Open Source allows organization to build an ecosystem that promotes faster innovation, enables to scale up, modify and add features

Neeraj Bhatia
Senior Director Sales, Red Hat India

Open Source: A disruptive technology

Open Source helps organizations to keep pace with a constantly evolving digital landscape. It allows an organization to build an ecosystem that promotes faster innovation, enabling them to scale up, modify and add new features according to the changing trends and customer demands.

Open source projects are hotbeds of innovation where constant change and developments happen. Enterprise customers value this innovation, but they also rely on stability, security and long-term support that a product can give. As a result, Enterprise open source has become a preferred choice for organizations around the world for their IT architecture and development model. According to Red Hat’s The state of Enterprise Open -Source 2021, 90% of IT leaders surveyed are using enterprise open source today, and 79% expect their use of enterprise open source software for emerging technologies to increase over the next two years.

Advantages of Open Source

At Red Hat, we use an open source software development model to create our enterprise open source products and solutions. Red Hat developers actively participate in hundreds of well known open source projects like Docker container engine, Kubernetes and OpenStack and many more.

Our collaboration with open source communities has helped us bring various open source innovations to market in products like Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat OpenShift, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, Red Hat Data Services, Red hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS and more. As the world’s leading provider of enterprise open source solutions, Red Hat offers a tested & certified, portfolio of enterprise cloud, infrastructure and application development solutions, which are supported by Red Hat enabling the adoption of innovation & technology for the enterprise & mission critical workloads. With Red Hat our customers get the advantage of a secure, tested & scalable enterprise life cycle of open source technology & its innovation. By using open source innovation, we help customers drive innovation in their own business.