Red Hat : Transforming partnerships through technology
Red Hat : Transforming partnerships through technology
Gino Grano , VP of Telco , Media and Entertainment for the Americas at Red Hat , tells us how they are impacting customers today , for tomorrow
Red Hat , the world ’ s leading provider of enterprise open source solutions , including high-performing Linux , cloud , container , and Kubernetes technologies , is playing a major role in connecting companies through the latest innovative technologies .
Gino Grano , Red Hat ’ s VP of Telco , Media and Entertainment for the Americas , plays a key role in managing strategic collaborations between industry leaders . He works with customers in the area of digital transformation and automation , assisting them in modernising their networks as well as their IT .
Currently , Red Hat is partnered with TELUS , the Canadian communications giant that provides a wide range of telecommunications products and services including internet access , voice , entertainment , healthcare , video , and IPTV television .
It ’ s been a productive experience for both parties , says Grano , who points out that the past two years has been a huge learning curve that has resulted in unprecedented progress .
“ Our hope in working with customers like TELUS is that we can truly drive business value to help in their transformation of their businesses , basically so that they can serve their customers in a way that ’ s automated , cost effective and provides them with a significant amount of choice moving forward ,” he explains .
Digital transformation
Grano believes that while many companies have struggled to operate remotely , Red Hat has long be a proponent of the practice . Because they are so used to operating under these conditions , communicating with and managing customer expectations has been ‘ work as usual ’.
“ At Red Hat , because we ’ re an open source company and we are used to working with the open source community , this remote world in which we are communicating mostly with screens and not face-to-face is something that we not only are used to , but that we excel at .”
New technology and the cloud
As Red Hat looks forward into the future , really , the company is looking to scale its organisation and find a way of driving the adoption of open source technologies , much more prevalent across all industries and different areas within that space .
The move is a bold one , and will involve helping more customers with the adoption of a hybrid cloud architecture . “ Customers are working towards modernising their applications and moving to a development model that is much more cloud native ,” says Grano .
He adds , “ So we ’ re focussed on automation , focussed on hybrid cloud and focussed on the introduction of AI and machine learning , to enable that feedback and implement the corrective actions moving forward .”
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