Diane Mueller, Red Hat’s Cloud Ecosystem Evangelist, visited theCube, broadcasting live from the annual OpenStack Summit this week, to discuss Red Hat’s recent developments and their involvement with the cloud, sitting down with show hosts John Furrier and Jeff Frick.

Currently, Red Hat is the number one contributor to OpenStack, and Mueller explains that they have members working on everything, from heat, to computing, to storage. At the infrastructure as a service layer, Red Hat is charging forward with RDO, or “Red Hat Distribution of OpenStack,” their own new release of the project.

Additionally, Mueller added with excitement, Red Hat is also busy at the platform as a service layer, with another open source project called OpenShift Origin. Origin really is the next generation of PaaS, Mueller claimed. As a long time developer and a “PaaS Queen,” she greatly appreciates how easy platform as a service makes it to get her
applications out there.

Mueller explained that an open source project is the only way to get full value out of PaaS. Open source projects are what feeds upstream commercial offerings, Mueller states. It’s an open source world in the PaaS market, and if you’re not working with an open source PaaS provider, then you’re reinventing the wheel in way that you don’t need
to.

Platform as a service and cloud computing have helped unleashed the plethora and variety of easy to deploy mobile applications that we’re seeing these days. People can develop creative and new applications that would never have been possible without PaaS or cloud computing.

Platform as a service has made development fun again, Mueller claimed, and that is the proof and validation of this megatrend.  See Muller’s entire segment below.