Red Hat’s Middleware portfolio offers a range of products that aim to facilitate and streamline the development, deployment, and management of enterprise applications. The open-source, collaborative nature of the product offerings, platform independence (On-Site/Cloud) combined with the industry best Red Hat support subscriptions elevate this portfolio considerably.
Red Hat Middleware portfolio is segregated into following three major product lines:
| Product | Description |
|---|---|
| JBoss Web Server | A web server built on Apache and Tomcat, offering a secure and scalable platform for hosting applications, services, and websites. |
| JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP) | A subscription-based, open-source Java EE-based application server runtime for building, deploying, and hosting highly-transactional Java applications and services. |
| Red Hat OpenJDK | An open-source implementation of the Java Platform, Standard Edition, sponsored by Red Hat, ensuring a high level of quality, performance, and security for Java applications. |
| Red Hat build of Quarkus | A Kubernetes-native Java stack tailored for OpenJDK HotSpot and GraalVM, crafted from the best of breed Java libraries and standards for building fast, lightweight microservices and serverless applications. |
| Red Hat Data Grid | An in-memory, distributed, NoSQL datastore solution from Red Hat, offering fast, scalable storage and real-time data analytics capabilities. |
| Red Hat AMQ Broker | A messaging platform from Red Hat, providing high performance, reliability, and scalability for large-scale distributed applications and systems. |
| Red Hat build of Keycloa | An open-source identity and access management solution by Red Hat, offering features for modern applications and services such as Single Sign-On, two-factor authentication, and social login. |
| Cloud Native Runtimes | A set of tools and frameworks designed to facilitate the development, deployment, and management of applications optimised for cloud environments. |
| Migration Toolkit for Applications | A suite of tools from Red Hat designed to facilitate the migration and modernisation of applications to newer, more efficient, and scalable architectures and platforms. |
| Product | Description |
|---|---|
| Red Hat Fuse | A lightweight, flexible integration platform that enables rapid integration across the extended enterprise—on-premise or in the cloud. |
| Red Hat AMQ | A messaging platform that delivers information reliably, enabling real-time integration and connecting the Internet of Things (IoT). |
| Red Hat 3scale API Management | An API management platform that provides tools for controlling, managing, and monetising the use of APIs in a secure and scalable environment. |
| Red Hat Runtimes | A set of products, tools, and components for developing and maintaining cloud-native applications that offer developers a variety of runtimes and frameworks. |
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| Product | Description |
|---|---|
| Red Hat Process Automation Manager | A platform for developing containerised microservices and applications that automate business decisions and processes. |
| Red Hat Decision Manager | A decision management platform that simplifies the development and deployment of rule-based applications and business rules management systems. |
Red Hat offerings for these products are however not as simplistic. We will explain how Red Hat defines its services offerings for various Middleware products in later sections of this white paper.
This white paper will guide Software Asset Management (SAM) professionals and IT leaders trying to understand Red Hat Middleware Applications licensing terms and help manage the compliance position for their organisations or customers. This white paper also aims to discuss possible optimisation opportunities that may slip under the radar.
Lastly, in clear and simplified wording, this white paper enables stakeholders who have struggled with Red Hat Middleware licensing and are looking for an automated management solution to alleviate their licensing pain, to review capabilities of Licenseware’s Red Hat Deployment Manager (RDM).
In navigating the dynamic landscape of Red Hat's evolving licensing terms and policies, staying current may prove challenging. Genuine expertise in Red Hat licensing expertise is cultivated over years practice and knowledge on the subject is pretty scarce. This white paper serves as a point of reference, of all the relevant information curated by experienced professionals and, delivered succinctly to provide proper guidance.
Red Hat releases a Red Hat Application Services subscription guide at the following link.
This white paper does not attempt to replace the Red Hat Subscription Guide but to add much needed context derived from experience running successful SAM programs and Red Hat subscription audits. This white paper should be useful for Software Asset Managers, Software Licensing Specialists, IT Procurement, IT Sourcing Experts, IT Managers, CIOs and other IT leaders alike.