New hosting option to support production application deployment for
European users
RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, today announced significant momentum for OpenShift Online,
its award-winning commercial Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS). Since its
launch in November 2011, more than two million applications have been
launched on Red Hat's public PaaS, and from August 2013 - August 2014,
OpenShift Online experienced 105 percent year-over-year application
growth, and 103 percent year-over-year user growth. In support of its
global customer base, Red Hat today launched a new hosting offering in
Ireland for OpenShift Online, enabling users to run their applications
with the same functionality from either Red Hat's U.S. or European
hosting locations.
In November 2013, Red Hat expanded availability of OpenShift Online's
commercial offering - known as the Silver plan - bringing access to
technical support and additional platform resources from some of the
world's top Linux administrators and JBoss developers to more than 30
countries in Europe. With today's news, OpenShift Online customers will
be able to host applications closer to user access points, improving
application performance. Early testing indicates improved latency for
European customers hosting in the new datacenter.
To improve the production experience of application developers, Red Hat
has also introduced the Small.highcpu
gear, offering a new low cost, production gear designed to provide
double the CPU performance of the existing Small gears.
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 lower 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.
OpenShift has won several awards
and has received prestigious industry awards in the past year, including:
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Best Cloud Platform-as-a-Service (2014 SIIA CODiE Awards)
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Cloud Innovation Finalist (2014 Cloud Innovation Awards in Cloud
Services for the Enterprise)
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Best in Cloud Computing (2014 American Technology Awards - Best in
Cloud Computing)
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InfoWorld Bossie Awards (2013 Best open source datacenter and cloud
software)
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Developer Week Innovator Awards (Top Innovator for PaaS)
Availability
Application deployment to Red Hat's new European hosting is immediately
available for current OpenShift Online customers subscribed to the Bronze
and Silver plans.
Supporting Quote
Ashesh Badani, vice president and general manager, OpenShift, Red Hat
"OpenShift Online has generated impressive interest from users and we've
seen an increase in the number of subscribers to OpenShift Online over
the past year. We're committed to expanding availability globally to
meet their needs. Our new European hosting expansion is specifically
designed to support customer success in Europe, enabling our users there
to further take advantage of the many benefits of PaaS and cloud."
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