[Dhaka, October 31, 2022] Grameenphone has been declared as one of the winners of the Red Hat APAC Innovation Awards 2022 in the “Digital Transformation and Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure” category. The achievement was celebrated at the recent “Red Hat Summit: Connect” event, organized by Red Hat, Inc., the world’s leading provider of open-source solutions, as a part of a series of events attracting nearly three thousand attendees across six regions.

Digital Transformation, Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure, Cloud-native Development, Automation, and Resilience – these were the five award categories at the Red Hat APAC Innovation Awards 2022. The connectivity partner to Digital Bangladesh secured its award by being the best collaborative public, private or open hybrid cloud deployment. Grameenphone was honored with the Red Hat open source to build agility and innovative customer experiences to adapt to fast-changing business landscapes.

The Digital Transformation category recognized organizations that have successfully addressed IT challenges and delivered business value to effectively compete as a digital enterprise, while the Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure category showcased collaborative public, private or open hybrid cloud deployments. The theme for this year’s event was “Explore what’s next,” and in the essence of that, Grameenphone worked with Red Hat to deploy solutions like Red Hat OpenStack, OpenShift, and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform to drive better customer experience, reduce costs and improve efficiency in order to leverage the increasing amount of data available and accelerate their digital transformation journey to the fullest.

Regarding this win, Jai Prakash, Chief Technology Officer, Grameenphone said, “Grameenphone believes in listening to our customers, understanding their evolving digital needs and expectations, and designing a solution that exceeds their expectations and delights them. Our mantra to always be the most loved telco in the country has been through continuous innovation and modernizing and keeping customers at the core of our operations. To that end, we were able to drive transformation for our digital services platform through Red Hat solutions which has allowed us to improve customer service and experience while being efficient and economical through leveraging open source and hybrid cloud.”

“The speed of change in Asia Pacific’s business landscape will only accelerate. That is why we are celebrating the achievements of our customers, who have demonstrated how open source can help them stay agile and responsive to market and customer trends”, said Marjet Andriesse, Senior Vice President and General Manager, APJC, Red Hat. “Our winners have showcased exceptional agility and innovation in using technologies like hybrid cloud, data analytics, and edge computing for their business and customers,” she added.

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