Red Hat's Mark McLoughlin shares contributions on OpenStack innovation
KUALA LUMPUR – NOV. 11, 2013 – Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, recently announced that the company was one of the headline sponsors for this year's OpenStack Summit in Hong Kong, where they shared updates on its OpenStack contributions, and how Red Hat aims to be a bridge for OpenStack to grow from a project to enterprise-grade product.
Held at the AsiaWorldExpo, the OpenStack Summit brought together some of the industry's leading technical minds to discuss the future of OpenStack and cloud computing. The four-day summit featured keynote sessions by headline sponsors, break out sessions and demonstrations.
Mark McLoughlin, consulting engineer, Red Hat, who is a member of OpenStack's technical committee and the OpenStack Foundation's board of directors, was a keynote speaker at the summit. McLoughlin's keynote took place on November 6, Wednesday, 9:45 am – 10:15 am (HKT).
During the OpenStack Summit, Red Hat demonstrated its open hybrid cloud solutions including Red Hat CloudForms, Red Hat Storage, and OpenStack deployment and management technologies, with the support of hardware partners, Intel Asia Pacific and Quanta QCT.
Red Hat is a platinum member of the OpenStack Foundation, and has contributed to the project, helping to mold and shape its innovative potential. According to contributor stats made available by the OpenStack Foundation / Bitergia and Stackalytics, Red Hat continues to be the top corporate contributor for the recent OpenStack Havana release.
Red Hat Extends OpenStack Leadership with Enterprise-Class IaaS and PaaS Innovations
o Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 4.0 updated with Foreman, Heat and Neutron support, technology preview of Ceilometer, integration with Red Hat CloudForms 3.0, and enhanced integration with Red Hat Storage 2.0
o OpenShift by Red Hat available for deployment on OpenStack; Red Hat offers a preview of OpenStack-M open source deployment and management solution
KUALA LUMPUR – NOV. 11, 2013 – Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, announced several new innovations in support of the company’s open hybrid cloud vision, including beta availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 4.0, advancements to drive OpenShift by Red Hat on OpenStack, and a preview of OpenStack-M, an open source deployment and management solution for OpenStack-powered clouds that will be integrated into future versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform.
In June 2013, Red Hat delivered on its open hybrid cloud vision with the introduction of Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform, a solution that serves as the foundation for advanced cloud users who are seeking to build an OpenStack-powered cloud, and Red Hat Cloud Infrastructure, a comprehensive offering designed to support organizations on their journey from traditional datacenter virtualization to OpenStack-powered clouds. This announcements continue that vision and extend Red Hat’s continued leadership in the OpenStack community and commitment to providing industry-leading enterprise solutions based on the popular OpenStack framework for building and managing private, public and hybrid Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) clouds.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 4.0 Beta
The beta of Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 4.0 includes both OpenStack Havana and the beta release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5, and includes several new features for improved deployment and manageability of cloud computing implementations, including:
Full support for Foreman, a lifecycle management tool for physical and virtual servers that simplifies the addition of both physical and virtual compute nodes to an OpenStack deployment, aiding the deployment of Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform on hardware.
Full support for OpenStack Orchestration (Heat) and OpenStack Networking (Neutron), and a technology preview of Ceilometer. OpenStack Heat offers an orchestration engine to launch application stacks, while Neutron (previously Quantum) delivers “networking-as-a-service” (software-defined networking) between interface devices such as vNICs. Ceilometer provides OpenStack resource instrumentation which can help support service monitoring and billing systems in the acquisition of customer usage data.
Integration with Red Hat CloudForms 3.0. CloudForms 3.0, also announced today, now provides a single, unified management interface for an open hybrid cloud incorporating datacenter virtualization and Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform capacity.
Enhanced integration with Red Hat Storage Server 2.1, providing storage services for OpenStack Object Storage (Swift), OpenStack Block Storage (Cinder) and OpenStack Image Service (Glance), offering a robust and scalable storage solution for use with Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform.
By integrating the leading enterprise Linux operating platform with OpenStack, Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform delivers a stable, high-performing public, private, or hybrid OpenStack cloud, ready to handle critical workloads. With Red Hat’s leadership in the OpenStack community, customers can deploy an enterprise-supported, production-ready OpenStack cloud with an extended software lifecycle, a broad certified partner ecosystem, and global technical support services, all backed by the industry’s most trusted open source technology partner.
Red Hat customers can access the beta version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 4.0 as part of their subscription at access.redhat.com.
OpenShift by Red Hat on OpenStack
Additionally, Red Hat today announced that OpenShift by Red Hat, Red Hat’s award-winning Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offering is now available for user deployment on OpenStack via OpenStack Heat. With today’s announcement, OpenShift users can use the native OpenStack technology to quickly run and scale their own PaaS in production.
The marriage of these two rapidly growing, open source cloud technologies brings a credible cloud solution to enterprises that provides elasticity and efficiency for IT operations along with self-service and automation for IT development teams. Providing an OpenShift PaaS on top of an OpenStack infrastructure delivers the productivity and velocity IT development teams need to quickly push new applications and services to market.
OpenStack-M
Red Hat also today announced a preview of OpenStack-M, an open source OpenStack deployment and management solution built using existing OpenStack components which will be integrated into future versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform. OpenStack-M is being developed by the open source community and is rooted in Tuskar, a Red Hat-led project for managing OpenStack deployments, and has been officially merged into the OpenStack Deployment program (code named OpenStack on OpenStack, or TripleO). OpenStack-M aims to provide a more comprehensive OpenStack management solution than proprietary offerings, many of which only address deployment, health and monitoring separately or can only be accessed as proprietary add-ons.
Red Hat will be demonstrating OpenStack-M at the OpenStack Summit in Hong Kong Nov. 5-8, 2013, and plans to make OpenStack-M available in future releases of Red Hat Enterprise OpenStack Platform.
Red Hat Delivers Enterprise-Grade Cloud Management for OpenStack
Red Hat Extends Private, Public and Hybrid Cloud Management Capabilities with CloudForms 3.0
KUALA LUMPUR – NOV. 11, 2013 – Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, announced the next release of its cloud management platform, Red Hat CloudForms 3.0. Based on a robust feature set stemming from Red Hat's acquisition of ManageIQ in 2012, this new release of CloudForms adds enterprise-grade cloud management capabilities for Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform as well as enhanced management capabilities for Amazon Web Services (AWS).
CloudForms already provided essential enterprise-level management and automation capabilities for various infrastructure platforms, such as VMware vSphere, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, and Amazon AWS. CloudForms 3.0 expands support of these features to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform, providing cloud administrators and operators with both new capabilities for managing OpenStack as well as the ability to integrate OpenStack into existing environments through unified management. CloudForms 3.0 also expands its support for AWS, enabling users to seamlessly manage workloads running in public clouds together with workloads in their private clouds. With CloudForms 3.0, organizations now have greater choice and flexibility in building both their private and hybrid clouds.
"OpenStack-based cloud management solutions are increasingly viewed by Gartner clients as a means to mitigate risk of lock-in and expand vendor choice in private and hybrid cloud deployments," according to Gartner in its “2014 Planning Guide for Private Cloud, Data Center Modernization and Desktop Transformation,” report published Oct. 13, 2013.
CloudForms installs as a virtual appliance, enabling users to centrally manage and automate workload lifecycles through self-service provisioning and IT process workflows, assess capacity and utilization, enforce quotas, intelligent workload placement, and orchestrate post-provisioning operations. CloudForms’ unique Adaptive Management Platform™ anchors powerful features to automate OpenStack and other cloud infrastructure platforms, including:
• Seamless Self-service Portals that provide users with role-delegated, automated self-provisioning of catalog-driven IT services, with requisite request approvals and integration with enterprise service catalogs. Cloud Lifecycle Service Management spans from provisioning to retirement, with automatic aging, tracking and monitoring of services.
• Advanced Chargeback, Quotas and Metering, with detailed usage tracking by configurable classifications and support for multiple rates tables (fixed cost, allocation and usage) and reservation based chargeback.
• Continuous Discovery and Insight from automatic, agent-free discovery of OpenStack instances and relationships and capacity and utilization, along with configuration tracking and drift comparison.
• Unified Operations Management, offering multi-site federation that provides “single pane of glass” visibility across cloud and virtual infrastructures, including runtime operations, service configuration, utilization, events, timelines, reports and customizable dashboard mash-ups.
CloudForms: Hybrid Cloud Management
Enterprises looking for ways to flexibly extend datacenter capacity and achieve greater efficiencies and cost savings are, in many cases, moving workloads to public clouds such as AWS. With CloudForms 3.0, enterprise users can now seamlessly view, request and deploy workloads in AWS from the same management framework they use to manage services in their private cloud and virtual infrastructures. CloudForms leverages AWS’ capabilities for end-to-end lifecycle management of Amazon workloads, including abilities to:
• Provision Amazon Machine Instances (AMIs) in a policy controlled manner, through enterprise defined self-service portals and service catalogs. State policies are enforced on source AMI’s as well as instance placement into destination regions and availability zones. Identity and group affiliations also condition what can or cannot be provisioned per enterprise regulatory, business and IT rules.
• Support Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), a logically isolated section of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud containing user defined virtual networks. Users can select authorized VPC/subnets to provision and run their workloads, which are managed by CloudForm's policies.
• Integrate with Amazon's Identity and Access Management (IAM), which, together with CloudForm's Role Based Access Control (RBAC) and permissions, give enterprises complete control over provisioning and managing Amazon workloads and resources.
• Track Amazon workload performance and usage, alerting administrators and users to performance thresholds.
CloudForms is also offered as part of Red Hat Cloud Infrastructure, a comprehensive offering introduced in June 2013, designed to support organizations on their journey from traditional datacenter virtualization to OpenStack-powered clouds. Red Hat Cloud Infrastructure combines Red Hat CloudForms, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform for comprehensive open hybrid cloud enablement.
Availability
CloudForms 3.0 is generally available.
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