New service tier targets enterprise IT organizations embracing the
public cloud
RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, announced the general availability of OpenShift Dedicated, a
new cloud-based service targeting enterprise IT and development teams.
OpenShift Dedicated includes the Docker container and Kubernetes
orchestration technologies included in the recently-released OpenShift
Enterprise 3.1 and builds on OpenShift Online, Red Hat's offering
for individual developers to build, launch and host their applications
in a shared public cloud, supported by Red Hat.
According to a recent IDC
MarketScape report (1), Red Hat has become a major player in the
cloud application platform space. Since it's launch in November 2011,
there has been a notable increase in the number of applications created
on and developers using OpenShift Online. The general availability of
OpenShift Dedicated presents a third consumption model for Red Hat's
OpenShift Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offering:
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OpenShift Enterprise, designed for organizations who want to
deploy and manage their OpenShift instances on their choice of
on-premise hardware or certified cloud provider;
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OpenShift Online, for individual developers or teams who want
to access OpenShift as a service in the public cloud, using on-demand
consumption in a multi-tenant environment hosted on Amazon Web
Services (AWS); and
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OpenShift Dedicated, the newest offering for enterprise IT
organizations who want to use Red Hat technology to deploy, manage and
support their OpenShift instances running on AWS.
Many customers in the application space want more control over the
building and isolation process for their applications, but often do not
want to complete administrative and operational management tasks alone.
Unlike other public cloud offerings that may require administrative
support, Red Hat acts as the service provider, managing OpenShift
Dedicated and offering industry-leading
support, helping to shorten time to value and free up valuable time
and resources for customers.
OpenShift Dedicated's base package includes single-tenant isolation and
a resource pool of 100GB SSD-based persistent storage, 48TB network iops
and nine nodes to deploy container-based applications. Administrative
and security controls enable each customer to customize and more
securely access their cloud environment using VPN and Amazon Virtual
Private Cloud (VPC) functions. With OpenShift Dedicated, customers can
also access Red Hat JBoss Middleware container-optimized services,
integration and business process capabilities from applications
developed and deployed on OpenShift.
Availability
OpenShift Dedicated is globally available today for Red Hat customers in
all AWS hosting regions, with support for other public cloud options
expected in the future.
Supporting Quotes
Ashesh Badani, vice president, OpenShift, Red Hat
"We are pleased to continue to expand OpenShift's portfolio of
offerings, extending new support to users running OpenShift in the
public cloud and enabling the power of an open source application
platform to extend into more layers of cloud computing. New users
signing on to OpenShift Dedicated can experience the same powerful
combination of Red Hat-backed support, middleware services and container
functionality they have come to expect in OpenShift Enterprise - now
optimized for the public cloud."
Larry Carvalho, research manager, Platform as a Service, IDC
"Red Hat continues to advance its portfolio of solutions for the hybrid
cloud. OpenShift Dedicated adds to that, giving customers the choice of
a hosted offering in the public cloud for its container application
platform. This brings a true multi-cloud offering to end-users, who can
use OpenShift in the environment that best suits their needs."
Tyler Jewell, CEO, Codenvy
"Codenvy plans to provide an on-demand OpenShift developer workspaces
that are buildable and debuggable. This will provide developers,
identical development and production environments instantaneously.
OpenShift Dedicated provided us administration, support and technology
to stand up a large, configurable OpenShift cloud for our integration
engineering. Red Hat's technology and managed service team were
responsive and agile, letting us build and ship this new technology in
under three months, letting our engineers focus on our IP while Red Hat
focused on OpenShift."
Dean Peterson, solution architect, State of Minnesota
"As part of the OpenShift Dedicated Early Access Program, we were able
to quickly receive access to our cluster and not worry about building
our own platform. Red Hat provided a excellent hosting experience and
proactive support, enabling us to focus on building our applications."
Sebastian Villa, co-founder and director of technology, Villamedia
"The OpenShift team and OpenShift Dedicated have enabled us to create an
iterative building model for our customers' web applications, many of
which require on-demand modifications. With this new technology, we have
begun the process of moving our web applications into a larger hosting
environment where we can deploy everything from a single location - all
while knowing our websites are being managed by a trusted, supported
partner."
1IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Public Deployment-Centric
Cloud Application Platform 2015 Vendor Assessment; November 2015;
Larry Carvalho, Maureen Fleming, Al Hilwa, Robert P. Mahowald
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