Red Hat Center of Excellence (CoE) to be innovation hub accelerating workload deployment on the leading Kubernetes-based containerization platform

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Persistent Systems (BSE and NSE: Persistent), is accelerating client journeys to hybrid cloud through Red Hat OpenShift. The company today announced a Center of Excellence (CoE) for the industry’s most comprehensive Kubernetes-based containerization platform, Red Hat OpenShift.

With the formation of the Red Hat CoE, clients can accelerate their digital transformation efforts with workload portability across public cloud providers like AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, and IBM Cloud.

In addition to Persistent’s recent announcement that it has trained over 2,000 professionals on containerization and Kubernetes, the company is adding professional Red Hat sales, engineering and delivery accreditations. This CoE brings together Persistent’s deep engineering and technology experience with proprietary accelerators and methodologies, like the Persistent Digital Greenhouse™, approach to speed Red Hat OpenShift deployments.

Julio Tapia, Senior Director, Partner Ecosystem, Cloud Platforms, Red Hat

“Red Hat OpenShift provides the industry’s most comprehensive enterprise Kubernetes platform, pairing the scale of Kubernetes with the simplicity of Operators and Red Hat’s overall commitment to open source innovation. We’re pleased to collaborate with Persistent through the Red Hat CoE to help customers more quickly develop modern applications and accelerate their digital transformation efforts.”

Persistent has thousands of professionals with containerization and cloud deployment experience from hundreds of projects undertaken every year across AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google, and IBM Cloud. This gives the company the capacity to rapidly scale teams to deploy workloads on Red Hat OpenShift depending on the client’s needs.

Jiani Zhang, President Alliance and Industrial Solutions Unit at Persistent

“As we work with clients to accelerate their cloud journey, the flexibility and competitive advantage from our relationship with Red Hat is crucial. We are helping all organizations embrace their own unique digital mosaic, for which a modern hybrid cloud foundation is essential. Our Red Hat CoE and our tight partnerships with all the leading cloud vendors can help hundreds of organizations scale and accelerate their transformation to a digital enterprise.”

With 11,000 employees around the world, Persistent is a global solutions leader, delivering digital business acceleration and enterprise modernization for businesses across industries and geographies. Persistent’s size and experience give it the ability to scale quickly to meet the needs of enterprise customers.

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About Persistent Systems:

With 12,000+ employees around the world, Persistent Systems (BSE & NSE: PERSISTENT) is a global solutions leader delivering digital business acceleration, enterprise modernization and next-generation product engineering.
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Media Contacts:

Ken Montgomery
Persistent Systems (Global)
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Saviera Barretto
Archetype (India)
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