Red Hat Summit 2021 opened in Cairo

Red Hat, the world’s leading provider of open-source software solutions, organised the third edition of the Red Hat Summit 2021 in Cairo. The current edition of the Red Hat Summit is the first to be held in Egypt and coincides with the imminent announcement of the opening of Red Hat’s offices in the country at the beginning of 2022.

‏Red Hat Summit Connect gathers open-source experts from diverse backgrounds for dozens of engaging sessions focused on key trends, best practices, and the latest technologies in areas like big data, IoT, IT modernisation, cloud, and mobile.

‏Eng Ghada Labib, Deputy Minister of Communications and Information Technology, led the opening of the event. She is joined by delegates from Red Hat that include Mr Adrian Pickering, Regional General Manager MENA, Mr Ayman El Sheikh, Solution Architect Director, MENA, Mr Philip Andrews, Vice President, and General Manager CEMEA, Ms. Noha Kadry, Red Hat Academy Manager META, Mr. Aly Noureldin, Sales & Channel Manager MENA, and a group of ICT experts and dignitaries and leaders of Egyptian and international companies involved in information security.

‏Red Hat is the world’s leading provider of enterprise open-source solutions that include high-performing Linux, cloud, container, and Kubernetes technologies. Red Hat’s open-source hybrid cloud technologies provide a horizontal cloud platform for virtual network functions (VNFs) for the companies, enabling them to deliver new services to customers more quickly, improve corporate investments and network performance. It also aims to reduce operating expenses through the adoption of On Red Hat OpenStack Platform and Red Hat Ceph Storage in addition to reliable and high-performance application deployment and management platforms.

The company helps customers integrate new and existing IT applications, develop cloud-native applications, standardise on our industry-leading operating system, and automate, secure, and manage complex environments. Award-winning support, training, and consulting services make Red Hat a trusted adviser to the Fortune 500. As a strategic partner to cloud providers, system integrators, application vendors, customers, and open-source communities, Red Hat can help organisations prepare for the digital future.