IBM Consulting has announced the opening of the inaugural Innovation Hub powered by Red Hat at IBM’s Client Innovation Center in Bengaluru, India.
This new hub is designed to help global clients significantly accelerate their enterprise transformation through hybrid cloud and AI.
The Innovation Hub is more than just a physical space; it is a catalyst for innovation and co-creation. It combines IBM Consulting’s deep industry expertise with the power of Red Hat’s open-source technologies to help organizations to scale with AI, automation, and hybrid cloud solutions.
Deepshikha Antes, Partner, Global Red Hat Strategic Partnership and Practice Leader at IBM Consulting, said: Clients across the globe can now experience the benefits of Red Hat technologies at the new Innovation Hub, designed to provide a state-of-the-art experience to help our mutual clients accelerate their enterprise transformation through hybrid cloud and AI.”
With the guidance and expertise of IBM consultants, the innovation hub provides clients with hands-on access to Red Hat technologies, helping them address unique pain points and business needs to support their digital transformation.
The focus is on delivering better value across the client’s IT stack by learning more about hybrid cloud, application migration and modernization, generative AI, virtualization and automation.
The center uses client-led scenarios based on real-world examples. Clients can experience Red Hat solutions first-hand and evaluate the technologies and tools needed to accelerate their business transformation. They can also work alongside IBM consultants to better understand how experts can architect and support Red Hat implementations within their organizations.
Rob McMahon, Red Hat’s senior director for Global Software, Services and Integration Partners is pleased with the collaboration: “Red Hat is pleased to collaborate with IBM Consulting to participate in their Client Innovation Center for customers to experience the benefits of Red Hat’s industry-leading technologies first-hand.”
IBM Consulting is the industry’s largest Red Hat services practice and a global systems integrator (GSI) for Red Hat solutions. The collaboration is based on an open ecosystem approach.
The shared goal is to serve customers with the expertise and technologies needed to enable digital transformation, integrate and scale AI, and solve the most challenging business problems. The opening of the Innovation Hub marks a new phase of efficiency and innovation for customers.
