More than 100 participating organizations include customers,
contributors, partners and service providers collaborating on the next
generation of OpenShift by Red Hat
BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
RED HAT SUMMIT--Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading
provider of open source solutions, today announced significantly
increased participation in the ecosystem for its OpenShift offering for
both public and private cloud deployments. Since the launch of OpenShift
Commons in February 2015, OpenShift Commons has emerged as one of the
industry's most unique communities, combining interests around
containers and cloud application development and deployment with the
perspective of end-users, contributors, customers and practitioners.
Red Hat Summit marks 100 days since the launch of OpenShift Commons,
which now boasts more than 100 member organizations working together to
build the next generation of open source innovation. OpenShift Commons
connects a variety of open source technology communities including
Docker, Kubernetes, Project Atomic and others that are key components of
the latest release of OpenShift.
Since launch, new customers, partners and service providers
participating in OpenShift Commons include: 6fusion;
Altran; Autonomic
Resources; BlackMesh;
Couchbase; Fairfield University; Grid
Dynamics; Leighton; MariaDB; Mesosphere;
New Relic; NGinx; OwnCloud;
Puzzle
ITC; Redis
Labs; Rhodix;
Shadow-Soft;
Telstra; Ticketfly;
TransCirrus; Zabbix;
ZeroTurnaround,
and many other industry leaders. With participation from customers and
partners around the world including FICO,
T-Systems,
Amadeus
and other industry leaders, OpenShift has a global deployment footprint
that spans enterprises, .edu and .gov organizations.
Many of these members have participated in Commons
Briefings, sharing information on topics ranging from developing and
operating PaaS environments to technical matters including metering,
monitoring, scaling and storage as part of the ongoing collaborative
conversation driving the design and development of OpenShift. Feedback
from OpenShift Commons members, along with lessons learned from running
multiple and public PaaS environments at scale, gets fed directly into
the collaborative development process driving the most innovative open
source PaaS available today for use both on-premise and by operators.
Supporting Quotes
Ashesh Badani, Vice President, OpenShift, Red Hat
"Watching the growth of the OpenShift Commons community since its
introduction in February has continued to affirm strong industry
interest around innovation in cloud and container technology. We are
delighted to share knowledge and collaborate on best practices around
application development and operations with a diverse group of users and
partners in an open forum and enable developers to contribute to
projects they are passionate about."
Tyler Davey, Vice President Sales, Architech
"Being a Red Hat Systems Integrator partner since 2011, we've had
tremendous success offering Red Hat's Middleware and
Platform-as-a-Service solutions to complement our focus on building
outstanding custom enterprise solutions for our clients."
Rod Hamlin, Vice President Business Development, Couchbase
"Participating in OpenShift Commons has allowed us to remain close to
the newest open source innovation in mobile development with its variety
of community briefings with developers from the OpenShift and FeedHenry
mobile teams. Platform-as-a-Service is continuing to grow on a global
scale and we are excited to continue a collaboration that aims to
promote better agility, scalability and performance for both of our
platforms."
Matt Trifiro, SVP Marketing, Mesosphere
"We're seeing a lot of market demand for a Mesosphere Datacenter
Operating System (DCOS) and OpenShift combined solution, and we're very
excited to partner with Red Hat and OpenShift Commons to offer a
solution that meets the needs of our joint customers."
Derek Marley, CEO, Middleware360 Solutions
"We are pleased to become a new member of the OpenShift Commons
community, where we have been able to collaborate in an open, agile
community to drive custom application development. Working with
different OpenShift developers in the community has allowed us to
develop new solutions that can span a variety of markets."
John Gray, SVP Business Development, New Relic
"New Relic is pleased to continue our participation in the OpenShift
Commons as the community work in areas such as containers and
orchestration. The OpenShift Commons has allowed us to learn
about the latest open source developments in mobile and application
management and reach even more developers through joint software work."
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