Red Hat outlines strategy for open hybrid enterprise PaaS with
OpenShift
RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, today announced its strategy for OpenShift
Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), the leading open cloud application
platform for enterprises, to enable enterprises to take advantage of the
benefits of PaaS by providing a consistent environment for both public
cloud and on-premise datacenter usage. Under the roadmap, Red Hat plans
to extend OpenShift PaaS to allow enterprises to use both leading-edge
DevOps operational models, as well as traditional application management
methodologies. Building on the core technology stack that already powers
the OpenShift public PaaS, Red Hat's OpenShift PaaS for enterprises will
help provide the benefits of cloud computing in a way that maximizes
both operational flexibility and application development efficiency.
"While use of PaaS and the blending of application development and
deployment known as DevOps are growing rapidly and we expect the
enterprise PaaS market to be worth more than $3 billion by 2015, it is
still early days for PaaS offerings, combinations and support," said Jay
Lyman, senior analyst for 451 Research, a division of leading global
analyst and data company The 451 Group. "That's why it is critical that
the underlying components and supported pieces of PaaS are open,
flexible and available the way customers and developers want them, which
is typically in the cloud, on-premises or both. Red Hat's OpenShift PaaS
benefits from its depth of enterprise Java support for the application
lifecycle and Java EE6. This is key for enterprises looking to scale,
automate and treat software as services, not only for new applications
and development, but also for their large, legacy investment,
infrastructure and process around existing applications."
OpenShift To Date
Red Hat introduced
OpenShift PaaS in May 2011, delivering to developers a cloud
application platform with a choice of programming languages, frameworks
and application lifecycle tools to build their applications. Since then,
the OpenShift platform has evolved to include emerging development
languages such as Node.js and became the first
PaaS to support Java EE 6 and to offer comprehensive
lifecycle support for Java in the cloud. Red Hat also made available
to the open source community the code that powers its OpenShift platform
through the open source OpenShift
Origin project in April 2012.
Enterprise PaaS Roadmap
Today's enterprises often have real-world operational requirements that
are not supported by current PaaS offerings. Enterprises have
operational considerations around compliance, enterprise architecture
standards (including ITIL or other methodologies), IT governance,
security, application lifecycle management, application development
methodologies, organizational and process restrictions, data and compute
locality and privacy restrictions and more. PaaS solutions must enable
IT to empower their developers with these platforms while still
implementing the PaaS in a way that meets their enterprise requirements.
"With the growth of the cloud market, developers have embraced PaaS due
to the agility, speed and flexibility these platforms offer. Of the many
PaaS offerings available, we haven't seen any yet address the full needs
of the enterprise," said Scott Crenshaw, vice president and general
manager, Cloud Business Unit at Red Hat. "However someone wants to build
and manage their applications, they should be able to. With the PaaS
roadmap and strategy we are outlining today, we're paving the way for
enterprises to use a Red Hat-powered open cloud application platform to
build and run their applications, however best fits their business
needs."
Red Hat's enterprise PaaS roadmap addresses the use cases and current
challenges for enterprise PaaS adoption. Through OpenShift PaaS, Red Hat
is delivering a leading cloud application platform that offers built-in
secure and scalable multi-tenancy, proven enterprise-grade application
containers, middleware, services and the latest technologies. Today, Red
Hat brings this platform to more users through a variety of new
locations and with multiple management model options. Combining the core
enterprise technologies that power OpenShift PaaS— including Red Hat
Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Storage, JBoss Enterprise Middleware and
OpenShift's integrated programming languages, frameworks and developer
tools — Red Hat plans to deliver the OpenShift cloud application
platform available as a PaaS for enterprises in an open and hybrid cloud.
OpenShift PaaS will be designed to provide a choice of consumption
models across multiple cloud providers enabling enterprises to:
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Use OpenShift as a service, available in developer preview
since May 2011 via openshift.redhat.com.
A fee-based version of this service with full support from Red Hat is
expected to be available later this year.
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Deploy and manage their own private PaaS leveraging the
OpenShift PaaS platform, built on Red Hat enterprise technology.
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Deploy OpenShift on a variety of cloud and virtualization providers.
Red Hat plans to extend the OpenShift enterprise PaaS platform to
provide a choice of management and operational models, including:
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A DevOps model that empowers developers to deploy and manage
their applications via either a Public PaaS solution at
openshift.redhat.com or a Private PaaS solution with OpenShift
on-premise.
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An ITOps model that enables IT operations teams to provide the
benefits of PaaS to their developers while maintaining centralized
control of their applications and infrastructure, based on OpenShift
with Red Hat CloudForms as the foundation.
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Self-managed and available offline by running OpenShift on a
developer laptop.
For more information on Red Hat's PaaS Strategy, join Red Hat executives
for a virtual press conference webcast announcement at 11am ET on May 9.
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=9415.
To learn more about or to access OpenShift, visit openshift.redhat.com.
To read more on Red Hat's perspective on the seven properties of an open
cloud, visit http://www.redhat.com/about/news/archive/2012/2/The-Open-Cloud-Red-Hats-Perspective.
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