Red Hat bolsters OpenStack support, though some not convinced

The OpenStack community received a potential boost this week as Red Hat announced the formation of its ManageIQ “community” that it said was designed to provide “advanced governance and automation capabilities” to the open source cloud management platform. The ManageIQ community taps into software Red Hat gained with its acquisition of ManageIQ.
Red Hat claimed the community will also benefit from its “integration and orchestration content for lab automation” designed to ease the development and testing of cloud-based services that run the OpenStack standard. OpenStack is an open-source software platform designed to enable data centers the choice of turning some of their operations over to cloud entities.
A number of tech companies have begun to throw their support behind the OpenStack standard, including an announcement last week from Hewlett-Packard that it planned to invest more than $1 billion in OpenStack development.
Not all seemed enamored with the Red Hat announcement though, as The Wall Street Journal noted in a story that Red Hat would limit support to its commercial Linux customers that select another vendor for their OpenStack solution. In the story, Red Hat claims providing such support would be too expensive and that its offerings need to be tightly integrated.
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