UPDATED 09:52 EDT / MAY 02 2017

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Watch live from the Red Hat Summit 2017

Does open-source software have a future?

The 13th-annual Red Hat Summit 2017 kicks off today in Boston, Massachusetts, to explore this question and others with the main focus on open source in the enterprise. SiliconANGLE will be covering all the action, including a live stream of the event and exclusive interviews from the Red Hat Summit from our roving news desk, theCUBE.

Red Hat Inc. has dominated the pure open-source software business model, but despite many companies trying, no one else has come close to duplicating it. This hasn’t stopped billions of dollars being invested into open-source startups.

When Red Hat was founded in 1993, its timing was ideal. “Red Hat commoditized a well-known product – Linux – that was experiencing rapid growth because Windows wasn’t scalable and cost-competitive enough,” said George Gilbert, an analyst at Wikibon, owned by the same parent company as SiliconANGLE.

For the first time, Red Hat, best known for its Linux operating software, has crossed the $3 billion mark for full-year order bookings, providing a strong outlook for revenue growth in coming years. Red Hat reported better-than-expected fourth-quarter revenue growth thanks to a growing number of million-dollar-plus deals, including the company’s first $100 million deal and a record order backlog of $2.7 billion, up 28 percent from a year ago.

One-third of deals contained Ansible technology. Red Hat acquired Ansible Inc. in October 2015 to bolster its DevOps services. 

Following its acquisition a year ago of 3scale Inc., the company announced last week that it was launching Red Hat 3scale API Management – On Premise, which runs on the company’s OpenShift Container Platform and is designed to be deployed inside Docker instances. Providing an on-premises version of 3scale’s technology will put the company on a level playing field with competitors Apigee Corp. and MuleSoft Inc., which both sell on-premises versions of their platforms. Additional details about the platform are expected to be announced at this week’s summit.

Red Hat made the latest version of its virtualization platform, Virtualization 4.1, available last month. Positioned as a direct competitor to VMware Inc.’s proprietary virtualization platform, Red Hat’s software provides for centralized management of virtualized servers and workstations based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux with automation capabilities provided by the company’s version of the Ansible configuration management, application deployment and task automation platform.

Live stream the Red Hat Summit on SiliconANGLE TV

A live stream of the Red Hat Summit general sessions will be available on SiliconANGLE TV for those of you who are unable to make it to Boston. A stream will also be available on the Red Hat Summit’s Facebook page.

The sessions that will be live streamed include:

Tuesday, May 2

  • Paul Cormier, executive vice president and president of products and technologies at Red Hat will present from 8:30 – 9:45 a.m. ET.
  • Kelsey Hightower, staff developer advocate for Google Cloud Platform at Google Inc.; Sam Ramji, vice president, product management for Google Cloud Platform at Google; and Sandra Rivera, vice president and general manager, Network Platforms Group at Intel Corp. will present at 1:45 to 3 p.m. ET.

Wednesday, May 3

  • Jim Whitehurst, president and chief executive officer of Red Hat will present from 8:30 – 9:45 a.m. ET.
  • Armughan Ahmad, senior vice president and general manager of solutions and alliances at Dell Technologies Inc. and EMC Corp.; Jason Hoffman, vice president and head of PA cloud infrastructure at Ericsson Inc.; and Jay Jamison, vice president of strategy, software defined and cloud division at Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. will present at 1:45 to 3 p.m. ET.

Thursday, May 4

  • Marco Bill-Peter, vice president of customer experience and engagement at Red Hat from 8:30 – 9:45 a.m. ET.
  • Kirk Skaugen, executive vice president and president of Lenovo Data Center Group at Lenovo Group Ltd.; and Julia White, corporate vice president of Azure and security marketing at Microsoft Corp. will present at 1:45 to 3 p.m. ET.

How to watch theCUBE interviews

In addition to watching the keynote presentations on SiliconANGLE TV, there are also various ways to watch all of theCUBE interviews that will be taking place at the Red Hat Summit, including SiliconANGLE TV and YouTube. You can also get all the coverage from the event on SiliconANGLE.

SiliconANGLE TV

You can watch all of theCUBE’s exclusive interviews and commentary from the Red Hat Summit on the dedicated SiliconANGLE TV page.

Watch on the SiliconANGLE YouTube channel

All of theCUBE interviews from this year’s Red Hat Summit, which runs until May 4, will also be loaded onto SiliconANGLE’s dedicated YouTube channel.

Cubecasts

SiliconANGLE also has podcasts available of archived interview sessions, available on both SoundCloud and iTunes, which you can enjoy while on the go.

Guests who will be interviewed on theCUBE

Tuesday, May 2

Guests who will be interviewed on theCUBE at the Red Hat Summit include keynote presenters Paul Cormier, Kelsey Hightower, Sam Ramji and Sandra Rivera.

Other guests include Matt Hicks, vice president of software engineering, OpenShift and management at Red Hat; Luis Uguina, chief digital officer of Macquarie Group Ltd.; and Bryan Thompson, general manager of OpenStack Private Cloud at Rackspace Inc.

Wednesday, May 3

Guests who will be interviewed on theCUBE at the Red Hat Summit include keynote presenters Jim Whitehurst, Armughan Ahmad, Jason Hoffman and Jay Jamison.  

Other guests include Red Hat executives Mike Ferris, vice president of technical business development and business architecture; Joe Fitzgerald, vice president of management; Tim Cramer, engineering director of Ansible; and Shea Phillips, software architect and community builder for the government of British Columbia and the British of Columbia Developers’ Exchange.

Wednesday, May 4

Guests who will be interviewed on theCUBE at the Red Hat Summit include keynote presenters Kirk Skaugen and Julia White.

Other guests include Red Hat executives DeLisa Alexander, executive vice president and chief people officer; and Ashesh Badani, vice president and general manager of OpenShift.

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