Red Hat CloudForms and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Earn Prestigious
Industry Recognition
RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, today announced that Red Hat CloudForms and Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 7 have won SIIA CODiE Awards for Best Cloud Management
Solution and Best Open Source Innovation, respectively
The Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA), the principal
trade association for the software and digital content industries,
announced Red Hat's win for the 2015 CODiE Award for Best Cloud
Management Solution and Best Open Source Innovation. An SIIA CODiE Award
win is an especially prestigious honor, as each award winner was
reviewed by a field of industry experts, whose evaluations determined
finalists. SIIA members then reviewed the finalists and their votes were
combined with the scores from the industry experts to select this year's
28 CODiE Awards Winners.
Red Hat CloudForms provides the industry's most robust open source
management experience robust management experience across multiple
platforms, built on the open source ManageIQ code. It provides
automation and management capabilities for rapidly-evolving OpenStack
clouds, as well as support for Microsoft public clouds and the Microsoft
System Center Virtual Machine Manager, Amazon Web Services, VMware
vSphere and Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization. CloudForms also offers
interoperability with Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), enabling OpenShift
by Red Hat brokers and nodes to provide services within the CloudForms
catalog.
The world's leading enterprise Linux platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 not only lays the foundation for the open hybrid cloud and serves
enterprise workloads across converged infrastructures, but also pushes
the operating system beyond today's position as a commodity platform.
Combining rapid technology innovation with stability, Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 7 enables enterprises to meet modern datacenter demands with
next-generation IT requirements, without increasing complexity. It
powers the spectrum of enterprise IT, from application containers to
cloud services.
The recognition of Red Hat CloudForms and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
builds upon Red Hat's previous CODiE Award wins, including OpenShift by
Red Hat and Red Hat JBoss Developer Studio 7 in 2014.
Supporting Quotes
Tim Yeaton, senior vice president, Infrastructure Business, Red Hat
"We are pleased that both Red Hat CloudForms and Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 7 have been recognized for their innovative natures, with each
winning a 2015 Software CODiE Award. CloudForms delivers a powerful
management solution for the hybrid cloud, while Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 offers a re-imagining of what the enterprise operating system can do.
Both awards are testaments to the innovative nature of Red Hat's product
portfolio and show our leadership within not only the world of open
source but also the realm of enterprise IT."
Rhianna Collier, vice president and general manager, Software &
Services Division, SIIA
"SIIA's 2015 Software CODiE Award winners' are some of the most
innovative, high-impact software products in the market. We congratulate
all of this year's CODiE Award winners, and thank them for the
contributions they have made to the software industry."
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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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OpenStack community.
Red Hat, Inc.
John Terrill, 571-421-8132, jterrill@redhat.com
or
SIIA
Communications
Allison Bostrom, 202-289-7442, abostrom@siia.net
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