Open-source enterprise software provider Red Hat on 9 May revealed a strategy for offering its OpenShift platform as a service (PaaS) cloud operating system, which is aimed at becoming an alternative to current industry market-share leaders, such as VMware’s vSphere, Microsoft Azure and NASA/Rackspace’s OpenStack.
Red Hat describes OpenShift is an open cloud application platform for enterprises that provides a consistent environment for public cloud and on-premise data centre usage.
Red Hat plans to extend OpenShift PaaS to allow enterprises to use both leading-edge DevOps operational models as well as traditional application management methodologies. OpenShift PaaS, built on Red Hat’s core Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) stack, will help provide both operational flexibility and application development efficiency, the company said.
“While use of PaaS and the blending of application development and deployment known as DevOps are growing rapidly and we expect the enterprise PaaS market to be worth more than $3 billion (£1.8bn) by 2015, it is still early days for PaaS offerings, combinations and support,” Jay Lyman, senior analyst with 451 Research, said.
Red Hat introduced OpenShift PaaS in May 2011 as a cloud application platform with a choice of programming languages, frameworks and application lifecycle tools to build their applications. Since then, the OpenShift platform has evolved to include emerging development languages, such as Node.js, and became the first PaaS to support Java EE 6 and to offer comprehensive lifecycle support for Java in the cloud.
Red Hat also made available to the open-source community the code that powers its OpenShift platform through the open-source OpenShift Origin project in April 2012.
Red Hat said that OpenShift PaaS features built-in secure and scalable multi-tenancy, enterprise-grade application containers, middleware, services and the latest technologies. In addition to RHEL, it includes Red Hat Storage, JBoss Enterprise Middleware and OpenShift’s integrated programming languages, frameworks and developer tools.
Red Hat plans to deliver the OpenShift cloud application platform available as a PaaS for enterprises in an open and hybrid cloud.
Red Hat said OpenShift PaaS will provide a choice of deployment models across multiple cloud providers, enabling enterprises to:
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