Red Hat Powers Cloud-Scale DevOps with the General Availability of Red Hat Cloud Suite and Red Hat OpenStack Platform 8

Hong
Kong – 17 May, 2016 – Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the
world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the general
availability of Red Hat Cloud Suite and Red Hat OpenStack Platform 8, helping
to bridge the gap between development and operations teams at the scale of
cloud computing. With today’s newly-available products, Red Hat now offers a
complete, integrated hybrid cloud stack with a container application platform
(OpenShift by Red Hat), massively scalable infrastructure (Red Hat OpenStack
Platform 8) and unified management tools (Red Hat CloudForms), all available
individually or via a single, easy-to-deploy solution with Red Hat Cloud Suite.

A growing number of
organizations are building private clouds (1), to give them massively scalable
and modern infrastructure, while maintaining increased security and control.
According to the Red Hat Global Customer Tech Outlook 2016, a global survey of
Red Hat customers, private cloud deployments are expected to outpace public
cloud by 6x. In addition, development teams are looking to streamline the
creation and deployment of new cloud-native applications while IT leadership is
hoping to meet growing business demands with cloud-based automation.

Red Hat’s latest cloud
solutions help answer these needs through the availability of:

l   Red Hat OpenStack Platform 8, the
newest version of Red Hat’s leading OpenStack offering, adds optimized storage
and management capabilities through the native inclusion of Red Hat Ceph
Storage and Red Hat CloudForms, respectively.

l   Red Hat Cloud Suite, a
pre-integrated set of Red Hat’s cloud technologies that, for the first time,
allows for cloud-native application development and deployment with the
inclusion of OpenShift by Red Hat in addition to massively-scalable
infrastructure and unified management.

l   Red Hat’s OpenStack-based private
cloud solutions provide an open foundation to meet production-level needs of
today’s modern businesses, combining highly-scalable infrastructure and
management with developer productivity, backed by a broad ecosystem of
certified hardware and software providers. Available as a single platform with
Red Hat OpenStack Platform or as an integrated offering through Red Hat Cloud
Suite, Red Hat’s cloud solutions help customers build scalable, fault-tolerant,
IaaS environments.

Red Hat OpenStack Platform 8

Forming the backbone
of Red Hat’s hybrid cloud offerings is Red Hat OpenStack Platform 8, the latest
version of the company’s highly scalable IaaS platform based on the OpenStack
community “Liberty” release. A co-engineered solution that integrates the
proven foundation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux with Red Hat’s OpenStack
technology to form a production-ready cloud platform, Red Hat OpenStack
Platform is becoming a gold standard for large production OpenStack deployments.
Hundreds of global production deployments and even more proof-of-concepts are
underway, and in the information and telecommunications industry, a strong
ecosystem of industry leaders are rallying around Red Hat OpenStack Platform
for transformative network functions virtualization (NFV) and software-defined
networking (SDN) deployments.

With the debut of Red
Hat OpenStack Platform 8, Red Hat’s core OpenStack offering now natively
includes:

l   Automated upgrades and updates;
easily upgrade major point releases and minor updates. A component of the Red
Hat OpenStack Platform director, it automatically performs the necessary
system-wide updates to both the core OpenStack services, as well as the
director tool itself, helping to deliver a healthy and stable OpenStack cloud
while minimizing downtime.

l   Infrastructure and workload
management included; use Red Hat CloudForms for lifecycle and operational
management over OpenStack infrastructure and workloads. CloudForms can manage
Linux and Windows workloads running on top of OpenStack, including lifecycle
management, usage monitoring and reporting, multi-node orchestration, and
governance and policy-based access control.

l   Software-defined storage; Red Hat
Ceph Storage, Red Hat’s massively scalable, software-defined storage solution,
is now included with Red Hat OpenStack Platform, offering an initial 64
terabytes of highly flexible object and block storage. The most popular storage
solution for OpenStack clouds2 provides users with a single, efficient platform
to support the demanding storage needs of an OpenStack-based cloud.

l   Telco-focused preview; version 8
adds several new and critical tech preview features focused on improving
network virtualization functions. With this release there is more assured
predictable latency with real-time KVM, improved network I/O performance with
DPDK- accelerated Open vSwitch; and an OpenDaylight networking plugin for
customers intending to build a software-defined network.

Red Hat Cloud Suite

Now available, Red Hat
Cloud Suite combines the award-winning container application platform OpenShift
Enterprise, with a massively scalable cloud infrastructure in the form of Red
Hat OpenStack Platform, and a common management framework through Red Hat
CloudForms. Red Hat Cloud Suite enables users to accelerate new cloud-based
services for private cloud and application development and optimize existing
workloads through improved virtualization and performance. This enables a
modern cloud environment where application delivery teams can focus on
development, testing, and deployments using modern cloud-based containerized
microservice solutions, while maintaining control and visibility.

Additional products in
Red Hat Cloud Suite bring users further management and infrastructure
capabilities, including:

l   A unified management experience;
spanning operations and lifecycle management, self-service, and infrastructure
monitoring. These powerful management tools provided by Red Hat Satellite cover
rolling updates for deployment, configuration, patch and subscription
management. A new self-service catalog extends to cover the lifecycle,
operation, and financial management of services that customers deploy.

l   Newly-added infrastructure
monitoring with risk management and analytics; proactively collecting infrastructure
analytics that enable customers to manage technical risks before they impact
operations. Red Hat Insights, a newly-released operations management service,
provides these monitoring capabilities spanning Red Hat OpenStack Platform, Red
Hat CloudForms, and Red Hat Satellite.

l   Integrated application development
and portability, enabling users to build and deploy applications in a familiar,
open source container application platform environment through OpenShift
Enterprise by Red Hat. Linux containers built on standard Docker format are
dependent on the same operating system kernel, consuming fewer resources and
increasing portability. Kubernetes-based container orchestration within Red Hat
Cloud Suite also allows operators to manage their Linux containers as a single
system.

l   KVM-based virtualization platform
with the newly updated Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, offering simplified
virtual machine-to-virtual machine migrations.

l   Open, massively scalable,
software-defined storage with the inclusion of Red Hat Ceph Storage as part of
Red Hat OpenStack Platform 8.

“OpenStack-based
private clouds are rapidly becoming the standard in scalable enterprise
computing, but require a vibrant ecosystem of technologies, services and
hardware to help organizations truly realize their potential. Red Hat OpenStack
Platform 8 and Red Hat Cloud Suite showcase the power of Red Hat’s open
innovation, with solutions that can address nearly any private cloud deployment
scenario while at the same time delivering a streamlined cloud-native
application development platform coupled with the needed enterprise-level
controls for cloud management and improved security.”

“Most organizations
and enterprises are turning to clouds because they open up new opportunities to
deliver business results. With the release of Red Hat OpenStack Platform 8,
organizations have the opportunity to modernize their IT infrastructure with a
production-capable OpenStack cloud platform to capitalize on the promise of cloud,
and the benefits of open source technologies. Through our close relationship,
Dell and Red Hat have integrated Red Hat OpenStack Platform 8 into the latest
release of our co-engineered Dell Red Hat OpenStack Cloud Reference
Architecture, offering our customers a highly reliable and rapid path to an
enterprise-ready OpenStack cloud.”

“With the
dramatic rise of public cloud has come the demand for private infrastructure to
mirror many of its capabilities, from dynamic provisioning to scalability, and
OpenStack was created especially for this purpose. Red Hat is not only offering
enterprise-grade support for the open source IaaS project, it’s extending it by
adding Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) capabilities.”

“A strategic priority
for our team is to introduce new, cloud-based connected services that can
innovate our offerings, including mobile apps, a cloud user portal and call
center services, and more. To do this, we needed a standardized cloud
infrastructure that would enable us to deploy our newly-built applications
anywhere. An open hybrid cloud, based on Red Hat OpenStack Platform and
CloudForms, enabled us to create a multi-tier architecture that could support
our continuous integration and DevOps model. And, as an open source solution,
we found that an OpenStack-based cloud gave us the additional flexibility we
needed to meet our goals.”

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1)
IDC, “IDC Forecasts Worldwide Cloud IT Infrastructure Market to Grow 24% Year
Over Year in 2015, Driven by Public Cloud Datacenter Expansion,” available
at http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS25946315

2)
OpenStack User Survey, October 2015, available at https://drive.google.com/a/redhat.com/file/d/0B4vq3W3Lm2-4RWszZlBqVmxfWW…