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Red Hat Launches OpenShift Primed to Accelerate Container Platform Value with New Partner Technologies
Red Hat (News - Alert), Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, today introduced OpenShift
Primed, a new partner designation to recognize a growing ecosystem
of independent software vendors (ISVs) who are integrating solutions
with Openshift, Red Hat's container application platform. As global
enterprise customers explore container adoption, OpenShift Primed is
designed to not only recognize partners in active development with
OpenShift, but also give customers better visibility to solutions being
built around OpenShift.
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (formerly known as OpenShift
Enterprise) is the industry's first web-scale container application
platform based on Docker-format Linux containers, Kubernetes
orchestration, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. As interest
in containers moves from development and testing into production,
Red Hat is committed to fostering a strong ecosystem of container-ready
solutions that can run across the datacenter's
four footprints while maintaining the strong application consistency
ISVs require.
OpenShift Primed is a technical readiness program whose designation
acknowledges the first steps of an ISV integrating its applications with
OpenShift and the steps these ISVs take as they move towards Red
Hat Container Certification as part of Red Hat's Technology Partner
program. Via OpenShift Primed, not only can ISVs making the move to
containers benefit, but so can other partners with OpenShift
technologies -- including infrastructure and Software-as-a-Service
partners. To qualify, ISVs must submit technical evidence (e.g. source
code, how-to guides, or video demonstrations) showing integration with
any variant of OpenShift, including OpenShift Origin. Once approved,
partners gain access to various marketing resources, helping to raise
awareness that their solutions are in active development with OpenShift,
and showcasing their solutions to Red Hat's customer base seeking
container technology solutions.
Customers can also view OpenShift Primed solutions on the OpenShift
Hub, offering insight into an extensive ecosystem of ISV solutions
that can complement their Red Hat deployments. Existing OpenShift
customers can access and review the catalog of OpenShift Primed
solutions and test them in their own environments according to specific
technology needs.
At launch, more than 15 ISVs have earned the OpenShift Primed
designation, including: 3scale (News - Alert); 6fusion; CloudBees; CloudMunch;
Couchbase; Crunchy Data; Diamanti; Dynatrace; GitLab; Iron.io; NGINX;
Nuage Networks; Pachyderm; Roambee; and Sysdig.
Supporting Quotes
Ashesh Badani, vice president and general manager, OpenShift, Red Hat
"OpenShift has evolved as a leading container application platform, and
to enable customer adoption of containers, we want to foster the
industry's widest ecosystem in support of container adoption. As
partners embark on this journey to provide certified container
solutions, we want to recognize their accomplishments and contributions
to the community from the beginning of the certification process.
OpenShift Primed gives us a platform to recognize this ecosystem of
partners, and through it, we look forward to connecting even more ISVs
who are building container application solutions with open source
technologies."
Ravi Mayuram, senior vice president, Products and Engineering,
Couchbase
"Couchbase customers have seen containerization as a way to get more
from the infrastructure stack that runs their web, mobile and IoT
applications. We are excited to be recognized as an OpenShift Primed
technology at launch. This enables our joint customers' to capitalize
fully on the benefits of running Couchbase Server on the OpenShift
platform, making it simple to develop and deploy stateful applications
on top of Docker and Kubernetes."
Paul Laurence, chief operating officer, Crunchy Data
"Crunchy Data is excited to become OpenShift Primed. With our latest
work together, we have created the Crunchy Container Suite for
OpenShift. Using Docker-format containers and Kubernetes services, the
Crunchy Container Suite provides the foundation for a databas as a
service running within OpenShift. This enables developers to easily use
one of the world's most advanced open source database, PostgreSQL, as
the data tier for their cloud native applications. Red Hat has been a
great technical and business partner in this effort and we look forward
to working closely with them to drive this technology forward."
Sytse Sijbrandij, CEO, GitLab
"We are excited to be working with Red Hat and becoming OpenShift
Primed. With our joint collaboration, we have introduced several
usability enhancements. As an example, GitLab will now be available as a
one-click install with an OpenShift cloud cluster. GitLab and Red Hat
working together means that developers and IT organizations can more
easily run their GitLab instances on their own open source platform."
Gus Robertson, CEO, NGINX
"NGINX has a strong, collaborative relationship with Red Hat on
OpenShift, and we are excited to have our technology recognized as
OpenShift Primed. Many of today's leading organizations adopt NGINX Plus
for high performance load balancing and traffic routing for their
mission critical applications, both on-premise and in the cloud,
enabling them to handle a larger volume of users while providing a
faster and more consistent user experience. Becoming OpenShift Primed,
NGINX can provide a more streamlined future for enterprise application
development and delivery as organizations continue the move to
containers and microservices to achieve even greater flexibility and
scale."
Sunil Khandekar, CEO, Nuage Networks
"When customers deploy production workloads on Red Hat OpenShift, they
need a scalable and more secure networking infrastructure. With Nuage
Networks Virtualized Services Platform, our joint customers are able to
use policy-based security features and networking for heterogeneous
application environments that include OpenShift, VMs, and physical
servers. By becoming OpenShift Primed, Nuage Networks is positioned to
help enterprise customers accelerate their journey to the
next-generation of cloud applications."
Steven Willmott, CEO, 3scale
"Customers using Red Hat OpenShift can more easily deploy the 3scale API
Gateway (News - Alert) in just a few clicks to make use of the many benefits of Red
Hat's enterprise-class container platform. This integration was a
logical next step in our collaboration with Red Hat to offer a
full-stack API solution. Becoming OpenShift Primed enables us to
showcase our technology working with OpenShift and we are excited to be
part of the OpenShift ecosystem."
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