Red Hat updates cloud computing soln portfolio

MUMBAI, INDIA: Red Hat, Inc., open source solution provider has announced its cloud computing solutions portfolio with updates including the introduction of Red Hat CloudForms, Red Hat OpenShift, the OpenShift Partner Program, the Red Hat Certified Cloud Provider Program, and the company’s new Cloud Architecture training course.

Dirk-Peter van Leeuwen, vice president, Red Hat Asia Pacific said, "We are committed to innovation and to providing tangible business value, while maintaining open standards for interoperability and portability. We’re excited to have the new offerings of Red Hat CloudForms and Red Hat OpenShift in the Asia Pacific region.”

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With Red Hat OpenShift and CloudForms, Red Hat plans to deliver a comprehensive solutions portfolio for customers to evolve their IT infrastructure and applications as they move into the future, said a press release.

Red Hat CloudForms is a product that allows organizations to create and manage Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) private and hybrid clouds and Red Hat OpenShift is a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) for developers who build on open source.

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The release added, OpenShift redefines the PaaS market by providing a new level of choice in languages, frameworks and clouds for developers to build, test, run and manage their applications.

Additionally, OpenShift is designed to end the lock-in of PaaS, allowing users to choose the cloud provider upon which their application will run.

OpenShift also allows developers to run their applications on any supported Red Hat Certified Public Cloud Provider, thus combating the lock-in associated with first-generation PaaS vendors.

The release further added, in conjunction with the announcement of OpenShift, Red Hat has also established the OpenShift Partner Program, which fosters a broad, rich partner ecosystem that will be able to address the rapidly changing developer requirements for PaaS better than proprietary offerings.

Forrester Research, Inc. forecasts that the global market for cloud computing will grow from $40.7 billion in 2011 to more than $241 billion in 2020 (Sizing The Cloud, April 2011).