Red Hat CloudForms Expands Public Cloud Management with Google Cloud Platform, Improves Microsoft Azure Capabilities, and Adds Software-Defined Networking (SDN) Support
Red Hat’s latest cloud management platform release also enables
simpler automation and service delivery with Ansible integration
SAN FRANCISCO--(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 4.1, the latest version of its award-winning open hybrid
cloud management solution. With support for Google Cloud Platform, Red
Hat CloudForms 4.1 now supports greater choice and flexibility for
customers who want to run hybrid cloud workloads on Google Cloud
Platform, Microsoft Azure or Amazon Web Services. In addition, Red Hat
CloudForms 4.1 expands the scope of its management capabilities with
software-defined networking (SDN), providing a more unified management
experience for software-defined datacenters. Finally, CloudForms 4.1
makes it easier to automate complex IT processes through integration
with Ansible Tower, and provides customers with a simpler,
cloud-friendly subscription model.
CloudForms is an advanced open source management platform for physical,
virtual, and cloud IT environments, supporting both virtual machines and
containers. CloudForms enables IT organizations to offer composable
services through a self-service portal, managing the entire lifecycle
from provisioning to retirement. It also facilitates risk management by
defining advanced compliance policies that can be enforced in both
greenfield and existing environments, and allows operators to optimize
unit cost through capacity planning, reporting and financial management
features.
Red Hat CloudForms 4.1 introduces several new features, including:
Support for Google Cloud Platform
Developed in close collaboration with Google in the ManageIQ open source
community, customers can now use Red Hat CloudForms to manage Google
Cloud Platform environments. The support includes full lifecycle
management of provisioned virtual machines, policy enforcement,
chargeback and lifecycle management.
Support for software-defined networking
As organizations adopt Red Hat CloudForms to manage their cloud
workloads, the management platform must extend beyond compute and handle
networking and storage as well. To this end, CloudForms 4.1 adds network
management for OpenStack Networking (Neutron), Amazon Web Services,
Google Cloud Platform, and Microsoft Azure. Developed in close
collaboration with Nuage Networks, CloudForms’ new SDN capabilities
enable users to discover and manage network elements while visualizing
their relationship to other parts of the infrastructure.
Integration with Ansible Tower by Red Hat
Built-in integration with Ansible
Tower makes it simpler than ever for CloudForms customers to
provision complex applications and services through custom automation
code. CloudForms 4.1 can now access Ansible Tower to run Ansible
automation jobs, enabling CloudForms customers to make use of the
popular Ansible automation language. Furthermore, the Ansible Tower
integration also allows for easy composition of complex services by
combining native CloudForms service catalog support with Ansible
playbooks.
New cloud-friendly subscriptions
New flexible subscriptions are available immediately to all Red Hat
CloudForms customers, enabling users to apply one subscription to either
physical servers or cloud workloads. The subscription can be transported
in either direction, as often as needed during the subscription period.
Customers can also use an average of cloud instances under management to
determine the number of CloudForms subscriptions they require for their
public cloud workloads, helping them to avoid purchasing for peak
demand, while new built-in reports can help them understand their actual
and average utilization over time.
Other improvements in Red Hat CloudForms 4.1 include:
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Expanded support for Microsoft Azure, including a wider range of
functionality spanning support for Microsoft Azure cloud images,
events, metrics, provisioning from private images, and full lifecycle
management. CloudForms 4.1 also brings SmartState Analysis (agentless
VM and container introspection) to Microsoft Azure, allowing
enterprises to enable DevOps and self-service, and mitigate Shadow IT,
through advanced policy and compliance enforcement that was previously
only available on premises;
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Updated charge-back model, including customizable currencies and rate
tiers;
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New capabilities for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, SmartState
Analysis, heatmaps showing operational utilization, support for
persistent data volumes; and
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Improved self-service user interface, adding a new shopping cart
interface and remote console.
Availability
Red Hat CloudForms 4.1 is immediately available for customers with a
subscription to download.
Supporting Quotes
Joe Fitzgerald, vice president, Management, Red Hat
“We hear constant customer demands focusing on rapidly advancing their
hybrid cloud strategies and the need for one, consistent management view
across their physical, virtual, and cloud environments. CloudForms
offers that, and we believe CloudForms 4.1 is the industry’s most
comprehensive, hybrid cloud management solution on the market.
CloudForms now not only supports the world's largest public clouds, but
also integrates with Ansible to dramatically simplify automation.”
Sunil Khandekar, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Nuage Networks
from Nokia
“CloudForms is gaining significant market traction and, now that SDN is
fully supported as a first-class citizen in the platform, the momentum
will only continue. By integrating Nuage Networks SDN technology with
Red Hat’s CloudForms management system, customers will be able to
automate and manage workloads across hybrid cloud environments while
maintaining unified network policy across the breadth of their
applications and assets.”
David Condell, Head of Open Systems Services, s IT Solutions At
Spardat GmbH
“We choose CloudForms because of its powerful automation capabilities to
centralize our existing provisioning and operations workflows, and it
has turned into a central tool in our IT landscape. We needed an open
source tool with flexible and open interfaces in order to easily
integrate with many other infrastructure tools and projects which are
also partly open source. CloudForms’ expanded list of supported
providers in the new version will give us even more operability in the
future. The ease of consumption which we achieved with CloudForms’
automation has enabled us to instantly provide many IaaS services for
our internal customers.”
The Forrester Wave™: Hybrid Cloud Management Solutions, Q1 2016, Dave
Bartoletti
“The hybrid cloud management solutions market is mature and growing
because more developers and I&O professionals see it as a way to address
the needs of a growing multi-cloud portfolio. These solutions help
developers build cloud apps faster and more easily while giving I&O pros
the governance and control they need to enforce usage and cost policies.”
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