Red Hat Buys ManageIQ, Gains Hybrid Cloud Tools
December 22, 2012
Red Hat will acquire virtualization environment manager ManageIQ for $104 million to beef up the capabilities of Red Hat Virtualization 3.1, its own virtualization management console.
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization generates and manages virtual machines run by the KVM hypervisor found in the Linux kernel. ManageIQ was an early fosterer of management in the multi-hypervisor virtual environment. In this early, 2009 look at the company, ManageIQ CEO and co-founder Joe Fitzgerald talked about management problems in the more dynamic world of virtual machines…
The acquisition is aimed at making Red Hat a stronger player in the creation of multi-hypervisor, on-premises clouds capable of working with various public cloud services. ManageIQ workloads can be configured to run via Amazon Web Services EC2 or Microsoft Azure. Red Hat has plans to support Rackspace Cloud, a user of the Xen hypervisor, in the near future, said Bryan Che, general manager of the cloud business unit.
ManageIQ is already a partner of Red Hat’s and has supported Red Hat’s virtualization environment for 18 months. When Red Hat announced the 3.1 release of Enterprise Virtualization, ManageIQ announced at the same time 3.1 support in its EVM Suite products…
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