{"id":7926,"date":"2013-06-18T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-18T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2702600"},"modified":"2013-06-18T14:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-06-18T14:00:00","slug":"red-hat-plays-its-trump-card-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/red-hat-plays-its-trump-card-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Hat Plays Its Trump Card"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Red Hat made its power play Wednesday. One it\u2019s been itching to make for a couple of years. One that it hopes will ultimately jam a stick through the spokes of VMware\u2019s front wheel. And to make sure that happens it\u2019ll be telling everybody who\u2019ll listen that its widgetry is a third the price of VMware\u2019s vCloud.<br \/>\nThis is where Red Hat gets to play a card that only Microsoft can match \u2013 its operating system, commonly known as RHEL \u2013 and create a tightly integrated cloud platform by fusing RHEL with OpenStack, the open source cloud computing software.<br \/>\nThe move came as a one-two punch consisting of a kit called the Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform and another called Red Hat Cloud Infrastructure that deliver the company\u2019s essential vision of an Open Hybrid Cloud. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2702600\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Red Hat made its power play Wednesday. One it&rsquo;s been itching to make for a couple of years. One that it hopes will ultimately jam a stick through the spokes of VMware&rsquo;s front wheel. And to make sure that happens it&rsquo;ll be telling everybody who&rsquo;ll listen that its widgetry is a third the price of VMware&rsquo;s vCloud.<br \/>\nThis is where Red Hat gets to play a card that only Microsoft can match &ndash; its operating system, commonly known as RHEL &ndash; and create a tightly integrated cloud platform by fusing RHEL with OpenStack, the open source cloud computing software.<br \/>\nThe move came as a one-two punch consisting of a kit called the Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform and another called Red Hat Cloud Infrastructure that deliver the company&rsquo;s essential vision of an Open Hybrid Cloud. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2702600\" target=\"_blank\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7926\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}