He explained that the jointly engineered solutions allow enterprise customers to transform their data centers into public cloud-like infrastructure, while retaining the existing security, compliance and control needed for internal and external customers.Needless, to say it was a busy first day, and a great way to kick off the conference. If youre at the event, make sure to stop by our booth, located at space P7 in the exhibit hall, watch one of four demos related to Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform and related products, and pick up a free tee shirt while youre there.We look forward to talking about OpenStack with you at our booth or one of our sessions tomorrow. Remember, for real time event updates, follow us on Twitter at RedHatCloud or RedHatNews . Well also post Wednesdays daily recap tomorrow by the end of the day, so keep an eye out for it. See you tomorrow for another exciting day in TokyoBusiness and IT leaders continue to look for ways to transform their businesses in order to drive new and faster innovation, improve efficiencies and reduce costs. Rackspace Private Cloud Powered by OpenStack supports business transformation by enabling the consolidation of workloads, application-level automation and a focus on increasing the time to value expected from software development resources.Today, the Rackspace Private Cloud Powered by OpenStack team announces support for Rackspace Integrate Systems for compute a fully integrated modular rack of compute, storage and networking, built according to the Open Compute design principles. This pre-integrated roll-in-rack is fully cabled and tested as a working solution, which means it helps with faster deployment of the infrastructure components into the Rackspace data center and enables customers to deliver service more economically and efficiently with lower latency.Rackspace Private Cloud Powered by OpenStack is a prescriptive and managed private cloud deployment of upstream OpenStack that delivers the agility and efficiency of a public cloud combined with the enhanced security, control and performance of a dedicated environment. It can be deployed in your data center or ours, is managed by our OpenStack Experts and is backed by Fanatical Support. Additionally, our services portfolio offers additional support, cloud enablement and training solutions that provide customers the ability to get even more out of their clouds through enhanced operations, automation, optimization and education.All clouds are run by a single provider (which may be yourself in the case of private clouds), but that provider fully defines the cloud environment, what services are available and what hardware those services run on. In the simplest IaaS case you get something like this.In OpenStack land we do a lot of work on interoperability and federation between clouds. This allows you to (more) easily migrate workloads from one OpenStack cloud to another. This is all well and good but the explosion in containers really ate our lunch there. Theres still lots of value to federation and defcore, but neither will change the world if you want portable workloads containerize.This reshapes the cloud marketplace. Rather than competing with full cloud stacks vendors could specialize in what they actually do well. Users could select the best components for their needs rather than the best compromise. Hybrid clouds could burst out and get some compute from a public provider while still utilizing their private image and block storage services.OK thats not true. A number of operators showed up that I recognized,. And lots of Keystone people showed up, but they were mostly already on board. What was missing was, well everyone else and if this is to happen it will likely need everyone else.I recently hitched my wagon to them (my waggon bein gMIT/CSAILs production cloud) since we were building clouds in the same data-center we decided to combine efforts. I do production ops things so while Im working with them that part of the project isnt my baby. Though my interest in seeing it happen is a large part of why I decided to partner with them.Open source continues to be a tremendous source of innovation and nowhere is that more evident than at the biannual OpenStack Summit. Over the past couple of years, as OpenStack interest and adoption has grown, weve seen another important innovation emerge from the open source community in the form of Linux containers, driven by Docker and associated open source projects. As the world gathers in Tokyo for another OpenStack Summit, we wanted to talk about how Red Hat is bringing these two innovations together, to make OpenStack a great platform for running containerized applications.Red Hat is not only contributing to innovation in OpenStack, but also in multiple Linux container communities including Docker, Kubernetes and Project Atomic. Red Hat was a driving force behind the creation of the Open Containers Initiative launched in June of this year with broad industry support, to create open industry standards around container formats and runtime. We also joined with Google and others to launch the Cloud Native Computing Foundation to drive innovations in container-packaged, dynamically scheduled and microservices-based application development and operations. We were excited to see Google join the OpenStack community, bringing with them their deep expertise in containers and web scale orchestration.While open source foundations are critical to help drive industry standards and participation in open source technologies, users ultimately care most about innovation and how it helps them solve real world problems. Linux containers have driven some of the most exciting innovations happening in open source over the past couple of years and this has driven great interest due to key benefits like efficiency, portability and rapid deployment times.As a leader in Linux and open source technologies for nearly 20 years, it is no surprise that Red Hat is right in the middle of these new innovations.
