Red Hat continues OpenStack momentum

Red Hat, Inc. has 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:
· 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 prominent 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 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.
· 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 technologies 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:
· 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.