Red Hat Collaborates with Dell to Drive Platform-as-a-Service Innovation

SOURCE: Red Hat

AUSTIN, TX – DELL WORLD – NOV. 4, 2014 – Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that it has collaborated with Dell to create the Dell and Red Hat DevOps Solutions Starter Pack, a combination of OpenShift Enterprise by Red Hat, the Dell PowerEdge R420 server, and partner services. This solution will be sold through certified Red Hat channel partners.

Vizuri, a certified Red Hat and Dell channel partner, will be the first partner to resell the Dell and Red Hat DevOps Solutions Starter Pack and will provide complementary services, enabling customers to build DevOps solutions.

As more enterprises are turning to DevOps to streamline their IT processes and better enable developers and administrators, they are combining trusted hardware and software resources and the combination of Red Hat, Dell and Vizuri will enable customers to leverage the unique expertise and strengths of each company as they build hybrid clouds.

OpenShift by Red Hat already boasts a strong partner ecosystem, using its unique cartridge specification to tightly integrate private PaaS capabilities with complementary partner offerings. Vizuri has showcased its services in the OpenShift partner network since November 2013, enabling customers to modernize their traditional applications with OpenShift.

Supporting Quotes

Ashesh Badani, vice president and general manager, OpenShift, Red Hat “The DevOps Solution Starter Pack provides businesses with seamless access to solutions and services aimed at making the cloud consumable in a complete packaged offering. Vizuri has long collaborated with Red Hat and demonstrates significant expertise and knowledge of the Red Hat portfolio, and this combined offering should bring value to customers whether they are in application development, operations, or an architect.”

Sam Greenblatt, vice president, Engineered Solutions and Technology, Dell “Red Hat’s OpenShift solution is leading the industry in DevOps solutions and we are happy to enable partners like Vizuri to speed the adoption of OpenShift for our joint customers.”

Joe Dickman, senior vice president, Vizuri “OpenShift Enterprise can help organizations to bridge the knowledge gap that accompanies initial setup and configuration of DevOps solutions. The DevOps Solution Starter Pack was created to alleviate these concerns and enable IT organizations to be more agile and responsive as they chart their path to the cloud while converging infrastructure and making modernization faster, easier, and with less risk.”

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