Nominations are now open in seven categories to recognize technology
leaders
RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, today announced nominations are open for its sixth annual Red
Hat Innovation Awards, which will be presented at Red
Hat Summit and JBoss World, taking place June 26-29, 2012 in Boston.
Red Hat customers and partners continue to deliver compelling business
value and innovation utilizing the Red Hat technology portfolio. This
award program provides an opportunity to recognize and honor these
organizations for their cutting-edge usage of Red Hat solutions.
Organizations have the opportunity to submit their nomination in seven
various categories, and category winners will be selected based on the
uniqueness, complexity and magnitude of their Red Hat implementation.
Categories for the 2012 Red Hat Innovation Awards include:
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Optimized Systems — Recognition of striking performance,
scalability and/or groundbreaking enhancements delivered with open
source solutions.
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Next Generation Business Application — Recognition of overall
performance of creating, maintaining and deploying successful next
generation business applications, be it traditional, mobile or cloud,
all while using Red Hat solutions.
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Outstanding Open Source Architecture - Recognition of a
combination of Red Hat's platform, middleware, cloud and/or storage
solutions to create innovative architectures based on Red Hat
solutions.
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Superior Alternatives - Recognition of the most successful
migration from proprietary solutions to Red Hat's platform,
middleware, cloud and/or storage solutions.
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Extensive Partner Ecosystem — Recognition of the most
successful use of Red Hat's expanding partner ecosystem to create
innovative architectures based on Red Hat's platform, middleware,
cloud and/or storage solutions.
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Best Middleware Implementation — Recognition of the most
cutting-edge utilization of the JBoss Enterprise Middleware portfolio.
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Best Storage Implementation — Recognition of the most
cutting-edge utilization of Red Hat Storage software.
Submissions for the Red Hat Innovation Awards will be accepted until
March 16, 2012. A winner will be recognized in each of the seven
categories. From these category winners, a Red Hat Innovator of the Year
will be selected by the community through online voting, and will be
announced during an awards ceremony at the 2012
Red Hat Summit and JBoss World.
Each submission will be evaluated by a panel of experts in the field of
business and open source technology, including: Joe Brockmeier,
editor/writer, ReadWriteWeb; Lee Congdon, CIO, Red Hat; Jim Kaskade,
Stealth Startup CEO, PARC EIR, GigaOM analyst; Jay Lyman, senior
analyst, Enterprise Software, 451 Research; Scott Merrill, contributor,
TechCrunch; Craig Muzilla, vice president and general manager,
Middleware, Red Hat.
For more information, or to submit a nomination for the 2012
Red Hat Innovation Awards, please visit: www.redhat.com/summit/awards.
For more information on the 2012
Red Hat Summit and JBoss World, visit: www.redhat.com/summit.
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technology with its operating system platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux,
together with cloud, virtualization, management, storage and
service-oriented architecture (SOA) solutions, including Red Hat
Enterprise Virtualization and JBoss Enterprise Middleware. Red Hat also
offers support, training and consulting services to its customers
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