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Monday 25 June 2012

Red Hat Unveils Hybrid Cloud Management Platform


Red Hat today announced the general availability of Red Hat CloudForms, a new open source, hybrid cloud platform aimed at heterogeneous enterprise environments. The Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) offering is designed to provide so-called self-service access to enterprise applications and computing resources while maintaining the security, governance, and compliance disciplines of an IT-provisioned environment.

Essentially, CloudForms unifies public and private clouds into a single system, explained Bryan Che, Red Hat senior director of cloud marketing, during a webcast press conference. The platform accomplishes this in part by leveraging the open source Apache DeltaCloud project, which focuses on defining open standards and open API's around cloud computing management.

"CloudForms takes advantage of the rich open source ecosystem that has developed around DeltaCloud...to be able to manage a richly diverse infrastructure," Che said. "Because you are using the open source set of APIs you have the freedom and flexibility to adapt your cloud to your choice of technology and infrastructure."

CloudForms is designed to track, register, instantiate and manage applications automatically through the entire appdev lifecycle and across disparate clouds, Che said -- from, say, development in a public cloud to QA in the corporate private cloud and security updates to apps running in production. 


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