Brings Enterprise-Class Strength and Commercial Support to Cloud
Application Development
RALEIGH, N.C. & BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
RED HAT SUMMIT 2013
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, today announced the commercial availability of OpenShift
Online, its public Platform-as-a-Service cloud offering, beginning June
11, 2013. Since its debut
in developer preview in 2011, more than 1 million applications have
been created on OpenShift Online. Responding to customer demand for a
supported, enterprise-class public PaaS offering, the new commercial
offering will enable OpenShift Online's users and developers to access
Red Hat's award-winning Global Support Services. This new offering makes
Red Hat one of the only technology vendors to offer a full family of
open PaaS solutions: OpenShift Origin, the open source PaaS project;
OpenShift Online, a commercial public PaaS offering; and OpenShift
Enterprise, an on-premise private PaaS product.
OpenShift Online enables developers to quickly build, launch and host
innovative applications in the public cloud. The elastic,
multi-language, PaaS architecture of OpenShift Online automates the
provisioning, management and scaling of applications so developers can
focus on writing the code for these applications for their business,
startup, or next big idea. As a polyglot PaaS, OpenShift's
support for multiple languages, including Java, Ruby, PHP, Python,
Node.js, and Perl, allows for a low barrier to entry so developers can
start their project with ease and start coding faster. OpenShift Online
is built from the OpenShift Origin open source project and leverages Red
Hat Enterprise Linux and the SELinux subsystem for a secure,
multi-tenant architecture. Users and ISV partners can also take
advantage of third-party
extensions or build their own through OpenShift's extensible,
pluggable cartridge framework.
For a monthly fee, developers subscribing to OpenShift Online's
commercial offering — known as the Silver tier — will have access to
technical support and additional platform resources from the world's top
Linux administrators and JBoss developers. OpenShift Online features a
streamlined payment system that makes it simple for customers to access
the enterprise-class strength and security of Red Hat's services.
Developers using OpenShift Online can purchase the Silver level service
tier with a credit card, paying on a month-by-month basis for access and
capacity. This service tier also offers Red Hat technical support, which
can be leveraged by developers during all phases of planning, testing,
deploying, and running their applications.
Availability and Pricing
The Silver service tier for OpenShift Online by Red Hat will be
available in North America beginning June 11, 2013 and in Europe the
following week, with pricing starting as low as $20.00 per month,
including a payment option for Euros. The service will be readily
available in other countries in upcoming months.
Supporting Quotes
Ashesh Badani, general manager, Cloud and OpenShift, Red Hat
"As PaaS matures, enterprise developers want world class support so they
can focus less on system administration and more on coding. Our new
OpenShift Online brings enterprise-grade services to public PaaS, and
gives Red Hat the industry's most complete PaaS portfolio."
Marco Bill-Peter, vice president, Global Support Services, Red Hat
"Red Hat's global support services are already known worldwide for
providing flexible customer choices both through our expert technical
support engineers and the award-winning Red Hat Customer Portal. We are
committed to supporting the success of our customers and excited to add
a new support feature to our robust Platform-as-a-Service offerings.
This new PaaS support feature will create even greater accessibility and
fast service turnaround for Red Hat enterprise customers."
Ruben Daniels, CEO and founder, Cloud9 IDE
"We have been running our business on Openshift Online for approximately
one year and have been quite pleased with the experience and Red Hat's
support. OpenShift has worked extremely well as our back-end application
infrastructure, and it has enabled us to scale-up to support hundreds of
thousands of end-users. As a start-up, OpenShift has been an ideal
platform because it has allowed us to focus on our application and our
customers and not on infrastructure and operations."
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