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Contributed article by Red Hat Executives
OpenStack, Containerization and Open Hybrid Clouds
OpenStack containerization
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By the end of 2015, we will see at least one vendor offering
an OpenStack product deployed in containers, and deploying only container
workloads. We have already seen community efforts to
containerize OpenStack, and container management and orchestration with
Kubernetes launched with great momentum during 2014. The next step will be to
bring these to market, and I anticipate that we will see someone coming to
market with a self-service container deployment platform, running and managing
a containerized OpenStack. Another trend will be the containerization of
OpenStack services - this will help to address the installation complexities of
OpenStack and also facilitate the building of more complex solutions.
-- Joe Fitzgerald, vice president and general manager, Cloud
Management, Red Hat
Movement toward an open hybrid
cloud strategy -
Enterprises will adopt public clouds more in 2015 and will
experience some of the benefits of scaling, but also experience the challenges
of the public cloud, especially in terms of outages and unpredictable behaviors
in performance. More customers will realize that hybrid cloud is the way to go
and will need a way to manage it. Going fully private cloud or virtualized infrastructure
only makes them less nimble. The hybrid approach will be deployed more and
more--not technically, but rather logically, as in the consumption of more SaaS
applications.
-- Ashesh Badani, vice president and general manager,
OpenShift, Red Hat
OpenStack dominance in NFV and
telco -
The telecommunications industry will adopt OpenStack as the
default platform for NFV in growing production deployments coming out of their
POC and pilot phases. 2014 was the year many major
telecommunications and network equipment providers concluded that OpenStack is
their foundation for agility. At least one telco will publicly rolled out a
core service running on an OpenStack infrastructure. NFV has taken the telco
world by storm in the past two years, and the next step will be the deployment
to production of a core telco service like vIMS or vEPC and that will happen in
2015.
-- Radhesh Balakrishnan, general manager, OpenStack, Red Hat
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About the Authors
Ashesh Badani --
Ashesh Badani is responsible for Red
Hat's Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) business, including Red Hat's OpenShift
PaaS, and the overall Cloud Business. Previously, he oversaw product line
management and marketing for Red Hat's JBoss Enterprise Middleware portfolio.
Prior to joining Red Hat, Badani served as director of product management and
product marketing of integration and application platform products at Sun
Microsystems and has 15 years of experience in the technology and finance
industry.
Radhesh Balakrishnan -- As the global leader for
virtualization at Red Hat, Balakrishnan is responsible for Red Hat's
virtualization business including driving strategy, product management and
product marketing for products and technologies including Red Hat Enterprise
Virtualization and Red Hat OpenStack. Balakrishnan has more than 17 years of experience in the IT
industry across various enterprise technologies. Prior to joining Red Hat,
Balakrishnan was with Microsoft for 14 years where he held various product
management and product marketing roles across Windows Azure, System Center,
Windows Server, Windows Storage Server, Exchange Server and Windows desktop
products and technologies.
Joe Fitzgerald --
Joe Fitzgerald was
the co-founder and former CEO of ManageIQ, a leading provider of cloud
management solutions, which was acquired by Red Hat and is now an integral part
of the Open Hybrid Cloud portfolio. Joe also co-founded Novadigm, a provider of
enterprise systems management solutions, recognized by IDC for desired-state
and policy-based management innovations and a Gartner "Magic
Quadrant" leader many times. After Novadigm was acquired by HP, Joe was
CTO and Director of Product Engineering, and honored as an HP Distinguished
Technologist. Joe has over 30 years of experience providing highly-scalable
systems management solutions to enterprises worldwide and holds numerous
patents.