Red Hat Customers to be Honored for Cutting-Edge Open Source
Deployments at 2014 Red Hat Summit in San Francisco
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 eighth annual Red
Hat Innovation Awards, which will be presented during Red
Hat Summit 2014, April 14—17, 2014, in San Francisco.
Red Hat's global customers and partners are building dynamic IT
infrastructures and driving business innovation with the Red Hat
technology portfolio. The 2014
Red Hat Innovation Awards will 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 five
categories. Category winners will be selected based on the uniqueness,
complexity and magnitude of their Red Hat implementations.
Categories for the 2014 Red Hat Innovation Awards include:
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Infrastructure — Recognition of striking flexibility,
scalability, cost effectiveness, performance and security within an
infrastructure.
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Emerging Technologies — Recognition of the most successful
illustration of cutting-edge deployment and business value from Red
Hat's emerging technology portfolio.
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Application Development — Recognition of the most outstanding
employment of agile methodologies and superior overall performance of
creating, maintaining, and deploying successful business applications,
whether they are traditional, mobile or cloud, using Red Hat solutions.
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Ecosystem and Knowledge Exchange — Recognition of the most
flourishing 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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Accelerate, Integrate, Automate — Recognition of best overall
acceleration, integration, and automation of IT workloads using Red
Hat products.
Submissions for the Red
Hat Innovation Awards will be accepted until Dec. 13, 2013. A winner
will be recognized in each of the five 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 2014
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; Ashesh Badani, general manager, Cloud and OpenShift, Red Hat; Carl
Lehmann, research manager, Enterprise Architecture, Integration &
Business Process Management, 451 Research; Laurent Lachal, cloud
computing research lead, Ovum; Sean Michael Kerner, senior editor,
eWEEK; and Fredric Paul, blogger, Network World and contributor, CIO,
IT World, InfoWorld, and other publications.
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high-performing cloud, Linux, middleware, storage and virtualization
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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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