Press release:

Appcelerator Enables Scalable Mobile Back-ends with Red Hat OpenShift PaaS

August 2, 2012

Cloud Computing Team

With the combination of Appcelerator's Titanium Studio and the OpenShift Platform-as-Service (PaaS) developers can create and deploy scalable iOS, Android, Windows Phone and Mobile Web applications using open standards. By developing in standard JavaScript, Titanium Studio creates native applications that can be deployed to the Apple App Store and Google Play. On the back-end, developers can use open source languages and frameworks such as Java EE, Node.js, Ruby and MongoDB and deploy them to the OpenShift PaaS to be scaled and managed in the cloud.

Announcing an integrated front-end and back-end development environment

Today the Red Hat OpenShift Module for Titanium Studio is available for download [1] in the Appcelerator Marketplace. Developed by Appcelerator in collaboration with Red Hat, the free module allows developers using Appcelerator Titanium Studio to deploy back-end mobile application code to the cloud in Red Hat’s OpenShift PaaS.

This means mobile application developers can now create front-end and back-end code in the same development environment and deploy the front-end code to mobile app stores and the back-end code to the OpenShift platform. Developers who want to get started can read our Deploying Mobile back-end Services from Titanium Studio to OpenShift [2] write-up. We see a terrific validation of OpenShift PaaS in Appcelerator’s choice to integrate the OpenShift platform into the Appcelerator Titanium Studio experience.

Mobile developers want scalable cloud services

The May 2012 Appcelerator / IDC Q2 Mobile Developer Report found that 83% of mobile developers plan to use cloud services. [5] Many of these services are being sought out because of the difficulty in developing back-end server-side capabilities, particularly for developers focused on client-side activities. These mobile services need scalable application infrastructure that can keep up with changing workloads as mobile users come and go. If an application is “hot” or a corporate event causes a lot of activity, the back-end needs to scale while remaining secure.

While mobile developers want to create the best experience in their applications, they don’t want to spend their time bogged down in setting up back-end stacks, handling scaling and security, patching stack versions or any of the other administration tasks that are required in running a scalable service. OpenShift addresses these issues for them by leaving developers free to focus on what really matters: code and customers.

Developers can use Appcelerator Titanium Studio and OpenShift for free. Appcelerator’s App Explore tier is free and includes access to Titanium Studio, analytics and more. The OpenShift PaaS free tier enables developers to run mobile back-ends for languages including Ruby, Node.js, Java EE, Python and PHP along with databases such as MySQL and MongoDB utilizing up to 1.5 GB memory and 3 GB storage. Developers will be able to purchase increased capacity as their applications scale.

Announcing the Appcelerator Mobile Developer Challenge

Appcelerator has announced that registration is now open for the Appcelerator Mobile Developer Challenge – a mobile application contest which offers up to $15,000 in cash prizes.  Participants can host their apps on the OpenShift platform - to let us know that you are enjoying the benefits of the OpenShift PaaS free tier for your contest entries, use CODESTRONG when signing up at openshift.com.

Don’t forget that Red Hat’s OpenShift PaaS is also a platinum sponsor of this year’s CODESTRONG conference in San Francisco, which brings together hundreds of mobile developers to learn and interact with the latest technologies. Winners of the Mobile DevChallenge will be announced at CODESTRING. Early bird registrations are still available, sign up here [7].

[1] https://marketplace.appcelerator.com/apps/2939?556492733
[2] https://openshift.redhat.com/community/blogs/developing-mobile-apps-for-the-cloud-with-titanium-studio-and-the-openshift-paas
[3] http://openshift.redhat.com/app/account/newweb_user[promo_code]=CODESTRONG
[4] http://codestrong.com/
[5] http://bit.ly/N08wrH “Developers’ responses were remarkably consistent with last quarter’s survey results in the level of interest in integrating cloud services into their mobile applications, with fully 83% of those developers (84% in last quarter’s survey) saying that they were planning to connect their mobile applications to cloud-based services like Appcelerator Cloud Services (ACS) within the next year.”
[6] Developers’ responses were remarkably consistent with last quarter’s survey results in the level of interest in integrating cloud services into their mobile applications, with fully 83% of those developers (84% in last quarter’s survey) saying that they were planning to connect their mobile applications to cloud-based services like Appcelerator Cloud Services (ACS) within the next year.

News release:

Red Hat Unveils Enterprise Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) Roadmap and Strategy

Raleigh

NC, Global, May 9, 2012

Red Hat outlines strategy for open hybrid enterprise PaaS with OpenShift

Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced its strategy for OpenShift Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), the leading open cloud application platform for enterprises, to enable enterprises to take advantage of the benefits of PaaS by providing a consistent environment for both public cloud and on-premise datacenter usage. Under the roadmap, Red Hat plans to extend OpenShift PaaS to allow enterprises to use both leading-edge DevOps operational models, as well as traditional application management methodologies. Building on the core technology stack that already powers the OpenShift public PaaS, Red Hat’s OpenShift PaaS for enterprises will help provide the benefits of cloud computing in a way that maximizes both operational flexibility and application development efficiency.

“While use of PaaS and the blending of application development and deployment known as DevOps are growing rapidly and we expect the enterprise PaaS market to be worth more than $3 billion by 2015, it is still early days for PaaS offerings, combinations and support,” said Jay Lyman, senior analyst for 451 Research, a division of leading global analyst and data company The 451 Group. “That's why it is critical that the underlying components and supported pieces of PaaS are open, flexible and available the way customers and developers want them, which is typically in the cloud, on-premises or both. Red Hat's OpenShift PaaS benefits from its depth of enterprise Java support for the application lifecycle and Java EE6. This is key for enterprises looking to scale, automate and treat software as services, not only for new applications and development, but also for their large, legacy investment, infrastructure and process around existing applications.”

OpenShift To Date
Red Hat introduced OpenShift PaaS in May 2011, delivering to developers a cloud application platform with a choice of programming languages, frameworks and application lifecycle tools to build their applications. Since then, the OpenShift platform has evolved to include emerging development languages such as Node.js and became the first PaaS to support Java EE 6 and to offer comprehensive lifecycle support for Java in the cloud. Red Hat also made available to the open source community the code that powers its OpenShift platform through the open source OpenShift Origin project in April 2012.

Enterprise PaaS Roadmap
Today’s enterprises often have real-world operational requirements that are not supported by current PaaS offerings. Enterprises have operational considerations around compliance, enterprise architecture standards (including ITIL or other methodologies), IT governance, security, application lifecycle management, application development methodologies, organizational and process restrictions, data and compute locality and privacy restrictions and more. PaaS solutions must enable IT to empower their developers with these platforms while still implementing the PaaS in a way that meets their enterprise requirements.

“With the growth of the cloud market, developers have embraced PaaS due to the agility, speed and flexibility these platforms offer. Of the many PaaS offerings available, we haven’t seen any yet address the full needs of the enterprise,” said Scott Crenshaw, vice president and general manager, Cloud Business Unit at Red Hat. “However someone wants to build and manage their applications, they should be able to. With the PaaS roadmap and strategy we are outlining today, we’re paving the way for enterprises to use a Red Hat-powered open cloud application platform to build and run their applications, however best fits their business needs.”

Red Hat’s enterprise PaaS roadmap addresses the use cases and current challenges for enterprise PaaS adoption. Through OpenShift PaaS, Red Hat is delivering a leading cloud application platform that offers built-in secure and scalable multi-tenancy, proven enterprise-grade application containers, middleware, services and the latest technologies. Today, Red Hat brings this platform to more users through a variety of new locations and with multiple management model options. Combining the core enterprise technologies that power OpenShift PaaS– including Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Storage, JBoss Enterprise Middleware and OpenShift’s integrated programming languages, frameworks and developer tools – Red Hat plans to deliver the OpenShift cloud application platform available as a PaaS for enterprises in an open and hybrid cloud.

OpenShift PaaS will be designed to provide a choice of consumption models across multiple cloud providers enabling enterprises to:

• Use OpenShift as a service, available in developer preview since May 2011 via openshift.redhat.com. A fee-based version of this service with full support from Red Hat is expected to be available later this year.
• Deploy and manage their own private PaaS leveraging the OpenShift PaaS platform, built on Red Hat enterprise technology.
• Deploy OpenShift on a variety of cloud and virtualization providers.

Red Hat plans to extend the OpenShift enterprise PaaS platform to provide a choice of management and operational models, including:

• A DevOps model that empowers developers to deploy and manage their applications via either a Public PaaS solution at openshift.redhat.com or a Private PaaS solution with OpenShift on-premise.
• An ITOps model that enables IT operations teams to provide the benefits of PaaS to their developers while maintaining centralized control of their applications and infrastructure, based on OpenShift with Red Hat CloudForms as the foundation.
• Self-managed and available offline by running OpenShift on a developer laptop.

For more information on Red Hat’s PaaS Strategy, join Red Hat executives for a virtual press conference webcast announcement at 11am ET on May 9. The webcast will also be available for replay. To register for the live broadcast or to access the replay, visit https://vts.inxpo.com/Launch/QReg.htm?ShowKey=9415.

To learn more about or to access OpenShift, visit openshift.redhat.com.

To read more on Red Hat’s perspective on the seven properties of an open cloud, visithttp://www.redhat.com/about/news/archive/2012/2/The-Open-Cloud-Red-Hats-Perspective.

For more information about Red Hat, visit www.redhat.com. For more news, more often, visitwww.press.redhat.com.

About Red Hat, Inc.
Red Hat, the world's leading provider of open source solutions and an S&P 500 company, is headquartered in Raleigh, NC with more than 70 offices spanning the globe. Red Hat provides high-quality, affordable technology with its operating system platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, together with cloud, virtualization, management, storage and service-oriented architecture (SOA) solutions, including Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization and JBoss Enterprise Middleware. Red Hat also offers support, training and consulting services to its customers worldwide. Learn more: http://www.redhat.com.

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Press release:

Announcing OpenShift Origin – Open Source Code For Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS)

April 30, 2012

Cloud Computing Team

It's been almost a year to the date since Red Hat launched the OpenShiftPlatform-as-a-Service (PaaS) at Red Hat Summit. Since launch, OpenShift has established itself as a compelling PaaS choice for developers seeking enterprise capabilities.

The OpenShift PaaS comes with a host of developer-friendly capabilities like MongoDB, Node.js, easy command-line and web interfaces, the ability for developers to plug in their own frameworks as well as comprehensive enterprise Java capability from being the first PaaS to offer Java EE6 to integration with JBoss Tools and other eclipse-based IDEs alongsideMaven and Jenkins automation. The adoption of the OpenShift platform and community continues to grow.

The OpenShift platform has come this far by riding on many open source projects and the communities around them. From day one, we always knew that for the OpenShift service to continue to grow and thrive, the source code for it had to be released, and developed by a community. Well, that day has come.

We're stoked to announce the release of OpenShift Origin, the open source codebase used in the OpenShift PaaS, and also the name for the community and project. OpenShift Origin is intended to serve as the upstream for code and enhancements for Red Hat's OpenShift PaaS service -- but that's not all:

OpenShift Origin will be run as a true open source project. Taking lessons-learned from Fedora, JBoss and the Apache Software Foundation (ASF), OpenShift Origin looks to be unique among PaaS projects in that:

• It is a meritocratic community project, regardless of developer affiliation. Read about the OpenShift Origin process.
• The codebase is licensed under the Apache License, v2, which enables a wide audience of users, developers and vendors.

The reasons for the above are clear: The cloud in general, and Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and PaaS implementations specifically, should not be vehicles that promote vendor lock-in, nor should they be under the control or “guidance” of vendors. For the cloud to remain open and vibrant, implementations should be truly open, not only in license, but in governance. The OpenShift Origin project sets a high bar for PaaS offerings, developed and governed by developers, for developers.

The benefits available to the developer are numerous:

• Run a PaaS locally on your laptop
• Run a PaaS behind your firewall
• Become a developer on a PaaS and expand your skills and solve interesting technical problems
• Integrate your middleware or framework into an open source PaaS
• Create a new thing based on PaaS technology
• By utilizing an open source IaaS codebase, build a cloud stack using open source

The OpenShift Origin project will use GitHub as its code repository, with mailing lists and other support services (such as bug trackers) provided by Red Hat.

Are you ready to download, contribute and participate? Then go to the “Get Involved” page and join the OpenShift Origin community. We've made it easy to get started! We've put together an OpenShift Origin Fedora Remixto make getting up and running relatively painless. In addition, OpenShift Evangelist Mark Atwood has put together a blog post that walks you through what the different OpenShift Origin components are and how to get up and running. He also wrote a blog about the relationship between OpenShift Origin and OpenStack. Now that’s a complete open source cloud stack right on your laptop! 
 

Are you interested in learning more about OpenShift Origin? Check out theOpenShift Origin sessions at the Open Cloud Conference this week. You can also catch us in May at Cloud DC or Silicon Valley OpenShift Meetupto learn more.

OpenShift Origin is ready to be your open source PaaS.

You have our word on it.