Red Hat Doubles Down on Cloud With OpenStack Platform 8 and Cloud Suite

Two new products from Red Hat announced today are aimed squarely at helping enterprise clients deploy private clouds. Red Hat Cloud Suite and Red Hat OpenStack Platform 8 are each designed to offer companies a complete solution for building and deploying private clouds, the company said. “As development teams look to streamline the creation and deployment of new cloud-native applications while transforming their computing infrastructure, Red Hat’s newest OpenStack-based private cloud solutions provide an open foundation to meet production-level needs of today’s modern businesses,” the company said in a statement. Now Red Hat OpenStack Platform 8 (pictured above) includes infrastructure and workload management, while the new Red Hat Cloud Suite offers software-defined storage and risk management and analytics, according to Red Hat.