SendGrid Launches In Red Hat OpenShift Marketplace
Integration Gives Developers Ability to Seamlessly Add Transactional Email Services & Support to their OpenShift Applications
BOULDER, Colo., May 29, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- SendGrid, the leading email delivery service for the world's wanted mail, today announced availability in Red Hat's OpenShift Marketplace, a one-stop shop for Red Hat customers to discover and deploy partner technologies for building and scaling their applications.
Launching today, the Red Hat OpenShift Marketplace enables OpenShift developers to securely access third-party SaaS solutions from a single location. The marketplace aims to reduce the cost and time of application development by providing developers with a seamless experience for discovering the technologies and tools they need to build great products.
Developers building on Red Hat OpenShift can now quickly and easily add SendGrid to their applications for reliable transactional email management and delivery. SendGrid relieves companies of the cost and complexity of managing their applications' underlying transactional email management infrastructures. In turn, development teams can focus on building great applications without worrying about email delivery rates, spam folders, ISP blacklists or scaling to meet high user volume.
"The management and delivery of application email is one of the most frustrating problems developers encounter when building and scaling their applications," said Julio Tapia, director, OpenShift Ecosystem, Red Hat. "Our familiarity with this developer pain point is one the reasons why we're thrilled to offer SendGrid's trusted application email services and support as one of the first generation of OpenShift Marketplace partner technologies."
"Red Hat is an organization that understands the level of service, support and agility that modern development teams require," said Jim Franklin, CEO, SendGrid. "Our launch in the OpenShift Marketplace today is a big step in making our service available to developers building on hybrid, public or private cloud services, and we look forward to working together with Red Hat in empowering developers to build outstanding products and services."
About SendGrid
SendGrid is the leader in is the leader in application email infrastructure. SendGrid's cloud-based platform increases email deliverability, provides actionable insight and scales to meet any volume of email, relieving businesses of the cost and complexity of maintaining custom email infrastructures. The email delivery platform of choice for 160,000 web application companies and developers, including Uber, foursquare, Pinterest, Airbnb, Twilio, Spotify and Pandora, SendGrid delivers more than 100 billion emails per year. Founded in 2009 as part of Techstars and based in Boulder, Colo., SendGrid is backed by Bessemer Venture Partners, Foundry Group, Highway 12 Ventures, Bullet Time Ventures, SoftTech VC, 500 Startups and several notable individual investors such as Matt Mullenweg and Scott Petry. For more information, visit www.sendgrid.com.
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