Red Hat Helps Pave Road to Open Hybrid Cloud for APAC Enterprises

SINGAPORE,June 25,2019 -- Red Hat,Inc. (NYSE: RHT),the world's leading provider of open source solutions,today announced the Red Hat Hybrid Cloud Series,an event for open hybrid cloud strategists and practitioners taking placeacross Asia Pacific. The event will travel to major cities including Beijing,Bangkok,Hong Kong,Jakarta,Kuala Lumpur,Mumbai,Manila,Seoul,Singapore,Taipei and Tokyo.

With the theme,"Bridge Your Clouds. Build Your Future",Red Hat aims to share how enterprises can accelerate and architect a hybrid cloud strategy designed tospeed innovation and give a competitive edge. The event will also focus on Red Hat's open hybrid cloud strategy and discuss the recent launchof Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8and Red Hat OpenShift 4.

According to IDC[1],70 percent of customers already deploy multicloud environments and 64 percent of applications in a typical IT portfolio today are based in a cloud environment,whether public or private. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 forms the foundation for Red Hat's hybrid cloud portfolio and is built to support workloads and operations that stretch from enterprise datacenters to multiple public clouds. Red Hat OpenShift 4 is the next generation of Red Hat's trusted enterprise Kubernetes platform,reengineered to address the complex realities of container orchestration in production systems.

Several Red Hat executives are scheduled to attend and participate in theevents across APAC,including: Stefanie Chiras,vice president and general manager,Red Hat Enterprise Linux; Sathish Balakrishnan,vice president,Hosted Platforms andOperations; Martin Klaus,senior director,Cloud Platforms; Ron Pacheco,director,Red Hat Enterprise Linux product management; Kingsley Wood,Cloud Solutions APAC and Brendan Paget,Portfolio Management in the APAC Office of Technology.

The event keynote will discuss Red Hat's open hybrid cloud strategy and share business insights about cloud-native applications and Kubernetes. Red Hat executives will also offer direction for how organizations canimplement a hybrid cloud infrastructurewith Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 and Red Hat OpenShift 4. The keynote will also include a technical demo and customer cases.This year,the software and applications running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux will touch $10 trillion of global business revenue,as estimated by IDC in a report sponsored by Red Hat on the economic impact of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Red Hat Hybrid Cloud Series schedule:

June 18: Seoul

June 20: Tokyo

July 3: Beijing

July 9: Singapore

July 11: Jakarta

July 16: Kuala Lumpur

July 17: Mumbai

July 23: Bangkok

July 25: Manila

July 26: Hong Kong

July 30: Taipei

Event discussion themes:

The trends and best practices for designing,planning and operationalizing an open hybrid cloud approach

How leading companies deliver innovative apps and services through Kubernetes and containerization

Security,compliance and governance considerations for apps and workloads that run on a mix of public and private clouds

The automation and management capabilities required to extend into public clouds without losing control

Why the introduction of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 and Red Hat OpenShift 4 canbe transformational for hybrid clouds

Supporting Quote

Frank Feldmann,APAC office of technology,Red Hat Asia Pacific

"Enterprises in Asia Pacifichaveadopted a hybrid cloud environment to improvebusiness agility and gain flexibility.Together,Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 and Red Hat OpenShift 4 can provide a consistent foundation for innovation and offer the latest hybrid tools to help optimize cost,performance and speed as enterprises move forward in theirdigital transformation journey."

[1] IDC,Market Analysis Perspective: Worldwide Core and Edge Computing Platforms,Sept. 2018

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