Red Hat recently announced “Cloud Foundations: edition one”, a complete package of tools required to build, run,manage,use or in short work with a private cloud. With that red-hat joined the growing number of vendors who have added  cloud-computing management software to their product lines.

With Cloud Foundations, customers can avail the benefits of the cloud today, with lower risk and simple, easy implementation. It is available immediately and is designed to expand the reach of the cloud, to enable people to use a real private cloud easily.

The package includes a comprehensive set of products including virtualization, cloud management, operating system, middleware, application management, and scheduling, cookbooks and reference architectures giving step-by-step instructions, consulting services, and training, backed by Red Hat’s exceptional customer support giving it an edge over other current products in the market.

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Jim Whitehurst, CEO, Red Hat, said that cloud computing is threatened by the same kinds of vendor lock-in, software complexity and “feature bloat” that has kept IT to-date from realizing its full potential, in his keynote speech right after the announcement.

He also added that, “Cloud has the potential to be the mother of all lock-ins,”, and  that having data and workloads locked up in fragmented cloud-computing resources would be worse than having them locked up in a proprietary IT system. “If we don’t find ways to address these problems, cloud is going to be—in three or few years—the hype that died.”

Red Hat also mentioned that it is creating development tools and a technology roadmap for developers  to deploy their applications to the cloud and link them to on-premise systems. The new Platform-as-a-Service capabilities will become part of the next release of the Red Hat Cloud Foundation package and will be based on the JBoss Enterprise Middleware product line.

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