Red Hat floating high on Cloud

PUNE, INDIA: Red Hat would be betting on internal clouds, desktop virtualization and SOA significantly next.

With the oVirt project, it would be investing on building internal clouds on an open standards commodity based platform that is leveraging everything enterprise grade open source infrastructure has to offer today from scheduling, resource management, storage management to user based provisioning and de-provisioning of workloads on the internal cloud.

"In the cloud computing space we do not envision an Amazon type service being suitable for everyone at least not for the near future,” shared James M Whitehurst, CEO and president, Red Hat.

“Many companies will want to take advantage of cloud models and methodologies inside their own shops first and experiment with connecting internal trusted clouds with semi trusted third party clouds."

As regards to virtualization, the company is increasing focus through the Qumranet acquisition. "We are increasing open source virtualization innovation in the context of engine parts (KVM) as well as Desktop virtualization, an area that until now was only possible with expensive and proprietary solutions."

Talking about the relevance and thrust on SOA, he added that where cloud is giving people a new level of control and utilization of the compute, network and storage resources SOA is giving companies a new level of control and orchestration of their business processes and applications.

"JBoss, a division of Red Hat, has the SOA Platform as a key offering and we are driving significant leadership into this with the help of our customers. Gartner recently recognized JBoss by positioning us in the challengers segment of their magic quadrant."

Cloud computing is a computing paradigm in which tasks are assigned to a combination of connections, software and services accessed over a network, which is collectively known as a cloud.

The cloud is a metaphor for the Internet and a way of computing in which IT-related capabilities are provided as a service allowing users to access technology-enabled services from the Internet.

It is a paradigm in which information is permanently stored in servers on the Internet and cached temporarily on clients that include desktops, entertainment centers, table computers, notebooks, wall computers, handhelds, etc.

New advances in processors, virtualization technology, disk storage, broadband Internet access and fast, inexpensive servers have all combined to make cloud computing interesting and compelling.

Currently action here has been witnessed by companies like Amazon, Google, Salesforce and Yahoo! and players like Hewlett Packard, IBM, Intel, Microsoft and SAP.