To make it easier for organizations to find and use new applications in their hybrid cloud environments, Red Hat has partnered with its parent company IBM to launch its new Red Hat Marketplace. Red Hat Marketplace is a one-stop-shop for a wide selection of software from Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) that can work in addition to Red Hat OpenShift's Kubernetes distribution. However, these programs are not related to the IBM Cloud and can run on public and private clouds that support OpenShift. As of this writing, there are 63 different products in the Red Hat marketplace covering a range of different categories and use cases including AI and machine learning, application delivery, big data, networking, security, storage, development tools, monitoring and more. . All programs on the market are certified for RedHat OpenShift and commercially supported. They are also based on the open operator framework of Kubernetes, and because of this, organizations can run them on OpenShift as if they were cloud services.
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In addition to the standard Red Hat Marketplace, there is also a private version called Red Hat Marketplace Select, a custom marketplace that allows organizations to give their teams easier access to curated software that has already been pre-approved. . Red Hat Marketplace Select can also track how employees use the software they've downloaded, as well as the spend on any software deployed in an organization's hybrid cloud environment. While organizations can download free software from the Red Hat Marketplace, they can also purchase software outright or pay by the hour to use it. Red Hat Marketplace vice president of business and ecosystem development Kelly Hartman explained why Red Hat and IBM have created their new Marketplace for hybrid cloud applications in a blog post: Businesses today have a choice: they can use the technology as an agent of change and growth or risk technology becoming a brake on innovation. For more and more companies, Red Hat OpenShift is becoming a central element of their strategy to drive value from existing on-premises investments while rapidly adopting the cloud. Through the Red Hat Marketplace, our mission is to make it as easy as possible for enterprises to test, purchase, and deploy Red Hat OpenShift certified software on Red Hat OpenShift so they can focus on development in the environment of their choice. Via ZDNet