Registration for Red Hat Summit and JBoss World 2012 Now Open

Events set for June 26-29, 2012 in Boston, Massachusetts; Agenda features more than 150 sessions, visionary keynotes, hands-on labs and networking opportunities

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Red Hat, Inc., the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that registration for the eighth annual Red Hat Summit and JBoss World is now open at https://www.redhatsummit2012.com. Red Hat Summit and JBoss World 2012 will be held June 26-29, 2012 at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston, Mass., and will feature visionary thought leadership as well as real world case studies, discussions and demos focused on next-generation IT.


United under the conference theme “Transform your IT,” the Red Hat Summit and JBoss World 2012 agenda gives IT and business decision-makers a holistic view on how solutions ranging from cloud and virtualization to platform, middleware, storage and management, are changing the enterprise and delivering business value. IBM will be the premier sponsor during Red Hat Summit and JBoss World 2012, which will include the following new features:

 

  • A new track – "Transform" –  that will cross both Red Hat Summit and JBoss World, offering a closer look at the trends and strategies driving the future of enterprise computing, as well as solutions to global business and technology challenges across platform, middleware, storage, virtualization, and cloud computing. Learn about how they are driving improved business value through technology.
  • More customer sessions and panels than ever before
  • Twice as many hands-on lab sessions than were offered at Red Hat Summit and JBoss World 2011
  • A press panel - "Hot Off the Press: Top Journalists on Today's Most Buzzworthy Tech Trends," featuring reporters and bloggers from GigaOM, InternetNews.com, ReadWriteWeb and TechCrunch
  • The ability to sort sessions based on industry interests (e.g., cloud deployment, clustering, cost savings, development tools, flexibility, Java development,  performance, scalability, security, etc.) in addition to solution and technical difficulty rating


Keynote addresses will include talks from Red Hat leaders including Jim Whitehurst, president and CEO; Paul Cormier, executive vice president and president, Products and Technologies; and Brian Stevens, CTO and vice president, Worldwide Engineering.


"We are excited to have such a strong group of speakers and case studies at Red Hat Summit and JBoss World 2012 that will enable other IT and business executives to understand how technology is transforming the enterprise," said Cormier. "Red Hat Summit and JBoss World take a unique holistic look at how open source solutions are at the forefront this transformation.”


For more information, or to register for Red Hat Summit and JBoss World, visit www.redhat.com/summit.


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  • Certain statements contained in this press release may constitute "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements provide current expectations of future events based on certain assumptions and include any statement that does not directly relate to any historical or current fact. Actual results may differ materially from those indicated by such forward-looking statements as a result of various important factors, including: risks related to delays or reductions in information technology spending; the effects of industry consolidation; the ability of the Company to compete effectively; the integration of acquisitions and the ability to market successfully acquired technologies and products; uncertainty and adverse results in litigation and related settlements; the inability to adequately protect Company intellectual property and the potential for infringement or breach of license claims of or relating to third party intellectual property; the ability to deliver and stimulate demand for new products and technological innovations on a timely basis; risks related to data and information security vulnerabilities; ineffective management of, and control over, the Company’s growth and international operations; fluctuations in exchange rates; and changes in and a dependence on key personnel, as well as other factors contained in our most recent Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q (copies of which may be accessed through the Securities and Exchange Commission’s website at http://www.sec.gov), including those found therein under the captions "Risk Factors" and "Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations". In addition to these factors, actual future performance, outcomes, and results may differ materially because of more general factors including (without limitation) general industry and market conditions and growth rates, economic and political conditions, governmental and public policy changes and the impact of natural disasters such as earthquakes and floods. The forward-looking statements included in this press release represent the Company’s views as of the date of this press release and these views could change. However, while the Company may elect to update these forward-looking statements at some point in the future, the Company specifically disclaims any obligation to do so. These forward-looking statements should not be relied upon as representing the Company’s views as of any date subsequent to the date of this press release.