2016 Red Hat Innovation Awards Nominations Now Open
October 06 2015 - 08:37AM
Business Wire
Awards program celebrates 10th year of
recognizing and honoring the most innovative uses of Red Hat
technologies by customers and partners
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open
source solutions, today announced that nominations are open for the
2016 Red Hat Innovation Awards. 2016 will mark the 10th anniversary
of the awards, which recognize the innovative ways that
individuals, companies and partners worldwide are implementing Red
Hat's technologies.
Organizations from around the world use Red Hat technologies to
build IT infrastructures that can drive business innovation. The
2016 Red Hat Innovation Awards will celebrate these efforts by
recognizing outstanding work and next-generation business
application deployments happening with open source solutions and,
specifically, Red Hat technology.
Category winners will be selected based on the uniqueness,
complexity, and magnitude of their Red Hat implementations. The
categories include:
- Infrastructure: Recognizing the
notable flexibility, scalability, cost effectiveness, performance,
and security within an infrastructure.
- Modernize: Recognizing an
outstanding transition from aging infrastructure and restrictive
vendors towards open source, standardized solutions.
- Transform: Recognizing the best
use of Red Hat solutions to transform an IT department from a call
center to a business partner that can provide self-service and
useful automation.
- Cloud: Recognizing the most
successfully illustrated cloud deployment using Red Hat’s cloud
technology portfolio.
- Application Development:
Recognizing the most outstanding employment of agile methodologies
and superior overall performance of creating, maintaining, and
deploying successful business applications, whether they be
traditional, mobile or cloud, using Red Hat solutions.
- Accelerate, Integrate, Automate:
Recognizing the best overall acceleration, integration, and
automation of IT workloads using Red Hat products.
Each submission will be evaluated by a panel in the field of
business and open source technology, including: Lee Congdon, CIO,
Red Hat; Ashesh Badani, vice president and general manager,
OpenShift, Red Hat; Carla Arend, program director, European
Software, IDC; Sean Michael Kerner, senior editor, eWEEK; and Henry
Peyret, principal analyst, Forrester Research, Inc.
Submissions will be accepted through the Red Hat Innovation
Awards website until Dec. 11, 2015. A winner will be recognized in
each of the six categories. From these winners, the Red Hat
Innovator of the Year will be selected by the community through
online voting. The 2016 Red Hat Innovation Award winners and the
2016 Red Hat Innovator of the Year award recipient will be
recognized during Red Hat Summit 2016, June 28-July 1, 2016, in San
Francisco.
Supporting Quotes
Marco Bill-Peter, vice president, Customer Experience and
Engagement, Red Hat
“For the past decade, the Red Hat Innovation Awards have
recognized some truly creative and intriguing uses of Red Hat
technologies, and we expect that the 2016 awards will be no
different. Our customers and partners are using open source
solutions to solve complex business challenges in increasingly
unique and innovative ways. These awards recognize those
efforts.”
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