Red Hat and SAIC in Cloud Computing Alliance

Red Hat has just announced a collaboration with Science Applications International Corporation in order to demonstrate solutions that maximize the use of open source cloud computing.

A number of Red Hat solutions, including Red Hat Enterprise Linux, JBoss Enterprise Middleware, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, and Red Hat CloudForms will be deployed in SAIC’s (Science Applications International Corporation) new Advanced Computer Engineering (ACE) Laboratory, to be used specifically by the Department of Defense.

SAIC and Red Hat aim to provide a more agile service delivery system and to allow DoD customers to overcome barriers to cloud adoption.

“Red Hat has a longstanding relationship with SAIC to provide open source technologies and methodologies on large programs in the federal government, dating back to our first master marketing agreement in 2006,” said Paul Smith, Red Hat’s vice president and general manager of public sector.