Red Hat Certified Cloud Provider Program Grows by More Than Double
with New Worldwide Partners; Company Expands Cloud Access Offering to
Include JBoss Enterprise Middleware
RALEIGH, N.C. & BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
RED HAT SUMMIT AND JBOSS WORLD 2012-—Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT),
the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced
momentum for its Red Hat Cloud ecosystem with the global expansion and
growth of its Red Hat Certified Cloud Provider Program. Since 2011, the
program has expanded by more than double to include certified partners
across North America, Europe, Asia and Latin America.
The Red Hat Certified Cloud Provider Program assembles the solutions a
cloud provider needs to plan, build, manage and offer hosted cloud
solutions and Red Hat technologies to customers. A Red Hat Certified
Cloud Provider offers a trusted destination for Red Hat end-users,
independent software vendors (ISVs) and partners to benefit from Red Hat
offerings in public clouds under innovative consumption and service
models delivered by the cloud providers. Each provider meets testing and
certification requirements to demonstrate that they can deliver a safe,
scalable, supported and consistent environment for enterprise cloud
deployments.
Red Hat Certified Cloud Providers offer Red Hat products on their
clouds, as well as use Red Hat technologies to build and manage secure
clouds. With resources from these, and other, Red Hat Certified Clouds,
enterprises are able to do real work in the cloud today. Users and
partners of Red Hat solutions via Certified Cloud Providers cross
multiple industries, including manufacturing, financial services,
consumer services, healthcare, media and entertainment and public sector
organizations.
In addition to growth and new ecosystem partners, Red Hat today also
announces the expansion of its Red Hat Cloud Access offering to include
JBoss Enterprise Application Platform and JBoss Enterprise Web Server.
Cloud Access is an added benefit for Red Hat subscribers that enables
them to utilize certain subscriptions on selected Red Hat Premier
Certified Cloud Provider clouds. With Cloud Access, customers have the
ability to receive support directly from Red Hat and use Red Hat
technology on certified public clouds, allowing them to maintain a
consistent level of service and support across certified deployment
infrastructures with consistent and predictable pricing. Red Hat's
existing offering of Cloud Access gives users portability for Red Hat
Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Enterprise MRG Grid subscriptions. Cloud
Access also enables open hybrid clouds by allowing Red Hat customers to
use their subscriptions where they need them: either on-premise or on a
public cloud.
Supporting Quotes
Paul Cormier, president, Products and
Technologies, Red Hat
"As more enterprises around the world
adopt cloud infrastructures, Red Hat sees added demand for ease of
entrance into the cloud. Through our Red Hat Cloud ecosystem, we are
helping our partners to build clouds on Red Hat's high-performance, open
source technologies, while simultaneously offering solutions like Red
Hat Enterprise Linux and JBoss Enterprise Middleware for sale via these
same public clouds. As our cloud ecosystem continues to expand around
the globe, we are enabling more and more enterprises to take advantage
of the flexibility, choice and scalability offered by the cloud which
truly enables the open hybrid cloud."
John Keese, president, Autonomic Resources, Inc.
"Autonomic
Resources — one of the four approved government-wide Cloud Service
Providers — entered the Red Hat CCP program earlier in 2012 to assure
U.S. Government agency choice in open and secure cloud operating systems
and application stacks. Our relationship has grown significantly over
the years in the government space, and we see the CCP program really as
the future for the delivery of Red Hat technologies moving forward. We
have several initiatives with Red Hat at the time involving FedRAMP of
Red Hat solutions. Our extensive partner network assures agency
awareness of our cloud offerings. Red Hat is key to those offerings and
offers open and cost-effective cloud choices amongst our
proprietary-based competitors."
Jean Crescenzi, chief technical officer, Colosseum Online Inc.
"As
a leading colocation and hosting provider, Colosseum Online Inc. built
its high-performance, highly scalable and manageable public, private and
hybrid cloud offerings using Red Hat's Enterprise Virtualization
solution. We have seen tremendous growth since our cloud services went
online. Red Hat's commitment to quality and support has been very
instrumental to our growth and that is why we have further extended our
partnership to include Red Hat's Certified Cloud Provider Program. When
customers move to Colosseum's Red Hat Certified Cloud and use Red Hat
Enterprise Linux virtual machines, they quickly realize the unsurpassed
advantages of running Red Hat Enterprise Linux guests on Red Hat's
Enterprise virtualization platform. Red Hat on Red Hat never ceases to
impress, and that is the Colosseum advantage."
Teppo Kuisma, vice president, Online Solutions, Ixonos
"With
the help of Red Hat technology, Ixonos Elastic Cloud enables ISVs to
transform their business to the cloud. We have created a unique cloud
solution that helps transfer the business online and deliver Software-as
a-Service (SaaS). As a Red Hat Certified Public Cloud Provider, Ixonos
can offer robust and scalable Red Hat technologies to our customers.
Instead of concentrating on creating cloud management software, they can
focus on delivering new business value and features for their customers."
Chris Smith, vice president, Service Strategy & Design, Systems &
Technology, KVH Co., Ltd.
"KVH has built a carrier-grade cloud
services platform including Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization and has
benefited from its stable and robust technology. As a Red Hat Certified
Cloud Provider, we also offer Red Hat solutions including Red Hat
Enterprise Linux via our cloud platform. With Red Hat solutions in the
cloud, our enterprise customers have gained portability and flexibility
for their IT infrastructures."
Hiroshi Kurahara, general manager of Cloud Business Division, NIFTY
Corporation
"NIFTY Corporation welcomes the enhanced
partnership with Red Hat through the Red Hat Certified Cloud Provider
Program. As a leading cloud computing service provider in Japan, NIFTY
has been deeply engaged in promoting the deployment of cloud computing
for enterprise systems that require high robustness and availability.
Providing Red Hat Enterprise Linux with careful support based on
continuous collaboration with Red Hat, NIFTY fulfills flexible and
reliable cloud infrastructure that allows enterprises to easily manage
IT resources."
Eduard Modalek, head, Product Portfolio Management, Swisscom IT
Services AG
"Swisscom IT Services and Red Hat have collaborated
closely on technology advancements for many years, and have extended
this partnership into the cloud through the Red Hat Certified Cloud
Provider Program. We built our public cloud using Red Hat solutions, and
have also seen great demand from our end users for Red Hat Enterprise
Linux and JBoss for purchase from our Dynamic Computing Services."
Ann Bisagno, president, XANTRION
"Xantrion and Red Hat have
developed their partnership through the Red Hat Certified Cloud Provider
Program. We've built Secure Cloud systems using Red Hat solutions,
including Resilient Storage and Red Hat Enterprise Linux Load Balancers,
which allow us to provide the highest level of reliability for our
clients who require Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JBoss solutions for
their business. Our Secure Cloud solutions have benefited from Red Hat's
stable and robust technology. As a Red Hat Certified Cloud Provider, we
offer Red Hat solutions, including Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JBoss
Enterprise Middleware, via our Secure Cloud. With Red Hat solutions we
are able to provide our customers a robust cloud-based infrastructure."
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