Lagos, Nigeria – 28th August 2024

Converge, a leader in delivering Data Center, Cloud, Security, and Automation solutions, today announced it has joined Red Hat Partner Practice Accelerator, a specialized growth pathway for select partners with validated professional services delivery capabilities, making it the first Red Hat partner in West Africa to participate. Through this initiative, Converge reaffirms its commitment to leveraging Red Hat technologies to provide expert consulting, maintenance and support services to achieve improved results for commercial sector clients in Africa.

Equipped with expert human resources, and over a decade collaboration with Red Hat, delivering cutting-edge solutions to top clienteles such as CBN, Zenith Bank, MTN, Dangote Group, Access Bank, NIBSS & Interswitch, Converge is truly passionate about customer satisfaction and constantly seeks to meet clients changing business demands and challenges. 


Red Hat Partner Practice Accelerator is a focused growth route that enables partners with proven professional services skills to play a leading role at each stage of the customer journey and provide impactful results for customers using industry-leading solutions like Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform and Red Hat OpenShift. Red Hat assesses each partner’s ability to provide essential services and solutions in areas such as automation and application modernization, validating that they can effectively design, implement, and customize solutions for commercial clients. 

Akan Jacobs; Managing Director, Converge added that ‘’Red Hat Partner Practice Accelerator is a differentiator in many ways because it takes into consideration an in-depth understanding of the technology, customer maturity levels and the impact of these technologies in differentiating these customers service delivery. This validation for Converge measured real transformative use of these technologies within the organizations throughout the delivery lifecycle.’’


Red Hat Partner Practice Accelerator is part of the company’s evolving partner engagement model to implement a standardized, globally-unified approach to collaboration. Participating partners can benefit from simplified paths to co-create, innovate and deliver solutions and services to support customers on their hybrid cloud journeys. In addition to Red Hat Partner Practice Accelerator, Red Hat plans to introduce more pathways to help partners develop specialized skills and better serve customers in diverse hybrid cloud environments. By specializing in Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, Converge is set to help organizations optimize their IT environments, reduce operational complexities, and accelerate innovation.


Laurie Fontaine, senior director, Global Commercial Partner Ecosystem, Red Hat

“As Red Hat continues to evolve and improve the partner experience, we are committed to helping partners build critical skills and services that can fuel real business outcomes for customers. We are pleased to collaborate with Converge as part of Red Hat Partner Practice Accelerator to guide customers within the commercial segment in shaping and achieving their digital transformation goals using industry-leading open source solutions and validated services.”


Kachi Nnamdi, Chief Operating Officer at Converge, commented: ‘’Being the pioneer partner to qualify for Red Hat Partner Practice Accelerator, specializing in automation, in the West African region is indeed a step in the right direction in our vision to become the African leader in Information Technology solutions delivery. We look forward to collaborating further with Red Hat to trigger business growth and re-define the standards of service delivery at different levels in any organization.’’

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Converge Global Concept Technologies Ltd is a leading technology solutions provider, specializing in the deployment of mission-critical systems, solutions, and services that transform businesses and address their unique needs. Founded in 2009, Converge is ISO 9001 certified and boasts of a team of highly trained and certified engineers recognized as the best in the region. Our extensive client base includes top-tier banks, telco, amongst others. At Converge, our customer-centric approach ensures that our team of experienced professionals are dedicated to delivering exceptional service and support, consistently exceeding client expectations.

For more information, please visit [www.convergroup.com

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