Guys,


Red hat's new Cloud certification programme.

Red hat will fly linux into the cloud

Amazon has become the inaugural partner of red hat's new cloud certification programme.

The open source os vendor launched the programme to ensure red hat linux and jboss software are core components of a cloud-computing infrastructure.

The new premier cloud provider certification and partner program, unveiled this week, certifies cloud-computing providers to offer applications and infrastructure based on red hat software, including red hat enterprise linux (rhel) and jboss java middleware.

It also aims to guarantee that red hat-based applications will run reliably and safely in the cloud. Amazon web services, which already has a technology partnership to run rhel as part of its elastic compute cloud (ec2) offering, has signed on to become the first red hat premier cloud provider partner.

Red hat considered the various constituencies interested in cloud computing - end-users and independent software vendors among them - and decided to set up a new program to work with cloud-computing providers to serve them all, said mike evans, vice president of corporate development at red hat.


Currently, there are a handful of large companies in the cloud-computing market - google, rackspace, verizon, ibm, salesforce.com and microsoft among them - but he anticipates there eventually will be 50 to 100 cloud-computing providers when all is said and done.

Thanks & regards,
Riju