10th Annual Red Hat Innovation Awards Recognize Achievements in Open Source

Acuity
Systems, Amadeus, Atos, BSE, Genfare, and Paddy Power Betfair commended for
exceptional uses of Red Hat solutions

Hong Kong – 5 July, 2016 – Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading
provider of open source solutions, today announced the winners of the 10th
annual Red Hat Innovation Awards, recognizing customers and partners for their
outstanding and innovative use of Red Hat solutions. This year’s winners –
Acuity Systems, Amadeus, Atos, BSE, Genfare, and Paddy Power Betfair – will be
honored during Red Hat Summit, the industry’s premier open source technology
event, taking place this week in San Francisco. Online voting is now open to select
the overall 2016 Red Hat Innovator of the Year.

Since 2007, Red Hat has recognized the
technological achievements of its customers and partners worldwide who
demonstrate creative thinking, determined problem-solving, and innovative uses
of Red Hat technology.Winners from the last decade represent leaders
from around the world and across industries who are using open source solutions
to transform their organizations and enable faster innovation.

For the 2016 awards, nominations were received
with judges selecting one winning project in six categories that exemplified
the most innovative achievements used to answer complex IT challenges with Red
Hat solutions. From the category winners, an overall 2016 Red Hat Innovator of
the Year will be selected by the community through online voting. Voting will
open at 9 a.m. PT on Monday, June 27, and close at 11:59 p.m. PT on
Wednesday, June 29. The winner will be announced during an awards ceremony on
Thursday, June 30, at the 2016 Red Hat Summit.

The winners of the 10th annual Red Hat
Innovation Awards are:

Acuity Systems is a leading solutions provider
of cloud-based, big data analytics platforms and applications for the government,
enabling agencies to interpret data of any type from any source. Acuity’s
solutions are uniquely architected to help its customers transform data to
insight to value. Its analytics platform integrates the latest open source
technologies to deliver high performance, scalable and future-proof analytics
applications. Acuity delivered GSA’s Data to Decisions (D2D) platform, a next
generation data and decision management framework capable of government-wide
scale to allow the government to better use its data resources to make more
intelligent decisions while lowering costs and addressing the government’s
security requirements. Acuity deployed Red Hat solutions to develop the
platform, including Red Hat JBoss Data
Virtualization, Red Hat JBoss Fuse, and Red Hat JBoss BPM
Suite. The D2D platform has
evolved into an Analytics-as-a-Service platform, where the GSA can collect,
manage, and analyze complex data and derive information needed to help
executives, users, and even taxpayers, to make better decisions.

Atos, a digital services company with 100,000
employees in 72 countries, provides consulting and systems integration
services, managed services and business process outsourcing, cloud operations,
big data and cybersecurity solutions, and is the Worldwide IT Partner of the
Olympic and Paralympic Games. Atos wanted to create a Software-as-a-Service
(SaaS) solution for government departments in the United Kingdom to more easily
transfer information in a secure way. The company built Canopy Digital Connect,
a new SaaS solution using Red Hat JBoss Fuse, Red Hat Enterprise
Linux, and Red Hat Satellite. Atos reports that the new solution can help
government departments with a significant reduction in capital expenditures,
thanks to the fully automated nature of the service and the absence of upfront
costs for its users. The new solution is also helping government departments
transform the way they engage with citizens in implementing their digital
agendas.

Amadeus is a leading provider of technology
solutions for the global travel industry. To meet changing customer
requirements, the company needed a new computing platform that was highly
available, flexible, and tolerant to infrastructure fluctuations. Amadeus chose Red Hat OpenShift
Container Platform, formerly known as OpenShift Enterprise by Red Hat, as the foundation for its new application
infrastructure, building on the company’s existing collaboration with Red Hat
and its prior success with Red Hat solutions, including Red Hat JBoss Middleware. Amadeus expects its container-based cloud
solution to decrease system latency to enable better customer service, increase
platform availability, streamline operations through automation, and reduce
time to market for new services.

BSE (formerly known as Bombay Stock Exchange
Ltd.) is Asia’s first stock exchange. More than 5,500 companies are listed on
BSE, making it the world’s largest exchange by members listed. For two decades,
BSE struggled under the weight of its proprietary technologies. It found that
its old infrastructure limited innovation, and the high cost of upgrades
ultimately made its system economically unfeasible. The Indian stock exchange
collaborated with Red Hat to build an entirely new trading system on open
source technology, powered by Red Hat Enterprise
Linux. BSE reports that
since implementing its new system, it has increased its volume from 10 million
orders a day to 400 million, cut hardware costs by 66 percent, and increased
its trading speed from 10 milliseconds to 6 microseconds.

Paddy Power Betfair, the world’s largest
public online betting company, conducts a massive volume of transactions
rapidly, consistently, and with security top of mind on a 24×7 basis. Its
legacy infrastructure was unable to keep up with its growing volume of
business, so they looked into a new-generation solution that could enable a
modern infrastructure, as well as improved scalability, security, and agility.
Paddy Power Betfair relies on a range of Red Hat technologies and services,
including Red Hat Enterprise
Linux, Red Hat OpenStack
Platform,Red Hat Consulting, and Red Hat Technical
Account Management,
for their modern infrastructure. The company’s stack now delivers the power to
scale out horizontally and achieve higher uptime. The ability to manage its
infrastructure as code helps the company stay competitive by quickly releasing
updates, new products, and conducting automated maintenance across platforms
while allowing customers to continue to use its services. As an internal
private cloud, it also delivers the flexibility of a public cloud while
providing security features required by regulators.

Genfare provides smart fare and management
solutions to transit agencies throughout North America, processing more than
three billion transactions annually. As the fare-collection industry has
evolved, Genfare needed to undergo a digital transformation—transitioning the
company from a hardware company to a software company that fully embraces the
Internet of Things (IoT). Genfare collaborated with Red Hat to develop Genfare
Link, a cloud-based platform for fare management that supports a wide variety
of fare media: mobile tickets, smart cards, magnetic cards and cash, coins and
tokens. For Genfare, its new fare-management platform represents a
transformation from classic embedded systems to a modern IoT infrastructure.
With its open source-based platform, communication between the farebox,
point-of-sale systems, ticket vending machines, and back-end systems are now
facilitated through a common set of services. The new platform gives Genfare an
advantage over other suppliers by enabling transit agencies to reduce their IT
support, on-premise hosting, and operational costs while providing a
customizable, easy to access, full-featured total fare management solution.

The 2016 Red Hat Innovation Awards judges
included: Carla Arend, program director, European Software, IDC; Sean Michael
Kerner, senior editor, eWEEK; Henry Peyret, principal analyst, Forrester
Research, Inc.; and Ashesh Badani, vice president and general manager,
OpenShift, Red Hat.

Marco Bill-Peter, vice president, Customer
Experience and Engagement, Red Hat
“When we started the Red Hat Innovation Awards Program in 2007, we knew our
customers and partners were using Red Hat solutions in many impressive ways,
but nothing could have prepared us for what was to come. Over the last 10
years, we’ve learned how Red Hat technology has helped these teams improve
processes, overcome challenges, and enhance their bottom line. We’ve
continually been impressed by the creative solutions and innovations we’ve
seen, and this year is no different. Congratulations to everyone who has been
honored – this year and since 2007 – for your truly innovative
accomplishments.”

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