Red Hat CloudForms


Red Hat CloudForms is an Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) offering that builds upon a collection of more than 60 open source projects. CloudForms include application lifecycle management capabilities as well as the capability to create hybrid public and private clouds from the broadest range of computing resources with unique portability across physical, virtual and cloud computing resources.

Red Hat officially announced CloudForms and OpenShift for cloud deployment in 2011 and maintains updated information regarding versions on this website.

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