New program aimed at helping companies grow their businesses with Red
Hat's award winning Platform-as-a-Service
RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, today announced the launch of the OpenShift Startup Program.
This free program uses OpenShift Online, Red Hat's public cloud
application and development platform, to help startups build and grow
their business.
With the OpenShift Startup Program, startups can take advantage of the
benefits of a hosted cloud environment to launch their startup with less
cost, more reliability, more flexibility, and quicker product iteration.
Members will have access to OpenShift Online subscription benefits for
development, testing, quality assurance, and production hosting. This
includes award-winning Red Hat support and no software or program
lock-in. As the startups grow their service, they have the option to
move their service on-premise or on to their customers' private clouds
powered by OpenShift Enterprise.
Additionally, the OpenShift Startup Program offers valuable networking
opportunities. Select OpenShift Startup Program participants have the
opportunity to be introduced to prospective clients, ranging from small
businesses to Fortune 500 customers.
Additional OpenShift Startup Program benefits include:
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OpenShift promotional credit, enabling startups to launch their ideas
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Consultative support via Red Hat's OpenShift operations and marketing
teams
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Access to Red Hat's award-winning Customer Experience and Engagement
team
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Migration of service from public cloud to private cloud and on-premise
installations
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Joint marketing and feature placement on OpenShift Marketplace for
relevant services
Since its introduction, OpenShift Online has provided developers a cloud
application platform with a choice of programming languages, frameworks
and application lifecycle tools to enhance an enterprise's ability to
build the applications it needs and have them run in a cloud
architecture. OpenShift also provides a standardized and streamlined
developer workflow to provision quickly, build efficiently and get apps
to market faster - a necessity for organizations trying to scale their
businesses.
Privately-held software startups developing a Software-as-a-Service
(SaaS)-based product can apply for the OpenShift Startup Program here: https://www.openshift.com/startup/apply
Supporting Quotes
Ashesh Badani, vice president and general manager, OpenShift, Red Hat
"The average startup is moving at a fast and furious pace to get their
business off the ground, but often gets bogged down in managing
operations. By moving development into a hosted cloud solution -
especially one with a free hosted tier like OpenShift - many of the
typical server infrastructure pain points can be avoided. We want to
make it easy for startups to benefit from the cloud, just as we do with
our enterprise customers. That's why we created the OpenShift Startup
Program - to support software startups and increase their chance of
success by providing them with an application hosting infrastructure at
a reasonable cost."
Adam Klein, chief strategist, American Underground
"We are excited to be working with OpenShift Startup program to provide
innovative new startups special access to the OpenShift PaaS.
Collaborating with Red Hat on OpenShift will enable our startups to
focus on their code via the benefits of PaaS. The wide variety of the
choice, flexibility, and accessibility of programming languages offered
by OpenShift Online will benefit both consumer and BtoB startups."
Daniel Saks, CEO, AppDirect
"AppDirect is the leading monetization and management platform for cloud
commerce. By partnering with the Red Hat Innovate and the OpenShift
Startup Program, we are excited to offer startup ISVs an opportunity to
gain additional awareness via the OpenShift Online Marketplace."
Elroi Marom, CEO, Mean.Io
"Mean.io is an open source - fullstack javascript framework powering the
next generation of web applications. We are excited to collaborate with
Red Hat via the OpenShift Startup Program to amplify Mean.io's mission
to foster a strong Mean Stack ecosystem focused on innovation. Red Hat's
dedication to open source and their world class Platform-as-a-Service,
OpenShift, will help us take Mean Stack to the enterprise."
Avi Cavale, CEO, Shippable
"Shippable is a hosted Continuous Delivery platform that helps
enterprises ‘Ship better code, faster'. Shippable uses cutting edge
technologies like Docker to solve real world problems. Having a partner
like OpenShift by Red Hat, that can operate at scale and while helping
us innovate in a niche area is critical for us to succeed. Their track
record of recognizing and bringing in ground breaking technologies early
into their platform creates a tremendous opportunity to accelerate
transformative innovation for startups like us."
Ryan King, global program director, Red Hat Innovate, Red Hat
"Red Hat is excited to expand its reach by partnering in the launch of
the OpenShift Startup Program. This unique program, true to the open
source values and mission of Red Hat, offers the benefits and
flexibility of private and public cloud hosting, combined with the
efficiency and agility of PaaS."
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