As first Red Hat Virtualisation Specialist Partner in region, WorldNet offers open source virtualisation benefits and expertise to region

Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, announced that WorldNet has become the first Red Hat Virtualisation Specialist Partner in the Middle East. As a Red Hat Virtualisation Specialist, WorldNet will focus on providing Red Hat’s virtualisation solutions, including the recently delivered Red Hat Enterprise Virtualisation for Servers product set, to the local enterprise market. Red Hat Enterprise Virtualisation for Servers makes performance, security and scalability features available through the value of an open source subscription.

WorldNet is an end-to-end specialist focused on desktop and application virtualisation that offers comprehensive and customised solutions, and is an expert in delivering value to the SME and Enterprise computing environments. With the addition of Red Hat’s Enterprise Virtualisation for Servers product set, WorldNet will be able to offer the value of open source solutions to their customers.

“As a dynamic company keen on adopting leading technologies, our partnership with Red Hat meets our objective of providing our customers with enterprise-class solutions,” said Peers Bailliff, manager at WorldNet. “By integrating our virtualisation services with Red Hat’s advanced virtualisation solutions, we can further enable our customers to benefit from leading technologies for their workforce mobility and data security, and can also help them take advantage of the cost advantages that are offered by Red Hat solutions.”

Partners must complete a series of training courses to qualify for the Red Hat Virtualisation Specialist designation. The additional training is designed to ensure that partners are well-equipped to offer the benefits of virtualisation with any deployment opportunity.

“Red Hat Enterprise Virtualisation aims to enable our customers to easily move applications and hardware platforms to virtualised computing and cloud computing,” said Anuj Kumar, general manager, Middle East and North Africa at Red Hat. “We believe that Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, especially the management components, will allow customers to use virtualisation pervasively. We hope that our Virtualisation Specialist partnership with WorldNet will be the first of many in the region.”

For details on the Red Hat partner program, visit http://www.europe.redhat.com/partners/index.php. For a list of Red Hat partners in your country, visit https://www.redhat.com/Find a partner.

To learn more about the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualisation portfolio or to purchase Red Hat Enterprise Virtualisation for Servers, visit www.redhat.com/virtualization/rhev/server.

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