Red Hat and Wipro Extend Partnership

Wipro named Premier systems integrator for Red Hat solutions; Red Hat and Wipro collaborate to enable global customers to meet demand for open hybrid cloud solutions

Wipro and Red Hat have globally expanded their alliance to accelerate the deployment of open hybrid cloud solutions. They will work together to develop and deliver enterprise-grade cloud solutions to the market, and will also jointly deliver next-generation DevOps solutions for continuous integration and testing.

Wipro becomes a Premier, Global Systems Integrator for Red Hat. With the expansion, Wipro’s open source infrastructure solution stack now includes Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, Red Hat Satellite, Red Hat CloudForms, Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform, and OpenShift. After piloting separately, they are now combining their efforts and knowledge around configuration, deployment, and management of OpenStack private clouds.

Ashesh Badani, vice president and general manager, OpenShift, Red Hat says, “DevOps, and a new culture of collaboration between Development and Operations, is key for modern IT organizations. The container-based approach driven by OpenShift makes both development and deployment of applications easier, helping to increase agility and create a true DevOps environment. By collaborating with Wipro, we’re aiming to help even more enterprise customers realize the many benefits DevOps can offer.”

“With the advent of hybrid environment, we see a lot of synergy with Red Hat’s end to end offering that enables customers through the transformation journey of their IT landscape especially on the open stack based cloud initiatives. We are scaling new areas of Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform in our CoE to improve customer experiences” said Anuj Bhalla, vice president and global head of Systems Integration, Wipro Ltd.