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Red Hat has strengthened its India operations with the appointment of Anuj Kumar as the new Country General Manager and Jagjit Singh Arora as Director, Enterprise Sales.
Anuj Kumar, a Red Hat veteran of more than ten years, will oversee Red Hat's India operations from a strategic and sales perspective. In his previous role as General Manager, Red Hat Middle East and Africa, Kumar was responsible for expanding the business in that region, growing Red Hat's regional partner network to 300 resellers.
Prior to his move to Red Hat, Arora was Global Client Director at Datacraft India Ltd. He has more than 14 years of IT industry experience with stints at IBM, NetApp, Xerox Corp, and CMS Computers in the past.
“India is extremely strategic in our global growth story. With these appointments, Red Hat has underlined its India focus and its commitment to the market,” said Dirk-Peter van Leeuwen, Vice President, Red Hat Asia Pacific. “Over the past six months, we have experienced heightened interest in our virtualization and cloud computing technologies. As a strategic provider of cloud infrastructure to our customers, our flexible cloud stack enables customers to build and run applications across physical servers, virtual platforms, private cloud and public clouds.”
“Open source has seen solid traction with enterprises in India. Not only has the Indian government been at the forefront of adopting open source technologies, but Indian enterprises too have been avid users of open source software for mission-critical purposes,” noted Kumar. He said, “India's strong engineering credentials have made it an active contributor to the open source development engine.”
Anuj Kumar, a Red Hat veteran of more than ten years, will oversee Red Hat's India operations from a strategic and sales perspective. In his previous role as General Manager, Red Hat Middle East and Africa, Kumar was responsible for expanding the business in that region, growing Red Hat's regional partner network to 300 resellers.
Prior to his move to Red Hat, Arora was Global Client Director at Datacraft India Ltd. He has more than 14 years of IT industry experience with stints at IBM, NetApp, Xerox Corp, and CMS Computers in the past.
“India is extremely strategic in our global growth story. With these appointments, Red Hat has underlined its India focus and its commitment to the market,” said Dirk-Peter van Leeuwen, Vice President, Red Hat Asia Pacific. “Over the past six months, we have experienced heightened interest in our virtualization and cloud computing technologies. As a strategic provider of cloud infrastructure to our customers, our flexible cloud stack enables customers to build and run applications across physical servers, virtual platforms, private cloud and public clouds.”
“Open source has seen solid traction with enterprises in India. Not only has the Indian government been at the forefront of adopting open source technologies, but Indian enterprises too have been avid users of open source software for mission-critical purposes,” noted Kumar. He said, “India's strong engineering credentials have made it an active contributor to the open source development engine.”