Cloud Computing: Red Hat shakes up OpenStack lineup
June 13, 2013
Grazed from Network World. Author: Jon Gold.
Red Hat announced a large-scale restructuring of its OpenStack-based offerings today, bundling its Enterprise Linux software with the OpenStack platform, and creating a more comprehensive infrastructure product for private-cloud IaaS. The centerpiece of the company’s press conference — held today at the Red Hat Summit in Boston — were Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform and Red Hat Cloud Infrastructure, both of which are essentially prepackaged combinations of the company’s existing products.
RHEL OpenStack Platform bundles RHEL Server with Red Hat OpenStack under a single subscription model. President of Products and Technologies Paul Cormier said that the idea is to provide a reliable user experience across all parts of a hybrid cloud environment…
"I think the key element of this is — from physical systems to virtual machines to, now, the cloud platform — it’s the ability to have that application consistency across all of those footprints," he said. "So the same RHEL component that’s in each of those platforms is the same across those platforms." Cormier also noted that the RHEL OpenStack Platform would be on the same consistent lifecycle as the base RHEL product, and that it is scheduled to reach general availability next month…
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