Red Hat Opens the Doors to New Global Executive Briefing Center and Red Hat Open Innovation Labs in Boston
New facility aims to help companies speed technology innovation in
immersive Labs environment and showcase the possibilities of open source
software in state-of-the-art Executive Briefing Center and Engineering
Lab
BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, today announced the opening of its new facility in the
Seaport District of Boston. The space is home to Red Hat’s
state-of-the-art Global Executive Briefing Center, a new Red Hat
Engineering Lab, and the first U.S. east coast location for Red Hat Open
Innovation Labs.
The 40,000 square foot facility is Red Hat’s second location in the
greater Boston area and complements the company’s worldwide engineering
and product headquarters located in Westford, Mass. The decision to
expand into the city of Boston was driven by the city’s reputation as a
premier technology hub, its history of computer science technology
development, and the area’s many world-class universities, which produce
some of the nation’s top technology talent.
The new location brings Red Hat’s culture of openness and innovation to
the Boston technology scene. The facility is designed to help local IT
professionals in companies of all sizes – from startups to established
enterprises – learn how to take advantage of open source principles to
solve their businesses’ challenges.
Global Executive Briefing Center
Red Hat’s new state-of-the-art Global Executive Briefing Center offers
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 - can learn firsthand from Red Hat’s
executives, product leaders and engineers 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 Engineering Lab
The new facility also serves as home base for the company’s Boston-based
Engineering Lab. The new Engineering Lab continues Red Hat’s legacy of
innovation by focusing on research and development around emerging open
source technologies, and will facilitate Red Hat’s research and
development initiatives with both upstream open source communities and
Boston’s renowned universities, including
Boston University. Co-locating the Engineering Lab with Red Hat Open
Innovation Labs also offers a unique opportunity for collaboration and
joint development between Red Hat engineers, customers, and partners.
Red Hat Open Innovation Labs
Through Red Hat Open Innovation Labs, a residency-based initiative, IT
teams work closely with Red Hat consultants, engineers and subject
matter experts to modernize existing applications or create new ones
with open source and DevOps. The typical Red Hat Open Innovation Labs
residency lasts anywhere from one to three months and provides IT
professionals with the technologies, methods, and skills to accelerate
business initiatives. Through hands-on instruction, teams can also learn
how to adopt agile development methodologies, DevOps practices, and get
immediate and direct experience with open principles and open culture
that underlie many open source communities.
After years of developing and delivering open source solutions, and in
response to customer feedback, Red Hat Open Innovation Labs launched in
2016 to offer an immersive experience with a goal of helping customers
catalyze innovation and solve business challenges in an accelerated
fashion. As digital transformation reshapes industries, organizations of
all sizes and across industries are rethinking their approach to
innovation and how technology can help them compete more effectively.
Red Hat Open Innovation Labs helps customers achieve this transformation
by:
- Working on real business problems from day one of the residency,
using Red Hat’s push-button infrastructure and automated development
environments, offering quicker time to value.
- Using modern application development technologies and methodologies,
including migrations, microservice architectures, container
application platforms, DevOps, application and data integration,
mobile and hybrid cloud strategies.
- Re-platforming existing applications for scale-out with
OpenStack and public cloud infrastructures.
- Bridging legacy and new application development efforts on one
platform, helping teams design and develop solutions to modernize
applications, or take on entirely new challenges.
- Learning to innovate the Red Hat way by engaging with the open
source community and collaborating in upstream projects.
Red Hat’s new facility is located at 300 A Street in the Fort Point
neighborhood of Boston’s Seaport District.
Supporting Quotes
Paul Cormier, president, Products and Technologies, Red Hat
“The
future of innovation is open and the organizations that will be best
positioned for the future are those that are using technology to
differentiate, introduce new services, and disrupt markets. Our new
facility in Boston brings open innovation to life in new ways, not only
enabling us to develop and showcase the latest open source advancements,
but also offering a world-class platform for us to collaborate with
customers on their next breakthroughs through Red Hat Open Innovation
Labs and Boston’s vibrant tech community.”
Mayor Martin J. Walsh, City of Boston
"The City of Boston is
home to the world's most thriving and dynamic innovation ecosystem, and
I am eager to see a leader like Red Hat collaborate with our talent and
technology community. Red Hat's expansion to Boston will establish a
global hub for technology companies, entrepreneurs, and students to
convene, solve challenges, and create the technology of the future."
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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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