A Collaborative Ecosystem for MSPs, SIs and Red Hat OpenShift
- Jamcrackers Digital Marketplace: Platform for discovering, procuring, managing, and governing cloud services, including OpenShift. Our platform acts as the central hub for the entire ecosystem.
- Red Hat OpenShift: The container platform for developing, deploying, and managing applications. It's the technology being delivered and managed. A Sovereign cloud framework that addresses growing concerns around data privacy, security, and regulatory compliance.
- Service Integrators (SIs): Design, build, and integrate OpenShift solutions tailored to specific business needs. SIs bring expertise in architecture, development, and deployment. SIs can leverage Jamcrackers Marketplace and Cloud Management platform to simplify the provisioning and management of the solutions they create.
- Managed Service Providers (MSPs): Offer outsourced management and support for OpenShift environments. They handle tasks like monitoring, maintenance, security, and upgrades. MSPs often use Jamcrackers platform to streamline their service delivery.
The Value Proposition for Each Stakeholder:
- Organizations (Customers): Gain access to OpenShift expertise and simplified cloud management. They can choose from a range of pre-integrated solutions and services offered by MSPs and SIs through the Jamcrackers marketplace. This accelerates their cloud adoption journey and reduces the burden on internal IT teams.
- Managed Service Providers (MSPs): Can use Jamcrackers marketplace to automate the delivery of their OpenShift managed services. They can create standardized offerings, streamline provisioning, and simplify billing. This increases efficiency and reduces costs. Jamcrackers marketplace is a platform for MSPs to market their services to a wider audience.
- Service Integrators (SIs): Can use Jamcrackers marketplace to simplify the deployment and management of the OpenShift solutions they build for clients. This allows them to focus on delivering value-added services, such as application modernization and cloud-native development.
- Red Hat: Gains broader adoption of OpenShift through the combined efforts of MSPs, SIs, and Jamcracker.
How it Works in Practice:
- Solution Creation: SIs design and build OpenShift solutions for specific customer needs. These solutions can be packaged and offered through the Jamcracker marketplace.
- Service Packaging: MSPs create managed service offerings for OpenShift, including monitoring, maintenance, security, and support. These services are also made available through the Jamcracker marketplace.
- Customer Discovery: Organizations/Enterprises browse the Jamcracker marketplace to find OpenShift solutions and managed services that meet their requirements.
- Procurement and Provisioning: Customers can easily procure the desired solutions and services through the marketplace. Jamcrackers marketplace automates the provisioning process, simplifying complex deployments.
- Ongoing Management: MSPs use Jamcrackers marketplace to manage the OpenShift environments they provide to customers, ensuring performance, availability, and security.
- Billing and Reporting: Jamcrackers marketplace provides centralized billing and reporting for all cloud services like AWS, MS Azure, GCP, Huawei Cloud, Oracle Cloud, VMware vCenter, vCloud Director, OpenShift and many more.
Key Benefits of this Ecosystem:
- Faster Time to Value: Pre-integrated solutions and automated provisioning accelerate OpenShift deployments.
- Reduced Complexity: MSPs handle the management of OpenShift, freeing up internal IT resources.
- Increased Agility: Organizations can quickly scale their OpenShift environments as needed.
- Improved Governance: Jamcrackers marketplace provides centralized governance and control over all cloud resources.
- Enhanced Security: MSPs provide security expertise and ensure that OpenShift environments are secure.
Jamcrackers marketplace creates a comprehensive ecosystem for cloud adoption. This approach simplifies the process of deploying, managing, and leveraging OpenShift, enabling organizations to focus on innovation and digital transformation. It also creates new revenue opportunities for MSPs and SIs by enabling them to offer value-added services around OpenShift.