Built on OpenStack 'Newton' community release,
Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10 delivers refreshed user interface,
customizable roles and long lifecycle support
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open
source solutions, today announced the availability of Red Hat
OpenStack Platform 10, the company’s massively-scalable and agile
cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) solution. Based on the
upstream OpenStack ‘Newton’ release, Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10
drives new features that increase system-wide scalability, ease
infrastructure management, and improve orchestration, while also
enhancing network performance and platform security. Additionally,
Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10 introduces a new software life cycle,
with optional support up to 5 years.
Hundreds of customers rely on Red Hat OpenStack Platform to
power their hybrid and private clouds for a variety of
mission-critical deployments, including BBVA; Cambridge University;
FICO; NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory; Paddy Power Betfair;
Produban; Swisscom; UKCloud; and Verizon. Additionally, Red Hat
OpenStack Platform is backed by a robust ecosystem of certified
partners, including Cisco, Dell EMC, Fujitsu, Intel, Lenovo,
Rackspace, and NetApp for enterprise businesses, as well as
Ericsson, Nokia, NEC, Huawei, Cisco and others from the
telecommunications industry.
Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10 delivers a reliable cloud platform
built on the proven, enterprise-grade backbone of Red Hat
Enterprise Linux. Integrated with Red Hat’s hardened OpenStack
community code, Red Hat OpenStack Platform provides the agility to
scale and more quickly meet customer demand without compromising
availability, performance, or IT security requirements. Also
included in Red Hat OpenStack Platform is Red Hat
CloudForms, a hybrid cloud management and monitoring platform
to oversee not only OpenStack infrastructure components but also
the workloads running on a given OpenStack cloud. Additionally, 64
TBs of storage capacity is provided with Red Hat Ceph
Storage, enabling users to better evaluate the flexible,
massively scalable properties of Ceph’s leading storage solution
for OpenStack environments.
New enhancements and updates to Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10
include:
- A more streamlined user
experience driven by an easier-to-use graphical user interface
(GUI) reduces the complexities of installation and management.
Designed for production use, the Red Hat OpenStack Platform
director GUI provides several newly integrated functions, such as
automatic upgrades and updates (including Ceph), advanced
networking configuration, high availability, and the option to
deploy file sharing via the Manila service, using the integrated
drivers available from NetApp and Red Hat Ceph Storage.
- Improved flexibility for greater
scalability through the introduction of customizable services
and administration roles using Red Hat OpenStack Platform director.
Cloud operators are now able to control their OpenStack environment
at a more granular level by customizing OpenStack services to run
and scale independently of each other. This offers greater
flexibility when deploying services to match individual
organizations’ unique workload requirements.
- Greater data assurance through
new security-related enhancements, such as improved high
availability (HA) for large scale deployments. Additionally,
optional object storage encryption and ephemeral security tokens
improve security measures and lower risk of data access due to
theft.
- Improved performance for
network-intensive workloads through the new data plane
developer kit (DPDK) component of Open vSwitch, and single-root
input/output virtualization (SR-IOV), results in network
performance that is comparable to bare metal. Additionally, network
routing is now more flexible and faster, allowing customers to
choose between centralized routing or distributed routing
(DVR).
- A new “ready state” hardware
certification program, based on OpenStack Ironic. While Red Hat
already supports certified hardware plug-ins for several OpenStack
components, the new program is designed to expand the ecosystem of
hardware options for automated bare-metal configuration. Dell EMC
is the first Red Hat partner to be certified for Red Hat OpenStack
Platform 10 ready-state, with several more coming soon.
Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10 also introduces distributed
continuous integration (DCI) to key partners, such as Dell EMC,
NEC, and Rackspace. This collaborative approach to testing can help
partners more effectively prepare for new Red Hat OpenStack
Platform releases, and provide customers with greater stability and
higher quality cloud solutions that have been tested many times
over with their uniquely integrated cloud system than previously
offered.
New lifecycle offers up to 5 years support
To help customers achieve long-term stability required by their
specific workload requirements, Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10
introduces a dual support life cycle model that offers greater
subscription flexibility for mission-critical operations. This new
model gives customers the option of standardizing on a new “Long
Life” version of Red Hat OpenStack Platform, offering a three year
product lifecycle and optional two additional years of extended
life cycle (ELS) support available for purchase. Customers can also
choose to focus on consuming new feature functionality by using
rolling upgrades to follow the latest releases of Red Hat OpenStack
Platform every six months to one year.
Long Life versions of Red Hat OpenStack Platform will be offered
every third release, starting with Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10.
Versions in between will include one year of life cycle
support.
Supporting Quotes
Radhesh Balakrishnan, general manager, OpenStack, Red Hat“In
just a few short years, OpenStack has moved from simply being an
‘innovation’ for proofs-of-concept and R&D testbeds to a
foundation for mission-critical private cloud deployments, used by
hundreds of enterprises and major telecommunication providers alike
to power production operations. Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10
drives the enterprise-readiness of OpenStack by delivering a
stable, reliable and open foundation for cloud deployments,
delivering new innovations like composable services and roles while
retaining our commitment to enterprise stability, highlighted by
our new Long Life support model.”
Lew Tucker, vice president, Cloud CTO, Cisco“As one of Red Hat's
most committed OpenStack partners, Cisco works closely with Red Hat
and the community to drive industry-leading cloud technology
platforms, better enabling our enterprise and service provider
customers to gain the benefits of an open cloud computing platform.
Based on the latest ‘Newton’ OpenStack release, Red Hat OpenStack
Platform 10 provides significant improvements in networking
performance, stability, and scalability. We look forward to helping
our customers to succeed on their journey to hybrid cloud.”
Jim Ganthier, senior vice president, Validated Solutions and
HPC, Dell EMC Converged Platforms and Solution Division“Dell EMC
and Red Hat’s close engineering and collaboration efforts continue
to help our joint customers to quickly deploy and manage OpenStack
powered clouds. We are pleased to have worked closely with Red Hat
to both refine and build the new distributed continuous integration
partner testing process which accelerates both code testing,
validation and the ability to deliver robust software to customers.
Red Hat’s new OpenStack Platform 10 lifecycle model for support
will also offer more subscription flexibility for mission-critical
operations and strengthens our joint ability to support customers
throughout the entire lifecycle of their OpenStack
deployments.”
Kenji Kaneshige, director of development department, Linux
Development Division, Fujitsu“Fujitsu and Red Hat have been working
together over 10 years in open source software development and
successfully supported Mission critical/Enterprise workloads. And
now Fujitsu works hand-in-hand with Red Hat to drive several
features needed by global enterprises in the upstream OpenStack
project. We are so pleased to see the upstream development results
delivering a more efficient and advanced cloud
Infrastructure-as-a-Service through Fujitsu Integrated System
PRIMEFLEX Family.”
Bryan Thompson, general manager, OpenStack Private Cloud,
Rackspace“The developments included in Red Hat OpenStack Platform
10 make it faster and easier for our customers and partners to
adopt OpenStack. Forrester Research recently reported that more
than half of all Fortune 100 companies use OpenStack, which means
these deployments must be scalable, agile and intuitive. The new
platform from Red Hat delivers improved performance capabilities
and deeper integration with the latest Community projects and code.
All of that, combined with support from Rackspace, means enterprise
customers using Rackspace Private Cloud Powered by Red Hat will
have even more confidence in OpenStack for their managed cloud
needs.”
Additional Resources
- Learn more about Red Hat OpenStack
Platform
- Read a blog post about life cycle
support for Red Hat OpenStack Platform
- Attend a webinar about what’s new with
Red Hat OpenStack Platform
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