New features mirror growing enterprise demands for evolving cloud
infrastructures
RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, today announced the general availability of Red Hat Satellite
6.1, Red Hat's systems management solution for managing Red Hat
infrastructure. Since the launch of Red
Hat Satellite 6.0 in September 2014, new additions to the systems
management software bring upgraded security enhancements, enhanced
discovery and container management capabilities across physical, virtual
and cloud environments.
Red Hat Satellite 6.1 brings users significant upgrades in three key
areas:
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Container management
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Security
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Provisioning
Container Management
As cloud infrastructures continue to shift toward container-based
deployments, customers increasingly need an agile management solution
for new container setups housing sensitive applications and data. The
core capabilities of Satellite 6.1 now extend to container deployments -
making them more scalable, manageable and consistent - and allow Docker
users to tap into its modern design as they seek more control around
versioning, authentication and integration with existing platforms. A
scalable on-premise registry based with Role-Based Access Controls,
auditing and a robust API are now available for developers seeking to
manage systems in a container-based environment.
Security
Satellite 6.1 brings upgrades to errata management, allowing users to
quickly and easily address security, bugfix and enhancement errata.
Improved reporting now enables organizations to more quickly identify
and respond to hosts affected by a security vulnerability, minimizing
downtime and sensitive data exposure in vulnerability scenarios such as
those presented by Shellshock, Heartbleed and GHOST. Additionally,
OpenSCAP, a standardized approach to maintaining enterprise system
security, is now available in tech
preview. OpenSCAP automatically verifies the presence of patches,
checks system security configuration settings and examines systems for
signs of compromise in daily/weekly/monthly cadences that can be
customized by end users to best fit their own internal security
protocols.
Provisioning
Red Hat Satellite helps to simplify the provisioning process through new
discovery processes, allowing automatic bare metal discovery of unknown
nodes on the provisioning network. New nodes can self-register to Red
Hat Satellite and upload their hardware facts, and this discovery allows
the software to best determine the type of system to provision.
.Other new capabilities introduced in Red Hat Satellite 6.1 include:
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Multiple Network Support for provisioning systems with complex
networking requirements, including VLANs, Bonds and Aliased
interfaces. Satellite 6.1 includes newer provisioning templates and
workflows that enable the setup of complex interfaces as systems are
initially provisioned.
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Isolated Capsule Server, a key component of large Red
Hat Satellite installations, now features a number of communication
improvements. Communications between the managed host, Capsule Server
and Satellite Server are now better isolated and streamlined for a
more secure environment, allowing system administrators to more easily
deploy Red Hat Satellite Capsule in their environments.
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Tech preview of Red Hat Access Insights is a new automated,
opt-in service announced
at the 2015 Red Hat Summit. Red Hat Satellite users can identify key
risks to stability, performance and security through Red Hat Access
Insights, which offers recommendations of how to address discovered
issues.
Availability
Red Hat Satellite 6.1 is now generally available to all Red Hat
Satellite customers with a valid subscription at https://access.redhat.com/products/red-hat-satellite/.
Supporting Quotes
Joe Fitzgerald, vice president, Management Business Unit, Red Hat
"Red Hat Satellite 6.1 continues to evolve to meet ever-changing market
demands, especially the growing movement we are seeing toward
container-based cloud deployments. Building on the release of Red Hat
Satellite 6, this newest release allows developers to more easily
integrate Satellite into a hybrid cloud or container environment and
utilize better reporting around their hosts during the transition."
Mary Johnston Turner, Research Vice President, Enterprise System
Management Software, IDC
"The shift in enterprise infrastructure towards distributed and
container-based systems means that a holistic approach is needed when it
comes to managing these disparate systems. Red Hat Satellite 6.1
continues to move towards providing just such a solution, based on
community innovation, to help give enterprises a level of
standardization and control over these emerging technologies."
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