FeatureRed Hat is a provider of open source software solutions, using a community-powered development approach to engineer reliable and high-performing cloud, Linux, middleware, storage and virtualisation technologies to support our customers digital innovation journeys. As the connective hub in a global network of enterprises, partners, and open source communities, Red Hat helps create relevant, innovative technologies that engineer IT systems to support growth, innovation and prepare customers for the future of IT.
Red Hat provides storage, operating systems, hybrid cloud capable container platforms, middleware, applications, management products, and support, training, and award winning consulting and training services.
As the largest open source company in the world, Red Hat uses an open development model to help create more stable, secure, and innovative technologies for enterprise IT. Red Hat creates, maintains, and contributes to many free software projects and fully engineers, hardens and supports the software for production use.
It has acquired several proprietary software product codebases through corporate mergers and acquisitions and has released such software under open source licenses. This ensures that the best software that creatively addresses customers’ challenges is built for the enterprise and supported, leading to IT that supports innovation for business and customers.
Red Hat technologies for building IT infrastructure to support Open Hybrid Cloud is the recommended strategy for architecting, developing, and operating a hybrid mix of applications, delivering a truly flexible cloud experience with the speed, stability, and scale required for digital innovation and business transformation.
Fully supported and security hardened, with support services, professional services and training the customer can be confident of building digital business capability.
The Red Hat partner ecosystem is an integral part of how Red Hat develops and delivers business and technical value to customers. It provides a fully certified and trained community to solve customer challenges, build integrated solutions, and establish and grow deep relationships—all built around Red Hat’s world leading enterprise open source solutions.
The increasing use of enterprise open source extends to important new emerging technology workloads, with 80% of IT leaders globally planning to increase their use of enterprise open source in areas such as digital transformation, AI, ML, edge computing, and Internet of Things IoT, according to the State of Enterprise Open Source 2022 report.
As digital transformation and cloud become mainstream, demand for supported open source solutions and skills will intensify. Bringing technologies from the open source community and engineering and hardening them for the enterprise benefits many open source communities and companies that are adapting to meet the needs of modern digital business.
Red Hat has been selected by Riyadh Bank in Saudi Arabia to implement a hybrid cloud strategy built on Red Hat’s portfolio of open hybrid cloud technologies, including Red Hat OpenShift. Red Hat’s open innovation is a keystone of the bank’s drive to speed up innovation and time-to-market of digital services and products.
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Based in Dubai Andrews has been with Red Hat for over 13 years and is the Vice President and General Manager of the CEMEA business region for Red Hat. He is responsible for sales and services for Red Hat technology in 90 countries.
Before moving to Dubai, Andrews led the Red Hat Asia Pacific Enterprise business for 5 years servicing the largest Red Hat clients in the region. Prior to this Andrews led the Northern and Eastern European Sales, Services and Marketing organisation with responsibility business covering UK and Ireland, the Nordic Countries, European Eastern Europe and Russia CIS.
Andrews is a thought leader on digital transformation, open innovation, vertical stories and overall Red Hat’s one hybrid cloud story. He also has a strong understanding of Red Hat’s business, its ecosystem landscape, regional presence and its synergy with IBM.
Andrews enjoys time with family and his 7 year old twins, playing guitar, playing golf and riding a very large BMW motorbike.
