Red Hat Launches Certified Cloud And Service Provider Program
By Christine Kern, contributing writer
Open source solutions provider Red Hat, Inc. has announced its new Red Hat Certified Cloud and Service Provider program that expands Red Hat’s cloud ecosystem to include and better support distributors, managed service providers, and other partners that are involved in all aspects of hybrid cloud build-out.
The new program meets the expanding needs of private cloud build-outs, Linux container-based infrastructure, and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) solutions. It provides additional flexibility by expanding the choice of Red Hat solutions available, including Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP HANA; OpenShift by Red Hat; Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform; Red Hat JBoss Middleware; and Red Hat Gluster Storage.
The Certified Cloud and Service Provider designation is awarded to those Red Hat partners who are validated by Red Hat, which means meeting testing and certification requirements in order to demonstrate that they are able to provide a “safe, scalable, supported and consistent environment for enterprise cloud deployments.”
Currently, the Red Hat Certified Cloud and Service providers include 13 of the 15 service providers named in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service Worldwide.
“The Certified Cloud and Service Provider program is an important next step for one of Red Hat's key channels. Our partners want to develop their businesses based on enterprise-ready open source technologies, and this global program delivers new opportunities for recurring revenue to a diverse set of participating partners to expand their business with Red Hat,” asserted Mark Enzweiler, senior vice president, Global Partners and Alliances, Red Hat.