GitHub, the global service that provides Git-based online source code repositories accessible by multiple developers, announced its regional presence for ASEAN and ANZ, co-incident with the global launch of a software-as-a-service version of its enterprise product.
GitHub, the global service that provides Git-based online source code repositories accessible by multiple developers, announced its regional presence for ASEAN and ANZ, co-incident with the global launch of a software-as-a-service version of its enterprise product.
Prior to this announcement, GitHub had three offerings: A free service for anybody willing to make their code public; a paid, hosted service for private projects, and GitHub Enterprise. The first two are hosted by GitHub in the US, and accessed via github.com. GitHub Enterprise is standalone software that enterprises can run in their own data centre or with a cloud provider of their choosing.
GitHub’s chief business officer, Julio Avalos, told Computerworld that the new offering, GitHub Business brought many of the features and functions of GitHub Enterprise to the SaaS offering, GitHub.com.
New hosted business service
A GitHub blog post announcing the new service said: “We’re introducing a new Business offering that brings SAML [Security Assertion Markup Language] single sign-on, automated provisioning and deprovisioning, 24/5 support, and guaranteed uptime to GitHub.com… These new features build on how development teams already work on GitHub.com: with unlimited private repositories, team and user level permissions, pull requests, code review, and project management tools.”
GitHub was founded in 2008 and says it is now used by 1.3 million organisations and 20 million users. In ANZ, nearly 100,000 people collaborate daily on code using GitHub, according to the company.
Half of the Fortune 10 companies use GitHub Enterprise and 40 per cent of the top 100 use either GitHub enterprise or GitHUb.
