Program Includes Tooling and Projects Designed to Ease the Middleware
Migration Process
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 new community resources designed to help
enterprises migrate to open source middleware technologies, including a
community-driven JBoss Migration Center and new tooling to ease the
process of migrating from proprietary application server technologies to
the open source JBoss platform.
As more enterprises develop technology-dependent products and services,
interest in robust and reliable middleware continues to grow. These
enterprises are reconsidering existing investments in middleware as they
look at open hybrid clouds, yet may find themselves unable to proceed as
easily as they would like with proprietary middleware solutions because
of "cloud unfriendly" features and practices, including rigid
architectures, prohibitive license structures, and lack of portability.
In addition, the technical complexity and mission-critical nature of
enterprise applications present numerous migration challenges when the
time comes to change platforms.
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JBoss Migration Center: To this end, Red Hat has created a new
JBoss Migration Center to help enterprises ‘get unstuck' and navigate
middleware migrations. The new JBoss Migration Center includes a set
of open source migration assessment tools as well as guides and
documentation to accelerate the process and reduce the risk of
migrating applications to Red Hat JBoss Middleware.
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Windup: One of the first tools available in the JBoss Migration
Center is the Windup project, which can be used to asses and
accelerate the process of migrating workloads from proprietary
application servers to Red Hat's open source JBoss Enterprise
Application Platform. Over time, Red Hat anticipates additional open
source contributions from customers and partners will augment the
JBoss Migration Center, expanding its capabilities to a wider range of
migration scenarios.
Partner Attraction
As organizations migrate workloads, they often look to business partners
to assist through services engagements. Together with Red Hat, these
business partners and customers form an ecosystem that has been
effective in achieving successful migrations. Tools found in the JBoss
Migration Center, such as Windup, are entirely open source, freely
available, and welcoming of contributions. The Center has been carefully
designed to support the needs of both customers and partners that are
choosing to move workloads to Red Hat JBoss Middleware by providing
tools that help facilitate many of the transition activities.
Supporting Quotes
Craig Muzilla, vice president and general manager, Middleware, Red Hat
"Open
source offers a level of flexibility and transparency that is tough to
match, both as an innovation model and as a development schema. It
presents an attractive alternative to proprietary solutions that may be
holding enterprises back from fully realizing the value of these
technologies to the business. Tools in the JBoss Migration Center are
meant to help these organizations ‘get unstuck' from their proprietary
systems by providing migration maps to popular enterprise open source
solutions."
John Liptak, senior lead architect, Technology and Strategy,
CenturyLink
"Using the Windup tool, we were able to scan
hundreds of applications and obtain objective information on our
existing application base. We have leveraged that information for both
planning and detailed development tasks. The tool has proved to be a
tremendous asset during our migrations, and we've already set it up
internally for continuous use by other department teams that are looking
to follow our lead for their own open source migrations."
Adam Burden, global managing director, Emerging Technology
Innovation, Accenture
"We've seen the benefits of establishing
a migration practice first hand in terms of modernizing and optimizing
applications and platforms, and, in particular, making them cloud-ready.
We're pleased to see prolonged investment in this area from Red Hat, and
we are prepared to continue our work with new solutions such as JBoss
Migration Center in order to help clients drive enterprise agility,
accelerate innovation, reduce costs and improve quality and security."
Judith Hurwitz, president and CEO, Hurwitz & Associates, Inc.
"Red
Hat has demonstrated excellent momentum around its application platform
technology over the past several years, which Hurwitz & Associates
documented in a recent Red Hat-sponsored research report, titled ‘Benefits
of Migration to Modern Middleware Services.' Making migration
resources available to the JBoss Developer community, such as the new
JBoss Migration Center and tools like Windup, can help accelerate the
shift toward open source."
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