Cloud Computing with Red Hat

Portable Cloud

Cloud computing lets you run applications anywhere, at anytime. Vendor approaches to the cloud that don't provide portability of computing, applications, services, and programming models fail to deliver on cloud computing's promise. Red Hat, on the other hand, does deliver your portable cloud through a combination of open source, open standards, broad communities, and a rich ecosystem of partners.

"In our extensive research, we've found that open APIs and interoperability are essential to customers considering the cloud," said Gary Chen, research manager, Enterprise Virtualization Software at IDC. "Our research shows that 80 percent of enterprises cite the lack of interoperability standards as a challenge in adopting cloud computing services. With Cloud Foundations, Red Hat is on the right track with cloud by accelerating interoperability and portability to prevent cloud lock in."

Portable Computing

Red Hat's cloud management capabilities offer the tools a customer needs to implement and manage a cloud, providing scalability, robust resource management and portals through an included cloud engine, self-service portal, tools and Deltacloud APIs. The solution allows customers to move computing to their choice of virtualization technology or public cloud virtual machines.

Portable Applications

Red Hat's application builder provides cloud application lifecycle management, letting customers build assemblies to manage the complexities of creating, versioning, configuring, tracking and updating applications for the cloud. With portability of applications and workloads, customers can write an application once and deploy it anywhere. Red Hat's application builder allows customers to manage applications more consistently across physical, virtual and cloud deployments.

Portable Services

The cloud services from Red Hat provide customers with the technologies needed to implement commonly used application features, a key need for deploying private clouds. With Red Hat's cloud services, customers are also able to move these features together with their associated workloads between multiple clouds. For example, storage services provide data persistence, and messaging services enable data to be moved in and out of the cloud.

Portable Programming Models

Via Red Hat's Platform as a Service (PaaS) solution, which is designed to protect a company's application investment, by allowing developers to build once and deploy everywhere: on traditional servers, on virtualized servers, on private clouds and in public clouds. To learn more about Red Hat PaaS solutions.