Red Hat strategy spans virtualized & appliance deployments

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Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced its strategy to solve key problems facing CIOs by enabling increased operational choice, flexibility, efficiency, and responsiveness to rapidly changing business needs. Increasing IT complexity and server capacity, coupled with application proliferation requires the ability for businesses to automate and simplify their infrastructure, allowing any application to run on any server, at any time.

 

Red Hat's Linux Automation strategy covers all facets of the IT environment, creating an infrastructure which is built for automation, including virtualization, identity management, high availability and performance capabilities. At the core of the Linux Automation strategy is the broad ecosystem provided by Red Hat Enterprise Linux, delivering a rich set of automation, management and orchestration tools - now available and under development - by Red Hat and its partners. Software partners gain access to this entire ecosystem with a single application certification - "certify once, deploy anywhere."

 

"With new deployment models and technologies making corporate IT deployments much more dynamic, applications are no longer tied to a single server. Linux Automation simplifies that complexity, providing a unified platform for application execution, management and orchestration," said Nandu Pradhan, President & Managing Director, Red Hat India  "Red Hat Enterprise Linux is the industry's fastest-growing operating environment because of superior performance, reliability, economics and customer support.  Red Hat manages an installed base of millions via Red Hat Network. This experience guides our strategy for Linux Automation."

 

Complementing the Linux Automation strategy are three supporting announcements, including: 

• The immediate availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.1 that features integrated virtualization that allows live migration, where customers can seamlessly move running applications from one server to another, maximizing resource utilization in the face of changing business requirements.
  
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux's deployment flexibility uniquely allows customers to deploy a single highly scalable platform, virtual or physical, small or large, throughout their enterprise. This spans x86, x86-64, POWER, Itanium and mainframe servers, regardless of size, core count or capacity. Fully integrated virtualization, included at no additional cost, amplifies the benefits of improved service levels, operation flexibility and efficiency. Notably, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.1 provides enhanced support and significant performance improvements for virtualization of Microsoft Windows guests.

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