Red Hat introduces new pricing for fully supported
public PaaS offering
LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
AWS RE:INVENT - Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading
provider of open source solutions, today announced the next step in the
continued expansion of its award-winning commercial public
Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offering, OpenShift Online. In the last
year, OpenShift Online has experienced significant momentum, growing its
user base by 259 percent and its application count by 322 percent
year-over-year. With today's announcement, Red Hat is expanding
OpenShift Online's global availability, and introducing new pricing and
memory options.
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 which also serves as the
base for OpenShift Enterprise, Red Hat's commercial Private PaaS
offering. It 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.
Responding to customer demand for a supported, enterprise-class public
PaaS offering, Red Hat introduced OpenShift Online's commercial offering
— known as the Silver tier — in June 2013, giving users access to
technical support and additional platform resources from the world's top
Linux administrators and JBoss developers. With today's announcement,
Red Hat is expanding Silver tier availability to 14 new Eurozone
countries, including Greece, Poland, Bulgaria, Romania, Czech Republic,
Hungary, Slovakia, Croatia, Slovenia, Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia, Cyprus
and Malta. With this expansion, Red Hat's world-class technical support
and additional platform resources is available for developers and
application providers in more than 30 countries.
Additionally, with today's announcement, Red Hat is lowering OpenShift
Online's gear/hour pricing by 50 percent and providing additional gear
sizes to host larger applications. With this change, gear/hour prices
now range from just $0.02 cents to $0.10. In addition to Small (512 MB)
and Medium (1GB) gears, developers can now choose Large (2GB) gears,
offering them a larger memory option to run their most demanding
applications. Developers can now build and host applications more
efficiently than ever, without sacrificing development time to tune
application efficiency or scalability.
Red Hat also continues driving new features and functionality in
OpenShift Online every month. Most recently, Red Hat added support for
group membership and user management to enhance multi-developer
collaboration. Other recent updates include enhanced support for
environment variables and updates to multiple OpenShift cartridges
including Python, Node.js and Postgresql. For more details on all the
latest features in OpenShift Online, see https://www.openshift.com/blogs/new-openshift-online-features-roundup.
Availability
New gear/hour pricing for OpenShift Online is effective immediately.
Additional memory options and expanded global access to OpenShift Online
will be available in December 2013. Pricing and technical details are
available via the OpenShift
website.
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