Red Hat to Present on Community-Powered Innovation at 2013 OpenStack Summit in Hong Kong

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Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that the company, as one of the headline sponsors for this year’s OpenStack Summit in Hong Kong, will be sharing updates on its OpenStack contributions, and how Red Hat aims to be a bridge for OpenStack to grow from a project to enterprise-grade product. Held at the AsiaWorldExpo, the OpenStack Summit brings together some of the industry’s leading technical minds to discuss the future of OpenStack and cloud computing.

The four day summit will feature keynote sessions by headline sponsors, break out sessions and demonstrations. Mark McLoughlin, consulting engineer, Red Hat, who is a member of OpenStack’s technical committee and the OpenStack Foundation’s board of directors, will also be a keynote speaker at the summit. McLoughlin’s keynote will happen on November 6, Wednesday, 9:45 am – 10:15 am (HKT)…

During the OpenStack Summit, Red Hat will also be demonstrating its open hybrid cloud solutions including Red Hat CloudForms, Red Hat Storage, and OpenStack deployme nt and management technologies, with the support of hardware partners, Intel Asia Pacific and Quanta QCT.

Red Hat is a platinum member of the OpenStack Foundation, and has contributed to the project, helping to mold and shape its innovative potential. According to contributor stats made available by the OpenStack Foundation / Bitergia and Stackalytics, Red Hat continues to be the top corporate contributor for the recent OpenStack Havana release.

Supporting Quotes
Mark McLoughlin, consulting engineer, Red Hat, Inc. "As OpenStack continues to represent the true power of community-powered innovation in the cloud, Red Hat is proud to advance its commitment to that community as the leading corporate contributor to the OpenStack Havana release. We have seen open source projects mature and become accepted into the OpenStack ecosystem and look forward to supporting new projects through RDO and our Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform."

Dirk-Peter van Leeuwen, vice president and general manager, Red Hat Asia Pacific “Red Hat continues to see good momentum in Asia Pacific for cloud computing, and growing interest in the OpenStack community. We want OpenStack to succeed as much as the community does, so with our contributions as the world’s leading provider of open source technology, we hope to give OpenStack the stability enterprises demand while preserving the spirit of the community that forged it.”

Philip Cronin, Director of Regional Sales Organisation, Intel Asia Pacific “Together, Red Hat and Intel are focused on driving innovation for enterprises by combining our world-class hardware and software capabilities. This collaboration extends throughout the ecosystem to ISVs, OEMs, and system vendors to ensure innovation across all levels of the solution stack.”

Mike Yang, general manager, Quanta QCT “Quanta and Red Hat, in collaboration with Intel, are bringing new levels of economy and performance to the market. Quanta’s integrated server, storage and switch solution certified by Red Hat will be on display at the Red Hat booth during the OpenStack Summit, and we are excited to play a part in bringing innovation to the OpenStack community.”