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Red Hat Reports OpenStack Momentum with Global Enterprise Deployments [Health & Beauty Close - Up](Health & Beauty Close - Up Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Red Hat, Inc., a provider of open source solutions, has announced significant momentum for its OpenStack-powered product offerings focused on delivering an open hybrid cloud. In a release, the Company said that since their introduction in June 2013, its 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 said that its 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: -The Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, 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 cancers earlier and more effectively. The two-week installation was based on Cisco hardware running Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform, and the Broad Institute received mentoring from Red Hat Consulting during the course of the deployment. -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. -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 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. -The University of Porto (Universidade do Porto), a higher education institution 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. Radhesh Balakrishnan, general manager, Virtualization and OpenStack, Red Hat said "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 said "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 said "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." ((Comments on this story may be sent to [email protected])) (c) 2014 ProQuest Information and Learning Company; All Rights Reserved. |