Red Hat acquires Makara

NEW DELHI, INDIA: Red Hat, Inc., a provider of open source solutions, today announced that it has acquired Makara, a developer of deployment and management solutions for applications in the cloud.

Makara's technologies will accelerate the development of Red Hat's comprehensive Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) solution as part of its Cloud Foundations portfolio, said a press release.

Based in Redwood City, Calif., Makara provides solutions to enable organizations to deploy, manage, monitor and scale their applications on both private or public clouds.

“Cloud Foundations is about enabling customers and developers to have an easy on-ramp to the cloud. With the addition of Makara, we aim to further simplify application deployment and management,” said Paul Cormier, president of Products and Technologies at Red Hat.

He added that they welcome the Makara team and look forward to accelerating their delivery of PaaS solutions to the market.

Red Hat introduced Cloud Foundations in June 2010. Red Hat is in a unique position as the only vendor that has the infrastructure needed to deliver a complete, open source, flexible cloud stack, incorporating operating system, middleware and virtualization.