Open Infrastructure Foundation News: Red Hat Provides $551.9 Million in Software Subscriptions to Boston University, Advancing Mission of OpenInfra Labs Share Article Red Hat’s funding will support Boston University Hariri Institute’s open research cloud initiative, the first region of OpenInfra Labs Cloud Network. The OpenInfra Labs project will help support the development of operational knowledge and open source tools needed to operate platforms, like the Mass Open Cloud, which will help provide greater impact on open cloud research. AUSTIN, Texas (PRWEB) April 28, 2021 OpenInfra Foundation Platinum Member Red Hat is providing $551.9 million USD in software subscriptions and resources to the Hariri Institute’s open research cloud initiative, in addition to $20 million to support research and deepen collaboration under the Red Hat Collaboratory at Boston University. This effort is creating a production research cloud that serves as the first, founding region in the OpenInfra Labs Cloud Network, which is envisioned to be a network of production clouds connecting open source projects to production. OpenInfra Labs will enable the cloud services and network deployed in this founding region to be replicated to other regions, federated between these regions and extended beyond academia.