Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Jim Stallings, general manager of Enterprise Systems Division at IBM Systems and Technology Group, will keynote at the Red Hat Summit, taking place in Boston, Mass. June 18-20, 2008. Stallings will deliver his partner keynote presentation on the opening day of the Red Hat Summit, following a keynote speech by Red Hat President and CEO Jim Whitehurst. Additional Red Hat Summit keynote speakers include John Halamka, CIO of Harvard Medical School, Joel Cohen, Co-Creator of The Simpsons and Red Hat CTO Brian Stevens.
Jim Stallings has over 23 years of experience in the information technology industry, which includes business management, strategy and innovation. Today, he is responsible for IBM's strategy for new enterprise data centers and delivering large systems and storage offerings to IBM's largest enterprise customers worldwide. While focused entirely on the challenges facing customers running global I/T operations, Stallings brings to the market an integrated set of solutions that spans IBM's hardware, software and services offerings. In a former role, Stallings served as General Manager of Linux, where he led the transformation of Linux from an emerging opportunity for IBM to a multibillion dollar business encompassing IBM's server software and services business units.
IBM's partnership with Red Hat is an important part of our strategy to help clients move to a new enterprise data center, which offers dramatic improvements in IT performance, energy efficiency and enables the rapid deployment of new IT services to support business growth,
said Jim Stallings, general manager, Enterprise Systems, IBM. Red Hat's portfolio of Linux and standards-based solutions and services is an important element of our new enterprise data center strategy, which is designed to help our clients better manage key data center issues including space, power, and energy costs. I look forward to greeting our customers at the Red Hat Summit in June.
The Red Hat Summit is an annual conference featuring hands-on workshops, demonstrations, technical and business sessions, solutions expos and opportunities to speak and network with the developers, engineers and partners behind Red Hat's leading open source software solutions. The event brings together customers, partners and members of the community in a global open source knowledge exchange.
For more information, or to register for the Red Hat Summit, visit http://www.redhat.com/summit. Register for the Summit by May 23, 2008 and receive the Early Bird discounted rate of $995.
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