Red Hat Users to be Honored for Cutting-Edge Open Source Deployments
at 2013 Red Hat Summit
RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, is now accepting nominations for its seventh annual Red
Hat Innovation Awards, which will be presented at Red
Hat Summit taking place June 10-14, 2013 in Boston.
Around the globe, Red Hat customers and partners are building dynamic IT
infrastructures and driving business innovation with the Red Hat
technology portfolio. The 2013
Red Hat Innovation Awards honor these efforts and reflect some of
the most outstanding work and next generation business application
deployments happening with open source solutions and specifically, Red
Hat technology.
Organizations have the opportunity to submit their nomination in seven
categories, and category winners will be selected based on the
uniqueness, complexity and magnitude of their Red Hat implementation.
Categories for the 2013 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 Feb. 15, 2013. A winner
will be recognized in each of the seven categories. From these winners,
the 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 2013
Red Hat Summit.
Each submission will be evaluated by a panel of experts in the field of
business and open source technology, including: Lee Congdon, CIO, Red
Hat; Maureen Fleming, program vice president, BPM & Middleware, IDC;
Sean Michael Kerner, senior editor, InternetNews.com; Scott Merrill,
TechCrunch contributor; Craig Muzilla, vice president and general
manager, Middleware, Red Hat; Stephen O'Grady, principal analyst &
co-founder, RedMonk.
For more information, or to share your story for the 2013
Red Hat Innovation Awards, please visit: http://www.redhat.com/innovationconnection/awards.html.
For more information on the 2013
Red Hat Summit , visit: www.redhat.com/summit.
About Red Hat, Inc.
Red Hat is the world's leading provider of open source software
solutions, using a community-powered approach to reliable and
high-performing cloud, Linux, middleware, storage and virtualization
technologies. Red Hat also offers award-winning support, training, and
consulting services. As the connective hub in a global network of
enterprises, partners, and open source communities, Red Hat helps create
relevant, innovative technologies that liberate resources for growth and
prepare customers for the future of IT. Learn more at http://www.redhat.com.
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