Red Hat Powers Cloud-Scale DevOps with the General Availability of Red Hat Cloud Suite and Red Hat OpenStack Platform 8
Latest Red Hat hybrid cloud solutions offer improved hybrid
management, security, and performance via integration with Linux
containers, Red Hat CloudForms and Red Hat Ceph Storage
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 Cloud Suite and Red
Hat OpenStack Platform 8, helping to bridge the gap between
development and operations teams at the scale of cloud computing. With
today’s newly-available products, Red Hat now offers a complete,
integrated hybrid cloud stack with a container application platform
(OpenShift by Red Hat), massively scalable infrastructure (Red Hat
OpenStack Platform 8) and unified management tools (Red Hat CloudForms),
all available individually or via a single, easy-to-deploy solution with
Red Hat Cloud Suite.
A growing number of organizations are building private clouds1,
to give them massively scalable and modern infrastructure, while
maintaining increased security and control. According to the Red
Hat Global Customer Tech Outlook 2016, a global survey of Red Hat
customers, private cloud deployments are expected to outpace public
cloud by 6x. In addition, development teams are looking to streamline
the creation and deployment of new cloud-native applications while IT
leadership is hoping to meet growing business demands with cloud-based
automation.
Red Hat’s latest cloud solutions help answer these needs through the
availability of:
- Red Hat OpenStack Platform 8, the newest version of Red Hat’s
leading OpenStack offering, adds optimized storage and management
capabilities through the native inclusion of Red Hat Ceph Storage and
Red Hat CloudForms, respectively.
- Red Hat Cloud Suite, a pre-integrated set of Red Hat’s cloud
technologies that, for the first time, allows for cloud-native
application development and deployment with the inclusion of OpenShift
by Red Hat in addition to massively-scalable infrastructure and
unified management.
Red Hat’s OpenStack-based private cloud solutions provide an open
foundation to meet production-level needs of today’s modern businesses,
combining highly-scalable infrastructure and management with developer
productivity, backed by a broad ecosystem of certified hardware and
software providers. Available as a single platform with Red Hat
OpenStack Platform or as an integrated offering through Red Hat Cloud
Suite, Red Hat’s cloud solutions help customers build scalable,
fault-tolerant, IaaS environments.
Red Hat OpenStack Platform 8
Forming the backbone of Red Hat’s hybrid cloud offerings is Red Hat
OpenStack Platform 8, the latest version of the company’s highly
scalable IaaS platform based on the OpenStack community “Liberty”
release. A co-engineered solution that integrates the proven foundation
of Red Hat Enterprise Linux with Red Hat’s OpenStack technology to form
a production-ready cloud platform, Red Hat OpenStack Platform is
becoming a gold standard for large production OpenStack deployments.
Hundreds of global production deployments and even more
proof-of-concepts are underway, and in the information and
telecommunications industry, a strong ecosystem of industry leaders are
rallying around Red Hat OpenStack Platform for transformative network
functions virtualization (NFV) and software-defined networking (SDN)
deployments.
With the debut of Red Hat OpenStack Platform 8, Red Hat’s core OpenStack
offering now natively includes:
- Automated upgrades and updates; easily upgrade major point
releases and minor updates. A component of the Red Hat OpenStack
Platform director, it automatically performs the necessary system-wide
updates to both the core OpenStack services, as well as the director
tool itself, helping to deliver a healthy and stable OpenStack cloud
while minimizing downtime.
- Infrastructure and workload management included; use Red
Hat CloudForms for lifecycle and operational management over OpenStack
infrastructure and workloads. CloudForms can manage Linux and
Windows workloads running on top of OpenStack, including lifecycle
management, usage monitoring and reporting, multi-node orchestration,
and governance and policy-based access control.
- Software-defined storage; Red Hat Ceph Storage, Red Hat’s
massively scalable, software-defined storage solution, is now included
with Red Hat OpenStack Platform, offering an initial 64 terabytes of
highly flexible object and block storage. The most popular storage
solution for OpenStack clouds2 provides users with a
single, efficient platform to support the demanding storage needs of
an OpenStack-based cloud.
- Telco-focused preview; version 8 adds several new and critical
tech preview features focused on improving network virtualization
functions. With this release there is more assured predictable latency
with real-time KVM, improved network I/O performance with DPDK-
accelerated Open vSwitch; and an OpenDaylight networking plugin for
customers intending to build a software-defined network.
Red Hat Cloud Suite
Now available, Red Hat Cloud Suite combines the award-winning
container application platform OpenShift
Enterprise, with a massively scalable cloud infrastructure in the
form of Red Hat OpenStack Platform, and a common management framework
through Red
Hat CloudForms. Red Hat Cloud Suite enables users to accelerate new
cloud-based services for private cloud and application development and
optimize existing workloads through improved virtualization and
performance. This enables a modern cloud environment where application
delivery teams can focus on development, testing, and deployments using
modern cloud-based containerized microservice solutions, while
maintaining control and visibility.
Additional products in Red Hat Cloud Suite bring users further
management and infrastructure capabilities, including:
- A unified management experience; spanning operations and
lifecycle management, self-service, and infrastructure monitoring.
These powerful management tools provided by Red
Hat Satellite cover rolling updates for deployment, configuration,
patch and subscription management. A new self-service catalog extends
to cover the lifecycle, operation, and financial management of
services that customers deploy.
- Newly-added infrastructure monitoring with risk management and
analytics; proactively collecting infrastructure analytics that
enable customers to manage technical risks before they impact
operations. Red
Hat Insights, a newly-released operations management service,
provides these monitoring capabilities spanning Red Hat OpenStack
Platform, Red Hat CloudForms, and Red Hat Satellite.
- Integrated application development and portability, enabling
users to build and deploy applications in a familiar, open source
container application platform environment through OpenShift
Enterprise by Red Hat. Linux containers built on standard Docker
format are dependent on the same operating system kernel, consuming
fewer resources and increasing portability. Kubernetes-based container
orchestration within Red Hat Cloud Suite also allows operators to
manage their Linux containers as a single system.
- KVM-based virtualization platform with the newly updated Red
Hat Enterprise Virtualization, offering simplified virtual
machine-to-virtual machine migrations.
-
Open, massively scalable, software-defined storage with the
inclusion of Red
Hat Ceph Storage as part of Red Hat OpenStack Platform 8.
Supporting Quotes
Tim Yeaton, senior vice president, Infrastructure Business, Red Hat
“OpenStack-based private clouds are rapidly becoming the standard in
scalable enterprise computing, but require a vibrant ecosystem of
technologies, services and hardware to help organizations truly realize
their potential. Red Hat OpenStack Platform 8 and Red Hat Cloud Suite
showcase the power of Red Hat’s open innovation, with solutions that can
address nearly any private cloud deployment scenario while at the same
time delivering a streamlined cloud-native application development
platform coupled with the needed enterprise-level controls for cloud
management and improved security.”
Jim Ganthier, vice president and general manager, Engineered
Solutions, HPC and Cloud, Dell
“Most organizations and enterprises are turning to clouds because they
open up new opportunities to deliver business results. With the release
of Red Hat OpenStack Platform 8, organizations have the opportunity to
modernize their IT infrastructure with a production-capable OpenStack
cloud platform to capitalize on the promise of cloud, and the benefits
of open source technologies. Through our close relationship, Dell and
Red Hat have integrated Red Hat OpenStack Platform 8 into the latest
release of our co-engineered Dell Red Hat OpenStack Cloud Reference
Architecture, offering our customers a highly reliable and rapid path to
an enterprise-ready OpenStack cloud.”
Stephen O’Grady, principal analyst, RedMonk
"With the dramatic rise of public cloud has come the demand for private
infrastructure to mirror many of its capabilities, from dynamic
provisioning to scalability, and OpenStack was created especially for
this purpose. Red Hat is not only offering enterprise-grade support for
the open source IaaS project, it's extending it by adding
Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) capabilities."
Odd Wallér, Manager, Java Hosting Service Design, Volvo IT
“A strategic priority for our team is to introduce new, cloud-based
connected services that can innovate our offerings, including mobile
apps, a cloud user portal and call center services, and more. To do
this, we needed a standardized cloud infrastructure that would enable us
to deploy our newly-built applications anywhere. An open hybrid cloud,
based on Red Hat OpenStack Platform and CloudForms, enabled us to create
a multi-tier architecture that could support our continuous integration
and DevOps model. And, as an open source solution, we found that an
OpenStack-based cloud gave us the additional flexibility we needed to
meet our goals.”
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1 IDC, “IDC Forecasts Worldwide Cloud IT Infrastructure
Market to Grow 24% Year Over Year in 2015, Driven by Public Cloud
Datacenter Expansion,” available at http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS25946315
2 OpenStack User Survey, October 2015, available at https://drive.google.com/a/redhat.com/file/d/0B4vq3W3Lm2-4RWszZlBqVmxfWWs/view
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