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“We evaluated Red Hat Cloud Infrastructure
to be one of the most versatile and complete
cloud solutions available.”
PROFESSOR YENG CHAI SOH
FOUNDING DIRECTOR, HIGH
PERFORMANCE COMPUTING CENTER,
NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL
UNIVERSITY
“Red Hat offers us a cloud solution that
can be integrated with our previous
infrastructure, without the need to demount what we already had in place to continue
moving forward.”
SARA ISABEL RUBIO,
GLOBAL PLATFORMS OPERATION
AND SECURITY, TELEFÓNICA
GLOBAL SOLUTIONS
INFLEXIBILITY: A BARRIER TO BUSINESS SUCCESS
Executives know that inflexible and complex datacenter environments make it difficult for
IT to support their increasing business demands. With all the time needed to work around
unresponsive and unmanageable IT resources, many companies can’t make the innovative
improvements they need to stay competitive. One way to bridge this gap is to use virtual
infrastructures and private clouds to increase efficiency and improve IT response times. That’s
why companies are turning to Red Hat’s® cloud portfolio. With it, you can transform your
datacenter and improve IT agility so your company doesn’t get left behind.
MOVE FORWARD WITH RED HAT’S CLOUD PORTFOLIO
Organizations around the world—from Union Bank in the U.S. to Telefónica in Spain and
Nanyang Technical University in Singapore—use Red Hat Cloud Infrastructure to build
virtual and cloud deployments that can adapt to meet their dynamic business needs. You
can use Red Hat CloudForms, Red Hat Enterprise Linux® OpenStack® Platform, and Red Hat
Enterprise Virtualization (all of which comprise Red Hat Cloud Infrastructure) separately or
in combination for your specific needs. Whether you need to increase agility through server
virtualization, self-service, and automation capabilities, or deploy cloud-enabled applications on
an open, scalable cloud solution—or both—Red Hat Cloud Infrastructure can help your business
be more flexible and responsive.
ACCELERATE SERVICE DELIVERY WITHOUT LOSING CONTROL
Users are demanding faster access to infrastructure resources across multiple silos of
computing, network, and storage solutions. When demand grows and resources are added to the
environment, increased complexity can lengthen delivery time frames—that can leave IT to take
the blame for slower business growth. The sooner automation is brought into the management
architecture, the better positioned your IT team will be to respond. Red Hat’s integrated
virtualization, cloud, and unified management solutions help simplify the process of deploying,
provisioning, and moving resources on a moment’s notice to satisfy changing business priorities
and user demands.
Using the web-based portal in Red Hat Cloud Infrastructure, users can provision and manage
the life cycle of the infrastructure they need, while your IT organization retains real-time
operational control. Automated provisioning capabilities dramatically reduce service delivery
timeframes and help ensure services are configured according to your workflow and approval
processes. Your business can deploy self-service capabilities on the infrastructure that’s best for
the task at hand—and balance user control and autonomy with process controls that help ensure
that the reliable delivery of cloud-based services is manageable and scalable.
INCREASE EFFICIENCY WITH IMPROVED VISIBILITY
If your business has hundreds of physical systems that now act like thousands of virtual servers,
chances are your IT staff is set up to be a bottleneck in the eyes of your lines of business. While
simplifying complexity is important, your IT managers could be frustrated with tools that make
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it hard to forecast and plan capacity requirements, determine the health of infrastructures, or
even know when they need to worry. Don’t let the wrong solutions stand in the way of your IT
and business agility.
Red Hat offers an easy way to manage multiple virtual and cloud infrastructures from different
vendors. With Red Hat CloudForms, your IT staff can optimize resources and manage service
deployments across private, public, and hybrid clouds—all from a single pane of glass interface.
The capability to monitor, forecast, and meter usage means your IT staff can deal with problems
and changing priorities to support business continuity more efficiently. That means better
visibility and capacity planning, easy auditing and accounting, and faster remediation.
Improved visibility makes it easy to reduce operational expenses and deliver new services.
By tapping into advanced capacity planning, trend analysis, and best-fit virtual machine (VM)
placement capabilities, your IT staff can make sure the right workloads are placed on the right
infrastructure for the task at hand. They can even correlate infrastructure performance to
resource changes and quickly resolve issues, so users don’t wait for resources or get interrupted
by downtime.
USE SHADOW I.T. TO YOUR ADVANTAGE
During peak demand, you might choose to augment your IT infrastructure with additional
resources available in a public cloud. With Red Hat solutions, your business gains visibility into
which workloads are being used in public clouds plus the mechanisms that help you govern
use to stay within budget. Your IT staff can even monitor consumption and restrict users and
workloads. This not only cements the value of your IT organization to the business; it helps your
IT staff retain control and help ensure the use of approved configurations. Work gets done and
your business risk is limited.
WHEN AGILITY MATTERS, TRUST RED HAT
Your innovative cloud-enabled workloads demand a secure and flexible scale-out platform
that lets you take advantage of new technologies and solutions, while providing a stable and
massively scalable foundation. Red Hat delivers that foundation with Red Hat Enterprise Linux
OpenStack Platform—the combination of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat’s OpenStack
technology. Our experts co-engineer, optimize, and integrate Red Hat’s OpenStack technology
with the most advanced Linux operating system, resulting in a certified, production-ready
IaaS platform.
To stay competitive, you need to do more than keep the lights on—you need to innovate. With our
integrated and optimized cloud infrastructure solution, your IT organization can:
• Build massive scalability into your enterprise.
• Improve data efficiency.
• Gain visibility into operations.
• Move to the cloud at your pace, on your timeline.
We’ll help guide you on the path forward, from reaping the benefits of virtualized environments
today to building a cloud-enabled platform for the future that’s easy to manage—all without the
vendor lock-in and high costs associated with proprietary solutions.
To learn more, visit redhat.com/infrastructure.
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