Red Hat Improves Scalability, Simplifies Usability with Latest Version of Production-Ready OpenStack for Enterprise and Service Provider Clouds
Built on OpenStack 'Newton' community release, Red Hat OpenStack
Platform 10 delivers refreshed user interface, customizable roles and
long lifecycle support
RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, today announced the availability of Red Hat OpenStack
Platform 10, the company’s massively-scalable and agile cloud
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) solution. Based on the upstream
OpenStack ‘Newton’ release, Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10 drives new
features that increase system-wide scalability, ease infrastructure
management, and improve orchestration, while also enhancing network
performance and platform security. Additionally, Red Hat OpenStack
Platform 10 introduces a new software life cycle, with optional support
up to 5 years.
Hundreds of customers rely on Red Hat OpenStack Platform to power their
hybrid and private clouds for a variety of mission-critical deployments,
including BBVA;
Cambridge
University; FICO;
NASA’s
Jet Propulsion Laboratory; Paddy
Power Betfair; Produban;
Swisscom;
UKCloud;
and Verizon.
Additionally, Red Hat OpenStack Platform is backed by a robust ecosystem
of certified partners, including Cisco,
Dell
EMC, Fujitsu,
Intel,
Lenovo,
Rackspace,
and NetApp
for enterprise businesses, as well as Ericsson,
Nokia,
NEC,
Huawei,
Cisco
and others from the telecommunications industry.
Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10 delivers a reliable cloud platform built
on the proven, enterprise-grade backbone of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Integrated with Red Hat’s hardened OpenStack community code, Red Hat
OpenStack Platform provides the agility to scale and more quickly meet
customer demand without compromising availability, performance, or IT
security requirements. Also included in Red Hat OpenStack Platform is Red
Hat CloudForms, a hybrid cloud management and monitoring platform to
oversee not only OpenStack infrastructure components but also the
workloads running on a given OpenStack cloud. Additionally, 64 TBs of
storage capacity is provided with Red Hat Ceph Storage, enabling
users to better evaluate the flexible, massively scalable properties of
Ceph’s leading storage solution for OpenStack environments.
New enhancements and updates to Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10 include:
- A more streamlined user experience driven by an easier-to-use
graphical user interface (GUI) reduces the complexities of
installation and management. Designed for production use, the Red Hat
OpenStack Platform director GUI provides several newly integrated
functions, such as automatic upgrades and updates (including Ceph),
advanced networking configuration, high availability, and the option
to deploy file sharing via the Manila service, using the integrated
drivers available from NetApp and Red Hat Ceph Storage.
- Improved flexibility for greater scalability through the
introduction of customizable services and administration roles using
Red Hat OpenStack Platform director. Cloud operators are now able to
control their OpenStack environment at a more granular level by
customizing OpenStack services to run and scale independently of each
other. This offers greater flexibility when deploying services to
match individual organizations’ unique workload requirements.
- Greater data assurance through new security-related
enhancements, such as improved high availability (HA) for large scale
deployments. Additionally, optional object storage encryption and
ephemeral security tokens improve security measures and lower risk of
data access due to theft.
- Improved performance for network-intensive workloads through
the new data plane developer kit (DPDK) component of Open vSwitch, and
single-root input/output virtualization (SR-IOV), results in network
performance that is comparable to bare metal. Additionally, network
routing is now more flexible and faster, allowing customers to choose
between centralized routing or distributed routing (DVR).
- A new “ready state” hardware certification program, based on
OpenStack Ironic. While Red Hat already supports certified hardware
plug-ins for several OpenStack components, the new program is designed
to expand the ecosystem of hardware options for automated bare-metal
configuration. Dell EMC is the first Red Hat partner to be certified
for Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10 ready-state, with several more
coming soon.
Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10 also introduces distributed continuous
integration (DCI) to key partners, such as Dell EMC, NEC, and
Rackspace. This collaborative approach to testing can help partners more
effectively prepare for new Red Hat OpenStack Platform releases, and
provide customers with greater stability and higher quality cloud
solutions that have been tested many times over with their uniquely
integrated cloud system than previously offered.
New lifecycle offers up to 5 years support
To help customers achieve long-term stability required by their specific
workload requirements, Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10 introduces a dual
support life cycle model that offers greater subscription flexibility
for mission-critical operations. This new model gives customers the
option of standardizing on a new “Long Life” version of Red Hat
OpenStack Platform, offering a three year product lifecycle and optional
two additional years of extended life cycle (ELS) support available for
purchase. Customers can also choose to focus on consuming new feature
functionality by using rolling upgrades to follow the latest releases of
Red Hat OpenStack Platform every six months to one year.
Long Life versions of Red Hat OpenStack Platform will be offered every
third release, starting with Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10. Versions in
between will include one year of life cycle support.
Supporting Quotes
Radhesh Balakrishnan, general manager, OpenStack, Red Hat
“In
just a few short years, OpenStack has moved from simply being an
‘innovation’ for proofs-of-concept and R&D testbeds to a foundation for
mission-critical private cloud deployments, used by hundreds of
enterprises and major telecommunication providers alike to power
production operations. Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10 drives the
enterprise-readiness of OpenStack by delivering a stable, reliable and
open foundation for cloud deployments, delivering new innovations like
composable services and roles while retaining our commitment to
enterprise stability, highlighted by our new Long Life support model.”
Lew Tucker, vice president, Cloud CTO, Cisco
“As one of Red
Hat's most committed OpenStack partners, Cisco works closely with Red
Hat and the community to drive industry-leading cloud technology
platforms, better enabling our enterprise and service provider customers
to gain the benefits of an open cloud computing platform. Based on the
latest ‘Newton’ OpenStack release, Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10
provides significant improvements in networking performance, stability,
and scalability. We look forward to helping our customers to succeed on
their journey to hybrid cloud.”
Jim Ganthier, senior vice president, Validated Solutions and HPC,
Dell EMC Converged Platforms and Solution Division
“Dell EMC
and Red Hat’s close engineering and collaboration efforts continue to
help our joint customers to quickly deploy and manage OpenStack powered
clouds. We are pleased to have worked closely with Red Hat to both
refine and build the new distributed continuous integration partner
testing process which accelerates both code testing, validation and the
ability to deliver robust software to customers. Red Hat’s new OpenStack
Platform 10 lifecycle model for support will also offer more
subscription flexibility for mission-critical operations and strengthens
our joint ability to support customers throughout the entire lifecycle
of their OpenStack deployments.”
Kenji Kaneshige, director of development department, Linux
Development Division, Fujitsu
“Fujitsu and Red Hat have been
working together over 10 years in open source software development and
successfully supported Mission critical/Enterprise workloads. And now
Fujitsu works hand-in-hand with Red Hat to drive several features needed
by global enterprises in the upstream OpenStack project. We are so
pleased to see the upstream development results delivering a more
efficient and advanced cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service through Fujitsu
Integrated System PRIMEFLEX Family.”
Bryan Thompson, general manager, OpenStack Private Cloud, Rackspace
“The
developments included in Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10 make it faster
and easier for our customers and partners to adopt OpenStack. Forrester
Research recently reported that more than half of all Fortune 100
companies use OpenStack, which means these deployments must be scalable,
agile and intuitive. The new platform from Red Hat delivers improved
performance capabilities and deeper integration with the latest
Community projects and code. All of that, combined with support from
Rackspace, means enterprise customers using Rackspace Private Cloud
Powered by Red Hat will have even more confidence in OpenStack for their
managed cloud needs.”
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