Red Hat, Accenture to accelerate hybrid cloud innovation

Software firm Red Hat and Accenture have expanded their nearly 12-year strategic partnership to accelerate ‘hybrid cloud innovation’ for enterprises worldwide. 

The partners jointly investing in new solutions that they claim will enable organisations navigate a multi and hybrid cloud world, define their strategy, and accelerate their pace of innovation to get to value faster. 

Hybrid cloud computing refers to policy-based and coordinated service provisioning, use, and management across a mixture of internal and external cloud services. 

Stefanie Chiras, senior vice president, Partner Ecosystem Success at Red Hat, said, “Operating in the hybrid cloud enables customers to optimise their existing systems with the added layers and capabilities necessary to support innovation and efficiency at scale.” 

To further help organisations migrate to hybrid cloud, the partners are co-developing new solutions over the next year with an initial focus on open hybrid cloud application and mainframe modernisation, automation, edge computing and sovereign cloud. 

“A hybrid solution brings the public cloud benefits of innovation, speed, consumption and scale with private cloud advantages of regulatory compliance, performance and data gravity,” Accenture said in a statement. 

Raj Wickramasinghe, Hybrid and Emerging Platform lead at Accenture, said, “Through our expanded alliance with Red Hat, we can further help clients embrace the cloud continuum to enable greater operational efficiency and drive innovation.”