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Red Hat repackages its application management tech into software containers
A year after buying application connectivity startup 3scale Inc., Red Hat Inc. is making the technology that it obtained through the deal available in a new form geared toward tech-savvy firms.
Unveiled on Thursday, Red Hat 3scale API Management – On Premise runs on the company’s OpenShift Container Platform and is designed to be deployed inside Docker instances. It’s an alternative to the original cloud version of 3scale for organizations that wish to keep their operations behind the firewall. The software should be particularly appealing to government agencies and firms in regulated industries, which often can’t move certain workloads off-premises due to security obligations.
Making 3scale’s technology available on-premises will enable Red Hat to even the playing field against Apigee Corp. and the newly public MuleSoft Inc., which both sell on-premises versions of their competing platforms. The move also gives the company an edge over cloud giants such as Amazon Web Services Inc. that offer only web-only application connectivity tools.
Aside from the delivery model, the new version of 3scale’s technology provides the same set of capabilities as the cloud edition. The software enables companies to restrict who can query their applications, set usage limits and analyze activity to identify trends that may require changes to their infrastructure. There’s also a monetization feature for organizations that wish to sell access to their applications.
Although it’s not as well-established as the competing products from the likes of MuleSoft, Red Hat 3scale API Management has quite a few big-name customers. Among them are payment processing giant Stripe Inc., the University of California at Berkeley and The Telegraph.
Red Hat’s efforts in the application connectivity segment are part of a broader push to court developers that helping its top line. The company saw subscription revenue from “application development-related and other emerging technology” jump 40 percent during the fourth quarter, to $129 million. This increase helped raise Red Hat’s total sales to $629 million, up 16 percent from the year before.
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