Since the cloud and open source are supposed to go together like peaches and cream (ah, the joys of summer), it might come as a surprise that Linux vendor Red Hat (NYSE: RHT) lacked an official OpenStack distribution. But that now has changed with the announcement of a public preview of an OpenStack release based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
Will OpenStack use Red Hat Give credit? On 13 August, Red Hat has announced the availability of the draft OpenStack Red Hat distribution. This experiment is based on the Essex version of the well-known open supply OpenStack Infrastructure-as-a-Service in the cloud (IAAS).Read a lot more Wired News
robust Red Hat to release the OpenStack organization Red Hat is making far more inroads into open source cloud computing by adding OpenStack configuration, a software package project aimed at building private and public clouds. So far, there are many company degree distribution platform, but …Read ITWorld Canada
Red Hat Press Preview OpenStack open source cloud The initial version is the very first milestone on the road to connect to Red Hat Enterprise commercial OpenStack support about 2013. OpenStack is the main supply of the cloud is open and has the support of major IT …Addons Read a lot more about
OpenStack has hundreds of backers. But the Red Hat OpenStack distribution, still under development, could emerge as the preferred open source platform for public and private clouds. Here's why.
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Dell is rolling out an open-source cloud-computing IaaS (infrastructure as a service) offering built around the Linux-based OpenStack cloud software and its own PowerEdge C servers. The Dell OpenStack Cloud Solution also leans heavily on Dell's open source Crowbar technology, said to simplify OpenStack deployments and management....
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Red Hat hopes freshly-announced commercial OpenStack cloud computing distribution will propel it through next decade of growth
Red Hat made its first $1 billion commercializing Linux. Now, it hopes to make even more doing the same for OpenStack.
Red Hat executives say OpenStack the open source cloud computing platform is just like Linux.
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OpenStack, the open source cloud platform, has hundreds of backers. But like Linux, multiple OpenStack distributions may emerge on the market. That could trigger customer confusion and indecision. Enter Red Hat (NYSE:RHT), the leading provider of corporate Linux solutions. I'm betting Red Hat will gradually repeat that success with OpenStack. Here's why.
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At the OpenStack Summit today, Red Hat announced RDO, “a freely available, community-supported distribution of OpenStack that runs on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Fedora and their derivatives.” In essence, RDO will function for Red Hat OpenStack much like Fedora does for Red Hat Enterprise Linux: new features will land upstream, get integrated into RDO, and eventually make their way into