Red Hat Pairs Enterprise-Grade Kubernetes with Massively-Scalable Cloud Infrastructure in Latest Version of Red Hat Cloud Suite
Broad offering enables digital transformation by combining Red Hat
OpenShift Container Platform, Red Hat OpenStack Platform and Red Hat
CloudForms for container-ready, fully-open hybrid cloud deployments
RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, today announced the availability of the latest version of Red
Hat Cloud Suite. As cloud-native, containerized applications grow in
importance to CIOs focused on enterprise digital transformation, IT
infrastructure and management technologies need to adapt to the unique
needs posed by modern applications, while still maintaining existing
systems. Red Hat Cloud Suite enables organizations to more easily build
cloud-native applications, deploy them and manage these workloads
through a single offering, helping businesses to modernize without
sacrificing existing IT infrastructure investments.
Launched in April 2016, Red Hat’s broadest hybrid cloud offering, Red
Hat Cloud Suite provides an end-to-end, deployment-ready solution for
enterprise digital transformation. Key to digital transformation are
Linux containers, which can help enterprises across industries become
more nimble and better respond to evolving customer and competitive
needs.
Built on the backbone of the world’s leading enterprise Linux platform,
Red Hat Cloud Suite addresses the drive towards digital transformation
and adoption of Linux containers by bringing together Red Hat OpenShift
Container Platform, the company’s enterprise-grade container application
platform, with massively scalable infrastructure provided by Red Hat
OpenStack Platform and Red Hat Virtualization. Along with Red Hat
CloudForms for hybrid and multi-cloud management, Red Hat Cloud Suite
offers a unified, pre-integrated solution for enterprises seeking to
advance Linux containers from the developer workstation to
mission-critical deployments at cloud-scale for a more
digitally-transformed enterprise.
The latest version of Red Hat Cloud Suite
The latest version of Red Hat Cloud Suite adds key new features and
enhancements, including:
- Enterprise-grade Kubernetes - As a component of Red Hat Cloud
Suite, the latest version of Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform
delivers a comprehensive, enterprise-grade Kubernetes-based container
application platform. Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform supports
the creation of next-generation cloud-native applications while
simultaneously supporting existing workloads, including those
requiring stateful resources.
- Red Hat CloudForms with Ansible automation - Highlighting Red
Hat’s automation-based approach to multi-cloud management is the
integration of Ansible automation into Red Hat CloudForms. This makes
Red Hat CloudForms easier to deploy across an organization and
increases the depth and breadth of management automation.
- Composable OpenStack services -For Red Hat Cloud Suite clouds
built on Red Hat OpenStack Platform, users can now compose precisely
where they want each of their services to run, helping to improve
operating efficiency by allowing the scaling and management of
specific services as needed rather than all services at once.
- Flexible, powerful virtualization capabilities - The latest
version of Red Hat Virtualization enables users to deploy a “thin”
hypervisor by default or layer on additional software and services as
needed to address unique use cases. Virtualization administration has
also been improved with the addition of Cockpit for greater insights
into virtualized environments and workloads.
Digital transformation with hybrid cloud solutions
On Thursday, June 29, 2017, Red Hat will host a virtual event featuring
experts, industry thought leaders and market innovators to explore how
Linux containers, scalable infrastructure and cloud management can act
in concert to accelerate the digital transformation journey. Attendees
will hear about market trends related to and the pain points addressed
by hybrid cloud solutions during keynotes from:
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Lars Herrmann, general manager, Integrated Solutions, Red Hat
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Alan Grantham, vice president, Architecture and Technology, Forsythe
Hosting Solutions
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Gary Chen, research manager, Software Defined Compute, IDC
Following the keynotes, breakout sessions will dive more deeply into
topics including modern application development, cloud infrastructure
and IT optimization. Attend or watch a playback of the digital
transformation event.
Supporting Quotes
Lars Herrmann, general manager,
Integrated Solutions, Red Hat
“Linux containers represent a
clear pathway for digital transformation in the enterprise and when
combined with hybrid cloud technologies like OpenStack, they offer an
end-to-end answer for how organizations can embrace IT’s future without
sacrificing IT’s ‘now.’ Red Hat Cloud Suite provides the technologies to
drive this transformation while retaining existing IT investments, from
the industry’s most comprehensive enterprise Kubernetes platform in Red
Hat OpenShift Container Platform to leading-edge open source
virtualization with Red Hat Virtualization, all delivered as a unified,
ready-to-deploy solution to fit nearly every enterprise IT
infrastructure need.”
Gary Chen, research manager, Software Defined Compute, IDC
"Open
source continues to drive significant innovations in cloud computing.
Organizations are increasingly interested in multi-platform
architectures that support microservices-based, cloud native
applications as well as traditional workloads. With Red Hat Cloud Suite,
customers can embrace this new paradigm, and deliver applications faster
in a highly scalable, integrated, and fully-managed environment."
Alan Grantham, vice president, Architecture and Technology, Forsythe
Hosting Solutions
“Many enterprise clients want to have
business delivery at cloud native levels, either to run new applications
or to modernize their existing application world. The drive is towards
building business and technical capabilities over time in a flexible
format. The challenges of cloud native are usually around culture,
security, compliance and application governance. The technology used
must be adaptable to multiple business use cases and allow a focus on
business delivery. Our work with clients to implement and manage Red Hat
Cloud Suite is aligned with meeting those objectives.”
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