Red Hat will reinforce the open cloud business based on open sources. The company is providing technical assistance while recruiting local open stack experts, and using its large domestic references to expand its investments in marketing and manpower.
Red Hat Korea (CEO Ham Jae-gyeong) said on January 25 that the company would recruit a large number of experts and reinforce its marketing activities to make inroads into the open stack market in earnest.
“As the head office believes that the Korean market has big demands for open stack, it decided to directly invest in marketing and manpower,” said Ham Jae-gyeong, CEO of Red Hat Korea. “This year we will hire manpower for R&D and technical assistance.” Red Hat Korea has been actively investing in manpower, e.g. recently hiring additional open stack technical staff.
The open stack is a cloud computing open source project. Recently, it is attracting the attention of the cloud industry due to its cost-saving effect and openness. Companies like Red Hat, Vmware, HP, Intel and Canonical, are participating in the open stack project. The open stacks are developed with open sources. Red Hat has been aggressive with regard to open stacks, e.g. disclosing the source codes of the open stack version upgrade, correcting bugs and participating in the community.
In particular, last year ‘Stackalytics,’ an open stack cloud community analysis tool, evaluated contributions to the open stack. Red Hat’s % contribution was 20%. It became an enterprise contributing the most to the open stack in the world.
“Red Hat’s raising its contribution to the open stack is thought of as a strategy for actively participating in the development of open stack-based solutions and technologies and expanding the market,” said an industry insider. “In the Korean market where interest in the cloud is increasing, Red Hat will acquire market competitiveness through the open stack.”
As a matter of fact, Red Hat Korea announced the technology vision for reinforcing the open stack-based cloud business last year, and has been aggressively making inroads into the market.
“In response to the ever changing business environment, corporate agility and cost-saving have become essential to securing competitiveness,” said Mr. Ham. “Red Hat will reinforce support for open source-based technology so that enterprises can enjoy the benefits of the open hybrid cloud without any dependency.”
Actually Red Hat Korea recently supplied the open source cloud to larger corporations in manufacturing, finance and media, gaining references. “There is more interest in the open stack cloud in the Korean market than in other countries, and the market is expanding quickly,” he added. “We will never spare investments so that we can expand our market share based on our references.”