Red Hat's cloud and virtualization portfolio

Cloud Customers

CeBIT's focus on the "Cloud" in 2011 prompted many cloud providers to launch new business models, and new cloud products in particular sprouted like mushrooms in 2012. This year, the use of cloud technologies could become standard even for normal users.

This proliferation of cloud technology has not changed the inflationary use of the term "cloud" one iota, but decision makers should now be able to distinguish between the different SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS offerings, online storage, software products targeted to help users build their own hybrid cloud, virtualization management solutions, and the cloud/virtualization features included in various operating systems. Clarity in this area can help you develop a customized strategy for building your own cloud offering and evaluating the relevant offers.

If you are a supporter of free software and open standards and are currently considering Red Hat as your cloud partner, you might well ask yourself  – in the face of a seemingly quite confusing product portfolio [1] in the cloud segment [2] – whether Red Hat's current offerings are guided by a recognizable product philosophy. If you look closely, you'll see that Red Hat's cloud strategy follows a higher level vision. In 2013, Red Hat could become the first provider to implement an open, vendor-independent, hybrid cloud solution based exclusively on free software, which – besides its own products – also manages VMware and others in a common interface.

Red Hat's Current Product Lineup

If you have been following Red Hat's product policy in the fields of Enterprise Linux, Enterprise Virtualization, JBoss Middleware, and Cloud Computing, you will have noticed that cloud computing was Red Hat's specific focus last year. The open source specialist presented

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