Red Hat cited for "very composable package by leveraging a mix of
market standards and open source in addition to its own development"
RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, today announced that it has been named a leader in two
Forrester research reports ranking private cloud software suites and
hybrid cloud management solutions. "The Forrester Wave™: Private Cloud
Software Suites, Q1 2016" and "The Forrester Wave™: Hybrid Cloud
Management Solutions, Q1 2016" reports assessed vendors in terms of
their current offerings, market presence, and strategy, and Red Hat was
placed as a leader in both reports.
"Red Hat ... leads the evaluation with its powerful portal, top
governance capabilities, and a strategy built around integration, open
source, and interoperability. Rather than trying to build a custom
approach for completing functions around operations, governance, or
automation, Red Hat provides a very composable package by leveraging a
mix of market standards and open source in addition to its own
development," "The Forrester Wave™: Private Cloud Software Suites, Q1
2016" report noted.
According to Forrester, the private cloud market "is growing because
more I&O professionals see private cloud as the platform to enable their
customer experience transformation. When selecting a solution,
enterprises look for speed to provision, control of access and fully
published APIs." In "The Forrester Wave™: Hybrid Cloud Management
Solutions, Q1 2016," Forrester indicated that, "Sixty-five percent [of
survey respondents] say they already use more than one public and/or
private cloud platform, indicating that the hybrid cloud is a reality
today."
For "The Forrester Wave™: Private Cloud Software Suites, Q1 2016"
report, Forrester conducted a 40-criteria evaluation of the nine most
significant private cloud software providers. Each evaluated vendor
sells a software-only solution that allows for complete automation and
management of the cloud infrastructure provisioning process. Red Hat
"received top marks for workflow life-cycle automation, administrative
portal usability and experience, permissions, compliance tracking,
capacity monitoring, platform APIs, ITSM and developer tools, and
configuration management tool integration."
Red Hat CloudForms was also named a leader in "The Forrester Wave™:
Hybrid Cloud Management Solutions, Q1 2016." For this writeup, Forrester
evaluated hybrid cloud management vendors against 32 criteria and
grouped them into three high-level buckets based on current offerings,
strategy and market presence. Red Hat was listed as one of the "top
choices for developer and DevOps teams concerned mainly with building
applications that run across multiple clouds, with a strong preference
for public cloud platforms."
Red Hat's private cloud and cloud management portfolio has experienced
significant momentum over the past year. The latest version of its
hybrid cloud management platform, Red Hat CloudForms 4, was released
in December 2015 and delivered expanded capabilities, including
support for Microsoft Azure. This inclusion marked a key milestone in
Red Hat's recently-announced
partnership with Microsoft - a collaboration aimed at enabling
customers to embrace hybrid cloud computing by providing greater choice
and flexibility for the deployment of Red Hat solutions on Microsoft
Azure. Red Hat also updated its cloud infrastructure portfolio in the summer
of 2015, introducing Red Hat Cloud Infrastructure 6 with a unified
installer designed to enable smoother deployment of a complete private
cloud spanning infrastructure and management platforms.
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Tim Yeaton, senior vice president, Infrastructure Business Group, Red
Hat
"As private clouds and suites for building and deploying them continue
to mature, we believe that Red Hat's solution capabilities and
milestones in cloud management and private cloud are being recognized by
research firms for offering thoroughness, integration, and customer
value. These solution offerings from Red Hat provide the IaaS, PaaS and
management building blocks for an enterprise-scale hybrid cloud,
bringing innovations that come from a strong core in the upstream open
source community. The structure of these solutions also reflect the
strategic direction set by our work with partners, enabling even more
customers to embrace open source cloud management that spans their
multiple platforms and styles of deployment."
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