Red Hat becomes billion dollar company

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By Jennifer Scott
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Along with breaking the billion barrier in revenues, the firm reveals it will be bringing SLAs to its Platform as a Service offering.

SLAs coming to OpenShift

Crenshaw also revealed the company would finally be introducing the long-awaited service level agreements for its hosted Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering named OpenShift.

Up until now there has been no promises made about uptime, latency or availability when it comes to the offering, as it has been difficult to make guarantees due to it being hosted on Amazon Web Services.

However, the executive claimed the agreements would be coming "very soon" and even hinted they could be announced at Red Hat's Boston conference in June.

"That is a really great place to announce such things," Crenshaw said with a knowing smile.

Jennifer Scott
Jennifer Scott

Jennifer Scott is a former freelance journalist and currently political reporter for Sky News. She has a varied writing history, having started her career at Dennis Publishing, working in various roles across its business technology titles, including ITPro. Jennifer has specialised in a number of areas over the years and has produced a wealth of content for ITPro, focusing largely on data storage, networking, cloud computing, and telecommunications.

Most recently Jennifer has turned her skills to the political sphere and broadcast journalism, where she has worked for the BBC as a political reporter, before moving to Sky News.