Red Hat folds ManageIQ purchase into cloud control stack

Grazed from InfoWorld. Author: Joab Jackson.

Bulking up on tools for managing hybrid clouds, Red Hat plans to fold the software it acquired last month in the ManageIQ purchase into its own CloudForms software. The combined package will offer a more comprehensive set of management software needed to run virtual applications across public and internal clouds, according to Red Hat.

"We’re integrating the operational management capabilities of ManageIQ to the existing capabilities of CloudForms," said Bryan Che, general manager of Red Hat’s cloud business unit, in a webcast. Red Hat hopes the combination will provide a "compelling offering to our customers as they [make] the transition to open hybrid clouds." Red Hat acquired ManageIQ for $104 million in December, adding ManageIQ’s software to a growing stable of products for running cloud deployments on premise, including Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization and a distribution of OpenStack to be released later this year…

Red Hat’s CloudForms offers the ability to define cloud application blueprints, so applications — which often involve a number of different supporting technologies such as databases — can be run on either public or private clouds with little or no additional configuration…

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