Red Hat is making the OpenStack Infrastructure-as-a-Service suitable for enterprise deployments.
The OpenStack project was formed in April by Red Hat, AT&T, Canonical, HP, IBM, Nebula, Rackspace, and SUSE. OpenStack is an IaaS solution that manages a hypervisor and provides cloud services to users through self-service. The OpenStack project was put in place with a governance structure to help encourage open development and community building.
Red Hat is bringing the same systematic engineering and release processes to OpenStack that Red Hat has for products such as Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, Red Hat CloudForms, and JBoss Enterprise Middleware. For example, these enterprise products have well-defined lifecycles over which subscriptions can deliver specific types and levels of support. Upgrade paths between product versions are established and tested. Products have hardware certifications for leading server and storage vendors, certification and support of multiple operating systems including Windows and the experience and personnel to provide round the clock SLAs.