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Feb 18 2016
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Architecture, Cloud Management, IaaS, Uncategorized

Scalable Infrastructure

In a previous post I outlined the common problems organizations face across both their traditional IT environments (sometimes called mode-1) and new emerging IT environments (sometimes called mode-2). These included:

  • Accelerating the delivery of services in traditional IT Environments to satisfy customer demands
  • Optimizing traditional IT environments to increase efficiency
  • Creating new development and operations practices for Emerging IT environment to  innovate faster
  • Delivering public-cloud like infrastructure that is scalable and programmable

I’d like to show you a quick demonstration of how Red Hat is delivering scalable infrastructure with the capabilities that enterprises demand. Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform delivers scale-out private cloud capabilities with a stable lifecycle and large ecosystem of supported hardware platforms. Many organizations are building their next generation cloud infrastructures on OpenStack because it provides an asynchronous architecture and is API centric allowing for greater scale and greater efficiency in platform management. OpenStack does not, however, provide functionality such as chargeback, reporting, and policy driven automation for tenant workloads and those projects that aspire to do so are generally focused solely on OpenStack. This is not realistic in an increasingly hybrid world – and enterprises that are serious about OpenStack need these capabilities. By using Red Hat CloudForms together with Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform it’s possible to provide capabilities such as reporting, chargeback, and auditing of tenant workloads across a geographically diverse deployment. In the demo below I demonstrate how chargeback across a multi-site OpenStack deployment works.

I hope you found this demonstration useful!

P.S. – If you are a Red Hatter or a Red Hat Partner, this demonstration is available in the Red Hat Product Demo System and is named “Red Hat Cloud Suite Reporting Demonstration”.

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Dec 10 2012
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IaaS, PaaS, Uncategorized

White Paper: Red Hat CloudForms – Delivering Managed Flexibility For The Cloud

Businesses continually seek to increase flexibility and agility in order to gain competitive advantage and reduce operating cost. The rise of public cloud providers offers one method by which businesses can achieve lower operating costs while gaining competitive advantage. Public clouds provide these advantages by allowing for self-service, on-demand access of compute resources. While the use of public clouds has increased flexibility and agility while reducing costs, it has also presented new challenges in the areas of portability, governance, security, and cost.

These challenges are a result of business users lacking the incentive to adequately govern, secure, and budget for applications deployed in the cloud. As a result, IT organizations have looked to replicate public cloud models in order to convince business users to utilize internal private clouds. An internal cloud avoids the challenges of portability, governance, security, and cost that are associated with public clouds. While the increased cost and inflexibility of private clouds may be justified, the challenges public clouds face make it clear that a solution that allows businesses to seamlessly move applications between cloud providers (both public and private) is critical. A hybrid cloud built with heterogeneous technologies allows business users to benefit from flexibility and agility, while IT maintains
governance and control.

With Red Hat CloudForms, businesses no longer have to choose between providing flexibility and agility to end users through the use of cloud computing or maintaining governance and control of their IT assets. Red Hat CloudForms is an open hybrid cloud management platform that delivers the flexibility and agility businesses want with the control and governance that IT requires. Organizations can build a hybrid cloud that encompasses all of their infrastructure using CloudForms and manage cloud applications without vendor lock-in.

CloudForms implements a layer of abstraction on top of cloud resources–private cloud providers, public cloud providers, and virtualization providers. That abstraction is expressed as the ability to partition and organize cloud resources as seemingly independent clouds to which users can deploy and manage AppForms–CloudForms cloud applications. CloudForms achieves these benefits by allowing users to:

• build clouds for controlled agility
• utilize a cloud-centric deployment and management model
• enable policy-based self-service for end users

This document explains how CloudForms meets the challenges that come from letting users serve themselves, while maintaining control of where workloads are executed and ensuring the life cycle is properly managed. IT organizations are able to help their customers better utilize the cloud or virtualization provider that best meets the customer’s needs while solving the challenges of portability, governance, security, and cost.

Read the White Paper

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Dec 05 2012
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PaaS, Uncategorized

Red Hat’s Open Approach for PaaS

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Transcript:

Platform-as-a-Service, or PaaS, solutions in public clouds are flexible and fast, and can meet growing business demand. However, public PaaS lacks needed privacy and compliance features. OpenShift Enterprise by Red Hat, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, and Red Hat CloudForms use an open approach for PaaS. Red Hat customers enjoy agile development, with greater availability, scalability, and control over their infrastructure.

OpenShift Enterprise utilizes a multi-tenant cloud architecture that streamlines application service delivery. Developers are free to choose the right tools and focus on what they do best—writing code. With OpenShift Enterprise, language runtimes are standardized and open. Code, once written, is widely deployable while other PaaS providers use proprietary hooks that limit portability.

OpenShift Enterprise is built on Red Hat Enterprise Linux—the same software handling millions of dollars daily in trades and analysis. Red Hat Enterprise Linux supports all major hardware platforms and thousands of applications. It provides portability between physical systems, virtual machines, and private, public, and hybrid clouds.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux runs best on Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization uses the powerful and ubiquitous Kernel-based Virtual Machine (or KVM) hypervisor and oVirt, a virtualization management platform. Both KVM and oVirt are successful open source projects led by Red Hat. KVM has achieved industry-leading virtualization performance benchmarks and the highest government security certification.

While Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization is the best foundation for running Red Hat Enterprise Linux and OpenShift Enterprise, Red Hat believes that a truly open hybrid cloud must be portable across all resources.

CloudForms provides resource and systems management for hybrid Infrastructure as a Service clouds. By abstracting resources and creating application blueprints, system administrators can deploy OpenShift Enterprise across supported providers, update underlying instances of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and track systems—all through a self-service portal. This leaves developers free to focus on projects that provide business value.

OpenShift Enterprise, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, and Red Hat CloudForms can improve performance, scalability, and reliability for enterprise cloud deployments–without relying on proprietary lock-in or hooks that restrict development and flexibility. Red Hat solutions are a strategic choice for organizations looking to achieve an open hybrid cloud.

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