Real Clouds. Today.

Cloud computing is a hugely important evolution in the way that businesses and individuals consume and operate computing. It's a fundamental shift to an operational model in which applications don't live out their lives on a specific piece of hardware and in which resources are more flexibly deployed than was the historical norm. It's a fundamental shift to a development and consumption model that replaces hard-wired, proprietary connections among software components and the consumers of those components with lightweight Web services and Web-based software access.

Red Hat delivers the infrastructure needed for reliable, agile, and cost-effective cloud computing. Red Hat's cloud vision is unlike that of any other IT vendor. We recognize that your IT infrastructure is - and will continue to be - composed of pieces from many different hardware and software vendors. We enable you to use and manage these diverse assets as one cloud. Enabling cloud to be an evolution, not a revolution or a monolithic stack locked to the technology roadmap and business practices of a single vendor.

When you choose Red Hat for your cloud, you get:

• The most comprehensive solutions for clouds - both private and public.
• Consistent enterprise-class environments that bridge the physical and virtual world, inside the datacenter and public clouds.
• Strategic flexibility without lock-in.
• Better infrastructure, designed specifically for multi-tenant clouds.
• Industry-leading ecosystem that makes cloud usable, accessible, and safe.

This value proposition has at its foundation Red Hat's commitment to open standards and open source and the economics and innovation that stem from it. That's why open source is the foundation for the majority of clouds, regardless of what application or operating system is used. Our open source approach to cloud computing ensures the peak of interoperability, by allowing you to build your cloud from the components you already have -- whether Microsoft Windows or Red Hat Enterprise Linux; LAMP, Java, or .Net; Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, VMware ESX, or Microsoft Hyper-V; Infrastructure-as-a-Service or Platform-as-a-Service; on-premise or public clouds.

In a market full of hype, Red Hat makes the cloud real and compelling. Today.