Red Hat Announces Plans for New Facility in Boston
- Red Hat selects location in Boston’s Seaport District for new
world-class facility
- Boston facility will house a new Executive Briefing Center, Red Hat
Open Innovation Labs, and Red Hat Engineering Lab to showcase and
advance open source innovation
RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, today unveiled plans to expand its footprint to Boston. At
its new facility, located at 300 A Street in the Fort Point neighborhood
of Boston’s Seaport District, Red Hat plans to bring open source to life
in new ways, with a world-class Executive Briefing Center, the first
U.S. east coast location for Red Hat Open Innovation Labs, and a new Red
Hat Engineering Lab. The facility is expected to open in mid-2017.
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Red Hat, which was recently named one of the world's
most innovative companies by Forbes, has a long history in
the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, with its existing 175,000 square foot
worldwide engineering and product headquarters located in Westford,
Mass. The Boston facility will add 40,000 square feet to Red Hat’s
footprint in Massachusetts. Boston was rated as one of the world’s
best tech hubs in 2015 by Expert Market, a business consulting firm,
and is home to several world-class universities. With its presence in
Seaport, Red Hat plans to be an active member of the Boston technology
community.
Executive Briefing Center
The Boston facility will feature a world-class Executive Briefing Center
that will deliver an innovative, interactive and immersive experience
that brings open source innovation to life by showcasing Red Hat’s full
portfolio of enterprise-class open source software and creates
collaborative experiences that embody the open source approach. Visitors
- who are expected to include senior executives from many of the world’s
largest and most innovative organizations - will have an opportunity to
learn firsthand how open source can drive innovations across industries
and understand Red Hat’s initiatives to advance the technology industry
with its open source leadership to address customers’ business
challenges.
Red Hat Open Innovation Labs
In April 2016, Red Hat introduced Open
Innovation Labs, a residency-based initiative for helping customers
jumpstart modern application development and gain the skills and tools
to accelerate innovation in the future. Red Hat Open Innovation Labs
participants learn how to build and containerize applications on Red Hat
OpenShift Container Platform, while working closely with Red Hat subject
matter experts to understand and integrate DevOps approaches and
methodologies. Red Hat's new Boston facility will be the first U.S. east
coast location for Red Hat Open Innovation Labs, and its largest
facility to date.
Red Hat Engineering Lab
As an expansion of its worldwide engineering and product headquarters in
Westford, Mass., Red Hat’s new Boston-based Engineering Lab will focus
on research and new development around emerging open source technologies
in a collaborative development environment designed to foster and
accelerate open source-based innovation. With Boston's vibrant high tech
communities and renowned universities, this facility will provide a
state-of-the-art environment for research and development. Co-locating
the Engineering Lab with Red Hat Open Innovation Labs will provide a
unique opportunity for collaboration and joint development between Red
Hat engineers, customers, and partners.
Supporting Quotes
Martin J. Walsh, mayor, City of Boston
“I am excited to welcome an innovation leader like Red Hat to the City
of Boston. By choosing to expand and establish a global showcase
location in our city, Red Hat further reinforces Boston's reputation as
a thriving hub for talent and technology. I look forward to
collaborating with Red Hat as they contribute to our local economy as a
community partner and engaged member of our business community."
Paul Cormier, president, Products and Technologies, Red Hat
“The IT industry is transforming, and much of that transformation is
rooted in open source. Our facility in Boston will be designed to give
open source innovation a global stage and help drive the next wave of
open source engineering advancements and customer initiatives. Boston is
home to one of the world’s most dynamic tech communities and students
coming out of its world-class universities have grown up on open source
and Linux. We are excited to bring Red Hat to Boston to help foster the
next generation of open source talent through collaboration with the
city’s universities and keep Red Hat at the forefront of innovation
through the projects we plan to house there. I’d like to thank Mayor
Walsh and his office for their support as we identified the home for
this exciting facility.”
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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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