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The ongoing Red Hat (News - Alert) Summit conference has again seen its share of new software and hardware developments from its various attending enterprises. Diamanti, a company that tackles the use of containerized workload in business networking, took the event to announce its support for the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, a platform-as-a-service offering that keeps businesses’ running applications inside Docker-formatted Linux containers.

OpenShift already has a number of enterprise-ready capabilities. It first operates as a platform for application development online or in a public or private cloud. Insistent businesses can also opt to deploy it on their own local servers. It then adds the actions of the Kubernetes cluster manager to give users better control over their various production releases. Once developers finish creating their applications in the cloud, they may wish to deploy those creations to end users. Kubernetes provides a powerful avenue for managing containerized applications that exist on one or many server clusters.

Diamanti makes sure that any number of containerized applications, no matter how or where they are run, can reach guaranteed levels of input and output while gaining low latency and interoperability with various networks. The Diamanti and Kubernetes projects work side-by-side to allow users to define which networks their applications will work on and what types of storage volumes they will use. Users can then expect to have control over the deployment of their applications throughout the lifespan of anything they develop. Meanwhile, they can rely on Diamanti to guarantee that their network and storage performance will remain steady in that time.

Not long after the Red Hat Conference has concluded, the latest TMC (News - Alert) conference, All About the API, will go live. It will feature the new 3scale API gateway that will help businesses control the release of their own application programming interfaces they deploy within OpenShift. Julio Tapia remarked last month that the containerization of applications and APIs gives developers the chance to create programs that run on a variety of programming languages without running into interoperability headaches. Businesses can use the right language for the job, and Red Hat can make sure applications built on those languages will all work well in the cloud.

Mark Balch, the vice president of products at Diamanti, commented in this recent announcement that containerization has become the norm for companies that want to scale their operations. His company’s own contribution to the field gives developers a power they could not have realized with static network deployment and applications that do not take advantage of containers – the main draw being that they package all the native code, libraries, and systems tools necessary for individual applications to exist inside a network. Red Hat’s improvement on this process has brought together Diamanti and others to make sure that each container can then easily work with multiple networks and other container-based applications. It is no wonder that the market for this type of operation has made a strong showing at the Summit.