To drive the next generation of mobile database development and synchronization, Red Hat(NYSE:RHT) has announced new results of its collaboration with SAP. With this, developers now have access to new components of the SAP Data Management portfolio in OpenShift, Red Hat’s Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offering. The mobile data management cartridge for the SAP SQL Anywhere suite makes it easier for developers creating MySQL-based database applications to extend their data to remote and mobile applications, and keep it synchronized.
Using the OpenShift Cartridge API, SAP has developed a cartridge for SAP SQL Anywhere that will enable developers to quickly "snap-in" a pre-configured, ready-to-develop cartridge for synchronizing MySQL-based applications. This technology will enable more rapid development of applications that require fast, scalable and reliable online/offline data synchronization of mobile devices and remote offices to a central server database. For those using SAP SQL Anywhere, which has a community of support from more than 20,000 developers, they can now make use of the same technology that SAP has deployed worldwide to more than 12,000 customers, in an easy-to-use cartridge for OpenShift.
Julio Tapia, Director, OpenShift Ecosystem, Red Hat, commented, "Simply put, developers want technologies and solutions that help them do their jobs better, faster. Developing apps in OpenShift using the mobile data management cartridge for SAP SQL Anywhere lets developers do this, while taking advantage of the key SAP database technologies and scaling to the needs of the application from small-scale through enterprise class."
OpenShift enables developers to quickly develop, host and scale applications in both public cloud (OpenShift Online) and on-premises private cloud (OpenShift Enterprise) environments. OpenShift’s elastic, multi-language, PaaS architecture automates the provisioning, management and scaling of applications so developers can focus on writing the code for these applications that support their business, start-up, or next big idea. As a polyglot PaaS, OpenShift’s support for multiple languages, including Java, Ruby, PHP, Python, Node.js, and Perl, allows for a low barrier to entry so developers can start their projects with ease and start coding more quickly. OpenShift Online and OpenShift Enterprise are built from the OpenShift Origin open-source project. It leverages Red Hat Enterprise Linux and the SELinux subsystem for a secure, multi-tenant architecture.
