Open source solutions providerRed Hat announced its completed acquisition ofManageIQ in late December 2012 and updates to itsopen hybrid cloud solutions portfolio and strategy.
ManageIQ is a US-based provider of enterprise cloud management and automation solutions to help companies easily deploy, manage and optimize across private clouds, public clouds and virtualized infrastructures.
The addition of ManageIQ is expected to complement Red Hat's hybrid cloud management solutions portfolio. According to Bryan Che, general manager, Red Hat's cloud business unit, "With the closing of the acquisition, we now begin work to integrate ManageIQ's enterprise cloud management and automation technologies with our complementary Red Hat CloudForms hybrid infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) solution and our open Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization management solution."
"As more and more production workloads are deployed across heterogeneous virtual, private cloud and public cloud data centers, IT buyers are prioritizing investments in management solutions that can automate and optimize end-to-end performance and capacity utilization across these complex environments," said Mary Johnston Turner, research vice president, enterprise systems management at IDC.
"IDC expects spending on cloud systems management software to exceed $3.6 billion by 2016 thanks to [the] demand for these types of sophisticated tools," she added.
Granular visibility into virtual IT resources consumption
According to Chris Russell, IT architect consultant for a leading global provider of banking and payments technologies to thousands of financial institutions that runs a multi-tenant virtual IT infrastructure in three data centers using ManageIQ technologies.
Russell said: "With ManageIQ EVM, we sought to provide our account teams and their respective customers with granular visibility into the fee-based virtual infrastructure services being consumed by its customers, and also needed operational tools capable of providing insight into resource utilization, trends and available capacity across our multiple data centers."
"Even before Red Hat acquired ManageIQ, we were already starting to look closely at the cost benefits of leveraging our Red Hat Enterprise Linux environment with Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, as well as considering OpenStack options for open cloud implementations.
"Now with Red Hat and ManageIQ together, we can continue to manage our current virtual estate while looking forward to a compelling open hybrid cloud management portfolio that will result from the combination of these powerful technologies," he added.