Red Hat market operating frequently push cloud computing and virtualization development

Red Hat, the world's leading Open-source software solution provider, recently released its second-quarter results for fiscal year 2012 as of August 31. Red Hat's second-quarter revenue was $281.3 million trillion, up 28% year-on-year, according to earnings reports. User subscription income of 238.3 million U.S. dollars, an increase of 28%. And in the rapid development of enterprises behind the Red Hat is frequently the market operation. The continuous introduction of new products and the continuous expansion of the partner Circle has become the main reason for the continuous and rapid development of Red Hat in the near stage.

Cloud computing, is a red hat in recent years to expand one aspect, but also achieved quite good performance. Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehest Jim Whitehurst recently said that the company's Linux operating system has become a common choice for cloud computing servers, Microsoft's time to enter the market is too late.

"Developers generally don't think about Microsoft," Whitehurst said. If you go to Silicon Valley and talk to a venture capitalist, you'll find that the companies they invest in are using open-source systems. Microsoft has made some progress, but the world is moving toward an open source platform, so there are so many companies joining the open source field, including VMware. But Microsoft can't keep up with the situation. ”

And in the National Day, Red Hat once again expanded its cloud computing market map. October 4, made a bold decision to enter the storage software market, acquired the cloud storage software company Gluster. An increasing number of new generation enterprises use Gluster open source software to store file systems to process unstructured data. The deal will make Apple Pay about 136 million dollars. The acquisition is expected to be completed by October.

With gluster,red hat You can access a 4 billion dollar storage market, also known as a unstructured data market, such as e-mail and media content. Red Hat is the largest Linux software provider, and the acquisition of Gluster can provide customers with more solutions.

Gluster the latest version of the virtual device file system for data storage can access data as an object and data as a file, solving a huge problem for storage administrators. This software has several application versions: on-site installation applications, virtual machines, and public and private cloud environment applications. Gluster is located in Sunnyvale, California, calling its software the first "real unified file and object data storage Software".

Not only that, Red Hat is also actively expanding its cloud computing partners to enhance their own strength. Red Hat Company announced recently that it will support the sap® solution running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux through the Amazon Elastic Computing Cloud (EC2). In addition, Red Hat company also today separately released in support of SAP business applications, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

"Red Hat Company has been committed to providing customers with a wealth of software deployment options and innovations in the cloud computing field, and today's announcement has further intensified efforts," said Gus Robertson, vice president of business development at Red Hat. Now, as our Red Hat Enterprise Linux is certified by SAP and is the recommended system for running SAP applications, customers have more room to choose from purchasing and supplying Linux for Red Hat Enterprises. ”

Amazon EC2 can provide high availability and security in the cloud with an on demand, Pay-as-you-go, scalable computing capacity. It is designed to make it easier for developers, commercial independent software vendors, and corporate IT departments around the world to gain a web-scale computing power. SAP customers can use a mirror with red Hat Cloud access and red Hat on demand hours in all Amazon EC2 regions.

In the past week, Red Hat Company and the world's leading cloud software solutions and service provider Virtustream announced today that Virtustream has joined the Red Hat Company's cloud ecosystem as an advanced certified cloud provider. Through this partnership, Virtustream has added support for Red Hat Enterprise virtualization on its XStream cloud platform and has started offering Red Hat Enterprise Linux to customers on demand. By enhancing support for a unified private and multi-tenant Enterprise Cloud, Virtustream can provide its customers with a more scalable and flexible cloud infrastructure, and red Hat customers can easily deploy on XStream.

Virtustream's XStream platform enables organizations to leverage Best-of-breed software and hardware at the same time, and includes virtual servers, storage, networks, clients, applications, and middleware driven by the Red Hat kernel based virtual machine (KVM) hypervisor. Virtustream's unique pricing model based on consumption can combine the load requirements running in the cloud and allocate resources dynamically to the most demanding load, thus optimizing and balancing the operating environment. By creating a resource pool based on a service level agreement (SLA) that makes it a regular part of the virtual computing container, known as the infrastructure Unit, Virtustream can provide compelling guarantees for CPU, memory, network, and storage I/O resources.

"Red Hat Enterprise virtualization can provide a strong foundation for cloud vendors like Virtustream," said Scott Crenshaw, general manager and vice president of the Red Hat Company's cloud division. By partnering with companies like Virtustream, we will continue to offer businesses more choices in the areas of virtualization and cloud computing through solutions such as Red Hat Enterprise virtualization and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. We welcome Virtustream to join our advanced Certified Cloud Supplier program. ”

In terms of products, Red Hat is also constantly introducing new products to enrich their product line, to provide better service. Red Hat Company has announced a major upgrade to the JBoss Enterprise SOA platform, the JBoss Enterprise Data Service platform and the Jbos enterprise Business Rules Management System (BRMS) product line. upgrades to the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), data, and business rule platforms enable smarter, integrated enterprises by connecting the entire enterprise application with complex event processing (CEP) services.

"5 years ago, most managers did not see why they had to shift to event-driven business operations," said Maureen Fleming, vice president of Business process management and middleware research at IDC. Today, cycle times become faster, customers express their dissatisfaction more strongly, and management cannot lag behind. Building event-driven systems with ESB, event handling, and business rules enables organizations to make predictions, decisions, and actions to take advantage of problems or opportunities as they emerge. ”

"To cope with competitive pressures, companies upgrade their IT infrastructures, make them more flexible and support proactive decisions," explains Craig Muzilla, vice president and middleware business manager at Red Hat. By launching a new version of these platforms, we will provide tools to automate rule-based decisions, business process execution, and complex event handling to help improve the speed and quality of their business operations. ”

At the same time, Red Hat also announced that it would endorse and support an open, barrier-free integration protocol for Business messaging-the Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP).

As one of the founding members of the AMQP Working Group, the Red Hat leader established the first open Messaging Protocol standard--AMQP. The company has made a critical contribution to this agreement since its inception, including the development and editing of AMQP specifications.

Red Hat makes such a contribution because it believes that the AMQP standard extends interoperability within and outside the enterprise. Red Hat has been a major investor since the initial proposal of the AMQP agreement. The company believes that AMQP is the key infrastructure component of the next-generation solution. The next-generation solution needs to integrate resources to break through traditional enterprise boundaries, which used to be the focus of traditional suppliers. The company also believes that AMQP1.0 's recent formal approval and the AMQP branch of the AMQP Working Group incorporated into the newly established Structured Information Standards Promotion Organization (OASIS) are milestones in the development of the Internet Business Messaging protocol and demonstrate its relevance to future businesses.

"Overall, AMQP is approved as a standard and open protocol for message based communications, a milestone for customers and information technology." "We believe that adopting a message based system will bring strong momentum," said Craig Muzilla, general manager of the Red Hat Middleware department. Customers will enjoy innovative products faster and will not feel locked out. Red Hat is dedicated to AMQP as an important transformative force, and we have applied AMQP to messaging and other JBoss middleware solutions. ”

And in terms of virtualization and cloud computing, Red Hat has a major rival, VMware. Recently, VMware has launched a new open source project to consolidate its dominance in the field of virtualization and cloud computing, but Red Hat is not to be outdone. Red Hat Company is carrying five heavyweight manufacturers, through its RHEV-M protocol stack based on the virtual community project to the industry veteran team VMware launched a shock.

Not so long ago, Red Hat had just joined the Ovirt project, built by Cisco, IBM, Intel, NetApp and SuSE, to create a pluggable monitoring management framework that would also provide a solid plug-in portfolio for its virtualized management tools for KVM launches. Virt will be officially launched this November, when network giant Cisco will showcase the new project in the form of a seminar at its San Jose training base in California. Now Ovirt has become a mega-complex with 13 categories, according to sources, and two additional subprojects are expected to join this November.

According to the Red Hat Company, the deep meaning behind the Ovirt project is to provide a broader space for adoption beyond VMware, rather than just making choices in Red Hat's own rhev-m or Microsoft's Hyper-V.

"This kind of positioning will make the overall situation completely different," said Red Hat's technical director Carl Trielof in an interview. "It is certainly a good thing to introduce advanced technology in the preparation of alternatives to VMware." He added, "This project comes from an open and managed community and will be the first such option to be directed at VMware."

With the continuous introduction of new products, more able to launch a wide range of partners, Red Hat in the development of the road is undoubtedly more and more wide. So is cloud computing and virtualization really going to send the Red hat to the 1 billion dollar club? Let's wait and see!

(Responsible editor: Liu Fen)