RedHat plans to launch enterprise-level OpenStack Products

RedHat plans to launch enterprise-level open source OpenStack software to host IaaS (Infrastructure as a service) deployment. The company has released an unsupported preview version, and the complete commercial version is expected to be released in early 2013. "From the RedHat perspective, we feel that the next version of OpenStack will be ready to provide enterprise-level services," said briansteven S, RedHat chief technology officer and vice president of global engineering. "By previewing the version, customers can experience the process of implementing and deploying OpenStack

Red Hat plans to launch enterprise-level open source OpenStack software to host IaaS (Infrastructure as a service) deployment. The company has released an unsupported preview version, and the complete commercial version is expected to be launched in early 2013.

"From the Perspective of Red Hat, we feel that the next version of OpenStack will be ready to provide enterprise-level services," said Brian Stevens, chief technology officer and vice president of global engineering at Red Hat, customers can experience the process of implementing and deploying OpenStack. The most important thing is that we can hear their opinions before the official product release."

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Red Hat's OpenStack will run the company's flagship Linux release: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, which has been tested in RHEL 6.3 and requires Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (REV). The company has started to work with the selected customers who are attempting the software.

The first commercial release will be based on the upcoming OpenStack Fulsom release, which will be released in September. In this preview, in addition to OpenStack, several Puppet modules will be included to simplify the configuration. The commercial release also includes an installer and better integration with Red Hat's CloudForm hybrid cloud management software.

The OpenStack project, started two years ago by NASA and Rackspace, aims to create an open source software stack to provide IaaS cloud services. As a modular software stack, OpenStack includes independent programs to support computing, Object Storage, image management, and other services required to run cloud operations. The project was quickly popularized, attracting more than 3300 programmers and 185 plus companies to participate in the development process.

Red Hat has been committed to increasing the power of engineers for open-source cloud software projects. In May April, Red Hat joined the OpenStack Foundation, which will become the management organization for maintaining the OpenStack project in the short term. Currently, OpenStack is managed by the co-founder Rackspace, and the company wants to transfer the project to a more neutral organization. In April, the project owner published a survey and found that Red Hat was the third contributor to the project, second only to Nebula and Rackspace.

In addition to the release of OpenStack, the company also leads two other cloud projects. One of them is Red Hat CloudForm, which provides the ability to manage virtual workloads of different cloud services. The other is Red Hat OpenShift, which provides platform-as-a-service (PaaS) for developers who want to run their applications directly on hosted infrastructure ).

Since Openstack has not yet developed a version specifically for enterprises, it has been criticized. Of course, Red Hat refuted this idea. Steven s said: "Many changes have taken place since the release of Fulsom ."

Red Hat will not be the only vendor for enterprise OpenStack software. Piston Computing has launched a product. Nebula, founded by Chris Kemp, the co-founder of OpenStack, plans to launch OpenStack-based commercial products in the next few months.