Awards program celebrates 10th year of
recognizing and honoring the most innovative uses of Red Hat
technologies by customers and partners
RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, today announced that nominations are open for the 2016 Red
Hat Innovation Awards. 2016 will mark the 10th
anniversary of the awards, which recognize the innovative ways that
individuals, companies and partners worldwide are implementing Red Hat's
technologies.
Organizations from around the world use Red Hat technologies to build IT
infrastructures that can drive business innovation. The 2016 Red
Hat Innovation Awards will celebrate these efforts by recognizing
outstanding work and next-generation business application deployments
happening with open source solutions and, specifically, Red Hat
technology.
Category winners will be selected based on the uniqueness, complexity,
and magnitude of their Red Hat implementations. The categories include:
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Infrastructure: Recognizing the notable flexibility,
scalability, cost effectiveness, performance, and security within an
infrastructure.
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Modernize: Recognizing an outstanding transition from aging
infrastructure and restrictive vendors towards open source,
standardized solutions.
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Transform: Recognizing the best use 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: Recognizing the most successfully illustrated cloud
deployment using Red Hat's cloud technology portfolio.
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Application Development: Recognizing 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: Recognizing the best overall
acceleration, integration, and automation of IT workloads using Red
Hat products.
Each submission will be evaluated by a panel in the field of business
and open source technology, including: Lee Congdon, CIO, Red Hat; Ashesh
Badani, vice president and general manager, OpenShift, Red Hat; Carla
Arend, program director, European Software, IDC; Sean Michael Kerner,
senior editor, eWEEK; and Henry Peyret, principal analyst,
Forrester Research, Inc.
Submissions will be accepted through the Red
Hat Innovation Awards website until Dec. 11, 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. The 2016 Red Hat Innovation Award winners and the 2016
Red Hat Innovator of the Year award recipient will be recognized during Red
Hat Summit 2016, June 28-July 1, 2016, in San Francisco.
Supporting Quotes
Marco Bill-Peter, vice president, Customer Experience and Engagement,
Red Hat
"For the past decade, the Red Hat Innovation Awards have recognized some
truly creative and intriguing uses of Red Hat technologies, and we
expect that the 2016 awards will be no different. Our customers and
partners are using open source solutions to solve complex business
challenges in increasingly unique and innovative ways. These awards
recognize those efforts."
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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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