Inspiring awards program seeks to recognize innovative Red Hat
customers and partners
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 the ninth annual Red
Hat Innovation Awards, which will be presented during Red
Hat Summit 2015, June 23-26, 2015, in Boston.
Red Hat's global customers and partners are building dynamic IT
infrastructures and driving business innovation with the Red Hat
technology portfolio. The 2015 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 six
categories. Category winners will be selected based on the uniqueness,
complexity and magnitude of their Red Hat implementations.
Categories for the 2015 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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Modernize: Recognition of an outstanding transition from aging,
proprietary infrastructure and restrictive vendors towards open
source, standardized solutions.
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Transform: Recognition of the best utilization of Red Hat
solutions to transform an IT department from a call center to a
business partner that can provide self-service and useful automation.
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Cloud: Recognition of the most successfully illustrated cloud
deployment using Red Hat's cloud 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 be traditional, mobile or cloud, using Red Hat 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
Jan. 15, 2015. A winner will be recognized in each of the six
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 2015 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, OpenShift, Red Hat; Peter ffoulkes,
research director, 451 Research; Richard Fichera, vice president and
principal analyst, Infrastructure and Operations, Forrester Research;
Sean Michael Kerner, senior editor, eWeek; and Kurt Marko, analyst and
consultant at MarkoInsights and contributor to Forbes and
InformationWeek.
Supporting Quote
Marco Bill-Peter, vice president, Customer Experience and Engagement,
Red Hat
"We're always looking for new and innovative ways to highlight our
customers and the ways they're solving their business problems with Red
Hat technology. Cloud and mobile are becoming the standard, and with so
many companies turning more and more to open source, it's an honor to
get to feature some that are leading the way."
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enterprises, partners, and open source communities, Red Hat helps create
relevant, innovative technologies that liberate resources for growth and
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