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BUSINESS CHALLENGES “Red Hat offers us a cloud solution that can Executives recognize that inflexible datacenter infrastructures make it difficult for IT organizations to support dynamic business priorities. However, balancing competitive pressures for innovative be integrated with our solutions against the need to work around unresponsive and unmanageable IT resources results previous infrastructure, in only incremental improvements. One way to bridge this gap is to use private clouds. While without the need to many companies are turning to OpenStack® technology, they understand that OpenStack alone demount what we is not enough. Companies need solutions that work together and are backed by enterprise-class support—from the hypervisor and to the application layer—to help ensure their already had in place IT infrastructures can meet service-level agreements and support business priorities. to continue moving PRODUCT OVERVIEW forward.” Red Hat’s cloud portfolio is helping universities like NTU and telecom enterprises like Telefónica SARA ISABEL RUBIO, build cloud infrastructures that can flex to meet their dynamic business requirements. Red Hat® GLOBAL PLATFORMS OPERATION ® AND SECURITY, TELEFÓNICA GLOBAL Enterprise OpenStack Platform, a massively scalable Infrastructure-as-a-Service SOLUTIONS (IaaS) offering, is the foundation of that portfolio. Built on OpenStack technology and Red Hat Enterprise Linux, the solution lets IT staff take advantage of the largest and fastest-growing We evaluated Red Hat open source cloud infrastructure project, while maintaining security, stability, and enterprise “ readiness. Cloud Infrastructure to be one of the most MORE THAN JUST OPENSTACK 1 versatile and complete OpenStack depends on Linux to provide: cloud solutions • The operating environment for OpenStack components. available.” • Access to hardware, performance, scalability, and security features.

PROFESSOR YENG CHAI SOH • The operating system for guest applications running in virtual environments. FOUNDING DIRECTOR, HIGH PERFORMANCE These dependencies emphasize the importance of co-engineering cloud and operating system COMPUTING CENTER, technologies. That’s why Red Hat experts integrate and test the Red Hat Enterprise Linux NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY operating system with the Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) hypervisor and OpenStack. As a result, Red Hat Enterprise Linux provides OpenStack with a stable, reliable, and secure foundation, along with the hardware and application support needed by massive-scale enterprise environments.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform can be combined with other , cloud, and management solutions—Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, Red Hat CloudForms, and OpenShift by Red Hat—to deliver self-service, on-demand access to IT resources based on business policies. These solutions help you improve IT agility, automate provisioning, and deliver operational efficiencies to make IT more responsive to your business. In addition, Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform supports VMware vCenter through the vCenter driver . This support allows you to take advantage of your existing hypervisor investments.

CLOUD PLATFORM MANAGEMENT As companies expand their use of virtual and cloud infrastructures, it’s important for IT staff to have visibility into each deployment area. The unified management and advanced life-cycle management features of Red Hat CloudForms offer a consistent set of capabilities across public facebook.com/redhatinc @redhatnews and private infrastructure solutions, including Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform, linkedin.com/company/red-hat Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, Hyper-V, VMware vSphere, and Amazon Web

1 For community OpenStack, visit docs..org. For Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform, visit redhat.com access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux_OpenStack_Platform/4/html/ Installation_and_Configuration_Guide/chap-Prerequisites.html#Operating_System_Requirements. But Canonical, creator Services. Your IT organization can implement self-service provisioning, intelligently place “ workloads on private or hybrid clouds, monitor capacity and usage, and perform other tasks of , isn’t even that are essential to resource optimization. cited once in the SUPPORT ’s report as a significant Red Hat software subscriptions deliver high-quality software and maintenance along with information and support services that span the application infrastructure life cycle. Organizations source of patches. This receive continuous access to all supported versions of the Red Hat software in both binary and actually isn’t news source form, including all security updates and bug fixes. In addition, subscribers can access to those who have Red Hat’s technical support engineers, Knowledgebase, documentation, reference architectures, 1 followed Canonical and the award-winning Red Hat Customer Portal. for some time, since PARTNER ECOSYSTEM most of Canonical’s Companies interested in OpenStack need assurance that the technologies they are adopting contributions to Linux have been thoroughly tested and are certified and fully supported by the vendors they use. To help with this, Red Hat established a large partner ecosystem of certified OpenStack partners, come less in the form including IBM, HP, and Intel. This ecosystem, the Red Hat OpenStack Cloud Infrastructure Partner of kernel patches Network, helps you take advantage of new hardware and software solutions, while also helping and more in the form your IT staff integrate innovative solutions with your datacenter investments. of marketing and Red Hat ensures the high performance and reliability of its solutions through extensive testing packaging.” by a diverse community, which includes Red Hat engineers, customers, a broad ecosystem of independent software and hardware vendors (ISVs and IHVs), and partners. Red Hat also INFOWORLD: “WHO WRITES LINUX? partners with application and management vendors through the Technical Support Alliance CORPORATIONS, MORE THAN EVER”, FEBRUARY 2014 Network (TSANet), a support community that fosters collaboration so that vendors can solve INFOWORLD.COM/D/OPEN-SOURCE- problems for their shared customers. SOFTWARE/WHO-WRITES-LINUX- CORPORATIONS-MORE-EVER-235552 TYPE OF RED HAT ENTERPRISE LINUX UBUNTU PARTNER OPENSTACK PLATFORM OPENSTACK “We are building on our Hardware and • Acer, AMD, Cisco, Dell, Fujitsu, Hitachi, HP, Huawei, • AMD, Cisco, Dell, long history with open software vendors IBM, Intel, Lenovo, Oracle, NEC, NetApp, SGI, Stratus EMC, Fusion-io, Technologies, Unisys HP, IBM, Intel, source and will apply Juniper, LSI that expertise to our • 7-mode, Action, Alcatel-Lucent, Arista Networks, Brocade, Bull, CIARA Technologies, Cloudian, Emerson, • Mellanox, new cloud solutions Gigabyte Technology, HCL, Inktank, Inspur, Itautec, Seamicro, and co-engineering Kontron, Maguay, Mellanox, Midokura, MidoNet, and more3 work with Red Hat.” OCZ Technology, OVH, Percona, PLUMgrid, Pluribus Networks, Presideo Systems, Procomp Industria SAM GREENBLATT, Diebold, Quanta, SolidFire, SkySQL, StackIQ, VICE PRESIDENT, 2 ENTERPRISE SOLUTIONS GROUP, Supermicro, Talligent, Transtec, Wiwynn, and more TECHNOLOGY STRATEGY, DELL 3 REDHAT.COM/ABOUT/NEWS/ Systems • Accenture, Adexus, Atos IT Solutions and Services, • HP, IBM PRESS-ARCHIVE/2014/4/DELL- integrators Booz Allen Hamilton, Capgemini, CGI, Cognizant, COLLABORATION-OPENSTACK- and services Comware, CSC, Deloitte, Fujitsu Services, HCL, HP, OPENSHIFT organizations IBM, Infosys, Jackpine Technologies, PC Next, Realtech, Sonda, Sopra, SysIntegrators, Tata, Wipro, and others2

Figure 1. Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform and Ubuntu OpenStack partner comparison

1 Association of Support Professionals, 2011-2013 2 marketplace.redhat.com 3 ubuntu.com/cloud/ecosystem as of August, 2014

redhat.com COMPETITIVE REVIEW Select Red Hat vs. Canonical when building a private cloud 2 FEATURE RED HAT ENTERPRISE LINUX OPENSTACK PLATFORM UBUNTU OPENSTACK

Product Tested, enterprise-ready distribution Tested development distribution1

Components • Red Hat OpenStack technology, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, KVM • OpenStack technology modules

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform installer, a wizard- • service orchestration and deployment tool based tool that builds on the capabilities of , for installa- • Metal-as-a-Service (MaaS) for bare-metal tion on bare-metal or virtual systems, and life-cycle management installation Related • Red Hat Cloud Infrastructure • for storage (under license from Red Hat) software • Red Hat JBoss® Middleware portfolio • cloud management tool (only available solutions with an Ubuntu Advantage subscription2) • Red Hat Storage , a software-defined storage platform • Cloud Foundry PaaS • OpenShift® Enterprise by Red Hat, a Platform-as-a-Service offering

• Red Hat’s Inktank Ceph Enterprise, for object, block, and file storage 3 4 Security • Government certification for Red Hat Enterprise Linux • No government security certifications • Red Hat Product Security team • Limited SELinux support5 and use of policies5

• Security-enhanced Linux (SELinux) foundation • No requirement for package-specific SELinux policies5

• Typically need to write policies5 Customer • Consulting, professional services, 24x7x365 support • Consulting, professional services, and 24x7 support support • Enterprise-level support for all Red Hat software solutions • Limited support options and availability6 • Single point of contact for all infrastructure software • Many customers use third-party support vendors7 8 8 Microsoft • 25 Microsoft SVVP certifications for hosting Microsoft Windows • 4 Microsoft SVVP certifications for hosting certification Server 2008, 2008R2, and 2012 guests Microsoft Windows Server 2008, 2008R2, and 2012 guests 9 Guest • Red Hat Enterprise Linux and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server • “Most Linux distributions” support • Microsoft Windows • Microsoft Windows Community • Platinum member of the OpenStack Foundation • Platinum member of the OpenStack Foundation involvement • A top contributor to the most recent development release10 • Not in the top 50 contributors to the current development release10 • No. 1 contributor to the Icehouse, Havana, and Grizzly releases11 • Limited contributions to the Icehouse (No. 20), • A leading contributor to Linux development Havana (No. 17), and Grizzly (No. 7) releases11 Corporate • Publicly traded company, founded in 1993, with 2014 fiscal year • Private company, founded in 2004, with 2013 background revenue of USD$1.53 billion fiscal year revenue of USD$65.7 million, with a net loss of USD$21.3 million12 • Desktop, , and server Linux distributions, as well as virtualization, storage, cloud, and management solutions • Desktop, server, and mobile Linux distributions

Figure 2. Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform and Ubuntu OpenStack feature comparison

1 Only Ubuntu Long Term Support (LTS) releases, which occur every two years, have 5-year support commitments. Source: “Ubuntu Opentack” fact sheet, resources.canonicalwebteam.com/wp-content/uploads/Ubuntu-OpenStack.pdf; 2 Ubuntu Advantage, Ubuntu.com/management/Ubuntu-advantage, as of August 2014; 3 redhat.com/solutions/industry/government/certifications.html; 4 commoncriteriaportal.org/products, as of August 2014; 5 wiki.ubuntu.com/ Security/Features and help.ubuntu.com/community/Repositories/Ubuntu, as of August 2014; 6 Based on information available at ubuntu.com/management/ ubuntu-advantage as of August 2014; 7 insights.ubuntu.com/case-studies as of August 2014; 8 Windows Server Catalog, windowsservercatalog.com, as of August 2014; 9 insights.ubuntu.com/2014/05/29/ubuntus-support-model-fosters-a-strong-ecosystem-for-openstack/; 10 OpenStack Juno release contributions at stackalytics.com as of August 2014; 11 Contributions for OpenStack Grizzly release at activity.openstack.org/dash/releases/index.html?data_ dir=data/grizzly, OpenStack Havana release at activity.openstack.org/dash/releases/index.html?data_dir=data/havana, and OpenStack Icehouse release at activity.openstack.org/dash/releases/index.html?data_dir=data/icehouse; 12 “Reading the tea leaves with Canonical’s financial statement”, linux-magazine. com/Online/Blogs/Off-the-Beat-Bruce-Byfield-s-Blog/Reading-the-tea-leaves-with-Canonical-s-financial-statement

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OPENSTACK SERVICES TRAINING Red Hat offers on-site, online, and classroom training to prepare your IT staff to deploy and • Training courses related manage Red Hat solutions. You can invest in your team’s skills with hands-on, role-based to object storage, QPID training and certification programs for IT professionals. In addition, the Red Hat services messaging, and trouble- organization offers architectural design, deployment, and customization services along with shooting are in development. OpenStack accelerator options that help IT staff install and configure solutions correctly to ensure optimal product performance. With the acquisition of eNovance, Red Hat extends its LEARN MORE services capabilities with world-class integrated core advisory and implementation services for OpenStack deployments.1 • Red Hat’s IaaS solutions redhat.com/en/technologies/ Related OpenStack courses include: infrastructure-as-a-service • Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform Administration, • Red Hat and OpenStack redhat.com/training/courses/cl210/ redhat.com/openstack • Red Hat Certified System Administrator in Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform, • IDC: OpenStack and Red Hat redhat.com/training/certifications/rhcoe-openstack-iaas engage.redhat.com/ • Neutron Networking with Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform, content/outlook-for-open- redhat.com/training/courses/cl306/ stack-201309131116 • High Availability with Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform, • Red Hat Enterprise Linux redhat.com/training/courses/cl332/ OpenStack Platform support for VMware vCenter SUMMARY access.redhat.com/site/ If your organization is considering an OpenStack deployment, then you need to consider the articles/744153 entire software infrastructure. With Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform, you’ll get an integrated and optimized foundation for building OpenStack clouds. Red Hat’s solution delivers innovation throughout the platform, from the operating system and hypervisor to OpenStack technology. And, your IT organization can integrate your cloud implementation with massively scalable Red Hat Storage Server deployments and the Red Hat CloudForms cloud management platform for excellent resource optimization, visibility, and control. As a result, your organization can take advantage of the fast pace of innovation in the OpenStack project while maintaining an integrated, stable, and well-managed platform for production deployments.

1 For more information on the eNovance acquisition, visit redhat.com/enovance.

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