Red Hat has announced a new cloud management certification for Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack platform, within commerical ecosystem of the Red Hat OpenStack Cloud Infrastructure Partner Network. The certification offers businesses assurance that their OpenStack-based cloud data and management offerings are test-worthy and have been approved by Red Hat and participating countries, the company said. […] More

CSC Vice President Jim Kaskade said the company has updated its big data platform as a service offering to include new security and compliance features for “quick, efficient and confident” deployment in various types of datacenters and cloud architectures. The open source solution provides analytics tools that clients can use with the ServiceMesh Agility Platform cloud […] More

Brian Stevens, chief technology officer at Red Hat, says the company will continue to pursue acquisition deals to grow its OpenStack-powered enterprise cloud offerings, GigaOM reported Thursday. Mathew Ingram writes that Red Hat has agreed to acquire distributed file system provider Inktank for $175 million and signed a deal to buy open-source cloud services provider […] More

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

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

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

Red Hat Inc. has updated its data virtualization platform offering that is intended to help customers convert big data into business assets. The new version of JBoss Data Virtualization is developed for users to access information across disparate sources such as Apache Hadoop, databases and NoSQL stores through a unified platform, Red Hat said Tuesday. […] More

Lynne Chamberlain serves as vice president of business development for Red Hat‘s public sector. The more than 20-year industry veteran has been at Red Hat since 2004 and has previously held leadership roles at Unisys, HP and NetApp. In her Q&A with ExecutiveBiz, Chamberlain discussed her work with systems integrators, some of the newest cloud offerings […] More