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Red Hat Hyperconverged
Infrastructure for Cloud bridges
data centre and edge deployments
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New offering brings
together Red Hat
OpenStack Platform and
Red Hat Ceph Storage to
provide an open platform
for innovation at the edge.
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ed Hat, the world’s leading provider of
open source solutions, introduced Red
Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure for
Cloud, an integrated solution for customers
seeking to co-locate compute and storage
functions in OpenStack environments.
The new offering combines Red Hat
OpenStack Platform 13 and Red Hat Ceph
Storage 3 in a single user experience,
supported by a common lifecycle for greater
operational and organisational efficiency. Red
Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure for Cloud
offers an open platform to improve application
portability between the data centre and the
edge, especially critical to enterprises that
historically didn’t have any choice outside of
inflexible, proprietary systems.
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In addition, nodes in an OpenStack
deployment are interoperable, giving
customers the choice to use non-
hyperconverged nodes across their networks,
with hyperconverged nodes at the edge,
further improving resource utilisation. By
using existing skill sets in building private and
hybrid cloud deployments, customers can
innovate faster to address next-generation
requirements for the edge.
This announcement marks the release
of the second component in Red Hat’s
hyperconverged portfolio, following the
introduction of Red Hat Hyperconverged
Infrastructure for Virtualization in June 2017,
which combines Red Hat Virtualization and
Red Hat Gluster Storage.
Red Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure
for Cloud provides a smooth customer
experience from procurement to day three
operations by delivering a pre-packaged
solution with socket-pair pricing. The primary
customer benefits can include:
• Unified lifecycle management: Red
Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure
for Cloud helps create standardised
private cloud building blocks, making it
easier to enable continuous operations
and manage OpenStack and storage
functions as a single unit with
configuration consistency across the
supported lifecycle of the solution
• Lower cost and greater operational
flexibility: The new offering allows
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