Red Hat Insights Brings Predictive Analytics to Containers, OpenStack and Virtualized Infrastructure
Updated Software-as-a-Service Platform Now Provides Operational
Analytics across Physical, Virtual, Containers, and Private and Public
Cloud Environments
SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE:RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, today unveiled the next generation of Red Hat Insights,
delivering actionable intelligence across Red Hat environments. New
improvements include risk assessment and remediation planning
capabilities for virtualization hosts, containers, and OpenStack-based
private clouds.
As existing workloads evolve and new deployments grow in size and
complexity, risk management is a key challenge and a necessity for
enterprise IT. Red Hat Insights provides highly scalable, prescriptive
analytics across users’ hybrid IT infrastructure. Based on Red Hat’s
expertise, Red Hat Insights is delivered as a Software-as-a-Service
offering and generates tailored remediation steps that can be fully
automated. Users can manage and monitor their infrastructure, and when
using Red Hat Satellite and Red Hat CloudForms integrated versions, take
actions directly at the point of insight.
The newest additions and enhancements to Red Hat Insights include:
- Container workload analysis: Red Hat Insights now offers
workload analysis for containers, giving operations the visibility
they need to more safely adopt containers. While other tools focus on
the environment hosting containers, Red Hat Insights identifies risks
on different levels of users’ infrastructure, including: service
configuration within an image, tuning and configuration of container
storage for optimal performance, and filesystem monitoring to help
ensure registry functionality. Insights actions are tailored to the
specific image or container, making it more simple to respond to risks.
- Actionable intelligence for OpenStack private clouds and KVM
virtualized environments: Operating at both the infrastructure and
guest level, Red Hat Insights now offers real-time, full-stack
analysis of OpenStack-based private clouds and Red Hat Enterprise
Virtualization environments. With this update, Red Hat Insights
extends its analysis to multiple OpenStack nodes, enabling continuous
private cloud infrastructure assessment including both Red Hat
OpenStack Platform guests and the OpenStack infrastructure. And, Red
Hat Insights also provides analytics at the virtualization host level,
offering proactive analysis of a user’s entire virtual datacenter.
- Insights Action Planner: This new feature on the Insights
Dashboard enables teams to identify and assign remediation tasks
individually or in groups. IT organizations can more easily document
the remediation process and move from intelligence to action, while
remaining compliant with change management policies defined by
operations teams. Customers can create their own custom remediation
plans as well as utilize Insights recommended plans, tailored to their
specific infrastructure and risks.
- Insights Early Access mode: A new opt-in modality gives users
visibility into upcoming new features, allowing users to test out
functionality, give feedback, and help shape the evolution of Red Hat
Insights. Users can switch between modes, enabling them to test out
new innovations without disrupting their existing Insights deployment.
Supporting Quotes
Joe Fitzgerald, vice president, Management, Red Hat
“We are seeing cloud-based service deployments continuing to grow in
scale and complexity, as well as increasing adoption of container
based-services. This can put pressure on IT organizations to rapidly
evolve their operational capabilities. We have expanded the depth and
breadth of analytics in Red Hat Insights to support these new
environments and services to enable them to reach their business goals.
With this latest version of Red Hat Insights, we extend cloud management
capabilities to containers and OpenStack based private clouds.”
Steven Zinck, Technical Architect, Government of Nova Scotia
“Red Hat Insights' base in Red Hat’s technical knowledge and expertise
made it a natural addition to our deployment to give us analytics about
our environment in a single view, and combining our internal integration
process with Satellite 6 allowed us to drop processing time from a full
day to about five minutes. Red Hat Insights has allowed us to manage
systems for various government entities in one space, and we look
forward to making the most of Red Hat's management portfolio within our
systems in the future.”
Tim Erdel, Senior Director, Cerner Works technology improvement,
Cerner
“As a global leader in health care information technology, greater
security and infrastructure intelligence are main priorities for us. Red
Hat Insights enable us to be alerted to potential vulnerabilities across
our active systems and provide remediation more quickly. The technology
helps us prioritize risk resolution in our infrastructure.”
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