Red Hat Collaborates with Melaka State Government and Abyres for Open Source Initiative

New Initiative to Drive Open Source Education and Training in Melaka, Introduces Melaka State Open Source Center of Excellence

KUALA LUMPUR – 27 September 2012 – Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, announced today it has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Melaka State Government and Abyres, one of Red Hat’s partners in Malyasia. This is the first-of-its-kind initiative in Melaka to help drive awareness for the adoption of open source technologies in the public sector.

Under the agreement, Red Hat will provide relevant training material under the Red Hat Academy curriculum to local universities, polytechnics and community colleges in the State of Melaka. 50 supported licenses for the Melaka State Open Source Center and 20 supported licenses for Universities, Polytechnics and Community Colleges located in the State of Melaka, Malaysia will also be provided for the purpose of teaching Red Hat Academy’s training content. Certification examinations are also made available at a discounted fee for students, lecturers and instructors of Universities and Polytechnics located in the State of Melaka.

(L-R) Dirk-Peter van Leeuwen, Vice President and General Manager, Asia Pacific, Red Hat; Dr. Mohamed Sulaiman Sultan Suhaibuddeen, Head of ICT, Melaka State Government, and Mohammad Jamal Suleiman, Chief Executive Officer, ABYRES are set to ensure the adoption of open source technologies amongst local graduates.

The Open Source Center of Excellence by the Melaka State Government will provide the necessary facilities and resources for local students and lecturers to be trained in Linux, middleware and other open source technologies. The Center of Excellence expects to see 250 trainees over the next year with the goal of a 100% increase year-over-year increase in 2014. Abyres will also be supporting the Melaka State Government in organizing activities to drive open source awareness.

The Melaka State Government has also recently deployed Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization as the foundation for its planned cloud computing infrastructure.

Melaka State Government Selects Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization to Prepare for the Cloud

Malaysian Government Entity Gains Flexibility and Reduces Costs with Red Hat Technologies

KUALA LUMPUR – 27 September 2012 – Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that the Melaka State Government in Malaysia has deployed Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization as the foundation for its planned cloud computing infrastructure.  Since deploying Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, as well as the Red Hat Enterprise Linux enterprise operating system, Melaka State Government has reduced costs and gained flexibility.

The Government of the State of Melaka is comprised of 43 departmental offices that govern four local authorities.  Resulting from growth and expansion, the Melaka State Government was confronted with the challenge of having information and systems in various silos. To improve efficiencies in its organizational system, the company embarked on an IT consolidation and virtualization journey enabled by Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization. 

The Melaka state government made the choice to rely on Red Hat technologies due to the reliable Red Hat subscription model and innovative open source development model. With open source technology, costs are typically reduced and flexibility is gained.  Open source technologies, such as Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization and its Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) hypervisor, also offer freedom from vendor lock-in, which is a compelling benefit for building cloud computing infrastructures. 

In addition to Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, the state government implemented Red Hat Enterprise Linux, a trusted and secure operating system that has been serving enterprises for more than a decade.  The combination of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization provide the building blocks for the Melaka State Government’s future cloud environment.