Red Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure for Cloud Bridges Datacenters and Edge Deployments
New offering brings together Red Hat OpenStack Platform and Red Hat
Ceph Storage to provide an open platform for innovation at the edge
VANCOUVER, British Columbia – OPENSTACK SUMMIT--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, today introduced Red Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure for
Cloud, an integrated solution for customers seeking to co-locate compute
and storage functions in OpenStack environments. The new offering
combines Red
Hat OpenStack Platform 13 and Red Hat Ceph Storage 3 in a single
user experience, supported by a common lifecycle for greater operational
and organizational efficiency.
Red Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure for Cloud offers an open platform
to improve application portability between the datacenter and the edge,
especially critical to enterprises that historically didn’t have any
choice outside of inflexible, proprietary systems. In addition, nodes in
an OpenStack
deployment are interoperable, giving customers the choice to use
non-hyperconverged nodes across their networks, with hyperconverged
nodes at the edge, further improving resource utilization. By using
existing skill sets in building private and hybrid
cloud deployments, customers can innovate faster to address
next-generation requirements for the edge.
This announcement marks the release of the second component in Red Hat’s hyperconverged
portfolio, following the introduction of Red Hat Hyperconverged
Infrastructure for Virtualization in June
2017, which combines Red Hat Virtualization and Red Hat Gluster
Storage.
Red Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure for Cloud provides a smooth
customer experience from procurement to day three operations by
delivering a pre-packaged solution with socket-pair pricing. The primary
customer benefits can include:
- Unified lifecycle management - Red Hat Hyperconverged
Infrastructure for Cloud helps create standardized private cloud
building blocks, making it easier to enable continuous operations and
manage OpenStack and storage functions as a single unit with
configuration consistency across the supported lifecycle of the
solution.
- Lower cost and greater operational flexibility - The new
offering allows organizations to run dedicated compute and storage
layers at the center with hyperconverged nodes at the edge all running
on industry-standard hardware. In addition, all OpenStack services are
containerized leading to additional cost savings, and more efficient
resource management.
- Broader organizational efficiency - Customers can use existing
knowledge and assets around private
cloud infrastructure while taking advantage of the benefits
offered by OpenStack technology. Hyperconverged infrastructure has
great appeal with IT generalists, who are rapidly replacing siloed
specialist roles in the modern enterprise. In addition, edge
technicians who may lack deep knowledge of OpenStack deployment and
configuration can benefit from the unified lifecycle and user
experience.
Red Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure for Cloud can benefit customers
implementing systems for NFV
(network functions virtualization) infrastructures to deploy more
functionality at the edge of network. In addition to the lifecycle and
operational benefits, it also includes all the networking capabilities
of Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13 such as Real-time KVM and OpenDaylight.
Communication service providers (CSPs) and network equipment providers
(NEPs) looking for innovation at the datacenter and the mobile edge can
benefit from this solution as they roll out highly performant, agile,
and scalable platforms for 5G.
Red Hat is the primary contributor to the open source Ceph and OpenStack
communities, and supports an open ecosystem of compute platforms and
hardware vendors.
Availability
Red Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure for Cloud is planned for general
availability in June 2018.
Supporting Quotes
Ranga Rangachari, vice president and general manager, Storage, Red Hat
“Customers
looking to build a common foundation across datacenter and edge
deployments now have the confidence to enable faster rollout of services
to their customers. Red Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure for Cloud
provides customers with the power and versatility of hyperconvergence in
the hybrid cloud.”
Henry Baltazar, research vice president, 451 Research
“In
our recent Voice of the Enterprise Servers & Converged Infrastructure
survey, 71% of respondents were using hyperconverged infrastructure
(HCI) to simplify infrastructure management and maintenance, while 60%
were looking to benefit from accelerated provisioning and automation
through the use of HCI. Red Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure for Cloud
provides the infrastructure consolidation and simplified lifecycle
management which many OpenStack customers are looking for to accelerate
their private cloud deployments at the edge and in datacenters.”
Ruben Sousa, chief technology officer, ITCenter
“The
opportunity for streamlined appointment of Red Hat OpenStack Platform
and Red Hat Ceph Storage has opened new doors for our business. Red Hat
Hyperconverged Infrastructure for Cloud now serves as the open cloud
architecture for our telco platform and enables the cost efficiencies,
reduced footprint, and simplified lifecycle management demanded by our
customers.“
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