Red Hat Launches OpenShift Dedicated on Google Cloud Platform

Hong Kong
–  14
December 2016 – Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE:
RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced
the general availability of OpenShift Dedicated on Google Cloud Platform. The
new offering brings Red Hat’s award-winning container platform as a managed
service offering to enterprise customers who want to build, launch, and manage
applications on OpenShift Dedicated with Google Cloud Platform as their
underlying cloud infrastructure. With the availability of OpenShift Dedicated
on Google Cloud Platform, users can speed adoption of containers, Kubernetes,
and cloud-native application patterns, benefiting from Red Hat’s deep
enterprise experience. Users also benefit from Google’s global,
container-optimized infrastructure and can more easily augment their
applications with Google’s ecosystem of data analytics, machine learning,
compute, network, and storage services.

Red Hat
introduced OpenShift Dedicated in December 2015 to help customers who wanted to
accelerate their adoption of containers and cloud-native application patterns,
but wanted to shift the bulk of their focus to application development and
deployment rather than administrative and operational management tasks. With
OpenShift Dedicated, Red Hat acts as the service provider, managing OpenShift
Dedicated and offering industry-leading support, helping to shorten time to
value and free up valuable time and resources for customers.

OpenShift
Dedicated is built on the same code base as Red Hat OpenShift Container
Platform (an enterprise-scale, customer-managed platform) enabling customers to
easily move their workloads across public and private clouds. To help users
operationalize containers, OpenShift Dedicated – along with the rest of the
OpenShift portfolio – brings a more secure, enterprise-ready container platform
based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat’s trusted and proven enterprise
Linux platform.

OpenShift
Dedicated on Google Cloud Platform includes:

In addition
to these capabilities, Red Hat also offers professional services to help
customers migrate container workloads, adopt continuous delivery and DevOps
processes, and build microservices-based apps with OpenShift Dedicated on
Google Cloud Platform. And, via Red Hat Open Innovation Labs and Red Hat
Consulting workshops, Red Hat can help customers build a blueprint for their
digital transformation initiatives, alongside a specialized team of Red Hat
technical consultants.

Red Hat is
the second leading corporate contributor to the upstream Kubernetes open source
project, collaborating with Google to help advance the container orchestration
and cluster management project through community-powered innovation since its
launch. The companies have been collaborating to significantly enhance
scalability, multi-tenancy, and high availability of Kubernetes, which
underpins OpenShift. OpenShift provides an enterprise-grade version of
Kubernetes and docker container runtime that developers have come to expect,
while giving users more control over the building and isolation process for
their applications. Over the past four years, Red Hat has hosted nearly three
million applications and four billion requests per day through its OpenShift
public cloud platforms, OpenShift Dedicated and OpenShift Online.

A recent IDC study
on the business value of OpenShift, commissioned by Red Hat, found that
OpenShift enables customers to respond to market requirements faster by
delivering business-critical, microservices-based applications with DevOps
processes. These benefits include 66% faster application delivery times, 38% IT
staff productivity gains, and 40% infrastructure cost savings, among others.
With OpenShift Dedicated, enterprise customers can take advantage of these
benefits with a cloud-based managed service, operated by Red Hat on Google
Cloud Platform.

OpenShift
Dedicated on Google Cloud Platform is now available for users with a valid Red
Hat OpenShift Container Platform subscription.

“With
OpenShift Dedicated, OpenShift serves as the abstraction layer that works
across multiple clouds. By expanding OpenShift Dedicated to now include Google
Cloud Platform, our customers’ apps that run on OpenShift Dedicated can also
take advantage of Google Cloud Services, furthering our vision for a truly
portable platform across the multiple cloud and infrastructure platforms.”

“Customers consistently tell us that they are
looking for open solutions that will enable them to use both public and private
infrastructure; they want choice. Red Hat has been an essential partner in
making Kubernetes available to enterprises looking for the support and
flexibility to manage a hybrid cloud. We are deeply committed to working with
partners like Red Hat to help our customers operate in a digital world.”