Red Hat Pushes for Enterprise Cloud Supremacy

Grazed from VirtualizationReview. Author: Editorial Staff.

Red Hat Inc. CEO Jim Whitehurst says the IT industry is undergoing a momentous shift from the client-server model to cloud-mobile, and the vendor of enterprise Linux and other open source software is pushing to come out the other end on top. In the blog post, "Only a Matter of Time, Cloud Winners Will Be Chosen Soon," Whitehurst yesterday outlined recent moves and successes of the company while letting everyone know that enterprise cloud vendor supremacy is the next target.

"Right now, we’re in the midst of a major shift from client-server to cloud-mobile," Whitehurst said. "It’s a once-every-20-years kind of change. As history has shown us, in the early days of those changes, winners emerge that set the standards for that era — think Wintel in the client-server arena…

We’re staring at a huge opportunity — the chance to become the leader in enterprise cloud, much like we are the leader in enterprise open source." The Red Hat leader’s post contained no news, but seemed to be a rally-the-troops message signaling a change in corporate strategy…

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