Red Hat Expands OpenShift Partner Ecosystem 

Red Hat, Inc. today announced significant momentum within the OpenShift by Red Hat Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) Partner Program. Since launching OpenShift in May 2011, Red Hat has partnered with cloud industry leaders - including both independent software vendors (ISVs) and system integrators (SIs) via the OpenShift Partner Program, offering customers a broad ecosystem of partners that offer a selection of solutions that are complementary to OpenShift. Today, Red Hat announced the expansion of its OpenShift partner ecosystem, with several new partners to help deliver on its vision to deliver even more choice to developers across public, private and hybrid cloud deployments.

A recognized leader in the open source PaaS space, Red Hat offers the industry’s only full suite of open source PaaS solutions: OpenShift Origin, the open source PaaS project; OpenShift Online, a commercial public PaaS offering; and OpenShift Enterprise, an on-premise private PaaS product.OpenShift offers developers a cloud application platform with a choice of programming languages, frameworks and application lifecycle tools to build and run their applications. The platform provides built-in support for Node.js, Ruby, Python, PHP, Perl, and Java and the capability for developers to add their own. OpenShift also supports many popular frameworks, including Java EE, Spring, Play and Rails.

With today’s announcement, Red Hat’s OpenShift Partner Program includes several new ecosystem partners, including:

• AppDynamics - a next-generation application performance management (APM) company that simplifies the management of complex web applications, including applications based on Red Hat JBoss Middleware offerings running on OpenShift. Additionally, AppDynamics enables customers that are using both OpenShift Online and OpenShift Enterprise to manage the performance of their applications from one location.
• Continuent - a leading provider of database-as-a-service (DBaaS) solutions for MySQL and Oracle enables OpenShift Enterprise customers to take advantage of advanced clustering and database replication for their mission critical applications in an easy-to-deploy and manage integration via OpenShift cartridges.
• Kinvey - a leading Backend-as-a-Service (BaaS) platform for enterprise applications is helping to bring OpenShift’s mobile customers closer to their back-end data by offering various data connectors to vital enterprise business systems.
• Netsource Partners - a software engineering firm with decades of experience developing large-scale online and operational systems for both Fortune 500, mid-sized companies, and academic institutions, NetSource has used OpenShift to improve rapid development.
• Phase2 – a leading digital content strategy, design and technology firm serving many of the world’s most influential organizations by providing strategic consulting, development, and design services. Using OpenShift Online’s commercial offering - known as the Silver tier - Phase2 is already delivering value for clients.
• StrongLoop – With streamlined integration via the StrongLoop Suite cartridge, OpenShift customers can take advantage of StrongLoop’s API tier for connecting enterprise data to devices and browsers, including an open, mobile, BaaS, API development framework, operational console, and certified distribution of Node.js with supported modules with very little effort.
• Vizuri - a software design, development and consulting company with a diverse client base in both the private and public sectors that is working with customers to modernize their traditional applications to take advantage of OpenShift.
• Pat V. Mack - a leading IT consulting services; offering clients a full range of engineering and business solutions, including business process management, project management, engineering architecture, design, development, integration, and support of mission-essential products. OpenShift’s security capabilities from built-in technologies such as SELinux, combined with Pat V. Mack’s deep understanding of Department of Defense (DoD) security requirements and protocol, together the companies are able to deliver combined value for public sector customers.