Red Hat Day 2013 in Riyadh to Demonstrate How Middle East Enterprises Can Drive Innovation through Open Source Technologies

RIYADH, KSA - 2nd December, 2013: Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, is set to host Red Hat Day 2013, an end-user event that will be held on Dec. 4, 2013, at the Riyadh Marriott Hotel in Saudi Arabia. Through a series of presentations and real-world use cases, company executives and industry leaders will illustrate how businesses in the region can transform their IT infrastructures and drive strategic impact for their business through deployment of open source technologies.

Red Hat Day 2013 will feature live demonstrations, case study presentations and the following sessions:

Transform your IT – How to drive strategic impact for your business

Transform your business

• Manage and build your cloud with Red Hat CloudForms
• Next-generation application development – from months to minutes
• Moving to an open business platform to drive innovation – Red Hat JBoss Middleware
• Migrating mission critical applications to a standards based infrastructure

Supporting Quotes

Michel Isnard, vice president, Southern Europe, Middle East and Africa at Red Hat

“It is widely understood that in today's economy, the companies that win will be companies which better understand their customers, connect with their customers in ways they like to communicate, and which can provide new products and services quickly, to discover new needs faster and at a lower cost. Red Hat Day is a perfect forum to show regional businesses the power that open source can offer to their strategic plans and objectives. It also offers an opportunity for them to learn, network, experience and discuss the innovative technologies and best practices that other global organizations are applying to drive innovation and transform their businesses.”