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Platform-as-a-Service

Give developers more agility and flexibility than ever

PaaS lets developers easily develop, deploy, and run applications. Architects and IT operations can decide where and how to run the underlying infrastructure. The result: a more efficient use of resources and more opportunity to innovate.

Red Hat helps you transform to PaaS today—or evolve at your own pace

Red Hat customer success stories

  • Access innovative, open, cost-effective platforms and languages.
  • Accelerate developer productivity through streamlined workflows.
  • Provide tooling to manage development processes and integration.
  • Enable application auto-scaling within a shared multitenancy environment.

Benefits

Faster service delivery

Streamline and standardize the application development life-cycle workflow.

More choice

Choose the languages, frameworks, and data stores that meet your business needs, not the ones your vendor dictates.

Open, extensible architecture

Plug in to future technologies and take advantage of new innovations.

Intelligent capacity on demand

Deploy across private and public clouds with cloudbursting for capacity on demand, and intelligent brokering.

Efficiency and security

Reduce service delivery time with application release automation and DevOps, while maintaining control and security.

Only Red Hat delivers an open hybrid cloud with the most comprehensive, innovative IaaS, PaaS, and cloud application solutions.

Everything you need for PaaS in an open hybrid cloud

Application development

Take your apps to the cloud

OpenShift by Red Hat® is our PaaS portfolio of application platforms in the cloud where application developers and teams can build, test, deploy, and run their applications. OpenShift lets developers focus on developing with their choice of interfaces, languages, frameworks, services, clouds, elasticity, and infrastructure. It also offers multiple interaction models that let developers use a rich set of command-line tools, a powerful multidevice web console, or an Eclipse-based IDE, like Red Hat JBoss® Developer Studio.

Develop, test, and deploy rich web and enterprise apps, and SOA services

Red Hat JBoss Developer Studio has everything you need to to develop, test, and deploy rich web applications, enterprise applications, and service-oriented architecture (SOA) services—including Eclipse, open source tools, and access to Red Hat JBoss platforms. Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform has been proven to increase productivity by enabling developers to build an average of 51% more applications per year*.

Application deployment and scale-out

Private PaaS: Streamline and speed cloud application delivery on premise

OpenShift Enterprise by Red Hat is an open PaaS product for private cloud deployments. It provides an on-demand, elastic, scalable, and fully configured application development, testing, and hosting environment that lets developers focus on coding new application services. OpenShift Enterprise gives developers self-service so they can easily create scalable applications using their choice of languages, middleware, and development environments.

Public PaaS: Streamline and speed cloud application delivery in a hosted environment

OpenShift Online is Red Hat's auto-scaling application platform in the cloud. Using OpenShift Online, developers and teams can build, test, deploy, and run their applications. OpenShift Online takes care of all the infrastructure, middleware, and management so developers can focus on what they do best: designing and coding applications.

Deploy PaaS in an open hybrid cloud

Red Hat OpenStack provides the foundation for your organization to build a private or public IaaS cloud on top of Red Hat Enterprise Linux®. Deploying OpenShift Enterprise on this foundation gives you an open PaaS on an open cloud platform.

Extend developer and manageability benefits to on-premise cloud environments

Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform is an optional OpenShift Enterprise component. This cloud-ready, market-leading platform gives IT a simple and straightforward way to deploy and manage next-generation, highly transactional enterprise Java™ applications. In fact, recent IDC surveys show that customers using Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform reduced application management costs by 89%.*

Handle high transaction volume with intelligent, distributed caching

Red Hat JBoss Data Grid offers intelligent, distributed caching ideal for hybrid cloud environments. It can handle unprecedented transaction volumes and overcome data access limitations, allowing for elastic scalability—-on-premise or in the cloud.

Application operations and DevOps

Speed service delivery, and transform IT management

Red Hat CloudForms is an enterprise cloud management product that lets you deploy, manage, automate, and optimize private and hybrid clouds, and virtualized datacenter infrastructures. Its unique adaptive management platform provides a single interface for unified monitoring, management, and automation across enterprise clouds and globally distributed, virtualized datacenters.

Deploy, manage, and monitor your Red Hat JBoss Middleware, applications, and services

Red Hat JBoss Operations Network provides built-in management and monitoring capabilities to effectively administer all of your JBoss application environments, helping you improve operational efficiency, reduce costs, and ensure a positive experience for your end users.

Streamline and speed cloud application delivery

OpenShift Enterprise by Red Hat is an open PaaS product for private cloud deployments. It provides an on-demand, elastic, scalable, and fully configured application development, testing, and hosting environment that lets developers focus on coding new application services. OpenShift Enterprise gives developers self-service so they can easily create scalable applications using their choice of languages, middleware, and development environments.

Cloud expertise

Get the most from your open hybrid cloud

Red Hat's cloud consulting services and training courses let you jump-start your IaaS capabilities and better understand use cases, design requirements, operational needs, future integration opportunities, and evolving cloud adoption practices.

Make your job easier with our award-winning support

Our support team offers more than just break-fix solutions. We connect you to some of the best engineers in the industry, and collaborate with you to provide recommended practices, resources, and answers to any question.