Red Hat refreshes private cloud stacks for the enterprise

January 23, 2014 Off By David
Object Storage

Grazed from ITWorld. Author: Joab Jackson.

Red Hat has updated a number of its products for running private clouds, better preparing them for the complex ways of the enterprise. "The journey to the open private cloud has got multiple stages. We’ve got offerings to help you along every single step of the way and today we’ve refreshed all these offerings so you can take these capabilities into your environment and get to an open private cloud sooner rather than later," said Radesh Balakrishnan, Red Hat’s general manager for virtualization business, in a Wednesday webcast detailing how the new products could be used in enterprises.

The company Wednesday released Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 4.0, Red Hat Cloud Infrastructure 4.0 and Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) 3.3. Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform is Red Hat’s commercially supported edition of the OpenStack cloud hosting software. The new version is based off of the Havana version of OpenStack, released in October…

The package is built on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6.5 Linux distribution, and includes RHEV for managing virtual machines running on the KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) hypervisor…

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