UPDATED 09:30 EDT / JUNE 29 2017

CLOUD

Red Hat updates its Cloud Suite for cloud-native app deployment

Linux platform provider Red Hat Inc. is updating its Red Hat Cloud Suite offering with new capabilities designed to simplify the deployment of cloud-native applications in data centers.

Cloud computing is all the rage these days, but not every company trusts public cloud providers enough to host the most critical applications and data. At the same time, interest in cloud-native apps, which are applications designed specifically to run on cloud infrastructure, is growing rapidly.

Cloud-native apps are popular because they’re cost-effective and much more flexible than traditional applications. Services and resources that power computation and storage for cloud-native apps can be scaled out as needed, which negates the need for over-provisioning hardware and having to plan for load balancing. Virtual servers can be added quickly for testing, which means that cloud-native apps can, in theory, be brought to market on the same day they’re created.

But the difficulty for many organizations is that they must ensure that their existing information technology infrastructure and management technologies can adapt to the unique needs of these modern kinds of applications, while simultaneously maintaining their existing systems. That’s where Red Hat Cloud Suite comes in.

It’s a solution that integrates several of the company’s technologies, including its OpenShift Container Platform, Open Stack, Virtualization and Cloudforms services. It enables organizations to build a private cloud that offers public cloud-like scalability on their on-premises infrastructure. It can also host traditional, high-performance virtualized workloads, thereby providing a scalable foundation for modern applications to be developed and deployed into production.

With the update, Red Hat is basically trying to make it easier for customers to build cloud-native applications for containers, which allow software to run in many computing environments, and deploy them on their own infrastructure. To do so, it’s introducing an enterprise-grade version of Kubernetes, the container orchestration platform that can support the development and deployment of cloud-native applications alongside existing workloads.

Another new feature is Ansible automation, which makes it easier to deploy Red Hat Cloudforms, the company’s hybrid and multi-cloud management platform. In addition, the company is rolling out new “composable” OpenStack services that allow users to specify precisely where they want each service to run. The idea with this is that users can improve operational efficiency by scaling and managing each specific service individually, rather than as a whole.

“Organizations are increasingly interested in multi-platform architectures that support microservices-based, cloud-native applications as well as traditional workloads,” said Gary Chen, research manager for software defined compute at market watcher International Data Corp.

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