Red Hat Delivers Analytics-Driven Automation in Latest Version of Insights with Ansible Integration
With Ansible automation inside, Red Hat enables faster, automated
resolution of critical security risks
BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE:RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, today announced the latest version of Red Hat Insights,
bringing the power of Ansible automation to its actionable intelligence
platform. Aligned with Red
Hat’s vision to dramatically simplify IT management with Ansible’s
powerful automation capabilities, Red Hat Insights now offers users
the ability to automate IT remediation of critical issues through
Ansible Playbooks. Now, any company will be able to create a
self-optimizing infrastructure with Red Hat Insights, enabling them to
save valuable manual labor and associated costs.
Red Hat Insights is a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offering that
provides continuous, in-depth analysis of an organization’s Red
Hat-based infrastructure to help proactively identify threats to
security, performance, and stability across physical, virtual, and cloud
environments, as well as container deployments. Powered by predictive
analytics, Red Hat Insights learns and gets smarter with every
additional piece of intelligence and data. It can automatically discover
relevant insights, proactively recommend tailored next actions and even
automate tasks. Using Red Hat Insights, customers can benefit from the
experience and technical knowledge of Red Hat Certified Engineers,
making it easier to identify, prioritize and resolve issues before
business operations are affected.
The latest Red Hat Insights release includes:
- Automated remediation reduces the mean time to resolution for
critical security risks. Featuring Ansible Playbook creation, the Red
Hat Insights console now can translate predictive intelligence into
actions, enabling users to automatically remediate Insights findings -
helping to more quickly and cost-effectively close infrastructure
risks.
- Integration of Ansible Tower by Red Hat enables
dynamically-generated Ansible Playbooks to be more rapidly deployed in
a highly-scalable, more secure manner. This helps provide faster
Insights remediation and allows for the extension of Insights into
automation and self-service use cases.
- Ansible-based configuration playbook is designed to streamline
large and small deployments of the Red Hat Insights client to reduce
installation time and effort and helps to provide Insights scalability
as infrastructure needs grow.
- Expanded reporting displays historical trends in addition to a
snapshot of the current infrastructure health so enterprises can more
easily see their current risk assessment and what trends will most
likely impact their IT estate.
- Predictive risk assessments are displayed per rule, and then
combined to produce a more meaningful total risk assessment, helping
organizations to focus on the issues which can most impact risk
reduction.
- Enhanced user interface includes additional filtering based on
type of issue, for a more simplified and streamlined look across the
infrastructure.
- Topic categorization designed for improved identification and
remediation of issues. The enhanced user interface includes additional
categorization and specialized views for a more simplified and
streamlined look across the infrastructure. Insights findings can now
be viewed by type, such as SAP or Oracle, in addition to the level of
risk.
As a SaaS offering, Red Hat Insights is regularly updating and expanding
its knowledge base in real-time to reflect new IT challenges that can
impact the stability of mission-critical systems.
Availability
Red Hat Insights is available today for an added cost via the Red Hat
Customer Portal, Red Hat Satellite, Red Hat CloudForms, Ansible Tower,
as well as the public Red Hat Insights API.
Supporting Quote
Joe Fitzgerald, vice president, Management, Red Hat
“Modern enterprise IT environments employ a complex and highly dynamic
mix of services and technologies, making continuous identification and
remediation of security and stability issues key for mission-critical
operations. Manual identification and resolution of these issues can be
expensive, time-consuming and more error prone, which is why we have
added the automation capabilities of Ansible Playbooks to the latest
version of Red Hat Insights. Through the proactive detection and
automated remediation offered by Insights, enterprises can better manage
security and stability threats to their Red Hat infrastructure, helping
to avoid downtime and giving IT teams back time to focus on tasks that
align with business goals.”
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