Well it was an amazing 10 days in Boston. The Summit definitely lived up to its expectations. The vibe and the energy was just breath taking. Every line in Jim`s keynote had a power packed punch. All I can say is that Red Hat is truly a huge contender now in the Cloud space. Every piece of Red Hat`s technologies are all cloud enabled and they are by the far the only Vendor out there that gives you a complete end to end solution from the very roots of RHEL all the way up the stack into the cloud and beyond! The future of cloud is truly OPEN!
The highlights for me were :
Cloud Forms (ManageIQ) -
This is what cloud is all about and will be for a very long time - Its the management of your entire infrastructure. If you can have one tool that can give you a single pane of glass across your entire infrastructure (Public + Private + Hybrid) - That tool for me would certainly be CF.
In a nutshell this is Cloudforms from RH :
Combine this with a virtualisation layer(RHEV/KVM), a
storage platform (Gluster – Red Hat Storage), a PaaS platform (OpenShift) and
you are effectively delivering an entire orchestration piece that no other
vendor to my knowledge can currently compete with.
The next big one was the release of its very own rendition of OpenStack - Basically giving you the ability to build a cloud out the box and this fits in under and is aligned with their IaaS offering. This will include an integrated vanilla version of OpenStack into RHEL to create the new Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform. It will mean that Red Hat applications can run in an IaaS platform and provide support for web and mobile oriented applications that are more cloud aware. It will serve as the main platform for Red Hat’s cloud strategy.
This is clearly an alternative to the virtualized environments long dominated by VMware!
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