Red Hat(NYSE:RHT) has announced general availability of Red Hat Cloud Infrastructure Version 5, featuring the powerful systems management capabilities of Red Hat Satellite. Red Hat Cloud Infrastructure is a comprehensive solution that supports organizations on their journey from traditional data center virtualization to OpenStack-powered clouds. With Red Hat Cloud Infrastructure Version 5, users can now manage their virtualization and OpenStack environments simultaneously, via a single platform.
IT organizations are in the midst of a shift from traditional virtualization to more cloud-enabled architectures, and charting the course to move application workloads from one architecture to another while maintaining manageability and policies across discrete platforms. Red Hat Cloud Infrastructure is designed to address this need and enables organizations to build and manage a private cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) based upon data center virtualization and management technologies for traditional workloads, while providing an on-ramp to a highly scalable public-cloud-like infrastructure based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform.
The integration between these components of Red Hat Cloud Infrastructure provides true value and environment management for customers. Red Hat CloudForms provides self-service portals, provisioning, chargeback, metering of services on Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform and Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, while Red Hat Satellite performs Red Hat Enterprise Linux provisioning and lifecycle management tasks, including discovery, drift remediation and Red Hat Enterprise Linux guest provisioning.
