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Red Hat Unleashes the Power of Linux Containers with Industry's Broadest Solution Set
Red Hat (News - Alert), Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, today announced the availability of the IT industry's most
comprehensive set of enterprise-grade Linux container solutions. Red
Hat's container portfolio spans nearly every application delivery need,
from free development tools to a comprehensive container platform that
integrates management, Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and
Containers-as-a-Service (CaaS). Addressing modernization of existing IT
investments and innovation alike, Red Hat now enables customers to
better leverage the full benefits of containerization with more secure,
portable and consistent container-based solutions, supporting key open
standards such as the Open Container Initiative (OCI) container format
and Kubernetes orchestration.
Built on the enterprise-grade backbone of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red
Hat's portfolio of Linux container solutions aims to answer emerging
business needs by offering:
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A hardened and reliable Linux container operating system via Red
Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Enterprise Linux Atomic Host.
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A comprehensive enterprise container development and deployment
platform tailored to a wide range of use cases in Red Hat OpenShift.
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Enterprise-grade container native storage via Red Hat Gluster
Storage.
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Unified container management with Red Hat CloudForms.
Red Hat OpenShift - One container platform to address a broad
spectrum of enterprise deployments
In
June 2015, Red Hat OpenShift became the first and only
container-centric, hybrid cloud solution built from the Docker,
Kubernetes, Project Atomic and OpenShift Origin upstream projects with
Red Hat Enterprise Linux as its foundation. OpenShift provides a more
secure, stable platform for container-based deployments without
sacrificing current IT investments, allowing for mission-critical,
traditional applications to coexist alongside new, cloud-native and
container-based applications.
Today, Red Hat announced a broad expansion of its container offerings
based on the OpenShift technology, aimed at helping enterprises to
completely embrace Linux containers across consumption models, from the
developer desktop to production environments to the hybrid cloud. Red
Hat OpenShift now addresses needs across the Linux container adoption
lifecycle, including:
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Adopting containers for local development and driving developer
productivity via no-cost Red Hat OpenShift Container Local,
included in the Red
Hat Container Developer Kit.
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Expanding adoption of Linux containers and enabling enterprise to
evaluate containers in non-production server environments for
development and testing with Red Hat OpenShift Container Lab.
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Supporting enterprise organizations who are committing to containers
for mission-critical application delivery, from development to
production, with Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (formerly
OpenShift Enterprise), Red Hat's flagship container platform.
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Enabling customers to transform the traditional data center to a
private cloud with Red Hat Cloud Suite, which combines the
components of Red Hat OpenShift with Red Hat OpenStack Platform and
Red Hat CloudForms.
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Providing fully managed, public cloud container platform offerings OpenShift
Online and OpenShift Dedicated in the public cloud, managed
by Red Hat.
Red Hat OpenShift allows for easier integration with Red Hat JBoss
Middleware services within a container architecture, including the
newly-released Red
Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (JBoss EAP) 7, Red Hat
JBoss Fuse, Red Hat JBoss BRMS, Red Hat JBoss Data Grid and more. This
enables developers to build and integrate new applications faster and
more easily modernize existing applications to run on container-based
infrastructure across the hybrid cloud.
Container-native storage with Red Hat Gluster Storage
As enterprises move to an open hybrid cloud environment,
software-defined storage becomes a necessity. Combining Linux containers
with software-defined storage makes this transition easier and more
natural for enterprises to achieve. Today, Red Hat becomes one of the
first vendors to enable this transition with the launch of containerized
Red Hat Gluster Storage, available now via the Red Hat Container
Registry. Bringing enterprises closer to the vision of
Storage-as-a-Service, this new offering enables storage to be deployed
in standard containers, orchestrated by Kubernetes and managed just like
any other application service running on Red Hat OpenShift, and includes
full integration with Red Hat's entire container stack.
Unified container and cloud management with Red Hat CloudForms
Management is a critical piece of enterprise-grade containers, and Red
Hat CloudForms provides this with container visibility and control as a
part of the Red Hat container stack. Combining hybrid cloud and
container management into a single interface, Red Hat CloudForms gives
users visibility into workloads running on Red Hat OpenShift and the
hosting infrastructure. Combined with CloudForms' other management
capabilities, users can manage relationships from the container through
the platform layer to the Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) layer or
the physical host.
Making innovation ready for the enterprise
Red Hat participates across a vast spectrum ofupstream communities,
from the technologies evolving the Linux kernel to those projects that
power Linux containers and open clouds. Red Hat's expertise lies in
combining these technologies into hardened, more secure,
enterprise-ready solutions that can truly help businesses innovate. To
this end, Red Hat recently launched Red
Hat Open Innovation Labs, which helps customers rapidly develop and
integrate applications using microservices, deploy them in containers,
and deliver them using DevOps methodologies across physical, cloud and
mobile environments that can quickly scale up or down on-demand.
Webcast
Paul Cormier, president, Products and Technologies, Red Hat, will host a
webcast live from Red Hat Summit to discuss today's announcement at
11:45 a.m. PT on June 28, 2016. Following remarks, press and analysts
are invited to participate in a question and answer session.
To join the webcast or view the replay after the event, visit: https://vts.inxpo.com/Launch/QReg.htm?ShowKey=32847
Supporting Quote
Paul Cormier, president, Product and Technologies, Red Hat
"Regardless of hype, containers are Linux at their core, albeit packaged
in a way that allows for portability across the hybrid cloud, from
on-premise to multiple public clouds. Enterprise-grade applications
require many things, however, and these requirements do not change in a
container-centric world; only when orchestration, management and scale
are more securely and reliably added can containers enter the enterprise
mainstream. Today, Red Hat has introduced the industry's broadest
portfolio of enterprise-grade, Linux container products, backed by our
award-winning support and vast partner ecosystem. Red Hat's new
container portfolio addresses needs across IT organizations - providing
developers with tools to build cloud-native and containerized enterprise
applications, enabling operations teams to manage new cloud-scale
container infrastructure, and helping businesses to transform their
datacenters to fully embrace the benefits of Linux containers."
John Rzeszotarski, director of DevOps, KeyBank
"In the banking and financial services industries, security, flexibility
and scalability are critical components of a modern IT strategy,
especially when leveraging cloud-native applications via containers. The
capabilities of Red Hat OpenShift have allowed us to modernize our
applications with container orchestration, helping KeyBank to better
enhance our customer experience and increase our delivery velocity."
Jay Lyman, research manager, 451 Research (News - Alert)
"Enterprises are very interested in maintaining consistency between
development environments and production systems so they can develop and
deploy applications more rapidly, but container infrastructures
sometimes lack the security and reliability that enterprises expect. Red
Hat's OpenShift and its other container offerings help to meet these
types of enterprise needs with stable, enterprise-grade software and
capabilities that don't sacrifice performance or innovation."
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technologies. Red Hat also offers award-winning support, training, and
consulting services. As a connective hub in a global network of
enterprises, partners, and open source communities, Red Hat helps create
relevant, innovative technologies that liberate resources for growth and
prepare customers for the future of IT. Learn more at http://www.redhat.com.
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