Red Hat and Amazon: Time to Certify Cloud Partners

Jul 01, 2009, 09:32 (0 Talkback[s])

[ Thanks to Ed Sneavely for this link. ]

"hat's in store for Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JBoss open source partners? Here's the scoop, from The VAR Guy.

"First, the official news. Red Hat's Premier Cloud Provider Certification and Partner Program are "designed to simplify and expand the adoption of cloud computing by enterprise customers." According to a press release from Red Hat:

"Premier Cloud Provider Partners will collaborate with Red Hat on technical support, security updates, hardware certification, sales and marketing and business models. As part of the announcement today, cloud computing pioneer Amazon Web Services will extend its technology relationship with Red Hat to become the first Red Hat Premier Cloud Provider Partner."

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