Red Hat Helps Radiance Technologies Bring Massively-Scalable and Fully-Open Cloud Infrastructure to the U.S. Department of Defense
Red Hat Cloud Suite brings scalability, automation and
enterprise-grade Kubernetes to bear for U.S. Air Force technology
migration
SYDNEY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
OpenStack Summit Sydney 2017 – Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE:RHT), the
world's leading provider of open source solutions, is today announcing
that Radiance Technologies, Inc., an employee owned small business
offering a variety of services and products for government and
commercial customers, has deployed a tailored solution on behalf of the
Department of Defense (DoD) using Red Hat Cloud Suite, Red Hat’s hybrid
cloud offering that enables organizations to more easily build and
manage cloud-native applications through a single platform.
A DoD contractor since 1999, Radiance received a new task order to help
migrate a U.S. Air Force organization from its current network
architecture to a scalable cloud infrastructure. To do this, Radiance
needed a solution with an agile, automated framework and storage
architecture that could handle a large volume of virtual machines (VMs).
Additionally, Radiance had only 90 days to provision and deploy this new
solution from scratch. After reviewing competitive cloud solutions,
Radiance selected Red Hat Cloud Suite, as it is designed to provide an
end-to-end, deployment-ready offering for enterprise digital
transformation.
This customer’s mission demanded a rapidly scalable architecture that is
both dynamic and resilient; dynamic in that it must be able to handle
hundreds of robust VMs, and resilient in that it must be capable of
rapid automated redeployment, if required. To add to the complexity,
because of the organization’s specific security requirements, this
environment must be able to operate in a complete stand-alone mode. To
meet these needs, Radiance, supported by Red Hat, used many of the
technologies comprising Red Hat Cloud Suite, including:
- Red Hat OpenStack Platform, supported by Red Hat Ceph Storage,
to enable a massively scalable, highly agile private cloud
infrastructure along with enabling rapid provisioning of virtual
machines. Red Hat OpenStack Platform also features composable roles.
Composable roles helps IT administrators tailor where each service,
such as compute, networking, or storage, should run, which is designed
to improve resource scalability and make it easier to manage
individual services.
- Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, Red Hat’s
enterprise-grade Kubernetes-based container application platform,
helps Radiance to containerize new applications while supporting
existing workloads.
- Red Hat CloudForms, Red Hat’s multi-cloud management platform,
enables policy controlled management and automation of IT services.
The platform allows IT operations teams to detect and respond to
environment changes by tracking activities, capturing events and
detecting configuration changes, as well as provides the ability to
monitor utilization and capacity for governance and compliance
enforcement.
- Red Hat Ansible Tower, in addition to Red Hat Cloud Suite,
provides automation and automation governance capabilities, including
VM configuration, management and provisioning, for complex multi-tier
deployments.
With the technology requirements and turnaround time, Red Hat Consulting
also assisted Radiance, tailoring this particular build and environment
to the unique needs of the DoD. Red Hat Consulting also assisted in the
knowledge transfer and training, helping Radiance to plan, build and
deploy the solution designed to meet the DoD’s needs.
Supporting Quotes
Paul Smith, senior vice president and general manager, U.S. Public
Sector, Red Hat
“Given the breadth and complexity often
involved in defense IT, the capability to more easily build cloud-native
applications, deploy them and manage these workloads in a single
platform can be important. Red Hat Cloud Suite is designed to provide
the technologies to drive transformation in a ready-to-deploy solution
that can fit specific infrastructure needs. We’re proud to have
collaborated with Radiance on a solution that not only helps to better
equip a U.S. Air Force organization, but also provides the Department of
Defense with a flexible, scalable and powerful set of tools to develop
their own digital services and cloud-native applications internally.”
Timothy Autry, assistant vice president, Cyber Engineering
Operations, Radiance Technologies, Inc.
“Radiance needed a
partner that could rapidly respond to our Air Force customer’s robust
cloud requirement. Other companies we spoke with were simply unable to
meet our needs. Red Hat not only stepped up to the challenge, but also
consistently brought their ‘A Team’ week after week throughout the
entire engagement. Red Hat made me feel like making my customer happy
was as important to them as it was to me -- and that level of sustained
commitment is hard to find these days.”
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