Red Hat Open Source cloud: Linux, virtualization, storage and large data

At the end of March, Red Hat released its fiscal year 2012 and full-year earnings for the year ended February 29, 2012. Red Hat's total revenue for fiscal year 2012 was 1.13 billion dollars, according to earnings reports. At this point, Red Hat has become the first IT industry revenue more than 1 billion dollars of open source solution vendors. How does Red Hat do three years 1 billion? What are the new trends in red Hat in the past 2012 years? What are the plans for the future?

Core Linux Business and virtualization

In May this year, the Red Hat Enterprise Linux has been unveiled for 10 years.

May 2002, Red Hat launched the first enterprise Linux operating system. During the decade, Linux operating systems have been recognized and popularized in the enterprise-wide domain.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux also provides an embedded KVM virtualization solution, with a virtualized management platform, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (Rhev), which manages both server and desktop virtualization.

This June, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3 came out, can be allocated to the client system 160 core and 2TB working memory. In particular, developer tools are available to provide more practical functionality in the areas of virtualization, security, scalability, file systems, and storage.

Red Hat Enterprise version of the major Linux update about once every two years, RHEL 7 should be released in 2013, its key features will include data center operational efficiency, virtualization and cloud expansion, as well as the integration of development tools improvements. On the desktop, RHEL 7 will also feature the GNOME 3 user experience, which is also a novelty for RHEL users.

Red Hat says Linux's trajectory is from the initial enterprise Linux to today's open source computing platform, as well as the future of the physical, virtual and cloud IT environment.

Open source gene deep bone marrow

As we all know, Red Hat is a software company known for its open source. Flagship products Red Hat Enterprise Linux from the open source community, the use of the original Red Hat subscription model (Subscription), users can pay the annual service or product use costs, to achieve the openness required by the enterprise.

Red Hat has two big cloud computing technologies: cloudforms (for building and managing self-service systems and applications in a cloud environment), and OpenShift (platform as a service, or PAAs).

The cloudforms is used to create and manage a set of private and mixed clouds of infrastructure, the service (IaaS), primarily addressing the management problems associated with the proliferation of virtual machines.

OpenShift is a cloud application platform for enterprise users and the first PAAs platform to fully support Java EE 6 in the cloud, which is important in the mobile and enterprise Cloud Application Server ERA. OpenShift is an open source PAAs platform that enables developers to better leverage the industry's broadest range of middleware services through the JBoss ecosystem.

Red Hat is dedicated to integrating OpenShift PAAs Enterprise technologies, including Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating systems, Red Hat storage, JBoss Enterprise middleware and openshift integrated programming language, Framework architecture, and developer tools. Enterprise-class PAAs products are provided to enterprise users as open hybrid cloud.

Storage and large data are also open source

Red Hat bought an Open-source storage software provider, Gluster, 136 million dollars last October. Gluster's products are mainly used to manage large amounts of unstructured data, and the Red Hat begins the layout of the Big data field.

The latest version of the data storage management solution containing Gluster products has been released recently in North America, Red Hat Storage Software Appliance 3.2.

Gluster can work with Hadoop, Gluster provides storage management and access to large data, Hadoop provides a computing framework, and enterprise and organization applications can quickly implement distributed access and processing based on Hadoop.

Cloud Ecosystem construction

From the 2009 Premium Cloud Vendor Certification and partnership Program (Premier Cloud Provider Certification and Partner) to the later Open Virtualization Alliance, Red Hat has been valuing ecosystems.

Red Hat and Symantec cooperation can be traced to 2007, two together to help SMEs solve the problem of server security. Now in the cloud era, the two are more closely related, covering a wider range. At the end of July this year, Red Hat and Symantec announced expanded collaboration to help users deploy private and mixed clouds to create high reliability data centers. It is reported that the depth of cooperation extended to two companies in the engineering, marketing, support and sales team. The solution will combine Red Hat Enterprise Linux with Symantec storage to help companies boldly deploy business-critical applications.

At the same time, the collaboration between Red Hat and SAP has entered a new phase in the field of virtualization. Today, users can more easily configure SAP applications on a Red Hat physical server, virtual environment, or cloud.

Not long ago, Red Hat announced the global expansion and growth of the cloud ecosystem and the Red Hat Certified Cloud Provider program. Since 2011, the program has grown more than twice times, with certified partners throughout North America, Europe, Asia and Latin America.

Red Hat Future Forecast

It is reported that the Red Hat will be introduced in the second half of the solution, including Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Enterprise virtualization, Red Hat storage, JBoss Enterprise middleware, Red Hat cloudforms and red Hat OpenShift platform is the service.

In this way, Red Hat has gradually moved from focusing on the technical component stage to a wider range of technology projects with huge market prospects, such as storage and large data. To enable developers within the enterprise to take full advantage of the mature open source technology, Red Hat's strong financial resources is to protect the technical community to continue to innovate and develop commercial products strong backing. Red Hat's position is to help business users use open hybrid cloud computing to reduce complexity. With open source and subscription mode, Red Hat is the most unique member of the cloud computing competition.

(Responsible editor: The good of the Legacy)