Red Hat Summit: Connect 2025 Johannesburg

LSD Open is a revolutionary technology partner focused on delivering cutting-edge solutions that fast-track digital innovation. Founded in 2001, the company has a strong foundation in open-source software and has set the pace in digital transformation. Over the years, LSD Open has expanded into managed services, cloud migration, and software licenses, with a footprint that now spans South Africa, Mauritius, and Dubai. With unparalleled expertise, LSD Open navigates complex technological landscapes to catalyse innovation through rapid scale, streamlined integrations, enhanced system performance, and future-ready infrastructure. The mission is to continue driving technological advancements, accelerating clients' and partners' innovation journeys into the future.

AWS is the world's largest cloud provider with the most comprehensive set of services. Whether you're looking for generative AI, compute power, database storage, content delivery, or other functionality, AWS has more than 200 services to help you build applications with unparalled security, reliability and performance. Together AWS and Red Hat empower organizations with a comprehensive hybrid cloud platform that combines the flexibility of AWS with the power of Red Hat open-source technologies. The longstanding partnership has been providing innovative solutions and running mission-critical workloads for over 17 years.

Portworx by Pure Storage is the leading container data management platform, trusted by enterprises to address complexity and resiliency challenges in the data infrastructure of mission-critical modern applications. Portworx provides a fully integrated solution to automate, protect, and unify container data management across hybrid and multi-cloud environments to accelerate time to market, ensure data resiliency, and enable data agility at enterprise scale. Hundreds of Global 2000 enterprises rely on Portworx to unlock the value of Kubernetes data, ensuring robust and scalable operations for modern applications.

Veeam, the #1 global market leader in data resilience, believes every business should control all their data whenever and wherever they need it. ​ ​We’re obsessed with creating innovative ways to help our customers achieve data resilience. We do that by offering purpose-built solutions that provide data backup, data recovery, data portability, data security, and data intelligence. ​Headquartered in Seattle, with offices in more than 30 countries, Veeam protects over 550,000 customers worldwide, who trust Veeam to keep their businesses running. Follow Veeam on LinkedIn @veeam-software and X @veeam

CyberArk (NASDAQ: CYBR) is the global leader in identity security, trusted by organizations around the world to secure human and machine identities in the modern enterprise. CyberArk’s AI-powered Identity Security Platform applies intelligent privilege controls to every identity with continuous threat prevention, detection and response across the identity lifecycle. With CyberArk, organizations can reduce operational and security risks by enabling zero trust and least privilege with complete visibility, empowering all users and identities, including workforce, IT, developers and machines, to securely access any resource, located anywhere, from everywhere.

Axiz is a prominent IT infrastructure and software distributor. The company was established in 2011 as a result of the merger between Axiz and Workgroup, both of which were founded in 1989. With a firm commitment to delivering top-tier service and customer satisfaction, Axiz has evolved into a respected leader within the industry with a presence in 22 African countries. Specialising in simplifying technology solutions, Axiz offers a diverse array of products, including computer hardware components like memory, hard disks, motherboards, graphics cards, and servers. The company also provides software and peripherals, catering to gaming and media requirements. This comprehensive product portfolio encompasses over 56 leading IT brands, positioning Axiz as a premier distributor. Driven by a profound understanding of the ICT landscape, Axiz leverages its extensive knowledge to deliver end-to-end innovative technology and professional solutions to its reseller network. The company's dedication extends beyond distribution, offering a multi-tiered partner journey that fosters joint value creation. From certification to digital enablement, Axiz empowers partners to harness new and advanced technologies. In line with its commitment to environmental responsibility, Axiz adheres to environmental standards and practices, minimising its impact and contributing to sustainability. Axiz is a subsidiary of the Alviva Group of Companies that remains dedicated to its goal of becoming the preferred technology distributor in South Africa and Africa. With a rich history and a focus on innovation, Axiz continues to shape the future of technology distribution.