Red Hat redefines hybrid cloud
While other vendors are interchangeably referring to multicloud and hybrid cloud as any combination of cloud resources, Red Hat has envisioned what cloud computing should become, calling this ideal cloud environment 'hybrid cloud'.
According to Red Hat, hybrid cloud makes use of virtual resources that exist physically in public and private cloud environments. These resources are orchestrated by management and automation software that allows users to access them seamlessly and on-demand. In effect, it is a single platform. In contrast, multicloud is defined as workloads scattered across various cloud platforms, without the management and automation orchestration.
Damien Wong, VP and GM, Asian Growth & Emerging Markets (GEMs), Red Hat, observed that going multicloud is the only way businesses can deliver rapid, scalable apps today. "It's not if you move to cloud-native but a question of how fast you’ll move to cloud-native," he predicted.
Key characteristics of the hybrid cloud will include orchestration capability, monitoring and management resources, the ability to enforce policy and governance, as well as an appropriate architecture and security. It will work as an extension of what companies have on their private or on-premise resources, Wong said.
"You want to do what you do without having to worry about what footprint you are choosing," he said. "You want to be able to choose the best infrastructure for the workloads that you have."
The platform for the hybrid cloud will enable providing everything-as-a-service, with containers and microservices that abstract workloads from the underlying physical plumbing.
Brendan Paget, Director, Portfolio Management in the APAC Office of Technology, Red Hat, noted that traditional software may be updated every two years whereas cloud-native applications are updated much more often, even multiple times in an hour. To create such applications at scale, automation and open source tools are needed.
Red Hat recently updated its solutions to enhance support for the hybrid cloud and cloud-native software development, he shared. Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8, announced in May 2019, delivers one enterprise Linux experience for any workload running on any environment.
Feature highlights include:
- Red Hat Insights, which proactively identify and remediate IT issues using predictive analytics backed by Red Hat’s knowledge of open technologies.
- Red Hat Smart Management, which manages, patches, configures and provisions Red Hat Enterprise Linux deployments across the hybrid cloud.
- Application Streams - fast-moving languages, frameworks and developer tools are updated frequently without impacting core resources.
- The Red Hat Enterprise Linux web console, an intuitive, consistent graphical interface for managing and monitoring Red Hat Enterprise Linux system, from the health of virtual machines to overall system performance.
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux System Roles, which automate many of the more complex tasks around managing and configuring Linux in production. Powered by Red Hat Ansible Automation, System Roles are preconfigured Ansible modules that enable readymade automated workflows for handling common, complex sysadmin tasks.
IDC research commissioned by Red Hat, The Economic Impact of Red Hat Enterprise Linux: Trillions -- Yes, Trillions of Dollars, has found that software and applications running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux are expected to contribute to more than US$10 trillion worth of global business revenues in 2019. IDC found that RHEL is most frequently used for enterprise management and production (26%), IT infrastructure (20%) and customer relationship management (18%). IDC said RHEL provides business benefits in each workload – an increase in revenues from using the platform, a decrease in expenses, or an increase in employee productivity.
Another Red Hat solution that will enhance hybrid cloud usage is Red Hat OpenShift 4, an enterprise Kubernetes platform. The solution delivers a cloud-like experience across the hybrid cloud by driving automated updates across Kubernetes deployments. Feature highlights include:
- A self-managing platform for hybrid cloud via automatic software updates and lifecycle management, powered by Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS. This enables greater security, auditability, repeatability, ease of management and user experience.
- Adaptability and heterogeneous support, available across major public cloud vendors including Alibaba, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud, IBM Cloud, Microsoft Azure, private cloud technologies like OpenStack, virtualisation platforms and bare-metal servers.
- Automated full stack installation so companies can get started with enterprise Kubernetes quickly.
- Simplified application deployments and lifecycle management with Kubernetes Operators, which automate application maintenance, scaling and failover.
Explore:
Watch the video about how Cathay Pacific benefits from an open hybrid cloud
Read the IDC paper where DBS CIO David Gledhill explains how Red Hat is critical to the bank’s technology transformation.
According to Red Hat, hybrid cloud makes use of virtual resources that exist physically in public and private cloud environments. These resources are orchestrated by management and automation software that allows users to access them seamlessly and on-demand. In effect, it is a single platform. In contrast, multicloud is defined as workloads scattered across various cloud platforms, without the management and automation orchestration.
Damien Wong, VP and GM, Asian Growth & Emerging Markets (GEMs), Red Hat, observed that going multicloud is the only way businesses can deliver rapid, scalable apps today. "It's not if you move to cloud-native but a question of how fast you’ll move to cloud-native," he predicted.
Key characteristics of the hybrid cloud will include orchestration capability, monitoring and management resources, the ability to enforce policy and governance, as well as an appropriate architecture and security. It will work as an extension of what companies have on their private or on-premise resources, Wong said.
"You want to do what you do without having to worry about what footprint you are choosing," he said. "You want to be able to choose the best infrastructure for the workloads that you have."
The platform for the hybrid cloud will enable providing everything-as-a-service, with containers and microservices that abstract workloads from the underlying physical plumbing.
Brendan Paget, Director, Portfolio Management in the APAC Office of Technology, Red Hat, noted that traditional software may be updated every two years whereas cloud-native applications are updated much more often, even multiple times in an hour. To create such applications at scale, automation and open source tools are needed.
Red Hat recently updated its solutions to enhance support for the hybrid cloud and cloud-native software development, he shared. Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8, announced in May 2019, delivers one enterprise Linux experience for any workload running on any environment.
Feature highlights include:
- Red Hat Insights, which proactively identify and remediate IT issues using predictive analytics backed by Red Hat’s knowledge of open technologies.
- Red Hat Smart Management, which manages, patches, configures and provisions Red Hat Enterprise Linux deployments across the hybrid cloud.
- Application Streams - fast-moving languages, frameworks and developer tools are updated frequently without impacting core resources.
- The Red Hat Enterprise Linux web console, an intuitive, consistent graphical interface for managing and monitoring Red Hat Enterprise Linux system, from the health of virtual machines to overall system performance.
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux System Roles, which automate many of the more complex tasks around managing and configuring Linux in production. Powered by Red Hat Ansible Automation, System Roles are preconfigured Ansible modules that enable readymade automated workflows for handling common, complex sysadmin tasks.
IDC research commissioned by Red Hat, The Economic Impact of Red Hat Enterprise Linux: Trillions -- Yes, Trillions of Dollars, has found that software and applications running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux are expected to contribute to more than US$10 trillion worth of global business revenues in 2019. IDC found that RHEL is most frequently used for enterprise management and production (26%), IT infrastructure (20%) and customer relationship management (18%). IDC said RHEL provides business benefits in each workload – an increase in revenues from using the platform, a decrease in expenses, or an increase in employee productivity.
Another Red Hat solution that will enhance hybrid cloud usage is Red Hat OpenShift 4, an enterprise Kubernetes platform. The solution delivers a cloud-like experience across the hybrid cloud by driving automated updates across Kubernetes deployments. Feature highlights include:
- A self-managing platform for hybrid cloud via automatic software updates and lifecycle management, powered by Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS. This enables greater security, auditability, repeatability, ease of management and user experience.
- Adaptability and heterogeneous support, available across major public cloud vendors including Alibaba, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud, IBM Cloud, Microsoft Azure, private cloud technologies like OpenStack, virtualisation platforms and bare-metal servers.
- Automated full stack installation so companies can get started with enterprise Kubernetes quickly.
- Simplified application deployments and lifecycle management with Kubernetes Operators, which automate application maintenance, scaling and failover.
Explore:
Watch the video about how Cathay Pacific benefits from an open hybrid cloud
Read the IDC paper where DBS CIO David Gledhill explains how Red Hat is critical to the bank’s technology transformation.
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