Red
Hat Improves Scalability, Simplifies Usability with Latest Version of
Production-Ready OpenStack for Enterprise and Service Provider
Clouds
Hat Improves Scalability, Simplifies Usability with Latest Version of
Production-Ready OpenStack for Enterprise and Service Provider
Clouds
Built
on OpenStack ‘Newton’ community release, Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10
delivers refreshed user interface, customizable roles
and long lifecycle support
on OpenStack ‘Newton’ community release, Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10
delivers refreshed user interface, customizable roles
and long lifecycle support
Hong Kong – 21 December, 2016 –
Red
Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source
solutions, today announced the availability of Red Hat OpenStack
Platform 10, the company’s massively-scalable and agile
cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) solution. Based on the
upstream OpenStack ‘Newton’ release, Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10
drives new features that increase system-wide scalability, ease
infrastructure management, and improve orchestration, while also
enhancing network performance and platform security. Additionally, Red
Hat OpenStack Platform 10 introduces a new software life cycle, with
optional support up to 5 years.
Red
Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source
solutions, today announced the availability of Red Hat OpenStack
Platform 10, the company’s massively-scalable and agile
cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) solution. Based on the
upstream OpenStack ‘Newton’ release, Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10
drives new features that increase system-wide scalability, ease
infrastructure management, and improve orchestration, while also
enhancing network performance and platform security. Additionally, Red
Hat OpenStack Platform 10 introduces a new software life cycle, with
optional support up to 5 years.
Hundreds
of customers rely on Red Hat OpenStack Platform to power their hybrid
and private clouds for a variety of mission-critical
deployments, including BBVA;
Cambridge
University;
FICO;
NASA’s
Jet Propulsion Laboratory;
Paddy Power Betfair;
Produban;
Swisscom;
UKCloud;
and Verizon.
Additionally, Red Hat OpenStack Platform is backed by a robust ecosystem of certified partners, including
Cisco,
Dell
EMC,
Fujitsu,
Intel,
Lenovo,
Rackspace,
and NetApp
for enterprise businesses, as well as Ericsson,
Nokia,
NEC,
Huawei,
Cisco
and others from the telecommunications industry.
of customers rely on Red Hat OpenStack Platform to power their hybrid
and private clouds for a variety of mission-critical
deployments, including BBVA;
Cambridge
University;
FICO;
NASA’s
Jet Propulsion Laboratory;
Paddy Power Betfair;
Produban;
Swisscom;
UKCloud;
and Verizon.
Additionally, Red Hat OpenStack Platform is backed by a robust ecosystem of certified partners, including
Cisco,
Dell
EMC,
Fujitsu,
Intel,
Lenovo,
Rackspace,
and NetApp
for enterprise businesses, as well as Ericsson,
Nokia,
NEC,
Huawei,
Cisco
and others from the telecommunications industry.
Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10 delivers a reliable cloud platform built on the proven, enterprise-grade backbone of
Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Integrated with Red Hat’s hardened
OpenStack community code, Red Hat OpenStack Platform provides the
agility to scale and more quickly meet customer demand without
compromising availability, performance, or IT security requirements.
Also included in Red Hat OpenStack Platform is Red Hat CloudForms,
a hybrid cloud management and monitoring platform to oversee not only
OpenStack infrastructure components but also the workloads running on a
given OpenStack cloud. Additionally, 64
TBs of storage capacity is provided with Red Hat Ceph Storage,
enabling users to better evaluate the flexible, massively scalable
properties of Ceph’s leading storage solution for OpenStack
environments.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Integrated with Red Hat’s hardened
OpenStack community code, Red Hat OpenStack Platform provides the
agility to scale and more quickly meet customer demand without
compromising availability, performance, or IT security requirements.
Also included in Red Hat OpenStack Platform is Red Hat CloudForms,
a hybrid cloud management and monitoring platform to oversee not only
OpenStack infrastructure components but also the workloads running on a
given OpenStack cloud. Additionally, 64
TBs of storage capacity is provided with Red Hat Ceph Storage,
enabling users to better evaluate the flexible, massively scalable
properties of Ceph’s leading storage solution for OpenStack
environments.
New enhancements and updates to Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10 include:
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A more streamlined user experience
driven
by an easier-to-use graphical user interface (GUI) reduces the
complexities of installation and management. Designed for production
use, the Red Hat OpenStack Platform director
GUI provides several newly integrated functions, such as automatic
upgrades and updates (including Ceph), advanced networking
configuration, high availability, and the option to deploy file sharing
via the Manila service, using the integrated drivers available
from NetApp and Red Hat Ceph Storage.
A more streamlined user experience
driven
by an easier-to-use graphical user interface (GUI) reduces the
complexities of installation and management. Designed for production
use, the Red Hat OpenStack Platform director
GUI provides several newly integrated functions, such as automatic
upgrades and updates (including Ceph), advanced networking
configuration, high availability, and the option to deploy file sharing
via the Manila service, using the integrated drivers available
from NetApp and Red Hat Ceph Storage.
l
Improved flexibility for greater scalability
through
the introduction of customizable services and administration roles
using Red Hat OpenStack Platform director. Cloud operators are now able
to control their OpenStack environment
at a more granular level by customizing OpenStack services to run and
scale independently of each other. This offers greater flexibility when
deploying services to match individual organizations’ unique workload
requirements.
Improved flexibility for greater scalability
through
the introduction of customizable services and administration roles
using Red Hat OpenStack Platform director. Cloud operators are now able
to control their OpenStack environment
at a more granular level by customizing OpenStack services to run and
scale independently of each other. This offers greater flexibility when
deploying services to match individual organizations’ unique workload
requirements.
l
Greater data assurance
through new security-related enhancements, such as improved high
availability (HA) for large scale deployments. Additionally, optional
object storage encryption and ephemeral security tokens improve security
measures and lower risk of data access due to theft.
Greater data assurance
through new security-related enhancements, such as improved high
availability (HA) for large scale deployments. Additionally, optional
object storage encryption and ephemeral security tokens improve security
measures and lower risk of data access due to theft.
l
Improved performance for network-intensive workloads
through the new data plane developer
kit (DPDK) component of Open vSwitch, and single-root input/output
virtualization (SR-IOV), results in network performance that is
comparable to bare metal. Additionally, network routing is now more
flexible and faster, allowing customers to choose between
centralized routing or distributed routing (DVR).
Improved performance for network-intensive workloads
through the new data plane developer
kit (DPDK) component of Open vSwitch, and single-root input/output
virtualization (SR-IOV), results in network performance that is
comparable to bare metal. Additionally, network routing is now more
flexible and faster, allowing customers to choose between
centralized routing or distributed routing (DVR).
l
A new “ready state” hardware certification program,
based on OpenStack Ironic. While Red
Hat already supports certified hardware plug-ins for several OpenStack
components, the new program is designed to expand the ecosystem of
hardware options for automated bare-metal configuration. Dell EMC is the
first Red Hat partner to be certified for Red
Hat OpenStack Platform 10 ready-state, with several more coming soon.
A new “ready state” hardware certification program,
based on OpenStack Ironic. While Red
Hat already supports certified hardware plug-ins for several OpenStack
components, the new program is designed to expand the ecosystem of
hardware options for automated bare-metal configuration. Dell EMC is the
first Red Hat partner to be certified for Red
Hat OpenStack Platform 10 ready-state, with several more coming soon.
Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10 also introduces
distributed continuous integration (DCI) to key partners, such as
Dell EMC, NEC, and Rackspace. This collaborative approach to testing
can help partners more effectively prepare for new Red Hat OpenStack
Platform releases, and provide customers with
greater stability and higher quality cloud solutions that have been
tested many times over with their uniquely integrated cloud system than
previously offered
distributed continuous integration (DCI) to key partners, such as
Dell EMC, NEC, and Rackspace. This collaborative approach to testing
can help partners more effectively prepare for new Red Hat OpenStack
Platform releases, and provide customers with
greater stability and higher quality cloud solutions that have been
tested many times over with their uniquely integrated cloud system than
previously offered
New lifecycle offers up to 5 years support
To
help customers achieve long-term stability required by their specific
workload requirements, Red Hat OpenStack Platform
10 introduces a dual support life cycle model that offers greater
subscription flexibility for mission-critical operations. This new model
gives customers the option of standardizing on a new “Long Life”
version of Red Hat OpenStack Platform, offering a three
year product lifecycle and optional two additional years of extended
life cycle (ELS) support available for purchase. Customers can also
choose to focus on consuming new feature functionality by using rolling
upgrades to follow the latest releases of Red Hat
OpenStack Platform every six months to one year.
help customers achieve long-term stability required by their specific
workload requirements, Red Hat OpenStack Platform
10 introduces a dual support life cycle model that offers greater
subscription flexibility for mission-critical operations. This new model
gives customers the option of standardizing on a new “Long Life”
version of Red Hat OpenStack Platform, offering a three
year product lifecycle and optional two additional years of extended
life cycle (ELS) support available for purchase. Customers can also
choose to focus on consuming new feature functionality by using rolling
upgrades to follow the latest releases of Red Hat
OpenStack Platform every six months to one year.
Long Life versions of Red Hat OpenStack Platform will be offered every third release, starting with Red Hat OpenStack
Platform 10. Versions in between will include one year of life cycle support.
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