Red Hat, Inc. provides open source software solutions primarily to enterprise customers worldwide. The company develops and offers operating system, middleware, virtualization, storage, and cloud technologies. Its products include Red Hat Enterprise Linux, an operating system designed for enterprise computing; Red Hat JBoss Middleware that offers a range of middleware offerings for developing, deploying, and managing applications that are accessible via the Internet, enterprise Intranets, extranets, clouds, and virtual private networks; and Red Hat Virtualization, which includes standalone virtualization functionality and management tools for server and desktop deployments. The company also offers Red Hat Storage Server software that enables users to treat storage as a virtualized resource, for deployment on-premise and in public, or hybrid clouds, as well as aggregates disk and memory resources into a unified storage capability. In addition, it provides various cloud, storage, and systems management offerings, as well as offers training, consulting, and support services; and other technologies, such as for software development, high-performance distributed computing, directory services, and user authentication. The company sells its enterprise technologies through annual or multi-year subscriptions. Red Hat, Inc. has strategic alliances with Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.; Intel Corporation; Amazon.com, Inc.; Fujitsu Limited; International Business Machines Corporation; and Rackspace Hosting, Inc. The company was formerly known as Red Hat Software, Inc. and changed its name to Red Hat, Inc. in June 1999. Red Hat, Inc. was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina.

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