Can Red Hat do for OpenStack what it did for Linux?
June 17, 2013
Grazed from NetworkWorld. Author: Brandon Butler.
Red Hat made its first $1 billion commercializing Linux. Now, it hopes to make even more doing the same for OpenStack. Red Hat executives say OpenStack – the open source cloud computing platform – is just like Linux. The code just needs to be massaged into a commercially-hardened package before enterprises will really use it. But just because Red Hat successfully commercialized Linux does not guarantee its OpenStack effort will go as well.
At the company’s annual Summit in Boston this month, Red Hat made what Red Hat executive vice president of products and technology Paul Cormier said was the biggest announcement in the nine years that the company has been running the show. Integrating OpenStack into its Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) operating system, the company hopes, will propel it through the next decade of growth…
Red Hat is delivering OpenStack in two flavors. One is through the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) OpenStack Platform, aimed at service providers and large enterprises. It’s an OpenStack distribution that leaves room for businesses to layer revenue-generating services on top. The second is Red Hat Cloud Infrastructure (CI), which is a complete package for deploying a private cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service based on OpenStack. It includes Red Hat Virtualization technology based on the Kernel Virtual Machine (KVM) along with baked-in management features such as self-service portals, chargeback metering, and orchestration tools. It also allows for connections with public clouds from Amazon Web Services, with more to be added. Red Hat has not released pricing details yet for either product, but they are expected to hit the market in July…
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