Red Hat Announces Cloud Computing Alliance with SAIC

Red Hat, Inc. RHT today announced a collaboration with Science Applications International Corporation SAI, to demonstrate and deliver innovative solutions that maximize the use of open source cloud computing technologies. Offering security, scalability, interoperability and portability to reduce infrastructure and provide increased capabilities for the U.S. Department of Defense, a number of Red Hat solutions, including Red Hat Enterprise Linux, JBoss Enterprise Middleware, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, systems management technologies, Red Hat CloudForms, and the company's OpenShift Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) cloud computing platform, will be deployed in SAIC's new Advanced Computer Engineering Laboratory located in North Charleston, S.C., adjacent to SAIC and Red Hat customers. SAIC's ACE Laboratory will serve as the foundation for an open community, providing an environment to maximize public and private cooperation focused on solving complex operational and computational problems. The laboratory provides physical and virtual environments for hands-on collaboration between SAIC, other contractors, small businesses, information technology vendors and government employees. Through emerging technology exploration and innovative solution demonstration, the ACE Laboratory aims to foster collaboration and information sharing, promote cloud computing best practices and deliver low-cost, enterprise-scale “create once, optimally manage and reuse often” solutions.