Red Hat, Inc. is an American software company that is engaged in providing open source software products to the enterprise community. Founded in 1993, Red Hat has its corporate headquarters in Raleigh, North Carolina with satellite offices worldwide.
OpenStack, a cloud-computing project, aims to provide the "ubiquitous open source cloud computing platform for public and private clouds."[1] Predominantly acting as an infrastructure as a service (IaaS) platform, it is free and open-source software released under the terms of the Apache License. The project is managed by the OpenStack Foundation, a non-profit corporate entity established in September 2012[2] to promote OpenStack software and its community.[3]