Red Hat CEO Whitehurst talks about future of cloud computing
December 22, 2012
Grazed from BizJournals. Author: Lauren K. Ohnesorge.
Five years ago, Jim Whitehurst was introduced to investors as CEO of Raleigh-based Red Hat (NYSE: RHT). Last night, following the release of Street-beating earnings, we chatted about his tenure as CEO (“I picked a great company to work for,” he laughs) and, most importantly, about what Red Hat sees for the cloud.
“I think cloud, ultimately, is about having this single fabric,” he says, adding that it should be like a highway transportation system. “It’s there. Any car can use it. Any car can drive on it. You don’t make cars too big to fit in a lane. It’s a common system.”…
That’s the long-term promise of cloud, he says, but it may not be easy to get there. Take building an actual highway as an example. “If you can design a city from scratch, it would be easy to lay out grids,” he says. “No city can do that. You have your installed base. You have to work on what you have… and deal with traffic along the way. It’s similar with business.”…
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