Cloud

Infrastructure-as-a-Service that unleashes the full potential of your business applications in your private or hybrid cloud Red Hat CloudForms lets you create and manage Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) private and hybrid clouds.

We believe Red Hat CloudForms redefines the IaaS cloud market by incorporating both comprehensive application lifecycle management and the ability to create integrated clouds from the broadest range of computing resources with unique portability across physical, virtual, and cloud computing resources.

CloudForms also helps organisations build on-premise solutions that leverage JBoss Enterprise Middleware to streamline and simplify application and service provisioning. It lets them evolve their middleware to incorporate attributes associated with on-premise Platform-as-a-Service clouds such as self-service provisioning. In concert with CloudForms, JBoss Operations Network, well-established for managing traditional JBoss application environments, can help organisations consistently manage their JBoss middleware and applications as they move to virtual and cloud based environments.

Red Hat CloudForms provides:

• Automation and self-service that deliver the elasticity and flexibility of cloud computing
• Comprehensive application lifecycle management that lets administrators retain the ability to control and govern their application portfolio in the cloud
• Tools and capabilities that address the key problems with first-generation cloud products: the cost and complexity of virtual server sprawl, compliance nightmares and security concerns
• Configuration and management of complex multi-tier applications, without the need to independently manage large numbers of virtual servers
• The ability to deploy, manage, and move these applications between different clouds, virtualization environments, and baremetal servers

In essence Red Hat CloudForms is Infrastructure-as-a-Service done right. It provides users with self-service so they can deploy resources - and thereby respond to business needs - faster. It breaks down silos of capacity and thereby eliminates complexity. And it does so with advanced capabilities from high-performance scheduling and messaging to a robust security framework.

Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) Cloud for Open-Source Developers, Red Hat OpenShift allows developers to focus on building applications not the infrastructure.

Red Hat OpenShift redefines the PaaS market, by providing a new level of choice in languages, frameworks, and clouds for developers to build, test, run, and manage their applications. Building on Red Hat's history of supporting Java EE, OpenShift is the first PaaS to run CDI applications and plans support for Java EE 6, extending the capabilities of PaaS to even the richest and most demanding applications. Building on Red Hat's Open-Source leadership, OpenShift ends the lock-in of PaaS, allowing developers to choose the cloud provider upon which their application will run.

OpenShift has three components for developers to rapidly deploy applications

Express - Free and Easy Cloud Deployments: Express is a free cloud-based platform for deploying new and existing Ruby, PHP, and Python applications in the cloud with just a few lines of code.

Flex - Free, Auto-scaling Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS): Flex is a free PaaS for new and existing JBoss, Java EE6, and PHP applications. Provision cloud resources, deploy, manage, monitor, and auto-scale applications from a single, easy-to-use interface.

Power - Customized App Deployments for the Cloud : Power can deploy applications to the cloud that are written to Linux (i.e. written in C, or using many binary components), whereas Flex and Express can only deploy applications written to web languages (Java, PHP, Python, etc.). Similarly, Power can deploy applications that have no web front-end (e.g. trading systems, modeling systems, payment processing, client-server, messaging apps, etc.).

As you would expect we are big in the Cloud space and our skills and experience are perfectly suited to supporting, and being able to recommend, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) which forms a central part of their cloud computing platform, Amazon Web Services (AWS).

EC2 enables users to rent virtual computers on which to run their own applications and enables scalable deployment of applications by providing a web service through which a user can boot an Amazon Machine Image to create a virtual machine, which Amazon calls an "instance", containing any software desired.

A user can create, launch, and terminate server instances as needed, paying by the hour for active servers, hence the term "elastic". EC2 also provides users with control over the geographical location of instances that allows for latency optimization and high levels of redundancy. For example, to minimize downtime, a user can set up server instances in multiple zones that are insulated from each other for most causes of failure such that one backs up the other.