Red
Hat, Inc., 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.
"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." -- Joe Fitzgerald, vice president, Management, Red Hat