Jim Whitehurst, CEO of Red Hat, forecasts that the enterprise computing landscape could change due to the introduction of open-source cloud architectures, Forbes reported Sunday. “If you look at where most new applications are getting built, and therefore where so much of the innovation around languages, frameworks and management paradigms are happening, it’s around an […] More

Red Hat Inc. has opened a new office in Jakarta, Indonesia, in a move to provide open source services to existing and new customers in the country. Red Hat seeks to train local talent and engage local OpenStack and open source developer communities as part of its expansion in Indonesia, Red Hat said May 12. […] More

Red Hat and SAP have partnered to help developers code and design enterprise data management applications that work to run on OpenShift cloud environments. The companies intend to offer technology cartridges for SAP’s Adaptive Server, IQ and SQL programs for developers to use with Red Hat’s suite of OpenShift app development platforms, Red Hat said […] More

Red Hat has launched a digital shop for developers to find and try cloud computing applications supported by the company’s OpenShift platform-as-a-service offering. The OpenShift Marketplace offers information on email delivery services, database, messaging queues and application performance monitoring products, Red Hat said Monday. The portal features platforms from various OpenShift value-added resellers, including BlazeMeter, ClearDB, […] More

Red Hat will announce the winner of the open source technology company’s Innovator of the Year award at the Red Hat Summit in San Francisco Tuesday. This is the eighth year of the awards and five nominees were selected across different categories through online voting, Red Hat announced Monday. Categories for the awards include infrastructure; […] More

IBM has selected a record number of company scientists and researchers from the U.S., Canada, Switzerland and Germany to receive the IBM Fellow honor, the company’s highest technical distinction. The 11 new Fellows will work to carry out the company’s Technology Ambassador Initiative, a program intended to drive growth through innovation, IBM announced Tuesday. “The […] More

Parsons‘ street lighting project in Abu Dhabi has won the Lighting Project of the Year award at the Dubai International Convention and Exhibition Center last week. The company was recognized for its design and construction supervision services of Ras Al Akhdar Bainoonah Street, Parsons announced Wednesday. Parsons is one of 25 companies that were shortlisted […] More

Parsons has chosen a group of engineers to receive this year’s National Engineers Week Award of Excellence in recognition of their work, commitment and innovation in the field of engineering. One recipient, Abe Neemeh, serves as a program director for the Expressway Program in Doha, Qatar, the company said Tuesday statement. Guy Mehula, Parsons’ Middle […] More

Red Hat‘s Enterprise Linux computing platform is available to government customers, agencies and system integrators through the Amazon Web Services GovCloud (US) region. Red Hat intends for Enterprise Linux users move workloads into the AWS cloud while maintaining the tools available through on-premise deployments, the company said Tuesday. “On AWS GovCloud (US), agencies can use Red Hat Enterprise […] More

As an aviation services provider that rapidly deploys to austere and remote locations and operates under tight deadlines and great duress, SkyLink Aviation needs to stay at the forefront of aviation safety. “Aviation is an exacting science,” SkyLink CEO Dave Dacquino told ExecutiveBiz. “We fly in very unforgiving environments, so it is critical that we […] More

Neil Albert serves as vice chairman of MCR‘s board of directors where he oversees strategic growth, business development, community outreach and a number of other company functions. The 26-year company veteran is the former president and CEO and has served in many leadership roles at the McLean,Va.- based firm including VP and director. Albert caught […] More

Jim Whitehurst, Red Hat president and CEO, has said companies now can run a private cloud platform at the same cost for a public cloud environment, Network World reported Friday. Fredric Paul writes that Whitehurst highlighted the size an enterprise must be in order to operate a data center. “The question is, how big does […] More