Red Hat Summit summarised: The news you need to know about

The latest Red Hat Summit taking place in San Francisco from April 14 to 17 has resulted in several product launches, partnerships and collaborations. CloudTech has gobbled up the releases and put together a summary of the essential material.

Day one saw the launch of the OpenShift Marketplace, a software store which allows Red Hat customers to access complementary third party solutions from partners for the open source provider’s PaaS offering, OpenShift.

With this unveiling Red Hat joins an ever-growing list of companies with their own app store solution, in this case providing enterprise-grade PaaS to customers of all sizes.

Anything which helps developers is usually a good sign, particularly important for Red Hat given the company’s open source heritage. Several partners have already been signed up, with ClearDB, MongoLab and SendGrid among the more recognisable names.

“As the OpenShift partner ecosystem continues to expand, we expect the …