Red Hat Wins SIIA Software CODiE Awards for Best Cloud Management Solution and Best Open Source Innovation
May 13 2015 - 9:30AM
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Red Hat CloudForms and Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 Earn Prestigious Industry Recognition
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open
source solutions, today announced that Red Hat CloudForms and Red
Hat Enterprise Linux 7 have won SIIA CODiE Awards for Best Cloud
Management Solution and Best Open Source Innovation,
respectively
The Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA), the
principal trade association for the software and digital content
industries, announced Red Hat’s win for the 2015 CODiE Award for
Best Cloud Management Solution and Best Open Source Innovation. An
SIIA CODiE Award win is an especially prestigious honor, as each
award winner was reviewed by a field of industry experts, whose
evaluations determined finalists. SIIA members then reviewed the
finalists and their votes were combined with the scores from the
industry experts to select this year’s 28 CODiE Awards Winners.
Red Hat CloudForms provides the industry's most robust open
source management experience robust management experience across
multiple platforms, built on the open source ManageIQ code. It
provides automation and management capabilities for
rapidly-evolving OpenStack clouds, as well as support for Microsoft
public clouds and the Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine
Manager, Amazon Web Services, VMware vSphere and Red Hat Enterprise
Virtualization. CloudForms also offers interoperability with
Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), enabling OpenShift by Red Hat brokers
and nodes to provide services within the CloudForms catalog.
The world’s leading enterprise Linux platform, Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 7 not only lays the foundation for the open hybrid
cloud and serves enterprise workloads across converged
infrastructures, but also pushes the operating system beyond
today's position as a commodity platform. Combining rapid
technology innovation with stability, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
enables enterprises to meet modern datacenter demands with
next-generation IT requirements, without increasing complexity. It
powers the spectrum of enterprise IT, from application containers
to cloud services.
The recognition of Red Hat CloudForms and Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 7 builds upon Red Hat’s previous CODiE Award wins, including
OpenShift by Red Hat and Red Hat JBoss Developer Studio 7 in
2014.
Supporting Quotes
Tim Yeaton, senior vice president, Infrastructure Business, Red
Hat
“We are pleased that both Red Hat CloudForms and Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 7 have been recognized for their innovative
natures, with each winning a 2015 Software CODiE Award. CloudForms
delivers a powerful management solution for the hybrid cloud, while
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 offers a re-imagining of what the
enterprise operating system can do. Both awards are testaments to
the innovative nature of Red Hat’s product portfolio and show our
leadership within not only the world of open source but also the
realm of enterprise IT.”
Rhianna Collier, vice president and general manager, Software
& Services Division, SIIA
“SIIA’s 2015 Software CODiE Award winners’ are some of the most
innovative, high-impact software products in the market. We
congratulate all of this year’s CODiE Award winners, and thank them
for the contributions they have made to the software industry.”
Additional Resources
- Learn more about the 2015 CODiE Award
winners
- Learn more about SIIA
- Learn more about Red Hat
CloudForms
- Learn more about Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 7
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in a global network of enterprises, partners, and open source
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Red Hat, Inc.John Terrill, 571-421-8132,
jterrill@redhat.comorSIIA CommunicationsAllison Bostrom,
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