BitNami Joins Forces with Red Hat to Bring Easy Integration with Amazon Cloud

BitNami announced today that it’s going to be working with Red Hat (News - Alert) to simplify the usage and deployment of using open source applications through a brand-new one-click process to Amazon Cloud as Red Hat Enterprise Linux-based Amazon Machine Images (AMIs).

BitNami is a company that provides ready-to-run packages of popular open source applications or development environments. For example, SugarCRM (News - Alert), Drupal, and Alfresco are all available as pre-configured images for Linux, Max OS X, and Windows.

BitNami has created a library of applications and has partnered up with the world’s leading open source and Linux provider to merge together to help allow customers to use applications in the cloud.

“BitNami has deep expertise in packaging open source software to make it easy to deploy,” said Vijay Sarathy, director of the ISV Ecosystem Cloud Business Department at Red Hat. “Combining the BitNami-packaged applications with Red Hat Enterprise Linux AMIs gives users a quick and reliable way to get their favorite open source applications up and running in the cloud.”

Daniel Lopez Ridruejo, CTO of BitRock, the developer of BitNami, said the entire reason to work together with Red Hat was to make things easier for their customers. “Building BitNami AMIs integrated with Red Hat Enterprise Linux provides users with the ease of BitNami deployment experience as well as the reliability and support that comes with Red Hat Enterprise Linux,” said Ridruejo,

Ridruejo said both companies would share a mutual benefit. “This combined offering benefits both BitNami and Red Hat Enterprise Linux users by making it easier to run open source apps on Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the cloud,” said Ridruejo.

The AMIs that are created will take technology from BitNami’s packaging and configure it with Red Hat’s operating system to create a product that would work ideally in any service or environment that is created by either company.

This means instead of relying heavily on one another to come up with new services, anything they develop together should be compatible for any products they distribute apart. This is a great chance for users of open source programs and cloud services to have to companies constantly competing on developing new programs for consumers.