Red Hat launches first APAC Open Innovation Labs to support customers' digital journey

BANGALORE, INDIA: Red Hat launched its first Open Innovation Labs in the Asia-Pacific region in Singapore. Red Hat also has physical Red Hat Open Innovation Labs in Boston and London.

Red Hat Open Innovation Labs launched in 2016 based on customer interest in applying Red Hat’s vast open source expertise to help them solve these business and IT challenges. The Labs help to solve customers' business challenges in an accelerated fashion by working collaboratively in an immersive, residency-oriented lab environment with Red Hat experts either at its own lab or in a pop-up lab at a customer’s site.

As digital transformation reshapes industries, organizations of all sizes and across industries are rethinking their approach to innovation and how technology can help them compete more effectively.

The typical Red Hat Open Innovation Labs residency lasts anywhere from one to three months and provides IT professionals with the technologies, methods, and skills to accelerate business initiatives.

Through Red Hat Open Innovation Labs, IT teams work closely with Red Hat consultants, engineers and subject matter experts to modernize existing applications or create new ones with open source and DevOps. Through hands-on instruction, teams can also learn how to adopt agile development methodologies, DevOps practices, and get immediate and direct experience with the open principles and open culture that underlie many open source communities.

As part of the Red Hat Open Innovation Labs engagement, customers can use microservices, deploy them in containers, and deliver them using DevOps methodologies across physical, cloud and mobile environments to more quickly scale up or down on-demand and help meet new requirements.