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Accenture leans heavily on Red Hat partnership for hybrid cloud success

In today’s world, companies rarely rise to global prominence — or achieve rapid growth — without strategic collaborations with other industry players.

With partnerships as the modern-day corporate game, Accenture PLC seems to have entirely mastered the playing field. The company’s ongoing partnership with Red Hat Inc. is one of those masterstrokes, and it looks to spell the emergence of an entirely new business area within Accenture itself.

Mark Potts (pictured), managing director of the Accenture & IBM Red Hat Business Group at Accenture, spoke with John Furrier, host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio, during the recent Red Hat Summit. They discussed the current hybrid cloud landscape, with a specific focus on Red Hat products like OpenShift and Ansible. (* Disclosure below.)

Making future-forward strides

Last fall, Accenture announced it was forming a new cloud-first business unit within Accenture. It’s investing $3 billion into that business unit, according to Potts.

“We’re going to dedicate over 70,000 people worldwide to that business unit and that cloud-first initiative. And as part of that cloud-first initiative, we’ve also developed our new hybrid cloud strategy,” he stated.

With companies moving increasing amounts of their workloads to the cloud, there comes a time when conventional infrastructures just don’t cut it anymore — either in terms of capacity, flexibility or scalability. Hybrid cloud has been identified as a bridge gap, and Red Hat’s technologies are reinforcing that notion at an enterprise level, according to Potts.

“We see Red Hat as a very important partner in that business. And as you mentioned, they’ve also been in the distributed computing space for a long time. We also see them as a partner for clients that are lifting and shifting and migrating to the cloud on RHEL, like SAP and other workloads like that,” Potts concluded.

Watch the complete video interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of Red Hat Summit. (* Disclosure: TheCUBE is a paid media partner for Red Hat Summit. Neither Red Hat Inc., the sponsor for theCUBE’s event coverage, nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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