Red Hat announces launch of OpenStack product portfolio to achieve open mixed cloud vision

June 12, 2013-Red Hat today announced the launch of two new products to achieve the open mixed cloud vision. The new product includes a solution that helps cloud users build OpenStack cloud infrastructure Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform and a comprehensive product designed to support the transition from traditional data center virtualization to OpenStack Cloud for enterprise users.

The new product is built on the Red Hat Company's Enterprise Open source solution, providing world-class red hat support, including a wide range of partner ecosystems within the Red Hat OpenStack Cloud infrastructure Partner Network and various support designed to help enterprise users easily accept OpenStack.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack platform combines Red Hat Enterprise Linux with the OpenStack cloud platform to provide an extensible security base for building a private cloud or public cloud. Red Hat Cloud infrastructure can help enterprise users deploy infrastructure that is services that applies both to legacy applications and to emerging cloud applications. With red Hat Cloud infrastructure, enterprise users can migrate the latest cloud application architectures in their own way: by their own pace, using their own it protocols, putting everything under their control.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform

Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack platform is designed specifically to meet the needs of advanced cloud users, telecommunications companies, Internet service providers, and public cloud hosting providers, Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform integrates the world's leading enterprise-class Linux operating system and the fastest growing cloud infrastructure platform in the industry, helping enterprise users achieve platform-scale flexibility without sacrificing availability, security, and performance to quickly meet user needs.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform is a separately subscribed product that includes:

lred Hat Enterprise Linux Server provides a secure authentication base for scalable, high-performance Linux operating systems that run OpenStack workload servers (compute nodes, storage nodes, and controller nodes) simultaneously for client virtual machines;

Lred Hat OpenStack is a highly scalable fault-tolerant platform for the development and management of the red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system, for cloud workloads, private cloud or public cloud.

Using Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack platform can help advanced users develop and configure a production-oriented OpenStack infrastructure, focus on the service layer, add value to the tools, and in Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack platform based on custom user requirements while trusting Red hat to maintain the integrity of Red Hat Enterprise Linux server and OpenStack nodes.

In addition, Red hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack platform offers several enterprise-class features to help enterprise users confidently configure, including testing and validating each Linux OpenStack in red Hat Enterprise The OpenStack version running on platform broadens the compatibility and performance of hardware and software; a predictable, stable lifecycle; SELinux's military-level security; An extensive ecosystem of partners that can certify computing, storage, networking, ISV software, configuration, and customization services.

Red Hat Cloud Infrastructure

Enterprise users have experienced the benefits of data center virtualization and are looking for higher levels of management capabilities, such as cost-return, self-service, advanced monitoring and measurement, and red Hat Cloudforms (now incorporates the November 2012 Red Hat Acquisition of MANAGEIQ Technology) provides the coordination function. At the same time, public cloud technologies such as OpenStack can reduce the cost of infrastructure, the highly scalable architecture and the IT-service model. Enterprise users face challenges associated with managing the long-term process of transitioning from traditional datacenter virtualization to cloud architectures, while also identifying the direction of migrating their application workloads from one architecture to another, and ensuring manageability and protocols for decentralized platforms.

Red Hat Cloud infrastructure is designed to meet this need to help enterprise users build and manage private cloud infrastructures that are based on data center virtualization and management technologies for traditional workloads, while providing services such as Red Hat OpenStack's infrastructure is the development plan for this highly scalable public cloud.

Red Hat Cloud Infrastructure is a separate subscription product consisting of four component technologies:

Lred Hat Enterprise Virtualization: A comprehensive Datacenter virtualization product for Linux and Windows workloads that helps users build a secure, flexible virtualization base that meets the workload requirements of traditional enterprise application software.

Lred Hat cloudforms: is an open hybrid cloud management solution that provides users with visibility and control over existing diverse virtual infrastructures, helping users configure, monitor and manage Red Hat Enterprise virtualization, VMware Vsphere and other virtualization solutions, management programs and Platform cloud services.

Lred Hat OpenStack: is a highly scalable infrastructure, a service solution, that helps users lay an open, flexible, enterprise-class, private cloud base.

lred Hat Enterprise Linux Server, the world's leading enterprise-class Linux operating system, is an extensible, High-performance Linux operating system that can be used to run client-side virtual machines on the OpenStack computing platform.

Time to market

Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack platform and Red Hat Cloud infrastructure will be available for sale in July 2013.

Partner Pilot

Red Hat Company will collaborate with a small number of solution providers and system Integrator partners in selected areas and will expand partner and regional pilots over time Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack platform and Red Hat Cloud The scope of the infrastructure.

Latest Red Hat OpenStack administration Training

As part of the Red Hat Enterprise-class OpenStack solution announcement, Red Hat also announced today a new set of training offerings-red hat OpenStack administration. This course will teach system administrators how to use Red Hat OpenStack technology to deploy cloud computing environments, including installation on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux platform, configuration and maintenance of Red Hat OpenStack. Through hands-on labs, students can explore the fault-tolerant and redundant configuration of Red Hat OpenStack, and the technology preview version of Red Hat OpenStack in the future.

The latest Red Hat cloud certification

Red Hat Company has provided training for system administrators, developers and system integrators running a red Hat open mixed cloud environment. Today, Red Hat Company also announced two new cloud focus certification. The certificate from Red Hat Certificate of Expertise in OpenStack IaaS demonstrates the ability of individuals to deploy and manage a private cloud infrastructure using red Hat OpenStack. The certificate from the Red Hat Certificate of expertise in Hybrid Cloud Storage proves that individuals have the ability to use Red hat Storage server to create an internal The knowledge and skills of a hybrid and a flexible storage infrastructure for the public cloud. The certification of the Red Hat certificate in OpenStack IaaS is expected to be launched in August 2013. The Red Hat Certificate of expertise in Hybrid Cloud storage will see you soon.

With the latest open IaaS architecture service, in addition to supporting the training and certification of Red Hat Cloud infrastructure, Red Hat has announced a new open IaaS architecture service To help enterprise users get the right to start building and running the cloud infrastructure as a service. With red Hat Consulting, the Open IaaS Architecture Service provides a beginning to fully use the infrastructure, the service capability, to help users better understand the user situation, further design requirements, and identify the resources required. The Open IaaS Architecture Service helps enterprise users build a flexible architecture that meets immediate operational needs, future consolidation opportunities, and cloud transitions. These services reduce the risk and uncertainty of the infrastructure, the service configuration, and tailor the infrastructure, the service solution, to optimize efficiency, flexibility, and reliability.

"Users have been looking for a leader who can stand up and use OpenStack to meet their business needs, OpenStack can provide them with stability, a wide range of partner ecosystems," said Paul Cormier, president of Red Hat Company's products and technology. Predictable lifecycle and world-class technical support. We are happy to take this responsibility to meet the needs of users. The launch of Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack platform and Red Hat Cloud infrastructure marks the defining moment that red hat and OpenStack accept for corporate users. "As enterprise users begin to transition from the traditional virtualized configuration cloud architecture, their focus is gradually shifting from management processes to the entire cloud software, including infrastructure services cloud system software and mixed cloud management," said Gary Chen, manager of Enterprise virtualization software at IDC consulting firm. As users begin to evaluate technologies such as OpenStack, Red Hat's newest solution has gained a favorable position in attracting industry interest.

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