Red Hat, Wipro form Strategic Partnership to deliver Open Source Solutions across India

  

Companies collaborate in building integrated solutions on Red Hat technologies through joint investments in Wipro’s Centre of Excellence

Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, and Wipro, a leading Indian IT solutions and services provider, today announced that Wipro has become the first Red Hat Premier Partner in India and the two companies have strengthened their  strategic partnership  through joint marketing and integration opportunities designed to bring open source solutions to enterprises across the subcontinent.

Both organisations plan to collaborate in building integrated solutions on Red Hat technologies through joint investments in Wipro’s Centre of Excellence in Bangalore. The objective is to build frameworks and platforms which can be readily replicated and customised by architects and developers to create solutions for industry verticals including telecommunications, banking, financial services, insurance, government, defence and utilities industries.

“Wipro has been a Red Hat partner for more than five years and they have developed substantial skill sets across open source technologies,” said Nandu Pradhan, president & managing director, Red Hat India.  “With this announcement, Wipro and Red Hat have formed a strategic partnership that will enable Wipro to deliver open source solutions in India.”

The partnership gives customers in India the choice to evaluate, select and use a complete open source solution stack backed by award winning solution and support from Red Hat, with implementation, delivery and support services from Wipro.