Accenture leans heavily on Red Hat partnership for hybrid cloud success
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In today’s world, companies rarely rise to global prominence or achieve rapid growth without strategic collaborations with other industry players.
With partnerships as the modern-day corporate game, Accenture PLC seems to have entirely mastered the playing field. The company’s ongoing partnership with Red Hat Inc. is one of those masterstrokes, and it looks to spell the emergence of an entirely new business area within Accenture itself.
Mark Potts (pictured), managing director of the Accenture & IBM Red Hat Business Group at Accenture, spoke with John Furrier, host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio, during the recent Red Hat Summit. They discussed the current hybrid cloud landscape, with a specific focus on Red Hat products like OpenShift and Ansible.
help outline INFRA Watch live: Focus on OpenShift and hybrid just part of the many storylines for Red Hat Summit on April 27-28
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For Jim Whitehurst, becoming the chief executive of Red Hat Inc. in 2007 was like ordering a five-course meal and only receiving a couple of appetizers. He expected to find a customer list that represented the core global industries and biggest information technology consumers.
Instead, it was financial institutions, some phone companies and not much else.
“When I joined, our top customer list was great all major banks and telcos,” Whitehurst described in a 2010 interview. “But where’s everybody else? Where are the big mainstream users of IT? That’s one of the key things that we worked on.”
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