Red Hat to deliver enterprise cloud push

October 10, 2014 Off By David
Object Storage

Grazed from ZDNet. Author: Dirk-Peter van Leeuwen.

Enterprise IT is constantly evolving, and is driven to innovate with emerging technologies and processes. Open source has the capability to meet future enterprise IT requirements, and this has led many enterprises to take a look at these technologies. A survey by Black Duck Software in 2014 showed more than 50% of all enterprises surveyed are expected to contribute to and adopt open source.

The need for open enterprise cloud

Modern IT operations depend on a strong underlying infrastructure, especially in enterprise environments where high capacity and performance are essential. An open enterprise cloud can enable organizations to meet these future IT needs, as the platform can be tailored to meet the exact requirements of an organization – regardless of size…

Taking an open source approach when building a cloud means working with open source communities, customers, and an extended ecosystem of open source software and hardware vendors, whom together can deliver reliable and enterprise-ready cloud solutions. "We want to show customers that open is better. We are bringing customers the tools they need to build their infrastructure from the ground up with open source, enabling amazing flexibility and choice," explained Jim Whitehurst, president and CEO, Red Hat, in a recent blog post…

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