New global practice seeks to help companies embrace Agile and DevOps
best practices
RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, announced today the launch of the Red Hat Cloud Innovation
Practice, a new global team of experts that will assist companies with
more quickly on-ramping to the cloud. They will do this by providing
solutions and services such as validated designs with reference
architectures and agile methodology consulting, training, and support.
The Red Hat Cloud Innovation Practice is born out of the integration of
technology and engineering expertise gained through the company's 2014
acquisitions of leading Ceph storage system provider, Inktank, and cloud
computing services provider, eNovance. Both companies provided the
highly specialized skills, solution sets, methodologies and product
expertise required to launch a truly forward-looking cloud practice
capable of helping companies manage the complexities associated with the
cloud.
With an eye on helping customers increase their business agility and
ability to quickly adapt to changes in their environment, the Red Hat
Cloud Innovation Practice can define and develop standard operational
procedures, methodologies and governance for cloud and DevOps strategy
development and deployments across Red Hat's current portfolio of
integrated products and services, including Red Hat Enterprise Linux
OpenStack Platform, OpenShift by Red Hat, Red Hat CloudForms, and
Inktank Ceph Enterprise. The Red Hat Cloud Innovation Practice is
designed to help customers reduce project risks, expedite delivery, and
manage the lifecycle of individual solutions.
Additionally, the Red Hat Cloud Innovation Practice will aggregate
product feedback and provide the technical leadership, evangelism, best
practices, research, support and dissemination services needed to create
relevant use cases outlining ways to help increase delivery efficiency,
speed up deployments, and achieve a quicker return on investment.
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John Allessio, vice president, Global Services, Red Hat
"We are excited to take the next step in bringing together these
extraordinary organizations with the shared mission of supporting
customer success as companies on-ramp to the cloud. By combining our
unique software distribution and deployment approach with our
award-winning products and services, we will be able to help customers
of all sizes build an agile and DevOps friendly organization to meet the
changing needs of their infrastructure demands. We hope that the Red Hat
Cloud Innovation Practice will quickly become an industry-leading
authority on new ways to deliver complex cloud environments."
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