The American multinational software company aims to strengthen the partner ecosystem and help enterprises to accelerate their digital transformation across industries such as banking and finance services, telecommunications and government.

Senior officials of Red Hat India and South Asia came up with their focus at a press conference on Wednesday at the Westin Hotel.

Neeraj Bhatia, Director-Partner, Alliances and Commercial Sales and Ameeta Roy, Director of Solution Architecture and Palashendu Bhattacharya, Head of sales – State Government and Commercial Business of Red Hat India and South Asia addressed the media.

Neeraj Bhatia said that “the open source can accelerate innovation in Bangladesh’s digital economy. Recent industry reports indicate that cloud computing adoption in Bangladesh has gained momentum in the last few years. Red Hat hopes to empower local businesses to innovate with open hybrid cloud solutions.”

Ameeta Roy said, “Open Source has been a catalyst for digital disruption across the globe by allowing organisations to build an ecosystem that promotes faster innovation, enabling them to scale up, modify and add new features according to the changing trends and customer demands, she said.

Palashendu Bhattacharya said “Open Source solutions are core to innovation in areas like cloud computing, containers, mobile, artificial intelligence, machine learning and beyond. 100 percent of Fortune 500 companies in the airlines, commercial banks, telecom industries rely on Red Hat.”