Hundreds of enterprises now have Red Hat
CloudForms to manage and provision their on-premise and public
cloud-based IT environments
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open
source solutions, today announced the availability of Red Hat
CloudForms 4.2, the latest version of its award-winning open hybrid
cloud management solution. IT operations teams can face slow,
manual processes to deliver services internally, which may cost
time, money and competitiveness. To address these challenges, IT
teams can use Red Hat CloudForms to increase service delivery while
enabling IT teams to focus on critical, business-impacting
issues.
Red Hat CloudForms, based on the open source ManageIQ project,
provides an advanced open source management platform for physical,
virtual and cloud IT environments, including Linux containers.
CloudForms helps IT organizations offer composable services through
a self-service portal, managing the service lifecycle from
provisioning to retirement. It can also define and enforce advanced
compliance policies for new and existing IT environments, better
enabling operators to optimize the costs of a given environment and
system.
Red Hat CloudForms 4.2
Red Hat CloudForms 4.2 delivers improvements to public cloud,
private cloud and container-based platforms, by enhancing metrics
and events for Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform and by
adding an Amazon EC2 image, enabling customers to run CloudForms in
Amazon Web Services (AWS). This new release also upgrades
capabilities for OpenStack, improving tenant management and
introducing storage management for the OpenStack object and block
storage services: Swift and Cinder. Finally, CloudForms 4.2
enhances its chargeback capabilities for containers running on Red
Hat OpenShift Container Platform.
Global Enterprises Turning to Hybrid Cloud Management
As many enterprise IT environments become more and more complex,
adding a mix of physical, virtual and cloud-based environments
along with Linux containers and microservices, traditional IT
management solutions can trail behind. The inflexibility of many
proprietary management solutions may not meet the demands of large
organizations for cloud-based and cloud-like services, which can
lead these organizations to look for more flexible,
service-agnostic solutions like Red Hat CloudForms.
To date, Red Hat customers from global telecommunications
providers and manufacturing organizations to leading research
institutions and universities, have deployed Red Hat CloudForms to
manage their hybrid IT environments. CloudForms has enabled these
organizations to better optimize costs and time by making their IT
organizations more efficient and their IT processes more
responsive. Built from the ground up on a flexible open source
framework, Red Hat CloudForms can cover a broad range of
infrastructure platforms and can be tailored to the specific needs
of a given industry or customer organization.
Availability
CloudForms 4.2 is available for immediate download from the Red
Hat Customer Portal.
Supporting Quotes
Joe Fitzgerald, vice president, Management, Red Hat
“There is no longer a ‘one-size-fits-all’ IT environment, as
many organizations are seeking to leverage the best benefits of
physical, virtual and cloud-based technologies. Coupled with Linux
containers, only managing one or two aspects of these hybrid
computing environments can lead to downtime or outages. Red Hat
CloudForms provides a flexible, open management platform to oversee
these disparate resources and we’re pleased to help enterprises at
a global scale use them to manage the growing complexities of their
environments.”
Lionel Louie, chief commercial officer, CargoSmart Limited
“Red Hat CloudForms is one of the key components in our
software-defined data center (SDDC) that helps to streamline the
infrastructure setup processes and enables us to deliver fast-track
development projects with scale, speed, and efficiency. We are
using CloudForms to manage the production environment that
integrates and coordinates our infrastructure resources. Together
with other process changes and technology adoptions, our
provisioning time for a single virtual machine has been reduced
from 8 hours to 20 minutes, which has greatly improved our time to
market.”
Hannes Leblhuber, head of sales services, eww ItandTel
“Red Hat CloudForms lets us take full advantage of our
virtualized infrastructure to set up customer cloud solutions more
quickly and manage them more efficiently. We provide our customers
with all of the resources they require, such as processing power,
storage space, databases, networks, middleware, and load balancing.
The resources are scaled automatically to meet the requirements of
each application.”
Travis Rollings, director, Office Systems, Herzog
Technologies
“Red Hat realizes that we’re all working toward the same goal.
Without Red Hat CloudForms and Red Hat Satellite, launching our
cloud-based positive train control (PTC) solution would have been a
far more complex undertaking, and we would not have been able to
onboard new customers as quickly.
Varun Katyal, chief architect, Network Data Solutions
"Working with proprietary software can be difficult if it
becomes unstable. This happened in a number of the proofs of
concept we conducted with other solutions, and debugging usually
proved very difficult. Thanks to Red Hat CloudForms, our customers
can now use cloud services more flexibly. Its automation
capabilities made the difference for us. The solution’s greater
stability and ease of debugging also contributed to its success in
achieving the objectives NDS had set.
Thomas Wenninger, deputy head, IT Services, University of
Salzburg
“The high-performance automation of Red Hat CloudForms has
helped The University of Salzburg centralize existing provisioning
and operational workflows. Using this technology, we can
automatically scale applications to manage an increase in demand,
while also improving hardware use. We need certain resources at the
beginning and at the end of each semester where peaks occur. In
between these peaks, we can allocate resources to other use case,
for example high performance computing (HPC), to utilize all the
resources we have efficiently.”
Tim Cutts, Ph.D., head of Scientific Computing, Wellcome Trust
Sanger Institute
“Red Hat OpenStack Platform allows users to create and share
virtual machine images of their own creation and to find and spin
up images from elsewhere. This means that we can conduct
complicated analysis on worldwide data, with confidence that we can
meet the needs of data integrity and governance. In addition Red
Hat CloudForms is used to manage this complex hybrid cloud
environment, and deliver a more consistent user experience.”
Additional Resources
- Learn more about Red Hat
CloudForms
- Read more about how Red Hat CloudForms
helped the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute launch
Science-as-a-Service
- Find out how Red Hat CloudForms helped
Herzog Technologies launch a cloud-based positive train control
(PTC) solution for North American railways
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