Red Hat Launches Latest Version of Red Hat CloudForms, Drives Open Hybrid Cloud Management Across Geographies and Industries
Hundreds of enterprises now have Red Hat CloudForms to manage and
provision their on-premise and public cloud-based IT environments
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 CloudForms 4.2,
the latest version of its award-winning open hybrid cloud management
solution. IT operations teams can face slow, manual processes to deliver
services internally, which may cost time, money and competitiveness. To
address these challenges, IT teams can use Red Hat CloudForms to
increase service delivery while enabling IT teams to focus on critical,
business-impacting issues.
Red Hat CloudForms, based on the open source ManageIQ project, provides
an advanced open source management platform for physical, virtual and
cloud IT environments, including Linux containers. CloudForms helps IT
organizations offer composable services through a self-service portal,
managing the service lifecycle from provisioning to retirement. It can
also define and enforce advanced compliance policies for new and
existing IT environments, better enabling operators to optimize the
costs of a given environment and system.
Red Hat CloudForms 4.2
Red Hat CloudForms 4.2 delivers improvements to public cloud, private
cloud and container-based platforms, by enhancing metrics and events for
Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform and by adding an Amazon EC2
image, enabling customers to run CloudForms in Amazon Web Services
(AWS). This new release also upgrades capabilities for OpenStack,
improving tenant management and introducing storage management for the
OpenStack object and block storage services: Swift and Cinder. Finally,
CloudForms 4.2 enhances its chargeback capabilities for containers
running on Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform.
Global Enterprises Turning to Hybrid Cloud Management
As many enterprise IT environments become more and more complex, adding
a mix of physical, virtual and cloud-based environments along with Linux
containers and microservices, traditional IT management solutions can
trail behind. The inflexibility of many proprietary management solutions
may not meet the demands of large organizations for cloud-based and
cloud-like services, which can lead these organizations to look for more
flexible, service-agnostic solutions like Red Hat CloudForms.
To date, Red Hat customers from global telecommunications providers and
manufacturing organizations to leading research institutions and
universities, have deployed Red Hat CloudForms to manage their hybrid IT
environments. CloudForms has enabled these organizations to better
optimize costs and time by making their IT organizations more efficient
and their IT processes more responsive. Built from the ground up on a
flexible open source framework, Red Hat CloudForms can cover a broad
range of infrastructure platforms and can be tailored to the specific
needs of a given industry or customer organization.
Availability
CloudForms 4.2 is available for immediate download from the Red Hat
Customer Portal.
Supporting Quotes
Joe Fitzgerald, vice president, Management, Red Hat
“There is no longer a ‘one-size-fits-all’ IT environment, as many
organizations are seeking to leverage the best benefits of physical,
virtual and cloud-based technologies. Coupled with Linux containers,
only managing one or two aspects of these hybrid computing environments
can lead to downtime or outages. Red Hat CloudForms provides a flexible,
open management platform to oversee these disparate resources and we’re
pleased to help enterprises at a global scale use them to manage the
growing complexities of their environments.”
Lionel Louie, chief commercial officer, CargoSmart Limited
“Red Hat CloudForms is one of the key components in our software-defined
data center (SDDC) that helps to streamline the infrastructure setup
processes and enables us to deliver fast-track development projects with
scale, speed, and efficiency. We are using CloudForms to manage the
production environment that integrates and coordinates our
infrastructure resources. Together with other process changes and
technology adoptions, our provisioning time for a single virtual machine
has been reduced from 8 hours to 20 minutes, which has greatly improved
our time to market.”
Hannes Leblhuber, head of sales services, eww ItandTel
“Red Hat CloudForms lets us take full advantage of our virtualized
infrastructure to set up customer cloud solutions more quickly and
manage them more efficiently. We provide our customers with all of the
resources they require, such as processing power, storage space,
databases, networks, middleware, and load balancing. The resources are
scaled automatically to meet the requirements of each application.”
Travis Rollings, director, Office Systems, Herzog Technologies
“Red Hat realizes that we’re all working toward the same goal. Without
Red Hat CloudForms and Red Hat Satellite, launching our cloud-based
positive train control (PTC) solution would have been a far more complex
undertaking, and we would not have been able to onboard new customers as
quickly.
Varun Katyal, chief architect, Network Data Solutions
"Working with proprietary software can be difficult if it becomes
unstable. This happened in a number of the proofs of concept we
conducted with other solutions, and debugging usually proved very
difficult. Thanks to Red Hat CloudForms, our customers can now use cloud
services more flexibly. Its automation capabilities made the difference
for us. The solution’s greater stability and ease of debugging also
contributed to its success in achieving the objectives NDS had set.
Thomas Wenninger, deputy head, IT Services, University of Salzburg
“The high-performance automation of Red Hat CloudForms has helped The
University of Salzburg centralize existing provisioning and operational
workflows. Using this technology, we can automatically scale
applications to manage an increase in demand, while also improving
hardware use. We need certain resources at the beginning and at the end
of each semester where peaks occur. In between these peaks, we can
allocate resources to other use case, for example high performance
computing (HPC), to utilize all the resources we have efficiently.”
Tim Cutts, Ph.D., head of Scientific Computing, Wellcome Trust Sanger
Institute
“Red Hat OpenStack Platform allows users to create and share virtual
machine images of their own creation and to find and spin up images from
elsewhere. This means that we can conduct complicated analysis on
worldwide data, with confidence that we can meet the needs of data
integrity and governance. In addition Red Hat CloudForms is used to
manage this complex hybrid cloud environment, and deliver a more
consistent user experience.”
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