Around a year and a half ago, Red Hat Inc. was tapped by its strategic advisory board to create a program that would demonstrate Red Hat’s methods of software building and implementation. The resulting Open Innovation Labs program has since partnered with a total of 12 organizations worldwide, on two continents.

The most promising results so far have shown that no matter what type of industry, client or environment Red Hat works with, it is able to take the their vision and make it a reality, according to John Allessio (pictured, left), vice president of global services at Red Hat.

“We had our strategic advisory board tell us, ‘Red Hat, we really are looking for you to help show us the way and how to develop software. But also help us leverage this culture that Red Hat has and developing software the Red Hat way,'” Allessio said.

Allessio and Nick Hopman (pictured, right), senior director of emerging technology practices at Red Hat, spoke to Stu Miniman (@stu), host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE’s mobile live-streaming studio, during Red Hat Summit in Boston, Massachusetts. (* Disclosure below.)

Allessio and Hopman primarily discussed how Red Hat’s Open Innovation Labs is helping organizations around the globe create their own developer environment through the use of the OpenShift platform-as-a-service environment and now will be able to utilize the OpenShift.io set of development tools that were just announced at last week’s Summit.

The push-button architecture

The DevOps platform each Open Innovation Labs participant produces is being built on the foundation of Red Hat’s core OpenShift platform, Hopman pointed out. But with the additions made possible through the OpenShift.io developer tools, it is now possible to link in other technologies that may not have been possible before, he added.

“In a residency with Open Innovation Labs we are tying in other technologies, other things outside of the stack,” Hopman explained. “But with OpenShift.io, what we’ve created is what was called a ‘push-button infrastructure … to show that foundational acceleration. And OpenShift is actually now kind of part of that core.”

In fact, many other technologies Red Hat possesses can now be used to further accelerate the DevOps experience. “I think with OpenShift.io, and as Red Hat continues to evolve in the development kind of tooling landscape, you’re going to see how we are helping our customers do cloud data application development more so than ever before,” Hopman concluded.

Watch the complete video interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s independent editorial coverage of Red Hat Summit 2017. (* Disclosure: Red Hat Inc. sponsored this Red Hat Summit segment on SiliconANGLE Media’s theCUBE. Neither Red Hat nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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