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Red Hat CEO James Whitehurst on the growth of companies implementing cloud computing and how it helps companies be more efficient.
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You can just call them feather in the cap of red have the company recently acquired -- -- And now it is offering support services friends one -- based cloud systems.
So are there any other rabbits about to pull out of Red Hat get -- Jim whitehurst threat CEO president dressing on the first on fox visited the I think -- thought that was funny.
How -- -- talk about this because you're really working towards that you deals.
An end up in the enterprise space and in -- really kind of jumping full throttle -- that -- mean our business is really do you think gonna continue.
Head of the cloud and can you continue to to profit from that move.
Oh absolutely what we're seeing is enterprises obviously a massive trillion dollars in total IT infrastructure out there cloud is a more efficient way to handle many of those tasks so we're seeing enterprises.
Bill quickly.
Towards implementing clout the big issue -- we have a trillion dollars in the old model you know how you get there is difficult and that's what we're working to help customers must.
-- as you've always work with Hewlett-Packard and -- will be new -- strengthening.
That partnership.
More now today I mean where do you see this partnership going between the two companies.
Well -- Packers but a great customer or -- it customer of ours and also partner for us going to market for years you can -- a -- enterprise space that you're really focusing on.
Yeah -- absolutely and so as we would jointly and our customers they have a lot of customers that are on old traditional Unix systems and as they look to move into modern architecture.
UHP's the leading provider of X 86 servers you in the world.
And working with them we provide a software stack on top of that we're both jointly working to bring a lot of -- work -- certain traditional models to the -- and.
Do you find that.
That there is more corporate opportunity enterprise opportunity if you will business to business opportunity the United States.
Or do you think of those opportunities are more overseas.
Whether it's China whether it's part of Japan even Australia's -- -- -- in Tennessee the -- for a for now.
Well it's coming a little bit from both but from a different perspective the US assessed by far the largest IT infrastructure and it's probably the furthest along in terms of market leading.
So we see a lot of those customers moving over in adopting clout early.
In China we are using something fascinating it's just like you -- with cell -- where.
There is no IT infrastructure so it tape we're gonna build new infrastructure what's to a first in the cloud and distort -- -- storage capacity.
Well one of the incredible things we all have cell -- now -- those devices are.
Massive collectors of data you take video.
Pictures.
And all that data has to be stored somewhere so we recently entered distorts market there is.
You know twenty X growth over the next ten years in the amount of -- of storage out there so it is a huge problem in their first huge opportunity for -- -- Something you think you're gonna push more into is that storage immediately -- have to measure sang with where we're going with.
Well absolutely and even today the the distribution networks that distribute Netflix movies or pandora these -- off customers of our storage solutions and they store all of that data.
-- -- -- -- According you know about competition pick his every Smart technologies CEO well they're -- is -- one of them.
But they're all I mean they -- get in on the cloud push into the clouds and it's gonna be a lot of competition from big and small companies in your space how did you.
Had to compete with that's his strong.
Well what we're unique in that we use this thing called open source is the development model where the only publicly traded open source development and not our company but that based on that model right and so we've been heavily uniquely protect that and not so we'll continue to drive that forward and it is unique it's different and no one else is really competing in open source with us.
And again a -- elect -- a big piece of that well critics is a piece of that but all of our software -- solutions open source are middleware is open source.
Nine of the ten largest public clouds all run on open source infrastructure so the cloud is really really built on open source you're.
You're in the process of moving the company to rally North Carolina rallied around.
Yes it is -- what is -- -- advantages of being in North Carolina vs frankly being another stage that.
Higher taxes well -- already well.
What we look we have large development -- in Boston.
On the West Coast in our headquarters now in Raleigh.
We have.
A thousand people in Raleigh it's relatively low cost area to live in incredibly well educated workforce and very very easy -- -- retain people so it's been a great place for us in the -- have specific skill sets that need to be in that the area or in the Bay Area.
That stock up 13% over the last year I Jim whitehurst -- has CEO Jim thank you very much think that what -- You're gonna Sampras has got us a little bit ties I don't want to -- -- -- monitoring.
