Red Hat JBoss xPaaS services for OpenShift accelerate development and
deployment of next-generation enterprise applications and business
processes in the cloud
RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE:RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, today outlined the next phase of its strategy for delivering
one of the industry's first comprehensive, open, and unified
Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offerings. Red Hat JBoss xPaaS services for
OpenShift by Red Hat provide a rich set of enterprise application,
integration and business process automation capabilities and services in
an extensible open PaaS platform, and is uniquely positioned to enable
accelerated development and deployment of next-generation enterprise
applications and business processes in the cloud.
Red Hat's vision is to expand the availability of its technologies as
services on OpenShift, widening the pathway for enterprises and
developers to create, integrate and manage applications and business
processes in the cloud. The initial phase of Red Hat's PaaS strategy was
marked by the introduction
of OpenShift Enterprise, which combined the core enterprise
technologies that power OpenShift, including Red Hat Enterprise Linux
and Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, into an integrated
open hybrid cloud application platform, followed by the commercial
availability of OpenShift Online, Red Hat's public PaaS offering.
The PaaS market is maturing beyond basic application container services
to increasingly specialized services. In a 2012 report, industry analyst
firm Gartner
identified 11 distinct segments that make up the PaaS market;
however, these services often continue to be offered in isolation from
one another by technology providers, and efforts to tie the services
together have been slow to emerge. Today's enterprise applications are
highly distributed across disparate infrastructures and integrate both
complex processes and numerous data sources, requiring easier, more
nimble integration and a more unified approach to higher-level services
than what has traditionally been available.
The next phase of Red Hat's PaaS strategy focuses on the delivery of key
additional Red Hat JBoss Middleware technologies in the cloud as
services powered by OpenShift, including integration capabilities,
business process management (BPM), and mobile push notifications. The mobile
push notification service is available today in developer preview
and will be followed by developer preview versions of integration
PaaS (iPaaS) and BPM PaaS (bpmPaaS) technologies in the coming
months. This iPaaS technology will expand on pre-cloud messaging-based
integration to include cloud-based configuration, cloud-based brokers,
and cloud-based services, and the bpmPaaS capabilities are slated to
include process modeling, business activity monitoring (BAM), process
simulation, and the ability to dynamically configure automation and data
without changing code.
Development for xPaaS can be initiated today with Red Hat JBoss
Middleware products, including Red Hat JBoss Fuse and Red Hat JBoss
BRMS, which have been built with the cloud as a target development and
deployment platform. As new xPaaS services are delivered, users will be
able to easily move new applications, integrations and process
components into the PaaS environment. Over time, Red Hat plans to add
services and capabilities from the rest of its Red Hat JBoss Middleware
portfolio along with other Red Hat technologies incorporated as xPaaS
services.
Red Hat's PaaS offerings already enable next-generation application
development for open hybrid cloud. As more enterprises move to adopt
PaaS, they will be looking for more enterprise application, integration
and business process services in order to move new and existing
enterprise applications to the cloud. As one of the few companies today
that is able to combine enterprise-grade middleware, a proven PaaS
platform, hybrid cloud infrastructure, and the full spectrum of
capabilities needed to address modern application requirements, Red Hat
is well-positioned to help its customers meet the current and future
demands of enterprise computing.
Red Hat's president of Products and Technologies, Paul Cormier, will
offer details pertaining to Red Hat's PaaS strategy and answer attendee
questions during a live webcast at 11 a.m. ET on Sept. 24, 2013. The
webcast will be available on-demand following the live broadcast. To
register for the webcast, visit https://vts.inxpo.com/Launch/QReg.htm?ShowKey=16480&AffiliateData=press.
Supporting Quotes
Paul Cormier, president, Products and Technologies, Red Hat
"Bringing more technologies from our middleware stack into the cloud and
making them available as easy-to-consume services is a natural
progression for us. We've been moving in this direction for years,
building out our Red Hat JBoss Middleware portfolio and fine tuning our
OpenShift PaaS technology. The combination of Red Hat JBoss Middleware
and OpenShift is powerful for developers that want seamless integration
across multiple platforms and the speed and innovation to match their
expectations."
Al Hilwa, program director, Application Development Software
research, IDC
"Historically, enterprises have been reluctant to migrate existing
workloads into a PaaS because of the limitations of some of the
offerings on the market today. Red Hat's approach which integrates
multiple services makes PaaS more attractive for existing and new
workloads. Given Red Hat's track record in both middleware and cloud,
they are in a great position to overcome this barrier and take
enterprise PaaS to the next level."
Erik Wallin, co-founder and chief operating officer, Shadow-Soft
"We see JBoss xPaaS services for OpenShift as a game changer for
attracting more of our customers to build and deploy in the cloud. Early
adopters of PaaS focused mainly on less complex, non-mission-critical
applications. With xPaaS services, developers can build and integrate
real workhorse enterprise applications, enjoying all the richness
of enterprise-grade middleware they're used to plus the self-service,
DevOps, and flexibility benefits of the cloud. Red Hat, with JBoss and
OpenShift, is uniquely positioned to enable this."
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