Red Hat has announced that Wipro has become the first Red Hat
Premier Partner in India. Both organisations plan to collaborate in
building integrated solutions on Red Hat technologies through joint
investments in Wipro’s Centre of Excellence in Bangalore. The
objective is to build frameworks and platforms which can be readily
replicated and customised by architects and developers to create
solutions for industry verticals including telecommunications,
banking, financial services, insurance, government, defence and
utilities industries.
“Wipro has been a Red Hat partner for more than five years
and they have developed substantial skill sets across open source
technologies,” said Nandu Pradhan, President & Managing
Director, Red Hat India. “With this announcement, Wipro
and Red Hat have formed a strategic partnership that will enable
Wipro to deliver open source solutions in India.”
The partnership gives customers in India the choice to evaluate,
select and use a complete open source solution stack backed by
award winning solution and support from Red Hat, with
implementation, delivery and support services from Wipro.
“We have seen increased adoption of open source solutions
across the enterprise and specifically in the government,
telecommunications and insurance industries. Open source solutions
are a significant part of the business strategy at Wipro, and we
have invested in creating an open source practice, which today has
strong skill sets in delivering end to end solutions,” said
Achuthan Nair, Vice President and Business Head, Professional
Services, Wipro, India, Middle East and Africa. “The
partnership with Red Hat is a compelling value proposition for
customers who have started to adopt the performance, reliability,
scalability, security and superior value available through open
source technology.”
The partnership will enable Wipro to better serve customers that
are seeking to virtualize their environments, deploy supported open
source middleware for their applications, leverage cloud computing,
enable SOA within their business processes and migrate from
proprietary to an open source environment.
With this collaboration, Wipro will be able to offer
cost-efficient, reliable, secure and scalable solutions built
around open source platforms, to its customers. Wipro also plans to
offer application services; migration and upgrade services, desktop
services and enterprise management services to its customers as
well as consulting resources to choose solutions that enable
optimal performance, improve productivity and time to market and
deliver a tangible return on investment.
One of the key projects executed jointly by Wipro and Red Hat has
been at the Employee State Insurance Corporation (ESIC). Wipro has
been selected to implement ESIC's Project Panchdeep which is aimed
at improving healthcare services to its beneficiaries. The solution
from Wipro is a completely on the Open Source Stack and has been
deployed on Red Hat Enterprise Linux leveraging the integrated
virtualization and clustering. Wipro and Red Hat have partnered
together in this key win.
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