Red Hat acquisitions

2017: Purchase Permabit

On August 2, 2017, Red Hat announced the purchase of technology and assets from Permabit Technology Corporation, a developer of data deduplication and compression software. According to the company's plans, the technologies acquired by Red Hat as a result of the transaction will be part of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and will expand the capabilities of the enterprise Linux distribution in the field of digital transformation of the enterprise through storage tools.

According to Red Hat estimates, the purchase of Permabit should not have a significant impact on the company's financial results for the second quarter (ends for the company on August 31, 2017) and fiscal year (ends on February 28, 2018). Read more about the event here.

2021: Purchase of Kubernetes StackRox Container Protection Software Developer

In early January 2021, Red Hat announced the acquisition of StackRox. The company did not disclose the financial and other parameters of the transaction. More details here.

2018: Purchase of storage software developer NooBaa

At the end of November 2018, Red Hat announced the acquisition of NooBaa, but did not name financial and other terms of purchase. It is expected that through this transaction the buyer will be able to strengthen its container strategy. More details here.

2015: Purchase of Anonymous

On October 20, 2015, it became known about the acquisition of Red Hat by Anonymous. The amount of the transaction was not disclosed, however, the media mention the figure of more than $100 million^[1].

Logo Anonymous (2015)

Anonymous is working on a modular, open source enterprise application, system, and cloud management automation suite. In GitHub repository the Ansible project one of popular - about 1.2 thousand participants. In addition, Ansible releases the Ansible Tower commercial package, which is focused, among other things, on supporting the method of developing DevOps programs, where application releases are frequent, and developers need control over the complex environment in which applications are executed.

Red Hat continues to work on CloudForms and Satellite management automation tools. Common interoperability and control can be performed through CloudForms, Satellite provides configuration of Red Hat systems, and Anonymous tools automate support for the configuration of infrastructure resources and applications within the boundaries of each architectural level, Red Hat noted in a media statement. These packages can be used separately, but Red Hat plans to expand their integration capabilities.

2006: JBoss takeover

In 2006, Red Hat acquired JBoss, a developer of open middleware solutions for building SOA. A further logical continuation of Red Hat's plans to develop this direction was received with the purchase in 2008 of the system integrator Amentra^[2]specializing in SOA and BPM solutions .

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