Governing Members
HP
As a world-leading information technology company, HP applies new thinking and ideas to create more simple, valuable and trusted experiences with technology. Our focus is to continuously improve the way our customers live and work through technology products and services, form the individual consumer to the largest enterprise.
“Organizations are looking to quickly and easily manage change across the enterprise while maintaining control over IT resources. Kernel Based Virtual Machines, supported by the Open Virtualization Alliance, offer organizations flexibility, choice and compatibility with HP Converged Infrastructure. They’re a great open source option for clients.”
– Paul Miller, Vice President, Solutions and Strategic Alliances, Enterprise Servers, Storage and Networking, HP
IBM
See how hardware and software solutions from IBM and Red Hat provide solutions for a Smarter Planet. Providing the advantages of Linux, comprehensive services, technology leadership and global reach, the IBM and Red Hat alliance gives you the confidence and ability to deploy a resilient infrastructure throughout your enterprise. The entire IBM Systems product line is enabled for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, making it easy for your business to take advantage of the power of open standards.
“IBM has a rich history of innovation in the open source community and has been a leader in virtualization technology for more than 40 years. With the formation of this alliance, we are taking an important step forward with other industry leaders to ensure that businesses have an open virtualization alternative.”
– Jean Staten Healy, Director, World Wide Linux and Open Virtualization, IBM Corporation
INTEL
Intel transforms the enterprise through innovation. Solve your most business critical IT challenges with powerful and reliable servers featuring the Intel® Xeon® processor E7. This top of the line processor delivers performance that optimizes your most data demanding workloads and also comes with scalability, memory, and I/O capacity that allows you additional flexibility. You can proactively protect your business critical assets with features that automatically manage hardware errors and guard against malicious software attacks.
“No matter what virtualization solution is chosen by our customers, the Intel strategy remains the same – to help ensure their choice runs best on Intel architecture. KVM offers an open source alternative for virtualization that takes immediate advantage of the Linux device driver work Intel does, which helps KVM track the rapid improvements we make in our products.”
– Doug Fisher, Vice President, Software and Services Group, and general manager, Systems Software Division, Intel
RED HAT
Red Hat, the world’s leading provider of open source solutions and an S&P 500 company, is headquartered in Raleigh, NC with more than 65 offices spanning the globe. CIOs ranked Red Hat as one of the top vendors delivering value in Enterprise Software for seven consecutive years in the CIO Insight Magazine Vendor Value survey. Red Hat provides high-quality, affordable technology with its operating system platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, together with virtualization applications, management and Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) solutions, including Red Hat Enterprise Virtualiztion, JBoss Enterprise Middleware and cloud solutions, deliver industry-leading value. Red Hat also offers support, training and consulting services to its customers worldwide. Learn more: http://www.redhat.com.
“When one company dominates an industry, innovation suffers, and customers pay the price. Red Hat and the open source community are breaking the stranglehold of closed virtualization, enabling better performance, scalability, security — and better economics. We’re pleased to see momentum continue to build, changing the virtualization market just as we did with closed operating systems and enterprise middleware.”
– Scott Crenshaw, Vice President and General Manager, Cloud Business, Red Hat