Major release of Red Hat's award-winning hybrid cloud management
platform offers advanced self-service and expanded operational
capabilities for comprehensive lifecycle management
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
CloudForms 4, the latest version of its award-winning hybrid cloud
management solution. Built on an open platform, Red Hat CloudForms 4
goes beyond self-service, offering a consistent experience and
comprehensive lifecycle management across platforms spanning
virtualization, private cloud, public cloud and containers.
Support for Microsoft Azure and expanded container management
The release of Red
Hat CloudForms 3.2 debuted the industry's first open source cloud
management platform to manage OpenStack infrastructure and workloads
from a single platform, and with CloudForms 4, Red Hat continues to add
functionality for the platforms and tools that developers and operators
demand.
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Support for Microsoft Azure - Following Red
Hat and Microsoft's recent partnership announcement, Red Hat
CloudForms now expands its collection of managed platforms to include
Microsoft Azure, enabling Azure customers to manage those workloads
and resources within CloudForms.
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Support for containers - As more
enterprises plan to run their workloads inside containers, they
want introspection into these new configurations. CloudForms 4 adds
management for container architectures, giving customers visibility
into workloads running in OpenShift
Enterprise by Red Hat and the infrastructure hosting OpenShift. In
this manner, CloudForms can manage the relationships from the
container through the Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) layer to the
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) layer or the physical host.
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Improved self-service and operations - Improved dashboards and
charts within CloudForms enable users to better see the relationships
between different cloud platforms and container hosts running in
production.
Red Hat CloudForms continually discovers and automatically inspects new
resources, providing operational insight into platforms including:
Amazon Web Services; Hyper-V; Microsoft Azure; OpenShift by Red Hat;
OpenStack; Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization and VMware. Red Hat
CloudForms also applies automated policy to manage corporate compliance
and governance of resources from a single operational interface.
ManageIQ Community Momentum
Red Hat CloudForms 4 is the third release based on the ManageIQ
open source project, which was launched in June 2014 by Red Hat based on
the code from the acquisition
of ManageIQ, Inc. The ManageIQ community brings together developers,
service providers, systems integrators, researchers and users to
collaborate and drive innovation in the unified management of hybrid
cloud environments. Since the last release of CloudForms, the community
has gained significant traction, with contributions from:
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Booz Allen Hamilton, who contributed code to integrate Project
Jellyfish, its open source cloud broker, with ManageIQ. Booz Allen
launched Project Jellyfish in 2014 with the goal of making smarter,
more intuitive cloud service management and brokering more readily
available. Project
Jellyfish forms the basis for the new self-service user interface
in Red Hat CloudForms 4.
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Nuage Networks, who is building a provider for CloudForms to
manage software-defined networking (SDN), planned for inclusion in a
future CloudForms release.
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Produban, the IT organization of Grupo Santander, is
contributing improved chargeback and billing support to the ManageIQ
project.
Availability
Red Hat CloudForms 4 is immediately available for customers with a
subscription to download.
Supporting Quotes
Joe Fitzgerald, vice president, Management, Red Hat
"CloudForms 4 marks a milestone in hybrid cloud management. The addition
of container management will enable CloudForms to provide a unified
management experience across a wider variety of cloud platforms. We are
also pleased to both continue building Red Hat's strategic relationship
with Microsoft and meet customer requests by adding management
capabilities for Microsoft Azure. With Red Hat CloudForms 4, customers
can find the industry's broadest hybrid cloud management solution built
on open source technologies."
Jarid Cottrell, chief technologist, Booz Allen Hamilton
"The integration of Project Jellyfish with ManageIQ is a testament to
Booz Allen's long-standing relationship with Red Hat. We have worked
together to advance and lead true end-to-end, open cloud solutions.
Users will begin to see the integration of Project Jellyfish with
ManageIQ in CloudForms 4's new self-service capabilities, with more
exciting features planned for subsequent releases. Through our Strategic
Alliance with Red Hat, we're engaging in more innovative ways of doing
business, beyond the Project Jellyfish and ManageIQ collaboration."
Corey Sanders, Director of Compute, Microsoft Azure
"By integrating Red Hat CloudForms management capabilities with
Microsoft Azure, we are extending our commitment to choice and
flexibility across the Red Hat and Microsoft ecosystems. We're pleased
to further extend our strategic alliance with Red Hat in order to meet
customer demands in today's hybrid, heterogeneous world."
Sunil Khandekar, CEO, Nuage Networks
"We are excited to be collaborating with Red Hat and the ManageIQ
community to bring software defined networking capabilities into
CloudForms. As our customers embrace cloud platforms, they are looking
to simplify and consolidate operations management, and extending that to
meet their networking requirements. Bringing the network service
abstraction and automation capabilities of Nuage Networks Virtualized
Services Platform (VSP) into CloudForms can enable progressive
cloud-builders to orchestrate both the compute resources and the
networking resources from a single system."
Juan Antonio de la Fuente, engineering director, Produban
"As the technology company for Grupo Santander, one of the world's
largest banks, we are under constant pressure to bring innovative
solutions to the business that allow us to keep our competitive edge. By
working with Red Hat in the ManageIQ community, we sidestep the
classical 'buy vs build' decision and choose both options. We jointly
innovate with Red Hat building solutions that have help us to solve some
of our business problems, which we can then buy as off the shelf
products that have none of the disadvantages of a custom 'build.' The
joint innovation partnership with Red Hat has proven extremely valuable
to us."
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