Red Hat advances PaaS leadership, enables application-driven
enterprise with new OpenShift Enterprise capabilities
RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, today announced the general availability of OpenShift
Enterprise 2, the latest version of its award-winning, on-premise
private Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offering. With OpenShift Enterprise
2, customers can increase the velocity, efficiency and scalability of
their IT service delivery, drive faster development of new applications
and business services and reduce time-to-market. With powerful new
features — including datacenter infrastructure integration, an advanced
administration console, support for even more programming languages, and
new collaboration capabilities — and expanded global availability, a
wider range of developers can achieve the benefits of private PaaS
technology for their cloud deployments.
OpenShift Enterprise, introduced
in November 2012, is a critical component of Red Hat's vision for
the open hybrid cloud, providing an on-demand, elastic, scalable and
fully configured application development, testing and hosting
environment for application developers so they can focus on coding new
application services with reduced operational burdens. It automates much
of the provisioning and systems management of the application platform
stack in a way that enables the IT operations team to more easily meet
growing business demands for new application services. OpenShift
Enterprise is built on a trusted stack of open source-based Red Hat
technologies, including Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat JBoss
Enterprise Application Platform and OpenShift Origin, the open source
PaaS project that forms the foundation for all of Red Hat's suite of
OpenShift PaaS platforms.
Since its launch in November 2012, Red Hat has added more than 45
features to OpenShift Enterprise via four product releases,
incorporating many features first introduced in OpenShift Online, the
company's fully-supported public PaaS offering. OpenShift Enterprise 2
continues Red Hat's leadership in open hybrid cloud and PaaS,
introducing several new features that make private PaaS easier to
consume and implement, including:
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Powerful datacenter infrastructure integration, simplifying the
deployment of OpenShift on OpenStack via OpenStack Orchestration
(Heat) templates, enabling OpenShift's plugin-based integration with
external router and load balancer infrastructure, and providing a
streamlined OpenShift Enterprise installer, enabling IT to more
quickly realize the benefits of cloud computing.
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Advanced administration console, offering IT operations a more
streamlined PaaS experience and giving them visibility into the
applications, users and overall capacity of their PaaS platform.
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Support for the latest programming languages, giving developers
access to a wide variety of popular programming languages, enabling
them to push the limits of application creativity and innovation while
meeting enterprise business requirements. As a polyglot, or
multi-language, PaaS, in addition to Java, Ruby, Python, PHP and Perl,
OpenShift Enterprise now offers Node.js for server-side JavaScript.
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New collaboration capabilities, enabling developers to more
easily share access to their applications for team-based development,
bringing the benefits of community-powered innovation to the
enterprise.
Availability
OpenShift Enterprise 2 will be available on Dec. 11, 2013 to customers
in North America, the United Kingdom, Continental Europe, and select
Asia and Latin America regions, including Australia, ASEAN, Argentina
and Brazil, respectively.
Webcast
Red Hat's general manager of Cloud and OpenShift, Ashesh Badani, will
host a live webcast, including special guests, to discuss the OpenShift
Enterprise 2 launch at 12:00 p.m. ET on Dec. 3, 2013. Following remarks,
press and analysts are invited to participate in a question and answer
session.
To join the webcast or view the replay after the event, visit https://vts.inxpo.com/Launch/QReg.htm?ShowKey=17607.
Supporting Quote
Ashesh Badani, general manager, Cloud and OpenShift, Red Hat
"PaaS represents the fastest growing segment of cloud computing1,
and Red Hat offers the industry's only full suite of open source PaaS
solutions for both public and private PaaS. OpenShift Enterprise 2
extends this leadership and delivers what users want — an
application-driven enterprise — by making PaaS even easier to consume."
David S. Linthicum, SVP Cloud Technology Partners and recently named
as a "Cloud Computing Pioneer" by Information Week.
"The relative growth of PaaS in the enterprise market is outpacing both
IaaS and SaaS. The time-to-market, business agility, and cost efficiency
benefits are now proven. Indeed, I'm seeing a mass migration from
traditional platforms to private and public PaaS. Moreover, the
businesses are seeing a quick return on investment, as well as the
ability to put the application services in place as quickly as the
business requires them. This is clearly strategic technology, and I'm
impressed with the traction and direction that Red Hat has demonstrated
with OpenShift."
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1 451 Research, "451 Research analysis of the cloud computing
market points to a 36% CAGR through 2016," https://451research.com/report-short?entityId=78273.
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