Red Hat Pitches Open Hybrid Cloud to Partners
January 9, 2013
Grazed from TalkinCloud. Author: Joe Panettieri.
Red Hat (NYSE: RHT) will update its open hybrid cloud strategy during a North America partner conference, scheduled for Jan. 14-16 in San Diego. North America Channel Chief Roger Egan, in an interview with The VAR Guy, said telcos, cloud services providers (CSPs), VARs and other types of partners are opening their arms to Red Hat’s CloudForms (IaaS) and OpenShift (PaaS) strategies. But can Red Hat really muscle aside VMware (NYSE: VMW) and Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) as partners seek the building blocks for public and private clouds?
In many ways, Red Hat has successfully diversified beyond its Linux heritage. Moves into the virtualization, storage and middleware markets seem to be taking hold. Roughly 500 people, including roughly 175 partners, will listen to Red Hat’s updated vision during the North America partner conference, which is one of The VAR Guy’s Top 100 Channel Partner Conferences for 2013…
Recent Acquisition
Among the key technologies to watch: ManageIQ — an enterprise cloud management and automation platform that Red Hat recently acquired. In addition to managing private clouds, ManageIQ’s technology allows channel partners to manage public cloud workloads running on Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) and, later this year, Rackspace (NYSE: RAX)…
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