Three years ago, Red Hat decided it was time to modernize.
The company had only recently been acquired by IBM in a $34 billion deal that closed in July 2019. The industry leader in open source enterprise software was emerging from one major change and preparing to leap headlong into another.
“The key business systems that ran the company were pretty much on-prem,” said Jim Palermo, who was a senior IT senior director in Red Hat’s digital solutions delivery division when 2020 began and a VP of IT at the company by year’s end.
