Cloud Computing: Red Hat Moving to Commercialize OpenShift PaaS
June 26, 2012
Grazed from Sys Con Media. Author: Maureen O’Gara.
Red Hat is planning to commercialize its 13-month-old OpenShift PaaS later this year when it splits the widgetry into two initial tiers: FreeShift and MegaShift. Until then it’ll be available as a developer preview.
FreeShift will offer three small gears, the ability to auto-scale and access to the languages, frameworks and data stores developers like to use. It will leverage community-provided support. Developers using the OpenShift PaaS now will be able to automatically migrate to FreeShift.
MegaShift, the initial paid tier, will offer up to 16 gears, and the ability to add storage past the 1GB-per-gear limit in FreeShift. MegaShift users will get support from Red Hat. The platform fee is supposed to be $42 a month with a per-gear-an-hour fee for gears past the first three. However, Red Hat says the pricing is provisional and subject to change…
The PaaS been out as a free service since May 2011, the first PaaS to support Java EE 6 and offer lifecycle support for Java in the cloud.
The code that powers the OpenShift platform was open sourced through the OpenShift Origin project this past April and last month Red Hat announced plans to extend the PaaS so enterprises might use both leading-edge DevOps operational models and traditional application management methodologies.
JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.0, the commercially supported version of JBoss Application Server that became generally available last week, is in the developer preview.
The combination offers an open source Java PaaS solution that enables hybrid cloud scenarios and is expected to help usher in cloud-enabled application servers for HTML5, mobile and enterprise.
OpenShift is now the first PaaS to run Java EE 6 Full Profile.