Red Hat Announces Business Model and Pricing for Supported OpenShift
Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) via tiered offerings
RALEIGH, N.C. & BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
RED HAT SUMMIT AND JBOSS WORLD 2012-- Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT),
the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced
the business model and pricing plans for its OpenShiftTM
Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offering to provide support to companies in
application development and deployment. Available as a free service
since May 2011, OpenShift PaaS delivers to developers a cloud
application platform with a choice of programming languages, frameworks
and application lifecycle tools to build their applications.
The OpenShift platform has made its mark on the PaaS industry over the
past year, becoming the first
PaaS to support Java EE 6 and to offer comprehensive
lifecycle support for Java in the cloud. The code that powers Red
Hat's OpenShift platform was made available to the open source community
through the OpenShift
Origin project in April 2012. The following month, Red Hat announced
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 this, Red Hat today announced plans for its supported,
OpenShift PaaS hosted offering.
OpenShift PaaS will initially be offered with two tiers. OpenShift PaaS
is available now in Developer Preview. FreeShift and MegaShift are
expected to be available later this year.
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FreeShift: The first tier of OpenShift PaaS offers three small
gears and is available for free. It includes the ability to autoscale,
offers access to the languages, frameworks and data stores developers
like to use and leverages community-provided support. Developers using
OpenShift PaaS today will have the opportunity to automatically
migrate to FreeShift, which will continue the same experience they
already are enjoying.
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MegaShift: The initial paid tier of OpenShift PaaS will extend
the FreeShift offering with larger gear capacity, up to 16 gears, and
the ability to add storage space past the 1GB per gear in FreeShift.
MegaShift users will get support from Red Hat. Pricing for MegaShift
is planned to start with a $42 monthly platform fee and a
per-gear-hour fee for gears past the first three.*
Availability
The new OpenShift PaaS pricing structure is expected to be available
later this year.
Supporting Quotes
Brian Stevens, CTO and vice president, Worldwide Engineering, Red Hat
"Over the past year since we debuted OpenShift, we've seen the power of
an open, flexible PaaS for developers. We've made major progress over
this year with the addition of new programming languages, the release of
the open source project OpenShift Origin and plans for our enterprise
PaaS offering. Building on this strong momentum, introducing our model
and plans for OpenShift with enterprise-grade support from Red Hat today
is a huge step forward for Red Hat and developers who are looking to
take an open hybrid approach to the cloud."
Martin Schneider, research manager, 451 Research
"Platform-as-a-service is becoming an increasingly efficient and
powerful tool for building both new applications; but also for
modernizing legacy and traditional ISV applications in the age of
mobile, social and the cloud. The beauty of open, flexible platforms
like OpenShift is that they provide developers with the required
toolkits to create cloud applications, or enhance existing environments
without exorbitant 'per-user' costs or fear of platform or vendor
lock-in."
*Pricing information is provisional only and remains subject to change.
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