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5/23/24, 2:46 PM Red Hat Helps Partners Deliver AI-ready Solutions - Channel Post MEA
The cloud is hybrid. So is AI. — Tuesday, May 7, 8-10 a.m. MDT (YouTube, LinkedIn)
Optimizing IT for the AI era. — Wednesday, May 8, 8:30-9:30 a.m. MDT (YouTube, LinkedIn)

Supporting Quotes
Stefanie Chiras, senior vice president, Partner Ecosystem Success, Red Hat

“For many organizations, AI is now a business imperative. As an established catalyst for open source innovation, Red Hat’s
partner ecosystem is equipped to bring AI use cases to life for customers across any cloud, datacenter or network edge. We
are thrilled to see our highly skilled and diverse ecosystem of ISVs and GSIs continue to rally behind Red Hat platforms to
deliver differentiated AI-enabled solutions and services to customers.”
Kevin Dallas, CEO, EnterpriseDB

“Leveraging Red Hat OpenShift AI with the new EDB Postgres AI platform launching later this month will give customers the
ability to seamlessly enable transactional, analytical and AI workloads, from edge to the core. Complemented by Red Hat’s
renowned AI support, this is a true game-changer as we all move to AI and data-centric business models, where customers
are looking to make the most of their data estates through a single pane of glass.”

Rajesh Venkatachalam, SVP and Global Head of Red Hat Business Unit, HCLTech
“HCLTech’s Cloud Native and AI Labs enable IT modernization and AI enablement for

clients using industry-leading technologies. We look forward to collaborating with Red Hat to integrate its open source
solutions within our AI Labs to deliver GenAI-based offerings that support optimized infrastructure and added functionality for
greater predictability to drive AI workloads for clients.”
Michael Healy, managing partner, watsonx and Generative AI, IBM Consulting

“Our clients are looking to bring AI into enterprise applications and hybrid cloud platforms to create better experiences and get
deeper insights. Red Hat OpenShift AI and AI-ready solutions such as Ansible Lightspeed and IBM watsonx Code Assistant
address these needs. Coupled with IBM Consulting’s skills and expertise, clients can accelerate business value, drive
efficiency across the enterprise and scale AI to transform their business.”
Giovanni Carraro, Senior Vice President, Global Strategic Alliances, Kyndryl

“Kyndryl is excited to build on our existing expertise and vast service offerings with Red Hat to further support AI workloads on
Red Hat’s industry-leading hybrid cloud platforms. In collaboration with Red Hat, we are committed to helping organizations
establish AI-ready infrastructure, equipped with automation capabilities and supported managed services, that can provide the
flexibility and reliability they need to not only meet critical business needs but also pave the way for future success.”

Ben Slater, chief product officer, Instaclustr by NetApp
“By combining the power of Spark with the agility and scalability of Red Hat OpenShift, we’re providing businesses with the
tools they need to turn data into actionable insights more efficiently and effectively than ever before. This collaboration with
Red Hat represents our commitment to driving innovation in the data management space.”

Bojan Mrazovac, CTO, NTT DATA Romania
“NTT DATA is introducing an innovative Security, Privacy and Integrity Protection platform (SPIP) featuring Attribute-Based
Encryption designed to enhance data security in today’s digital environments. Red Hat OpenShift AI will provide key
functionalities to SPIP, harnessing AI to elevate privacy and security protections, allowing robust data security features
according to our zero-trust security model.”

Gavin Day, executive vice president, Office of the CEO, SAS

“The flexibility and scalability of our leading data and AI platform, SAS® Viya®, combined with the portability and security of
Red Hat OpenShift takes AI-powered digital transformation from idea to reality, empowering our customers with trusted insights
and decisions that make a difference for their businesses.”

Harrison Johnson, vice president, Technology Partners and Business Development, Starburst

“Starburst is excited to see Red Hat OpenShift AI becoming a widely available AI platform. Our combined technologies provide
data scientists with an enterprise-grade platform to build, train, test, and deploy AI models and applications more easily and
quickly. In the new world of GenAI models are brought to the data and Starburst allows all available data to be utilized without
moving decentralized data. Starburst is honored to be a trusted data analytics engine for Red Hat OpenShift AI, and we’re
excited to extend our partnership to meet customer’s AI requirements.”

Manish Mangal, global business head, Network Services & CTO-Telecom, Tech Mahindra
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