Strategy designed to give customers greater control, agility, and
freedom of choice as they embark on new enterprise mobility initiatives
RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE:RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, today announced its vision to help organizations succeed in
the mobile-first economy. Customers can take advantage of Red Hat's
experience and leadership in enterprise IT, and its portfolio of
enterprise-grade open source technologies - including mobile
capabilities from the recent
acquisition of FeedHenry
- to overcome their mobility challenges.
Mobility is increasingly becoming a top
priority for business as a means to drive innovation and streamline
operational efficiency; however, it is also creating demand for faster
and continuous development cycles that challenge traditional IT
infrastructure and development methodologies. To become mobile-centric,
enterprises must evolve in a way that supports both the agility of new
mobile initiatives and stability of core IT.
In response, Red Hat is focusing its enterprise mobility vision on four
areas: platform architecture, developer experience, technology
integration, and collaboration in two-track IT environments.
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Platform architecture: The public cloud or private
Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS)-based architecture of the Red Hat mobile
platform facilitates agile development and DevOps processes, leverages
RESTful APIs and microservices, and accelerates time-to-deployment to
reduce total cost of ownership (TCO).
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Developer experience: A developer-centric approach that
embraces modern toolchains, collaboration, and continuous development
and integration allows organizations to use existing IT skillsets for
new mobile initiatives.
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Technology integration: Simplified integration of the platform
with other enterprise middleware components, based upon a common REST
API architecture, captures and stores new data generated by connected
devices to help unlock the value in existing systems of record.
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Collaboration in two-track IT environments: Adopting a
two-track IT approach, using mobile as the catalyst for building a
"fast IT" organization, helps balance agility with stability and
fosters greater collaboration and cooperation between the two tracks.
Since accelerating into the enterprise mobile market with the October
2014 acquisition of FeedHenry, a leading mobile enterprise application
platform provider, Red Hat has achieved several notable milestones in
its mobile journey, including:
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Release of platform
enhancements for mobile Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) and
collaboration.
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Integration of the platform into Red Hat's award-winning
integrated development environment (IDE), JBoss
Developer Studio.
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Deployment of FeedHenry technology as a mobile service in OpenShift as
part of Red Hat's xPaaS
strategy for cloud-based application development.
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Customers in industries ranging from manufacturing and transportation
to workforce management are using Red Hat mobile technologies to
reduce costs, increase efficiency, and extend critical enterprise
systems to mobile devices.
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Recognition of the FeedHenry platform as the top Mobile
Backend-as-a-Service (MBaaS) in a sector
analysis by GigaOM Research.
Red Hat plans to expand deployment options for the FeedHenry platform
and roll out new integrations with the existing Red Hat middleware
product portfolio, giving enterprises greater freedom of choice by
extending its industry-leading capabilities across hybrid environments.
Supporting Quotes
Craig Muzilla, senior vice president, Application Platforms Business,
Red Hat
"The mobile phenomenon has had a profound impact on the way we think and
act and consume information in our daily lives. That impact is now
rippling throughout enterprise IT as organizations come face-to-face
with the reality of doing business in a new ‘mobile first' world, where
speed and agility must be prioritized without forsaking the stability of
core IT. Our vision is to help enterprises evolve in a digital world and
provide them with an open and flexible architecture and the technologies
that accelerate this transition."
Chris Marsh, principal analyst, Enterprise Mobile App Strategies, 451
Research
"51% of organizations recently surveyed are further increasing their
mobile budgets this year. The enabling technologies are falling into
place for companies to break out of the way they think about mobile from
the silos in which it has traditionally resided, but the process needs
to evolve to support this. Over the past year, it has become clearer
that traditional waterfall development across the software lifecycle is
ill-suited to mobile, and that agile methods are more applicable."
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