Red Hat Launches OpenShift Dedicated on Google Cloud Platform
Combines Red Hat’s trusted enterprise expertise with Google’s
container-optimized infrastructure, data analytics, and machine learning
services
RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, today announced the general availability of OpenShift
Dedicated on Google Cloud Platform. The new offering brings Red Hat’s
award-winning container platform as a managed service offering to
enterprise customers who want to build, launch, and manage applications
on OpenShift Dedicated with Google Cloud Platform as their underlying
cloud infrastructure. With the availability of OpenShift Dedicated on
Google Cloud Platform, users can speed adoption of containers,
Kubernetes, and cloud-native application patterns, benefiting from Red
Hat’s deep enterprise experience. Users also benefit from Google’s
global, container-optimized infrastructure and can more easily augment
their applications with Google’s ecosystem of data analytics, machine
learning, compute, network, and storage services.
Red Hat introduced OpenShift Dedicated in December 2015 to help
customers who wanted to accelerate their adoption of containers and
cloud-native application patterns, but wanted to shift the bulk of their
focus to application development and deployment rather than
administrative and operational management tasks. With OpenShift
Dedicated, 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 is built on the same code base as Red Hat OpenShift
Container Platform (an enterprise-scale, customer-managed platform)
enabling customers to easily move their workloads across public and
private clouds. To help users operationalize containers, OpenShift
Dedicated - along with the rest of the OpenShift portfolio - brings a
more secure, enterprise-ready container platform based on Red Hat
Enterprise Linux, Red Hat’s trusted and proven enterprise Linux platform.
OpenShift Dedicated on Google Cloud Platform includes:
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Single-tenant isolation and a resource pool of 100GB SSD-based
persistent storage, 48TB network iops, and nine nodes to deploy
container-based applications.
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Administrative and security controls, enabling customers to customize
and more securely access their cloud environments using VPN and Google
Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) functions.
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Access to Red Hat JBoss Middleware container-optimized services,
integration and business process capabilities from applications
developed and deployed on OpenShift.
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Availability across all six worldwide Google regions.
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Integration with Google Cloud services, including Google Cloud PubSub,
Google Big Query, and Google Cloud Big Table.
In addition to these capabilities, Red Hat also offers professional
services to help customers migrate container workloads, adopt continuous
delivery and DevOps processes, and build microservices-based apps with
OpenShift Dedicated on Google Cloud Platform. And, via Red Hat Open
Innovation Labs and Red Hat Consulting workshops, Red Hat can help
customers build a blueprint for their digital transformation
initiatives, alongside a specialized team of Red Hat technical
consultants.
Upstream Kubernetes collaboration: Red Hat + Google
Red Hat is the second leading corporate contributor to the upstream
Kubernetes open source project, collaborating with Google to help
advance the container orchestration and cluster management project
through community-powered innovation since its launch. The companies
have been collaborating to significantly enhance scalability,
multi-tenancy, and high availability of Kubernetes, which underpins
OpenShift. OpenShift provides an enterprise-grade version of Kubernetes
and docker container runtime that developers have come to expect, while
giving users more control over the building and isolation process for
their applications. Over the past four years, Red Hat has hosted nearly
three million applications and four billion requests per day through its
OpenShift public cloud platforms, OpenShift Dedicated and OpenShift
Online.
Business value of OpenShift
A recent
IDC study on the business value of OpenShift, commissioned by Red
Hat, found that OpenShift enables customers to respond to market
requirements faster by delivering business-critical, microservices-based
applications with DevOps processes.1 These benefits include
66% faster application delivery times, $1.29 million in annual benefits
per 100 application developers, and 531% average ROI over five years.
With OpenShift Dedicated, enterprise customers can take advantage of
these benefits with a cloud-based managed service, operated by Red Hat
on Google Cloud Platform.
Availability
OpenShift Dedicated on Google Cloud Platform is now available for users
with a valid Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform subscription.
Supporting Quotes
Ashesh Badani, vice president and
general manager, OpenShift, Red Hat
“With OpenShift Dedicated,
OpenShift serves as the abstraction layer that works across multiple
clouds. By expanding OpenShift Dedicated to now include Google Cloud
Platform, our customers’ apps that run on OpenShift Dedicated can also
take advantage of Google Cloud Services, furthering our vision for a
truly portable platform across the multiple cloud and infrastructure
platforms.”
Nan Boden, head of Technology Partners, Google Cloud
"Customers
consistently tell us that they are looking for open solutions that will
enable them to use both public and private infrastructure; they want
choice. Red Hat has been an essential partner in making Kubernetes
available to enterprises looking for the support and flexibility to
manage a hybrid cloud. We are deeply committed to working with partners
like Red Hat to help our customers operate in a digital world.”
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1 IDC White Paper, sponsored by Red Hat, “The Business Value
of Red Hat OpenShift,” October 2016
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