When businesses and enterprises begin adopting data center platforms that utilize containerization, then and only then can we finally say that the container trend is sweeping the planet. Red Hat’s starter option for containerization platforms is OpenShift Dedicated — a public cloud-based, mostly preconfigured solution, which launched at this time last year on Amazon AWS.
Thursday morning, the company announced the general availability of Google Cloud Platform as an alternative option for deploying OpenShift Dedicated. This move means Red Hat keeps a pledge it made at the start of the year, before the year runs out.
“The difference we have with OpenShift now running on AWS and Google,” said Sathish Balakrishnan, who directs OpenShift Online for Red Hat, in an interview with The New Stack, “is we are giving customers a choice.”
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