With over 25 years of experience in the telecommunications industry worldwide, Fatato will be responsible for establishing Red Hat's vision for the EMEA telecommunications market and overseeing the execution of this strategy through sales and marketing. This includes expanding and strengthening a partner ecosystem that enables Red Hat to support the needs of its growing telecommunications customer base. Fatato joins Red Hat from HP, where he served as general manager of its global Operations Support System (OSS) portfolio. He previously held various senior positions at Cisco and Accenture.
As pressure mounts on the telecommunications market to meet growing customer demands and adapt to the rapid pace of technological change, Red Hat sees significant opportunities to serve network equipment providers (NEPs) and communications service providers (CSPs) with high-level platforms and solutions proven in mission-critical telecommunications environments. Red Hat provides a cost-effective and flexible technology offering based on enterprise open source software and off-the-shelf hardware, fostering innovation and reducing time-to-market. Red Hat is well-positioned to help the telecommunications community develop systems like NFV and OpenStack to simplify, unify, and upgrade their complex infrastructures without disrupting quality of service.
