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OpenShift and Cloud

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This blog post is an excerpt from our recent Industry Perspective, How PaaS & Containerization Can Improve Government IT. To read the full thing for free, head here.

Open source technology and cloud have a long and solid relationship. Most of the largest cloud provider companies are built on open source technologies.

Now, software firm Red Hat has made this consumable for enterprise users, enabling agencies to take that technology that they’ve been using as public cloud consumers and bring it to their own data centers.

This offers end users plenty of benefits as well. Open source platforms improve cloud technology, help to end vendor lock-in and maximize efficiency.

For example, take OpenShift Enterprise, a Platform as a Service (PaaS) product from Red Hat, the world’s leading provider of open source solutions. Based on OpenShift Origin, the platform plays a major role in solutions from FedRAMP-approved cloud provider BlackMesh and in ARCWRX, an open source PaaS cloud services platform from CSRA, formerly Computer Sciences Corp. (CSC).

OpenShift makes use of three cloud tools to maximize security and drive productivity by enabling developers to focus on their main objective — writing code:

To learn more, read the full piece here.

 

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