Scott Herold, product management supervisor of virtualization technologies at Red Hat, Inc., spoke to Stu Miniman, cohost of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, during VTUG Winter Warmer 2016 about the evolution of Red Hat in the realm of virtualization.

Herold said that Red Hat is no longer just an operating system, and the company has been transforming and modernizing throughout the market. Virtualization is a huge component to that modernization, and the company has embraced infrastructure, architecture challenges and containerization in the scope of some of the fields where the company is present.

The OpenStack equation

Red Hat has gone to great lengths to ease the amount of global transformation that is happening in the marketplace by implementing a platform that is based on the leading open-source movements. OpenStack is an important element in this proposition, and the company is working with large cloud environments, technologies like Docker and with other major partnerships.

Red Hat also has a number of interesting strategic alliances, including Microsoft. The notion of Microsoft and Red Hat together is something that would not have been thought about just 10 years ago. At the end of the Day, Red Hat is focused on helping customers move their environments across multiple stacks, remove lock-in, and benefit from the variety of services that are readily available thanks to the features and power of modern infrastructures.

Red Hat will continue its open-source drive and has an extensive ecosystem of training, certification and education that help it grow.

Watch the full interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE and theCUBE’s coverage of VTUG Winter Warmer 2016.

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