Cloud expansion is key to Red Hat and Cisco deal

Red Hat has collaborated with Cisco in India. The collaboration has come at a time when Indian market is increasingly moving towards cloud computing. Hence, the deal will prove beneficial for both the parties.

The combination of Red Hat's open-source solutions and Cisco technology has delivered innovative solutions to customers earlier also enabling them to achieve greater IT efficiencies.

Red Hat will be showcasing technology solutions on Cisco platforms, which include OpenShift, OpenStack-powered clouds for advanced cloud users, such as telecommunications companies, Internet service providers (ISPs), and public cloud hosting providers.

Dirk-Peter van Leeuwen, senior VP and GM, Red Hat Asia-Pacific, said, "Cisco and Red Hat have announced a number of collaborations over the past year, and we believe that our collaborative efforts can drive even greater innovation in India for our customers and communities. We hope that with the opening of the Center of Excellence, more IT professionals, students and communities can participate in open-source development and be part of creating de facto multi-vendor standardization to build modern data centers of the future."

Rajesh Rege, director and country head (Datacenter & Cloud Business Entity), Cisco India / SAARC, said, "Business needs are driving the adoption of new technology models faster than ever, and the onus is on IT to deliver business results and innovate on technology delivery models despite shrinking budgets and resources. Cisco's Unified Computing System (UCS) together with Red Hat's unique solutions around Linux and OpenStack will help ensure that our customers, especially in the government, telecom and Internet service provider space, have access to the virtualized, highly secure, and economically compelling solutions needed for them to leverage the full benefit of the cloud. The new CoE is a demonstration of our commitment to help customers address today's complex technology and business climate and will allow us to jointly demonstrate and deploy innovative, high-performance Cloud infrastructure for the local market."

Cisco and Red Hat share a common view and approach towards next-generation IT architectures, and the new Center of Excellence in India shows mutual commitment to collaborate to deliver industry-defining solutions for the open hybrid cloud.