Processing .....please wait.. 
The article has been forwarded.... 
Red Hat lauches CloudForm and Openshift platforms
By siliconindia
|
Friday, 06 May 2011, 00:33 IST
Bangalore: Red Hat introduced two new cloud platforms, CloudForms and OpenShift. It is designed to expand the range of open cloud services for administrators and developers.
The CloudForms and OpenShift systems allow enterprises and developers to work with public and private clouds that support Red Hat's Linux and JBoss platforms.
CloudForms provides the ability to integrate on-premise and private cloud servers with public cloud platforms for enterprises wishing to build hybrid public and private cloud systems. The platform also offers application management lifecycle (ALM) features to configure software perimeters and controls for enterprise applications on various cloud platforms. This platform offers the new Infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) which includes storage, messaging and high availability services.
OpenShift is a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offering for developers. Like CloudForms, OpenShift supports multiple cloud providers and allows developers to quickly build their application and upload them to any cloud provider. PaaS will be available in Express, Flex and Power modes. The Express and Flex offerings were made availability in developer preview and the Power option is coming soon.
What differentiates the new Infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offerings from competitors such as Amazon, Eucalyptus and RackSpace, is openness and portability. That is, both products run on any virtualization hypervisor, virtualization clusters or any public cloud provider.
