{"id":21982,"date":"2016-04-20T14:13:55","date_gmt":"2016-04-20T14:13:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businesscloudnews.com\/?p=250052"},"modified":"2016-04-20T14:13:55","modified_gmt":"2016-04-20T14:13:55","slug":"red-hat-bets-on-openstack-devops-and-containers-in-new-product-offerings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/red-hat-bets-on-openstack-devops-and-containers-in-new-product-offerings\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Hat bets on OpenStack, DevOps and Containers in new product offerings"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"redhat<\/a>Red Hat has launched general availability of Red Hat Cloud Suite and Red Hat OpenStack Platform 8, leaning on wider DevOps trends within the industry.<\/p>\n

The company claims the new offerings will assist enterprise organizations in bridging the gap between development and operations teams at the scale of cloud computing, and successfully implement a DevOps business model.<\/p>\n

\u201cEveryone is now aware that Uber doesn\u2019t own a car or Facebook doesn\u2019t generate its own content, this is nothing new, but it does highlight the digital disruption which is taking place in the industry,\u201d said Radhesh Balakrishnan, General Manager, OpenStack at Red Hat. \u201cThese disruptions are impacting decisions on infrastructure within the organization, but also what kind of development methodology gets adopted. Customers are demanding an agile infrastructure and a Devops model to ensure they can reduce time to market and accelerate innovation within their own organization.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you generally look at the CIO agenda, the need to be more responsive to business needs is a priority within almost every organization by default. Given that they are viewing DevOps as a means to facilitate the change in thinking and culture, DevOps is here now and it\u2019s not a fad which the industry has grabbed onto.<\/p>\n

\u201cEven internally, we have been aggressive in embracing DevOps. Our oldest business is Enterprise Linux and security updates is an area which of key value to our customers. Heartbleed was a huge issue for our customers 12 months ago, and since we are following the DevOps methodology, we were not only able to provide a patch, but we also pushed out a tool which customers can use to see if they are now compliant. None of this would have been possible without DevOps, so we are seeing the benefits internally as well.\u201d<\/p>\n

Red Hat is currently pinning its ambitions on the growth of OpenStack and the belief it will become the choice operating system for cloud infrastructure and the data centres of the future. The company backed the growth of Linux in a similar fashion, effectively riding the wave to its $2 billion annual sales, and is now placing the same bet on OpenStack, and its adoption throughout the industry.<\/p>\n

The launch is based on OpenStack Kilo, the release which came out last year, combining the Red Hat cloud, DevOps and container offerings on a single cloud suite, within a private cloud environment. Keeping on the theme of \u2018openness\u2019, the tools will also be available as individual products should customers want to work with other offerings also.<\/p>\n

Building on another industry trend, Red Hat has also prioritized containers as a technology for its service offering.<\/p>\n

\u201cContainers are probably the most attractive technology we at Red Hat have seen in years. Every large customer we have wants to have a conversation around containers,\u201d said Balakrishnan. \u201cWe\u2019re including OpenShift in the cloud suite, which is a service offering which was designed from the ground up on Docker (for container image) and Kubernetes (for orchestration layer). We are excited about the fact that we are one of the first in the industry to be bringing container technology to mainstream.<\/p>\n

\u201cContainers are one of the biggest priority areas for us as a company, so much so that we include container technology in our Enterprise Linux offering. It\u2019s pervasive both in our technology as well as in our customer minds.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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