{"id":5369,"date":"2016-01-25T11:40:07","date_gmt":"2016-01-25T11:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/?p=5369"},"modified":"2016-01-25T11:40:07","modified_gmt":"2016-01-25T11:40:07","slug":"forrester-report-ranks-red-hat-as-leader-for-private-cloud-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/2016\/01\/25\/forrester-report-ranks-red-hat-as-leader-for-private-cloud-software\/","title":{"rendered":"Forrester report ranks Red Hat as leader for private cloud software"},"content":{"rendered":"

Red Hat has announced that it has been named a leader in two Forrester research reports ranking private cloud software suites and hybrid cloud management solutions. \u201cThe Forrester Wave: Private Cloud Software Suites, Q1 2016\u201d<\/strong> and \u201cThe Forrester Wave: Hybrid Cloud Management Solutions, Q1 2016\u201d<\/strong> reports assessed vendors in terms of their current offerings, market presence, and strategy, and Red Hat was placed as a leader in both reports.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cRed Hat … leads the evaluation with its powerful portal, top governance capabilities, and a strategy built around integration, open source, and interoperability. Rather than trying to build a custom approach for completing functions around operations, governance, or automation, Red Hat provides a very composable package by leveraging a mix of market standards and open source in addition to its own development,\u201d \u201cThe Forrester Wave: Private Cloud Software Suites, Q1 2016\u201d report noted.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to Forrester, the private cloud market \u201cis growing because more I&O professionals see private cloud as the platform to enable their customer experience transformation. When selecting a solution, enterprises look for speed to provision, control of access and fully published APIs.\u201d In \u201cThe Forrester Wave: Hybrid Cloud Management Solutions, Q1 2016,\u201d Forrester indicated that, \u201cSixty-five percent [of survey respondents] say they already use more than one public and\/or private cloud platform, indicating that the hybrid cloud is a reality today.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

For \u201cThe Forrester Wave: Private Cloud Software Suites, Q1 2016\u201d report, Forrester conducted a 40-criteria evaluation of the nine most significant private cloud software providers. Each evaluated vendor sells a software-only solution that allows for complete automation and management of the cloud infrastructure provisioning process. Red Hat \u201creceived top marks for workflow life-cycle automation, administrative portal usability and experience, permissions, compliance tracking, capacity monitoring, platform APIs, ITSM and developer tools, and configuration management tool integration.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Red Hat CloudForms was also named a leader in \u201cThe Forrester Wave: Hybrid Cloud Management Solutions, Q1 2016.\u201d For this writeup, Forrester evaluated hybrid cloud management vendors against 32 criteria and grouped them into three high-level buckets based on current offerings, strategy and market presence. Red Hat was listed as one of the \u201ctop choices for developer and DevOps teams concerned mainly with building applications that run across multiple clouds, with a strong preference for public cloud platforms.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Red Hat\u2019s private cloud and cloud management portfolio has experienced significant momentum over the past year. The latest version of its hybrid cloud management platform, Red Hat CloudForms 4, was released in December 2015<\/span><\/a> and delivered expanded capabilities, including support for Microsoft Azure. This inclusion marked a key milestone in Red Hat\u2019s recently-announced partnership with Microsoft<\/span><\/a> – a collaboration aimed at enabling customers to embrace hybrid cloud computing by providing greater choice and flexibility for the deployment of Red Hat solutions on Microsoft Azure. Red Hat also updated its cloud infrastructure portfolio in the summer of 2015<\/span><\/a>, introducing Red Hat Cloud Infrastructure 6 with a unified installer designed to enable smoother deployment of a complete private cloud spanning infrastructure and management platforms.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAs private clouds and suites for building and deploying them continue to mature, we believe that Red Hat\u2019s solution capabilities and milestones in cloud management and private cloud are being recognized by research firms for offering thoroughness, integration, and customer value. These solution offerings from Red Hat provide the IaaS, PaaS and management building blocks for an enterprise-scale hybrid cloud, bringing innovations that come from a strong core in the upstream open source community. The structure of these solutions also reflect the strategic direction set by our work with partners, enabling even more customers to embrace open source cloud management that spans their multiple platforms and styles of deployment,\u201d said\u00a0Tim Yeaton, senior vice president, Infrastructure Business Group, Red Hat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Red Hat has announced that it has been named a leader in two Forrester research reports ranking private cloud software suites and hybrid cloud management solutions. \u201cThe Forrester Wave: Private Cloud Software Suites, Q1 2016\u201d and \u201cThe Forrester Wave: Hybrid Cloud Management Solutions, Q1 2016\u201d reports assessed vendors in terms of their current offerings, market […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":5370,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[331,809],"tags":[22,1216,592,144,1217],"class_list":["post-5369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cloud","category-more-news","tag-cloud","tag-forrester","tag-hybrid","tag-red-hat","tag-software-suites"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}