Red Hat buys Makara, boosts PaaS strategy

NEW YORK, USA: Open source vendor Red Hat Inc. announced that it has acquired Makara, a developer of deployment and management solutions for applications in the cloud to accelerate its platform-as-a-service (PaaS) solution as part of its Cloud Foundations portfolio.

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

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Integrating JBoss Enterprise Middleware infrastructure with Makara's Cloud Application Platform, Red Hat can offer a comprehensive PaaS solution that allows organizations to transition applications to both public and private 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.

Red Hat plans to make Red Hat PaaS available as software offered as a service in public or private clouds.