
Platform, enabling our customers as they build and manage a hybrid
cloud."
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