Red Hat Honors LG Electronics and NIRS Daegu Center for Pioneering Open Source Initiatives at the Red Hat APAC Innovation Awards 2024 for Korea

Red Hat, Inc., the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, announced the winners of the Red Hat APAC Innovation Awards 2024 for Korea today. Red Hat recognized the noteworthy milestones achieved by LG Electronics and National Information Resources Services Daegu Center (NIRS Daegu Center) for their innovative use of Red Hat solutions to address evolving business solutions.

In an ever-evolving global business landscape, the Asia Pacific region (APAC) remains resilient and is, in fact, in the midst of rapid growth. With its dynamic economies, diverse cultures, and vast consumer bases, APAC’s promising territories present growth opportunities for businesses big and small alike. Technology remains a pivotal factor in shaping the business landscape, helping enterprises scale and innovate. 

Embodying this year’s theme, “Unlock what’s next”, the Red Hat APAC Innovation Awards celebrates customers who have harnessed the power of open source technologies to drive transformation and innovation. These customers are recognized for demonstrating how enterprises can overcome the dual challenge of managing escalating infrastructure costs alongside evolving business demands. These awards also celebrate the achievements of 31 winners across all 11 countries, showcasing how businesses across the region have successfully leveraged Red Hat solutions to overcome challenges and pioneer new customer-centric solutions.

According to the Red Hat 2024 Global Tech Trends, the top funding priorities for businesses across the APAC region are building cloud-native applications, improving digital user experience and accelerating application/service delivery.  These findings highlight the importance of innovative solutions in the awards’ five key categories that reflect areas that can empower organizations to navigate business challenges faced today: Digital Transformation, Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure, Cloud-Native Development, Automation, and Resilience.  

The winners were chosen for their outstanding use of Red Hat solutions, demonstrating significant contributions to their business objectives. Each organization exemplifies the transformative potential of open source technology, pioneering advancements in buiness processes, enhancing productivity, fostering innovation and fortifying resilience in the face of challenges. Their success stories underscore the pivotal role of Red Hat in empowering enterprises across the APAC region to achieve unparalleled growth through strategic deployment of open source solutions. 

Category: Digital Transformation and Cloud-Native Development

Winner: LG Electronics

While LG Electronics has established a name for itself in the automotive and manufacturing industry, the organization recognizes business challenges in the self-driving vehicle (SDV) environment. LG Electronics saw the collaboration with Red Hat as a strategic move to overcome technological limitations and challenges that a company alone is unable to navigate. This enabled the organization’s SDV task force to focus on innovating the software platforms of vehicles to achieve more intelligent and connected mobility, built on the foundation of Red Hat’s linux enterprise  and Red Hat In-Vehicle Operating System.

Thes goal of LG Electronics’ SDV task force is to create better vehicles by continuously improving the software even after launch. The increased scalability of applications and deployment frequency of features have allowed SDV to accelerate technological innovation while operating in a stable environment. This project paves the way for cloud native technologies to be extended in more diverse ways to vehicles, delivering user experiences that can make the future of driving a reality sooner.

Category: Digital Transformation and Cloud-Native Development

Winner: NIRS Daegu Center

Established in 2005, the National Information Resources Services (NIRS) is the world’s first pan-governmental integrated data center which aims to provide high quality smart services with cloud, AI, big data and IoT to pave the way in implementing a world-class digital government system. Operating and managing 1,460 digital government services for government officials and the general public, NIRS wanted to modernize their applications and accelerate the cloud migration process for its third data center, the NIRS Daegu Center.  

In order for this project to be successful, NIRS needed the latest open source technology that could provide an automated infrastructure environment to deliver smart services seamlessly and efficiently, and set a standardized IaaS and PaaS platform service for government organizations. Red Hat’s expertise in helping enterprises overcome barriers to their digital transformation journeys and optimize IT infrastructure became the determining factor in this collaboration. With Red Hat, the NIRS Daegu Center’s cloud computing environment will become a new standard for Korea’s public sector.

Supporting Quotes

Marjet Andriesse, senior vice president and general manager, APJC, Red Hat
“Despite the uncertain economic conditions in 2024, we have seen the remarkable milestones achieved by our customers. This year, we want to highlight the innovative strides of these organizations at the Red Hat APAC Innovation Awards 2024 as they leverage advanced technologies to drive business initiatives. Open source remains the key to help organizations uncover what is next and pave the way for success with the right tools and expertise.”

Seok Jin Jang, Head of Smart Mobility Research Center, LG Electronics
“Previously, it took us a substantial amount of time to apply a specific policy or scenario to a vehicle after its launch. Working with Red Hat has allowed us to accelerate this process, while operating in a secure environment, thanks to the Red Hat In-Vehicle Operating System. We look forward to contributing to the advancement of software-defined vehicle (SDV) technology through this successful collaboration.”
 

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