Red Hat Escalates Private Cloud Fight With VMware
June 14, 2013
Grazed from InformationWeek. Author: Charles Babcock.
Red Hat is offering companies with a big stake in Linux an alternative to building their private clouds with either VMware or Windows Server. It’s combined its Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) with the open source code modules of OpenStack to produce its own cloud computing platform.
In effect, Red Hat would like its success with an enterprise version of Linux to translate into a second generation of success in private cloud computing. At its Red Hat Summit user group meeting this week in Boston, it announced the combination of RHEL and OpenStack as "Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform."…
It also announced on Wednesday a partnership with the OpenStack consulting firm Mirantis to allow greater ease of implementation of on-premises, OpenStack clouds. Mirantis has produced Fuel, a deployment system that automates many steps in creating an OpenStack cloud. Red Hat, along with other investors, provided Mirantis with $10 million in venture capital on June 6…
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