Yale-NUS College deploys enterprise-grade
OpenStack solutions, co-engineered by Red Hat and Dell, to create
hybrid cloud infrastructure, reduces application deployment time by
80 percent
OPENSTACK SUMMIT--Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's
leading provider of open source solutions, and Dell today announced
that Yale-NUS College, Singapore's first liberal arts college, has
created a hybrid cloud – one of the region's first – based on Red
Hat and Dell solutions. With Red Hat Cloud Infrastructure, a
comprehensive solution that supports organizations on their journey
from traditional datacenter virtualization to OpenStack-powered
clouds – running on a certified platform of Dell PowerEdge servers
and Dell Networking, Yale-NUS College has created a hybrid cloud
platform to gives its researchers, students and administrators
access to automated, self-service processes for server requests and
enable faster deployment.
Yale-NUS College was established in 2011 as a collaboration
between Yale University and the National University of Singapore
(NUS) to provide a new model for liberal arts colleges in Asia.
Yale-NUS College's IT Infrastructure and Services team was tasked
with creating an IT infrastructure that could support the growing
liberal arts college's students, researchers and staff with limited
IT staff resources. The college built a private cloud for the data
that needed to stay on site for legal and latency issues, with
interconnectivity to cost-effective public cloud services. They
used the hybrid cloud infrastructure project to rethink traditional
approaches to IT in educational institutions, where many
universities separate scientific research from other requirements,
instead opting to create a cloud environment that would enable them
to serve all of their customers via the same computing
resources.
Yale-NUS College required a flexible solution that would enable
them to quickly scale to meet demands for everything from
compute-heavy scientific research to virtual environments for
teaching and administrative purposes. They sought to create a
highly interoperable and customizable cloud solution that would not
only give them visibility into these diverse and changing workload
demands, but which would also be able to cater to changes as the
institution evolved without the need for heavy capital expenditure.
With a small IT team, Yale-NUS College also required a solution
that would support a high degree of automation and long-term
stability to minimize downtime.
To address these challenges, Yale-NUS College created a
software-defined datacenter and hybrid cloud based on a
co-engineered Red Hat and Dell OpenStack cloud solution. Red Hat
Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform – part of Red Hat Cloud
Infrastructure – was selected as the broad encompassing cloud
foundation for Yale-NUS, making it easier to find skilled staff and
to integrate the technologies with a broad range of open
infrastructure. And, Yale-NUS College deployed Red Hat Enterprise
Linux across its infrastructure, giving them increased consistency
of security, control and management across the footprints of bare
metal, virtual machines, private cloud and public cloud.
Based on the proven integration between Dell and Red Hat, the
college selected Dell PowerEdge R720 and R720XD servers optimized
for Linux workloads to create an easily-scalable solution designed
to meet their needs now and in the future. Yale-NUS College also
wanted future-ready networking to enable a software-defined data
center, so selected Dell Networking S4810P and S55 switches, which
helped to streamline costs, ease management and accelerate
performance.
As a result of this transition, Yale-NUS has reduced the
complexity of their datacenters so much that their IT
infrastructure only requires nine managing engineers, who are able
to use their background knowledge of Linux to run the hybrid
clouds. With the combined Red Hat-Dell OpenStack-based cloud,
Yale-NUS College has reduced application deployment time by 80
percent and brought greater agility to Yale-NUS College's IT
operations. They can now quickly add or remove capacity for their
computing, storage and networking needs based on changing end-user
workload requirements, and the hybrid platform gives the college
the ability to run some workloads in-memory while moving others
between virtual and physical servers. Installing new server
hardware, which previously took Yale-NUS days to complete, now only
takes one or two hours, reducing the workload and increasing the
systems’ flexibility. Yale-NUS also cut capital requirements with
the OpenStack-based solution, reducing the need for specialized
hardware and enabling students to access the system through their
own laptops, reducing the need for computer labs with underutilized
machines.
Dell and Red Hat have collaborated for more than 15 years to
provide enterprise-grade open source-based solutions that offer
greater agility to customers. Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack
Platform software and Dell enterprise cloud components are
designed, co-engineered and integrated to accelerate time to value
with open and flexible configurations that maximize choice and help
avoid vendor lock-in. These solutions enable simplified cloud
implementation through enterprise-grade software, certified
platforms, professional services and complete lifecycle support.
OpenStack cloud solutions from Red Hat and Dell help transform IT
service delivery by deploying flexible and highly scalable cloud
services that can support business needs.
Supporting Quotes
Darwin Gosal, senior manager, IT Services, Office of Educational
Resources & Technology, Yale-NUS College
“We needed to be able to acquire advance capability without
heavy capital expenditure and Red Hat Cloud Infrastructure on Dell
solutions presented a solution that could easily integrate public
infrastructure into our own. Due to the fundamental design
principle of leveraging powerful hardware and open source software
to establish our datacenter, we are seeing great interest in the
possible replication of our architecture in other
universities.”
Radhesh Balakrishnan, general manager, OpenStack, Red Hat
“Yale-NUS College is a strong example of what we see today in
terms of customers who are rethinking what the modern datacenter
should look like – they not only created a flexible hybrid cloud
environment to meet their diverse workload requirements and better
serve their customers, but they also sought consistency across
their footprints. They've turned to Red Hat Enterprise Linux to
create a solid foundation and the basis for consistency across
physical, virtual, private and public cloud. And I'm pleased that
they deployed Red Hat Cloud Infrastructure on Dell solutions to
create their highly scalable cloud. Red Hat and Dell are
collaborating deeply on OpenStack, and we're pleased to see the
early success achieved by Yale-NUS College.”
Jim Ganthier, vice president and general manager,Engineered
Solutions and Cloud, Dell
“Like many organizations today, Yale-NUS College was looking to
maximize its business results by developing a cloud solution that
met their business needs today and into the future. The Dell and
Red Hat OpenStack-based hybrid cloud infrastructure gave them the
speed, agility, interoperabilityand customizable solution needed to
reduce the costs and complexity of their school’s multi-cloud
environment, and resulted in 80 percent reduced application
deployment time and greater cost efficiency. Dell and Red Hat have
had a long history of collaborating to solve customer challenges,
and we’re happy to mark yet another success story in our joint
partnership.”
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