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Red Hat CloudForms
expands public
cloud management
R
ed Hat has announced the
general availability of Red Hat
CloudForms 4.1, the latest
version of its award-winning open
hybrid cloud management solution.
With support for Google Cloud
Platform, Red Hat CloudForms 4.1 now
supports greater choice and flexibility
for customers who want to run hybrid
cloud workloads on Google Cloud
Platform, Microsoft Azure or Amazon
Web Services. In addition, Red Hat
CloudForms 4.1 expands the scope of its
management capabilities with software-
defined networking (SDN), providing a
more unified management experience
for software-defined data centres.
Finally, CloudForms 4.1 makes it easier
to automate complex IT processes
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through integration with Ansible Tower,
and provides customers with a simpler,
cloud-friendly subscription model. financial management features.Red Hat
CloudForms 4.1 introduces several new
few features, including:
CloudForms is an advanced open source
management platform for physical,
virtual, and cloud IT environments,
supporting both virtual machines and
containers. CloudForms enables IT
organisations to offer composable
services through a self-service portal,
managing the entire lifecycle from
provisioning to retirement. It also
facilitates risk management by defining
advanced compliance policies that
can be enforced in both greenfield
and existing environments, and allows
operators to optimize unit cost through
capacity planning, reporting and Support for Google Cloud
Platform
Developed in close collaboration with
Google in the ManageIQ open source
community, customers can now use
Red Hat CloudForms to manage
Google Cloud Platform environments.
The support includes full lifecycle
management of provisioned virtual
machines, policy enforcement,
chargeback and lifecycle management.
Support for software-defined
networking
As organisations adopt Red Hat
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