Jay Clemens
Red Hat has updated its infrastructure-as-a-service offering for enterprise businesses with a new iteration of the Linux OpenStack platform intended to help clients deploy cloud services.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 6, developed based on the OpenStack Juno release, incorporates fresh intuitive graphical installer and management tools, Red Hat said Tuesday.
Red Hat intends for the new features to help customers in the education, financial services, government, healthcare, retail and telecommunications sectors run OpenStack technology within existing data centers.
The updated OpenStack platform also features IPv6 support for provider and tenant networks, Neutron high availability for network redundancy, single root I/O virtualization networking, multi-LDAP backends and domains support, data processing support and Ceph integration with new OpenStack Compute and OpenStack Block storage systems.
Radhesh Balakrishnan, general manager of OpenStack at Red Hat, said the fresh platform provides “enterprise-grade and telco-ready features, fueled by deep engagements with hundreds of customers and partners across the globe, to enable an open cloud infrastructure.â€
Red Hat also recently unveiled a new Linux OpenStack platform application programming interface and a certification process for third-party cloud management tools.
