p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Today, we launched an addition to our business transformation services, Red Hat Pathways, which help our customers transform their business through technologies, methodologies and consulting services to achieve their IT goals. Red Hat's Pathway to IT Freedom, our fourth offering in the Pathways portfolio, empowers customers to regain control over inflated cost structures while creating a more flexible infrastructure through open standards-based technologies.

This strategic service offering provides enterprise customers with successful strategies for leveraging open source products, specific open source options, and targeted deployment recommendations all designed to drive cost reduction, flexibility and modernization while enabling the customer's own vision for IT.  The engagement begins with open source alternatives and maturity assessments, provides migration business case development and includes strategic migration planning and implementation services.

The Pathway to IT Freedom joins an already robust catalog of Red Hat Pathways, including the IT Consolidation Pathway, the Cloud Computing Pathway and the Operational Efficiency Pathway. These strategic consulting services are designed to help organizations evaluate where they are and what they need  in order to achieve strategic IT business goals.  Drawing from critical business acumen, proven best practices and unparalleled open source technical expertise, each Pathway guides clients through a custom, actionable path that drives business value at every step. Since launching Red Hat Pathways in May 2010, Red Hat Consulting has helped enterprise customers across industries including financial services, public sector and education to navigate their transformation to leaner, faster or more flexible solutions and architectures.

For additional information on Red Hat Pathways, visit www.redhat.com/consulting/solutions/.