INTELLIGENT BRANDS // Cloud
CLOUDFORMS 4.1 ADDS
NETWORK MANAGEMENT FOR
OPENSTACK NETWORKING
(NEUTRON), AMAZON WEB
SERVICES, GOOGLE CLOUD
PLATFORM, AND MICROSOFT
AZURE
CloudForms to manage their cloud workloads,
the management platform must extend beyond
compute and handle networking and storage as
well. To this end, CloudForms 4.1 adds network
management for OpenStack Networking (Neutron),
Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, and
Microsoft Azure. Developed in close collaboration
with Nuage Networks, CloudForms’ new SDN
capabilities enable users to discover and manage
network elements while visualising their relationship
to other parts of the infrastructure.
Integration with Ansible Tower by
Red Hat
Built-in integration with Ansible Tower makes it
simpler than ever for CloudForms customers to
provision complex applications and services through
custom automation code. CloudForms 4.1 can now
access Ansible Tower to run Ansible automation
jobs, enabling CloudForms customers to make
use of the popular Ansible automation language.
Furthermore, the Ansible Tower integration also
allows for easy composition of complex services
by combining native CloudForms service catalog
support with Ansible playbooks.
New cloud-friendly subscriptions
New flexible subscriptions are available immediately
to all Red Hat CloudForms customers, enabling
users to apply one subscription to either physical
servers or cloud workloads. The subscription can
be transported in either direction, as often as
needed during the subscription period. Customers
can also use an average of cloud instances
under management to determine the number of
CloudForms subscriptions they require for their
public cloud workloads, helping them to avoid
purchasing for peak demand, while new built-in
reports can help them understand their actual and
average utilisation over time.
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At a glance…
A10 Networks acquires
Appcito, boosting secure
cloud services
A10 Networks has
announced that it has
acquired Appcito, Inc.
a provider of a versatile
SaaS-based, multi-cloud
ADC solution utilising
a microservices and
containers architecture.
The acquisition positions
A10 Networks as a
comprehensive secure application services provider, and it
represents a strategic step in the company’s vision to help
customers become more secure and agile as they bridge
traditional and cloud application environments.
In 2015, Gartner named Appcito as one of the “Cool Vendors in
Enterprise Networking.” The acquisition adds to A10 Networks’
existing momentum around providing secure application service
solutions that meet several key demands. These demands
include application analytics, visibility, and centralised control.
Appcito fits seamlessly into A10 Networks’ A10 Harmony
solution architecture. The architecture, which was introduced
in early 2015, supports secure application service offerings that
span traditional data centres, private clouds, public clouds, and
hybrid clouds.
New A10 Harmony-based cloud offerings that integrate Appcito
technology will be available beginning in late 2016. Solutions
will include a cloud services controller for centralised application
policy management and orchestration, elastic application traffic
management capabilities integrated with DevOps processes,
deep per-application visibility and analytics, and support for
microservices and container-based applications.
“This is a strategic acquisition for our customers,” A10 Networks
CEO Lee Chen said. “We are helping our customers become
both ‘cloud-ready’ and ‘cloud-native.’ We are giving them
cutting-edge capabilities to control secure application services
delivery across their data centers and clouds, such as in the area
of analytics and automation. We are very excited about how
Appcito fits into our vision to become the most comprehensive
secure application services company in the industry.”
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