Understanding IT management

Using the same old tools and practices to deploy and manage innovative apps and infrastructure isn’t enough. Collaboration, hybrid platforms, and ongoing digital transformation must be the default state for management solutions as operations adopts more agile processes for IT and business groups. We understand that ops are a process, not a department. Adopting this operational mindset—and choosing the right tools—creates a solid foundation for DevOps, cloud, and container initiatives across your organization.

IT management is the coordination of all IT resources, systems, platforms, people, and environments. Modern, dynamic environments need a new approach to management that can improve speed, help you scale, and provide stability across your enterprise IT environments. Automation is an essential and strategic component of modernization and digital transformation. Red Hat delivers strategic automation technology—and training—to enterprises by bringing management technologies, like Ansible automation, across Red Hat’s management offerings—including Red Hat CloudForms and Red Hat Insights.

Cloud management is a concept that means a user has control over everything that operates in a cloud: the data, applications, and services. The management tools themselves, which generally run as platforms, are the software used to manage those data, applications, and services. These tools are used to ensure that the cloud-computing resources are running efficiently and securely, while accessible to everyone (or everything) that needs them. Basically, cloud management platforms exist so that anything running in a cloud—public, private, or hybrid—actually works, and works well.

Virtualization management is software that interfaces with virtual environments and the underlying physical hardware to simplify resource administration, enhance data analyses, and streamline operations. Each virtualization management system is unique, but most feature an uncomplicated user interface, streamline the VM creation process, monitor virtual environments, allocate resources, compile reports, and automatically enforce rules. Some solutions even integrate across hardware and software brands—allowing users to install the management system that's best for them.

Red Hat does a lot of work within management technologies open source communities. Our engineers help improve features, reliability, and security to make sure your IT infrastructure performs well, while remaining stable and secure.

As with all open source projects, Red Hat contributes code and improvements back to the upstream codebase, sharing advancements along the way. Of course, collaborating with a community is about more than developing code. Collaboration is the freedom to ask questions and offer improvements—that’s the open source way and the power of the open organization. It’s why Red Hat has been a trusted provider of enterprise infrastructure for over 20 years.