Mary-Louise Hoffman
Brian Stevens, chief technology officer at Red Hat, says the company will continue to pursue acquisition deals to grow its OpenStack-powered enterprise cloud offerings, GigaOM reported Thursday.
Mathew Ingram writes that Red Hat has agreed to acquire distributed file system provider Inktank for $175 million and signed a deal to buy open-source cloud services provider eNovance for $95 million.
Stevens told the audience at a recent GigaOM-hosted forum in San Francisco that the two purchases are intended to complement Red Hat’s OpenStack expansion goals.
He added that Red Hat aims to consolidate its existing technology offerings around the OpenStack system, Ingram reports.
Inktank offers a file-and-object storage platform known as Ceph, while eNovance provides OpenStack implementation and training services to enterprise clients.
