Yale-NUS College deploys enterprise-grade OpenStack solutions,
co-engineered by Red Hat and Dell, to create hybrid cloud
infrastructure, reduces application deployment time by 80 percent
TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
OPENSTACK SUMMIT--Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading
provider of open source solutions, and Dell today announced that
Yale-NUS College, Singapore's first liberal arts college, has created a
hybrid cloud - one of the region's first - based on Red Hat and Dell
solutions. With Red Hat Cloud Infrastructure, a comprehensive solution
that supports organizations on their journey from traditional datacenter
virtualization to OpenStack-powered clouds - running on a certified
platform of Dell PowerEdge servers and Dell Networking, Yale-NUS College
has created a hybrid cloud platform to gives its researchers, students
and administrators access to automated, self-service processes for
server requests and enable faster deployment.
Yale-NUS College was established in 2011 as a collaboration between Yale
University and the National University of Singapore (NUS) to provide a
new model for liberal arts colleges in Asia. Yale-NUS College's IT
Infrastructure and Services team was tasked with creating an IT
infrastructure that could support the growing liberal arts college's
students, researchers and staff with limited IT staff resources. The
college built a private cloud for the data that needed to stay on site
for legal and latency issues, with interconnectivity to cost-effective
public cloud services. They used the hybrid cloud infrastructure project
to rethink traditional approaches to IT in educational institutions,
where many universities separate scientific research from other
requirements, instead opting to create a cloud environment that would
enable them to serve all of their customers via the same computing
resources.
Yale-NUS College required a flexible solution that would enable them to
quickly scale to meet demands for everything from compute-heavy
scientific research to virtual environments for teaching and
administrative purposes. They sought to create a highly interoperable
and customizable cloud solution that would not only give them visibility
into these diverse and changing workload demands, but which would also
be able to cater to changes as the institution evolved without the need
for heavy capital expenditure. With a small IT team, Yale-NUS College
also required a solution that would support a high degree of automation
and long-term stability to minimize downtime.
To address these challenges, Yale-NUS College created a software-defined
datacenter and hybrid cloud based on a co-engineered Red Hat and Dell
OpenStack cloud solution. Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform -
part of Red Hat Cloud Infrastructure - was selected as the broad
encompassing cloud foundation for Yale-NUS, making it easier to find
skilled staff and to integrate the technologies with a broad range of
open infrastructure. And, Yale-NUS College deployed Red Hat Enterprise
Linux across its infrastructure, giving them increased consistency of
security, control and management across the footprints of bare metal,
virtual machines, private cloud and public cloud.
Based on the proven integration between Dell and Red Hat, the college
selected Dell PowerEdge R720 and R720XD servers optimized for Linux
workloads to create an easily-scalable solution designed to meet their
needs now and in the future. Yale-NUS College also wanted future-ready
networking to enable a software-defined data center, so selected Dell
Networking S4810P and S55 switches, which helped to streamline costs,
ease management and accelerate performance.
As a result of this transition, Yale-NUS has reduced the complexity of
their datacenters so much that their IT infrastructure only requires
nine managing engineers, who are able to use their background knowledge
of Linux to run the hybrid clouds. With the combined Red Hat-Dell
OpenStack-based cloud, Yale-NUS College has reduced application
deployment time by 80 percent and brought greater agility to Yale-NUS
College's IT operations. They can now quickly add or remove capacity for
their computing, storage and networking needs based on changing end-user
workload requirements, and the hybrid platform gives the college the
ability to run some workloads in-memory while moving others between
virtual and physical servers. Installing new server hardware, which
previously took Yale-NUS days to complete, now only takes one or two
hours, reducing the workload and increasing the systems' flexibility.
Yale-NUS also cut capital requirements with the OpenStack-based
solution, reducing the need for specialized hardware and enabling
students to access the system through their own laptops, reducing the
need for computer labs with underutilized machines.
Dell and Red Hat have collaborated for more than 15 years to provide
enterprise-grade open source-based solutions that offer greater agility
to customers. Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform software and
Dell enterprise cloud components are designed, co-engineered and
integrated to accelerate time to value with open and flexible
configurations that maximize choice and help avoid vendor lock-in. These
solutions enable simplified cloud implementation through
enterprise-grade software, certified platforms, professional services
and complete lifecycle support. OpenStack cloud solutions from Red Hat
and Dell help transform IT service delivery by deploying flexible and
highly scalable cloud services that can support business needs.
Supporting Quotes
Darwin Gosal, senior manager, IT Services, Office of Educational
Resources & Technology, Yale-NUS College
"We needed to be able to acquire advance capability without heavy
capital expenditure and Red Hat Cloud Infrastructure on Dell solutions
presented a solution that could easily integrate public infrastructure
into our own. Due to the fundamental design principle of leveraging
powerful hardware and open source software to establish our datacenter,
we are seeing great interest in the possible replication of our
architecture in other universities."
Radhesh Balakrishnan, general manager, OpenStack, Red Hat
"Yale-NUS College is a strong example of what we see today in terms of
customers who are rethinking what the modern datacenter should look like
- they not only created a flexible hybrid cloud environment to meet
their diverse workload requirements and better serve their customers,
but they also sought consistency across their footprints. They've turned
to Red Hat Enterprise Linux to create a solid foundation and the basis
for consistency across physical, virtual, private and public cloud. And
I'm pleased that they deployed Red Hat Cloud Infrastructure on Dell
solutions to create their highly scalable cloud. Red Hat and Dell are
collaborating deeply on OpenStack, and we're pleased to see the early
success achieved by Yale-NUS College."
Jim Ganthier, vice president and general manager,Engineered Solutions
and Cloud, Dell
"Like many organizations today, Yale-NUS College was looking to maximize
its business results by developing a cloud solution that met their
business needs today and into the future. The Dell and Red Hat
OpenStack-based hybrid cloud infrastructure gave them the speed,
agility, interoperabilityand customizable solution needed to reduce the
costs and complexity of their school's multi-cloud environment, and
resulted in 80 percent reduced application deployment time and greater
cost efficiency. Dell and Red Hat have had a long history of
collaborating to solve customer challenges, and we're happy to mark yet
another success story in our joint partnership."
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