Red
Hat, Inc., the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, today announced the availability of the latest version of Red
Hat Cloud Suite. As cloud-native, containerized applications grow in
importance to CIOs focused on enterprise digital transformation, IT
infrastructure and management technologies need to adapt to the unique
needs posed by modern applications, while still maintaining existing
systems. Red Hat Cloud Suite enables organizations to more easily build
cloud-native applications, deploy them and manage these workloads
through a single offering, helping businesses to modernize without
sacrificing existing IT infrastructure investments.
Launched
in April 2016, Red Hat's broadest hybrid cloud offering, Red Hat Cloud
Suite provides an end-to-end, deployment-ready solution for enterprise
digital transformation. Key to digital transformation are Linux
containers, which can help enterprises across industries become more
nimble and better respond to evolving customer and competitive needs.
Built
on the backbone of the world's leading enterprise Linux platform, Red
Hat Cloud Suite addresses the drive towards digital transformation and
adoption of Linux containers by bringing together Red Hat OpenShift
Container Platform, the company's enterprise-grade container application
platform, with massively scalable infrastructure provided by Red Hat
OpenStack Platform and Red Hat Virtualization. Along with Red Hat
CloudForms for hybrid and multi-cloud management, Red Hat Cloud Suite
offers a unified, pre-integrated solution for enterprises seeking to
advance Linux containers from the developer workstation to
mission-critical deployments at cloud-scale for a more
digitally-transformed enterprise.
The latest version of Red Hat Cloud Suite
The latest version of Red Hat Cloud Suite adds key new features and enhancements, including:
- Enterprise-grade Kubernetes -
As a component of Red Hat Cloud Suite, the latest version of Red Hat
OpenShift Container Platform delivers a comprehensive, enterprise-grade
Kubernetes-based container application platform. Red Hat OpenShift
Container Platform supports the creation of next-generation cloud-native
applications while simultaneously supporting existing workloads,
including those requiring stateful resources.
- Red Hat CloudForms with Ansible automation -
Highlighting Red Hat's automation-based approach to multi-cloud
management is the integration of Ansible automation into Red Hat
CloudForms. This makes Red Hat CloudForms easier to deploy across an
organization and increases the depth and breadth of management
automation.
- Composable OpenStack services -For
Red Hat Cloud Suite clouds built on Red Hat OpenStack Platform, users
can now compose precisely where they want each of their services to run,
helping to improve operating efficiency by allowing the scaling and
management of specific services as needed rather than all services at
once.
- Flexible, powerful virtualization capabilities -
The latest version of Red Hat Virtualization enables users to deploy a
"thin" hypervisor by default or layer on additional software and
services as needed to address unique use cases. Virtualization
administration has also been improved with the addition of Cockpit for
greater insights into virtualized environments and workloads.
Digital transformation with hybrid cloud solutions
On
Thursday, June 29, 2017, Red Hat will host a virtual event featuring
experts, industry thought leaders and market innovators to explore how
Linux containers, scalable infrastructure and cloud management can act
in concert to accelerate the digital transformation journey. Attendees
will hear about market trends related to and the pain points addressed
by hybrid cloud solutions during keynotes from:
- Lars Herrmann, general manager, Integrated Solutions, Red Hat
- Alan Grantham, vice president, Architecture and Technology, Forsythe Hosting Solutions
- Gary Chen, research manager, Software Defined Compute, IDC
Following
the keynotes, breakout sessions will dive more deeply into topics
including modern application development, cloud infrastructure and IT
optimization. Attend or watch a playback of the digital transformation event.