OpenShift Enterprise 1.2 offers enhanced partner extensibility and
improved developer productivity
RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, today announced advancements to its award-winning, private
Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offering, OpenShift Enterprise. OpenShift
Enterprise 1.2 is now available for deployment within on-premise
datacenters or in private, public, or hybrid clouds with updated
pluggable technology cartridges and other enhancements. The updates to
OpenShift Enterprise 1.2 continue Red Hat's commitment to enhance
developer productivity and IT service delivery with PaaS offerings that
enable developers to design and code applications without losing time on
technology integration. With OpenShift Enterprise and the company's
recently announced, commercially available public PaaS offering, OpenShift
Online, Red Hat is the only enterprise software company with public
and private open source PaaS offerings. The strength and value of the
OpenShift platform continues to be demonstrated through adoption by global
systems integrators, leading
edge start-ups, and large
established enterprises.
OpenShift Enterprise is a versatile platform for application
development, operations, and IT architecture as it provides users with
access to a cloud-based application platform built on a trusted stack of
open source Red Hat technologies, including Red Hat Enterprise Linux,
JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, and OpenShift Origin, the
upstream code that powers both OpenShift Enterprise and OpenShift
Online. OpenShift Enterprise automates much of the provisioning and
systems management of the application platform stack in a way that
enables the IT 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 to handling secure
multitenancy, OpenShift Enterprise also offers reliable security and
multi-tenancy with the ability to subdivide the operating system
instances for efficiency.
In a recent report titled, "The Benefits and Significance of Private
Platform as a Service" sponsored by Red Hat, IDC's group vice president
of Application Development and Deployment, Stephen Hendrick noted, "Red
Hat's private PaaS does an effective job of mitigating security concerns
while allowing enterprises to maintain high application densities and
utilization rates and improve developer productivity. These
characteristics enable OpenShift Enterprise to provide an optimal
combination of security and efficiency at exactly the right time."1
OpenShift Enterprise 1.2 includes several new features, including:
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A brand new cartridge design and specification to complement the
cartridge infrastructure within OpenShift: This new feature
enables OpenShift Enterprise customers and partners to make additional
technology services available to developers in a self-service fashion.
In June, Red Hat announced the new
cartridge specification and collaboration with OpenShift
ecosystem partners to enable tighter integration with
complementary partners including 10gen, Codenvy, Correlsense,
EnterpriseDB, Iron.io, MongoLab, New Relic, OC Systems, and Zend.
OpenShift Enterprise 1.2 brings the new cartridge specification and
these partner capabilities to Red Hat's on-premise private PaaS
customers.
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In addition to the cartridges, OpenShift Enterprise 1.2 offers the added
ability to create Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) subdomains and take
advantage of WebSocket for additional networking support, enabling
customers and developers to implement cloud solutions that focus on
the code and accelerate their applications' time to market.
Availability
OpenShift Enterprise 1.2 is available immediately in North America, the
United Kingdom, Continental Europe, and to select customers in Asia and
Latin America, with plans for global availability in the coming months.
Supporting Quotes
Ashesh Badani, general manager, Cloud and OpenShift, Red Hat
"These newest updates to OpenShift Enterprise continue our trend of
offering developers and customers freedom and a variety of choice in the
cloud. We want to create the best environment for developers to deploy
their applications, and the self-service updates to this version of
OpenShift Enterprise through the new cartridge design will allow this
greater freedom in how users choose to run their applications."
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1 The Benefits and Significance of Private Platform as a
Service, IDC, June 2013.
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