Description
Red Hat, Inc. provides open source software solutions to develop and offer operating system, virtualization, management, middleware, cloud, and storage technologies to various enterprises worldwide. It offers infrastructure-related solutions, including Red Hat Enterprise Linux, an operating system platform that runs on hardware for use in cloud environments; Red Hat Satellite, a system management offering that helps to deploy, scale, and manage in cloud environments; and Red Hat Virtualization, a software solution that allows customers to use and manage a common hardware infrastructure to run various operating systems and applications. The company also provides application development-related and other technology solutions, such as Red Hat Middleware, a solution for developing, deploying, and managing applications; integrating applications, data, and devices; and automating business processes in hybrid cloud environments. In addition, its solutions include Red Hat OpenShift, a container-based cloud application platform to develop, host, and scale applications in a cloud environment; Red Hat Cloud Infrastructure solution allows users to build and manage a private or hybrid infrastructure as a service cloud; Red Hat OpenStack Platform, an infrastructure as a service offering; Red Hat Ansible Automation to automate application and IT environment lifecycles; Red Hat CloudForms, a hybrid cloud management solution; and Red Hat Storage technologies that enable customers to build storage platforms at large-scale using commodity hardware. Further, the company offers real-time operating and distributed computing systems, and directory and user authentication services, as well as consulting, support, and training services. The company was formerly known as Red Hat Software, Inc. and changed its name to Red Hat, Inc. in June 1999. Red Hat, Inc. was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina.
