Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source
solutions, today announced the expansion of its OpenShift
Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) Partner Program in line with the launch of
its on-premise OpenShift Enterprise PaaS product. With this, the
OpenShift Partner Program introduces several new partner categories and
welcomes new partners into its expanding cloud ecosystem.
The original OpenShift Partner Program launched in May 2011 with the
introduction of the developer preview of the OpenShift Online PaaS
offering available from Red Hat. The program was designed to foster a
broad, rich partner ecosystem that would address the rapidly changing
developer requirements for PaaS and that would build on the robust open
certified ecosystem available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat
Enterprise Virtualization and JBoss Enterprise Middleware. Since the
launch of the OpenShift Partner Program, Red Hat has been working with a
broad range of partners to address customer needs while generating
mutual value. The OpenShift Partner Program expands today to better
address the needs of customers as the PaaS industry and technologies
evolve.
The updated OpenShift Partner Program features three partner categories,
including:
Building a community cartridge is the first step for any partner
interested in engaging with OpenShift. A cartridge is a configuration
template or script that enables a third-party addition or extension to
OpenShift. Partners looking to engage with OpenShift can start by
understanding the steps
required to create a cartridge and can begin developing in collaboration
with OpenShift through the open source OpenShift
Origin project at the Community Partner level. The Community Partner
program category enables partners to reach a committed developer base
and to help broaden their exposure.
This program category allows partners to further extend their market
reach by building on the engagement with the OpenShift community that
was initially enabled by the Community Partner category. Certified
Partners can gain extended access and exposure to current OpenShift
customers with an opportunity to bring their solution to market in
collaboration with OpenShift. This category is aimed at partners with
the capability to bring a wide range of functionality that is
complementary to OpenShift’s own PaaS functionality through technologies
such as middleware, development frameworks, datastores, IDEs and
management tools. Partner offerings can run directly on OpenShift,
either online or via OpenShift Enterprise, or can themselves be a hosted
service offering that integrates with OpenShift through web APIs.
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Powered by OpenShift Partners
The Powered by OpenShift program category is designed for partners who
are actively using OpenShift to power their own Software-as-a-Service
(SaaS) applications and solutions. Powered by OpenShift partners will
gain the opportunity for close alignment with the OpenShift roadmap.
Current Powered by OpenShift partners are already leveraging the
OpenShift online service available at openshift.redhat.com and can also
take advantage of OpenShift Enterprise.
Supporting Quotes
Ashesh Badani, general manager, Cloud Business Unit and OpenShift,
Red Hat
“Our OpenShift partners have provided great extended
value to developers using an open PaaS platform to date and we’re
excited to expand the reach of our ecosystem further to continue to meet
the evolving needs of developers and customers. Our customers demand
choice so our goal is to work broadly with partners to make
complementary partner technologies and products available, along with
Red Hat’s own offerings, to address customer needs. As Red Hat moves its
PaaS strategy and portfolio forward today with the availability of
OpenShift Enterprise, we are looking for our OpenShift Partner Program
takes a big leap forward as well.”
Kowsik Guruswamy, CTO, Blitz.io
“We are thrilled to continue
working with Red Hat’s OpenShift PaaS Partner Program. Our user trials
are powered in part by OpenShift, which allows developers to use Blitz
without even needing an application or website to test it. OpenShift
users can use Blitz against their applications for capacity planning and
to see where and how they need to optimize for performance. It’s an
incredibly beneficial partnership that makes a lot of sense.”
Ruben Daniels, founder and CEO, Cloud 9 IDE
“Working with
OpenShift has made it very cost-effective to offer our workspace
feature, which is the container where our users do their coding. By
leveraging the multi-tenant model, we can run multiple workspaces on the
same virtual machine and turn them on and off depending on which user is
active. This allows us to offer our service very inexpensively—something
that’s very important to our business model.”
Ed Albanese, vice president of Business Development, 10gen
“MongoDB
is one of the most popular cartridges on OpenShift as developers look to
build a new generation of applications using agile development to manage
diverse data types within datacenters built to scale out, not up. The
availability of OpenShift for on-premise environments empowers an
expanded class of MongoDB developers to build dynamic applications in
any datacenter, be it on-premise or hosted.”
Bill Lapcevic, vice president of Business Development, New Relic
“New
Relic and OpenShift understand that in order to meet the evolving needs
of these enterprise developers, providing the tools and technology they
need will be critical to success. OpenShift is one of the few PaaS
platforms that is focused on addressing the growing need of enterprises
as they move to the cloud and that’s why New Relic is thrilled to be a
part of the OpenShift Partner Program expansion. As part of our
commitment to the enterprise, New Relic has offered its SaaS APM
solution free of charge to OpenShift customers so that they have the
deep visibility into application performance they need to build
business-critical apps that meet high standards for performance,
stability and scalability.”
Andi Gutmans, CEO, Zend
“Enterprises today are focused at
finding new agile and robust ways to build web and mobile applications.
PHP has been at the center of enabling this new class of applications.
The combination of Zend Server and Red Hat OpenShift together provide an
excellent choice to develop, deploy and manage the next generation of
enterprise applications.”
For more information on the OpenShift Partner Program and OpenShift
Enterprise, join Red Hat executives for a virtual press conference
webcast announcement at 11:00 a.m. ET on Nov. 27. The webcast will also
be available for replay. To register for the live broadcast or to access
the replay, visit https://vts.inxpo.com/Launch/QReg.htm?ShowKey=11748.
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