Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source
solutions, today announced the next step in the delivery of its
Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) strategy with the general availability of
OpenShift Enterprise, an enterprise-ready PaaS product from Red Hat that
is designed to be installed on-premise within customer datacenters or
private, public or hybrid clouds. The product enables customers to
streamline and standardize developer workflows, facilitating increased
IT service delivery velocity that can better support business demands.
This news fulfills Red Hat’s plans for an on-premise PaaS offering,
first announced
in May 2012, and establishes the industry’s first comprehensive, open
on-premise PaaS for enterprises.
OpenShift Enterprise provides enterprise users with access to a
cloud-based application platform, enhancing an enterprise’s ability to
build the applications it needs and have them run in a cloud
architecture. It automates much of the provisioning and systems
management of the application platform stack in a way that enables the
IT operations team to more easily meet growing business demands for new
application services. OpenShift Enterprise also provides an on-demand,
elastic, scalable and fully configured application development, testing
and hosting environment for application developers so that they can
focus on coding these new application services. With its unique
Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux) approach, OpenShift Enterprise also
offers reliable security and multi-tenancy with the ability to subdivide
the Node instances.
OpenShift Enterprise is built on a trusted stack of open source-based
Red Hat technologies, including Red Hat Enterprise Linux, JBoss
Enterprise Application Platform and OpenShift Origin, the basis for Red
Hat’s existing online OpenShift PaaS service that has been available in
a free beta since May 2011. With the inclusion of JBoss Enterprise
Application Platform 6, OpenShift Enterprise becomes the only Java EE
6-certified on-premise PaaS available to enterprises today. OpenShift
Enterprise also benefits from the consistent innovation and
contributions driven by the open source Origin project community focused
on OpenShift. As a polyglot, or multi-language, PaaS, OpenShift
Enterprise supports Java, Ruby, Python, PHP and Perl and it includes a
cartridge-based architecture to enable customers to include their own
middleware services.
Availability
OpenShift Enterprise is available today with support from Red Hat. The
product is initially offered in North America, the United Kingdom and
Continental Europe, with plans for global availability in the future.
The OpenShift PaaS online service remains available in developer preview
via https://openshift.redhat.com.
Supporting Quotes
Ashesh Badani, general manager, Cloud Business Unit and OpenShift,
Red Hat
“We’re excited to offer our enterprise customers the only comprehensive,
open on-premise PaaS offering ready for enterprise deployment today with
OpenShift Enterprise. This product offers our customers further freedom
and choice in the cloud with the backing of Red Hat’s full stack and
open source leadership. Developers are now able to choose among leading
application development languages and tools for the job, and IT
operations leaders can choose to deliver these application stacks to
their enterprise on their choice of clouds in compliance with their
security, governance and compliance requirements. This offering stands
to revolutionize how enterprises use PaaS platforms.”
Stephen D. Hendrick, group vice president of application development
and deployment research, IDC
“The worldwide public PaaS market grew over 40% in 20111 as
organizations continued to leverage the benefits of platform services to
develop, deploy and manage applications of all types. Advanced PaaS
products support multiple development patterns, high availability, high
performance, automated provisioning, dynamic scalability and shared
services delivered as public, private or hybrid clouds. OpenShift
Enterprise brings Red Hat's advanced PaaS capabilities into the private
datacenter where they are most needed and enables hybrid cloud computing
with enhanced security, flexibility and consistency.”
For more information on OpenShift Enterprise, join Red Hat executives
for a virtual press conference announcement at 11:00 a.m. ET on Nov. 27.
The webcast will also be available for replay. To register for the live
broadcast or to access the replay, visit https://vts.inxpo.com/Launch/QReg.htm?ShowKey=11748.
For more information
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Learn more about OpenShift
Enterprise
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Register to learn more about OpenShift Enterprise during Red Hat’s Optimizing
IT virtual event and in-depth virtual sessions, kicking off at
11:00 a.m. ET on Dec. 5, 2012
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Learn more about Red
Hat Cloud
Connect with Red Hat
About Red Hat, Inc.
Red Hat is the world's leading provider of open source software
solutions, using a community-powered approach to reliable and
high-performing cloud, Linux, middleware, storage and virtualization
technologies. Red Hat also offers award-winning support, training, and
consulting services. As the connective hub in a global network of
enterprises, partners, and open source communities, Red Hat helps create
relevant, innovative technologies that liberate resources for growth and
prepare customers for the future of IT. Learn more at http://www.redhat.com.
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1 Source: Worldwide Public Platform-as-a-Service 2011 Vendor
Shares, IDC #236959, September, 2012
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