Red Hat Continues Leadership and Momentum with Open Hybrid Clouds

Dec. 8, 2012 - PRLog -- DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – Red Hat, Inc. , the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced advancements in its delivery of open hybrid cloud solutions and technologies to enterprises. Expanding its cloud footprint, Red Hat today delivers an update to its open hybrid cloud management platform with the availability of Red Hat CloudForms 1.1 and releases two cloud solution bundles and a services offering combining several of Red Hat’s leading product portfolios.

Red Hat CloudForms 1.1

In early June 2012, Red Hat delivered (http://www.redhat.com/about/news/press-archive/2012/6/red-hat-delivers-cloud-flexibility-and-agility-to-enterprises-with-innovative-infrastructure-as-a-service-platform) the first release of Red Hat CloudForms, an open hybrid cloud management platform built to enable enterprises to create and manage Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) hybrid clouds with the ability to make self-service computing resources available to users in a managed, governed and secure way. With CloudForms, enterprises can build and manage an open enterprise hybrid cloud, providing infrastructure choice spanning across multiple virtualization platforms and extending to public cloud resources, and can build and manage applications in their cloud, enabling enterprises to use their cloud for their workloads.

Today, Red Hat updates the CloudForms platform with the release of CloudForms 1.1. With this release, Red Hat has expanded the reach of the product further into Asia Pacific and Europe with enablement for four additional languages, including Korean, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese and Portuguese. The 1.1 release also incorporates a number of updates and fixes covering features such as:

System Groups: allowing administrators to easily organize systems to perform actions, such as updating packages, upon many systems as if they were one.

LDAP Support: allowing enterprises to leverage their existing identity management solutions within CloudForms.

Content searching: providing enterprises the ability to quickly search all application lifecycle environments for specific pieces of content.  

Open Hybrid Cloud Solutions and Open IaaS Architecture Service Offering

At the Red Hat Summit in June 2012, Red Hat announced (http://www.redhat.com/about/news/press-archive/2012/6/red...) a set of solutions designed to enable enterprises to build and manage open hybrid clouds. Combining Red Hat’s full portfolio of products, the solutions offer enterprises an easy on-ramp to open hybrid cloud computing with reduced complexity.  

The first of the four solutions, Red Hat Storage, was delivered in June 2012. Today, Red Hat announces the general availability of two additional open hybrid cloud solutions:

Red Hat Hybrid IaaS Solution: This offering reduces the complexity of building a hybrid cloud by providing a comprehensive set of software components to save time in deploying a hybrid cloud. The solution includes virtualization management with Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization; a hybrid cloud management framework with Red Hat CloudForms; guest operating system with Red Hat Enterprise Linux and the ability to add on-demand public cloud compute hours with Red Hat Certified Public Cloud Providers.