Red Hat (NYSE: RHT) continues to surprise Wall Street with revenues and profits that beat analysts’ expectations even as the Hatters continue to invest heavily in new products. Hardly a Linux-only company any more, Red Hat is aiming to dominate “cloud computing,” building on its Linux expertise.

Paul Cormier, executive vice president of products and technology, explained what Red Hat is doing in pushing and embracing new cloud frontiers.

In a conference call with analysts after the latest earnings report on Wednesday, Cormier outlined recent developments:

“First, we launched RHEL [Red Hat Enterprise Linux] Atomic host which provides a streamlined host platform that is optimized to run application containers.


Who is Paul Cormier?

His hio at Red Hat:

“Paul Cormier leads Red Hat’s technology and products organizations, including engineering, product management, and product marketing for Red Hat’s technologies. He joined Red Hat in May 2001 as executive vice president, Engineering.

“Cormier’s leadership and experience in enterprise technology has led to the introduction of Red Hat’s acclaimed line of enterprise products, including Red Hat Enterprise Linux®. He has been instrumental in forging tight partnerships with many leading technology companies.

“Before Red Hat, Cormier served as senior vice president of research and development at BindView, helping the company achieve market leadership in 2000.”


“The software components included in RHEL Atomic have been designed to enhance the performance, scalability and security of containers while keeping the consistency of RHEL creating a superior platform on which to deploy and run application containers.

“RHEL Atomic enables applications to be comprised of micro services and a container based architecture to more fully realize the benefits of this more nimble and plausible approach. …

“Second, and in conjunction with the launch of RHEL Atomic, we announced the industry’s first certified container ecosystem program to drive adoption of more secure, reliable, containerized applications based on RHEL in the Docker format.

“This partner program will offer Red Hat container certification to certify that a container’s content is from a trusted source and that both the application and the container itself are free of identified vulnerabilities and will perform on Red Hat infrastructure enabling a robust end-to-end solution that is supported by Red Hat and its partners. …

“Third, we continue to enhance our RHEL OpenStack platform technology with the launch of Version 6, our second major commercial release in FY ’15. RHEL OpenStack 6 platform adds over 700 enhancements and updates, all focused on improving the production ready cloud platform for enterprise businesses, telecommunication companies and public cloud hosting providers.

“Building a co-engineered design with RHEL 7, RHEL OpenStack 6 platforms delivers new features aimed at easing enterprise deployments and administration within existing data centers, as well as capabilities specific to telecommunication providers who enable network functions virtualization or as it’s called NFV.

“Fourth, in February we also deepened our strategic relationship with network and communication solution vendors to bring carrier grade OpenStack solutions for NFV. Specifically, we expanded our partnership with NEC, a leading provider of communication solutions and a top 10 OpenStack contributor. …

“In summary, our focused engineering and support efforts in FY ’15 have broadened our portfolio of commercial technologies….. This company wide execution has increased our strategic position with customers as we look to further expand our market share.”

For the full transcript of the earnings call, visit: http://seekingalpha.com/article/3029196-red-hats-rht-ceo-jim-whitehurst-on-q4-2015-results-earnings-call-transcript?part=single