Red Hat upgrades IaaS offering with Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 6

BANGALORE, INDIA: Red Hat announced the general availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 6, featuring updates designed to serve as the foundation for building OpenStack-powered clouds for enterprise businesses with advanced cloud users, telecommunications companies, Internet service providers (ISPs), and public cloud hosting providers.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 6 strengthens Red Hat’s production-ready cloud platform through advancements in both the Linux and OpenStack components. Interoperability and ease of use continue to be at the forefront, starting with updates to Red Hat’s intuitive graphical installer and management tools that create greater efficiency and reduce the complexities of a cloud deployment.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 6 is based on the OpenStack Juno release and includes several new features aimed at easing enterprise deployments of OpenStack technology within existing datacenters and capabilities specific to telecommunications providers to enable Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) deployments among carriers.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 6 furthers Red Hat’s commitment to enabling customers to avoid vendor lock-in and achieve interoperability. With continued integrated support for Red Hat CloudForms hybrid management platform, Red Hat recently announced a new Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform cloud management API and a certification process for third-party cloud management tools, expanding the company’s commitment to open platform development and customer choice.

The Red Hat OpenStack Cloud Infrastructure Partner Network aims to provide greater cloud versatility and ease the integration with existing datacenter technology and third-party plugins. With the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 6, the Red Hat OpenStack Cloud Infrastructure Partner Network now boasts more than 275 certified OpenStack partners, with more than 1,000 solutions certified for use on Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform.