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Red Hat Continues OpenStack Momentum with Global Enterprise Deployments
SAN FRANCISCO --(Business Wire)--
Red Hat (News - Alert), Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, today announced significant momentum for its
OpenStack-powered product offerings focused on delivering an open hybrid
cloud. Since their introduction in June
2013, Red Hat's enterprise OpenStack offerings have emerged as
industry-leading solutions for building scalable private clouds with
streamlined management. Several dozen organizations have embarked on
proof-of-concept deployments for Red Hat's OpenStack offerings, with
customers around the world now moving to enterprise deployments.
Red
Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform, currently available in
version 4.0, delivers an integrated and optimized foundation for
building OpenStack clouds, bringing together trusted Red Hat Enterprise
Linux and Red Hat's OpenStack technology. With Red Hat Enterprise Linux
OpenStack Platform, organizations can take advantage of the fast pace of
innovation of the OpenStack project while maintaining a stable platform
for production deployment. Enterprise customers that have moved from
proof-of-concept to enterprise deployments of Red Hat Enterprise Linux
OpenStack Platform include:
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The Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT (News - Alert), a new kind of
biomedical research institution focused on genomic medicine, needed to
create an on-premise cloud with on-demand compute and self-service
functionality for the hundreds of post-doctorate medical and
biochemistry research students they serve. After many of the Broad's
researchers expressed an interest in piloting OpenStack, the
Broad Institute chose Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform
as the base for a private cloud pilot that accommodates the volume of
sample data used by researchers creating a tumor map to help treat
prominent cancers earlier and more effectively. The two-week
installation was based on Cisco (News - Alert) hardware running Red Hat Enterprise
Linux OpenStack Platform, and the Broad Institute received mentoring
from Red
Hat Consulting during the course of the deployment.
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Midokura, a global company focused on network virtualization,
needed to build their own private internal cloud to provide a
scalable, multi-tenant environment for their IT resources after
scaling their existing public cloud environment was proving too costly
over time. With prior experience building an OpenStack environment, Midokura
chose Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform for its stability,
value and enterprise-grade support. Midokura's
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud, based on Red Hat Enterprise
Linux OpenStack Platform, is now used by core development, quality
assurance and sales engineers to scale their testing environments and
provide better pre- and post-sales support.
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National Computational Infrastructure (NCI) at The Australian
National University, Australia's national research
computing service was the first organization worldwide to deploy the
Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform. NCI, which provides world-class,
high-end services to Australia's researchers, needed to add
enterprise-class support to their internally assembled OpenStack
platform that runs their high-performance compute cloud for weather
simulation. After engaging with Red Hat Consulting and engineering
support and gaining confidence in their OpenStack deployments and
experimenting with different environments through the early adopter
program, they selected Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform for
deployment. NCI selected Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform
because it offered them a fully supported, upgradable enterprise
OpenStack distribution, and the robust security and certifications
afforded by Red Hat Enterprise Linux enabled them to deploy with
confidence.
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The University of Porto (Universidade do Porto), one of the
most prestigious higher education institutions in Europe, is also home
to one of the most well-regarded research institutions in Portugal. By
production, the University
of Porto is the largest research university in Portugal,
responsible for nearly one quarter of the Portuguese articles indexed
each year in the Web
of Science. In support of its Research Labs, which serve more than
34,000 students, teachers and researchers across three university
campuses, the University of Porto plans to launch, during first
semester of 2014, an Internal Cloud Service with Red Hat Enterprise
Linux OpenStack Platform and Red
Hat Storage Server, Red Hat's open software-defined storage
offering. With Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform and Red Hat
Storage Server, the University of Porto intends to create a stable,
elastic cloud environment to meet demand surges from the courses,
campuses, researchers, libraries and museums that access information
from the University's Internal Cloud Service.
Red
Hat Cloud Infrastructure helps organizations build and manage a
private IaaS cloud based on datacenter virtualization and management
tchnologies for traditional workloads, while providing an on-ramp to a
highly scalable, public-cloud-like infrastructure based on OpenStack.
Currently in version
4.0 Red Hat Cloud Infrastructure is a single-subscription offering
that integrates Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization; Red Hat CloudForms,
Red Hat's open hybrid cloud management solution; and Red Hat Enterprise
Linux OpenStack Platform, enabling customers to build an integrated,
open private cloud - the first step toward building an open hybrid
cloud. Red Hat Cloud Infrastructure has been deployed by global
enterprise customers, including:
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Nanyang Technological University, one of the two largest public
universities in Singapore, and one of the top higher education
institutions in Asia, has deployed Red Hat Cloud Infrastructure to
build a hybrid cloud architecture for their High Performance Computing
Center. Nanyang
Technological University required a hybrid cloud that would enable
them to utilize and integrate both private and public cloud, all while
giving users the choice to securely store their data in private
storage and replicate it back to the Nanyang Technological University
Data Center, and vice versa. Furthermore, implementing a base of Red
Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform enabled Nanyang Technological
University to use a community-supported and collaborated cloud
infrastructure platform to enable users to use and build services
including Hadoop Clusters and scaled-up large memory/core systems.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Enterprise Deployment Panel at Red
Hat Summit
This year's Red Hat Summit features a variety of sessions for customers
and developers getting started with OpenStack, or wanting to learn more
about running an on-premise proof of concept. These sessions include an
introduction to Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform, and
multiple sessions from customers running Red Hat's OpenStack-powered
offerings. See a full list of OpenStack-centered sessions at this year's
Red Hat Summit here.
Supporting Quotes
Radhesh Balakrishnan, general manager, Virtualization and OpenStack,
Red Hat "We're thrilled by the early momentum behind Red Hat's
OpenStack-powered offerings since general availability in July of last
year. We've seen OpenStack move from an enterprise promise to enterprise
reality, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform and Red Hat
Cloud Infrastructure have emerged as industry-leading offerings for
secure, scalable private clouds. These customer successes underscore the
value Red Hat is offering through a solution engineered together with
Red Hat Enterprise Linux and OpenStack, as well as establishing the
standard for the largest OpenStack partner ecosystem to provide an open
alternative to customers' private cloud needs."
James Weatherell, Linux enterprise engineer III, The Broad Institute
of MIT and Harvard "Using Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack
Platform gave us the strong foundation we needed for building our
internal cloud from the ground up, and we look forward to moving to a
fully supported version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux as our core
operating system. We hope to continue to meet our researcher demand for
OpenStack-powered capabilities in our datacenter to provide the most
innovative, on-demand research space for collaborative work towards
cancer treatment."
Yoshi Tamura, product manager, Midokura "The Red Hat
Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform enables us to react faster to
customer demands, and is instrumental for our own internal cloud
development needs. The solution enabled us to build out our own private
cloud on a secure and scalable foundation."
Yeng Chai SOH, founding director, High Performance Computing Centre,
Nanyang Technological University "Adaptability was key in our
implementation, as we did not have a cloud solution that fit our
existing hybrid cloud IT architecture. The flexibility provided by the
open architecture of Red Hat Cloud Infrastructure enabled us to enhance
our virtual environment's performance without having to overhaul current
physical resources, and we achieved significant cost-savings with the
Red Hat portal, as our administrators can now execute self-provisioning."
Allan Williams, associate director, Australian National Computational
Infrastructure "When selecting a platform to run our research
partner cloud, we were looking for a solution that was robust and backed
by an experienced development team. As the first organization worldwide
to deploy Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform, Red Hat has been
very responsive in assisting to get our OpenStack deployment up and
operating quickly. The quality of the deployment has given significant
confidence to our partners."
José Antonio Sousa, system administration unit coordinator, ICT
services of University of Porto "Choosing to combine Red Hat
Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform and Red Hat Storage Server will
enable us to consolidate resources and will give the ability to quickly
scale our Internal Cloud Service from a centralized point. We expect the
workload volume which we will be able to achieve with this solution to
enable us fulfill our entire university community with confidence in our
data security and delivery."
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