Red Hat unveils hybrid cloud, storage server and PaaS plans
Grazed from ComputerWorld. Author: Chris Kanaracus.
Red Hat is planning to roll out a number of product sets for building hybrid clouds over the next few months, the company announced Wednesday at the Red Hat Summit conference in Boston.
"This is a new era for Red Hat," said Brian Stevens, CTO and vice president of worldwide engineering, during a press conference. Years ago, customers were primarily Red Hat Linux customers, but now they’re consuming a number of the vendor’s products, he said. To this end, the new hybrid cloud announcements represent Red Hat’s intention to integrate groups of products into single offerings with their own road maps, he said.
The OpenShift Enterprise PaaS offering will bundle Red Hat’s CloudForms management framework along with Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization and JBoss middleware.
OpenShift was first launched last year as a public PaaS (platform-as-a-service) offering hosted by Red Hat. "What we heard from [early users] is that they love [OpenShift], but they want to consume it completely inside their data center," as well as in hybrid form, leading to the new on-premises option, Stevens said…
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Puppet Labs
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ScaleXtreme
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