Wipro
Limited today announced a collaboration with Red Hat, the world's
leading provider of open source solutions, to set up a cloud application
factory designed to offer developers and IT teams a repeatable and
rapid methodology for application modernization across public, private,
and hybrid clouds. Wipro's cloud application factory will have a
dedicated services team that can help drive the strategy, design, and
delivery of next generation applications globally, using Red Hat
OpenShift Container Platform, Red Hat's award-winning container
application platform.
Enterprises
often not just need to support legacy applications in a cost efficient
manner, but also increasingly need to quickly develop new cloud-based
applications that enable innovation and can drive business process
transformation. Red Hat and Wipro recognize this challenge and have
built a joint offering designed to address both requirements.
The
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform is the industry's most
comprehensive platform for cloud-native application development. As a
flexible development platform, OpenShift spans across legacy and cloud
environments so that customers can develop cloud-native applications
without having to rewrite their legacy applications. Traditional
applications can coexist alongside new, cloud-native and container-based
applications.
In
collaboration with Red Hat, Wipro provides dedicated IT consulting and
services teams to help customers with application life cycle management,
via specific roadmaps, frameworks, and best practices. From the initial
discovery phase, to the strategy and design phase, and ultimately when
customers are ready to build a production environment, Wipro and Red Hat
teams will provide a scalable factory approach to developing next
generation applications.
The Cloud Application Factory is designed to deliver key benefits, including:
- A consistent application platform for public, private, and hybrid clouds
- Reduced time to market for new applications and features
- A unified methodology developed by dedicated architecture experts
- Comprehensive interoperability planning of client's legacy and cloud-native applications
- The ability to leverage the global open source community to drive innovation
Findings from a 2015 Oxford Economics study cite
that 63% of IT and business exec respondents reported open source
software would be critical to business agility over the following three
years. As a result, to help better compete in the digital economy, many
organizations are looking to open source solutions to find the
flexibility and scalability they expect from the next generation of
modern and agile cloud-native applications.
As
an open source platform, Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform can help
reduce the cost, and time associated with developing and modernizing
enterprise applications. A 2016 IDC study on the business value of OpenShift,
found that OpenShift enables customers to respond to market
requirements faster by delivering business-critical, microservices-based
applications with DevOps processes. These benefits include 66% faster
application delivery times, $1.29 million average annual benefits per
100 application developers, and 531% average ROI over five years.
"We
have strengthened our alliance with Red Hat to build and deploy an
effective and scalable team execution methodology to meet joint customer
interest, today and in the future," said Andrew Aitken, General Manager and Global Open Source Practice Leader, Wipro Limited.
"It's
exciting when considering the potential innovation that customers can
enjoy with Wipro's Cloud Application Factory powered by Red Hat
OpenShift Container Platform. This is really about helping to streamline
customers' time-to-market by deploying modern applications, in a
scalable and repeatable way," said Julio Tapia, director, OpenShift Partner Ecosystem, Red Hat.