Red Hat, Inc, a leading provider of open source solutions, announced recently momentum for its Red Hat Cloud ecosystem with the global expansion and growth of its Red Hat Certified Cloud Provider Program.

Since 2011, the program has expanded by more than double to include certified partners across North America, Europe, Asia and Latin America.

“As more enterprises around the world adopt cloud infrastructures, Red Hat sees added demand for ease of entrance into the cloud,” said Paul Cormier, president, products and technologies, Red Hat. “Through our Red Hat Cloud ecosystem, we are helping our partners to build clouds on Red Hat’s high-performance, open source technologies, while simultaneously offering solutions like Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JBoss Enterprise Middleware for sale via these same public clouds.

The Red Hat Certified Cloud Provider Program assembles the solutions a cloud provider needs to plan, build, manage and offer hosted cloud solutions and Red Hat technologies to customers.

A Red Hat Certified Cloud Provider offers a trusted destination for Red Hat end-users, independent software vendors (ISVs) and partners to benefit from Red Hat offerings in public clouds under innovative consumption and service models delivered by the cloud providers. Each provider meets testing and certification requirements to demonstrate that they can deliver a safe, scalable, supported and consistent environment for enterprise cloud deployments.

“As our cloud ecosystem continues to expand around the globe, we are enabling more and more enterprises to take advantage of the flexibility, choice and scalability offered by the cloud which truly enables the open hybrid cloud,” said Cormier.Red Hat Certified Cloud Providers offer Red Hat products on their clouds, as well as use Red Hat technologies to build and manage secure clouds. With resources from these, and other, Red Hat Certified Clouds, enterprises are able to do real work in the cloud today.

Users and partners of Red Hat solutions via Certified Cloud Providers cross multiple industries, including manufacturing, financial services, consumer services, healthcare, media and entertainment and public sector organizations.