Red Hat — Beyond Enterprise Linux Software
Reliable and Stable Solutions from an Established Leader
Red Hat is an open source leader.
In 1993 Red Hat entered the open source scene with Red Hat Linux. The company followed up that success with their launch of Red Hat Enterprise Linux in 2002, setting the standard for helping customers make the most of the savings offered by an open source operating system.
With the acquisition of JBoss, the leader in open source middleware products, Red Hat has extended their reach even further by providing comprehensive open source solutions for customers.
Red Hat and AMD: A Strong Relationship
AMD and Red Hat are determined to bring real value to our customers. The latest Red Hat open source software, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.1 and JBoss Enterprise Application Server, coupled with Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ processors, provide endless solution possibilities.
AMD performance improvements on multi-threaded applications plus integrated AMD-Virtualization™ offer a solid solution platform to all customers. These improvements demonstrate what both companies are trying to deliver to the market.
Red Hat Takes on Virtualization
The core differentiator for Red Hat is their commitment to collaborate with the open source community and bring that collaboration value to their customers.
They have proven this delivers strong value and growth. To continue this growth, Red Hat constantly provides additional value to their customers by adding new technology to their solutions such as virtualization.
Virtualization technology enables an application to receive only the necessary power and memory resources from a server while freeing up the underutilized resources on that single server to be used for other applications.
Red Hat developed Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform to include the GFS file system. This encourages users to think about virtualization as a platform element in order to harvest the untapped value across the entire enterprise IT infrastructure.
Coupled with AMD-Virtualization, Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform offers a solid solution for enterprise IT managers to leverage virtualization across their entire environment.
Get the Most out of Linux: Increased Performance and Scalability
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.1 builds on the virtualization included in Red Hat Enterprise 5 and delivers significantly enhanced capabilities and new levels of performance, scalability and security.
It offers:
- Commercial strength virtualization – ready-to-deploy mature virtualization technology
- Outstanding security – inclusion of multi-level security profile and improved compiler and buffer management technologies
- Comprehensive service offerings – Red Hat offers up to 24/7 service
- Excellent stability – guaranteed seven year product support
- Reliable consistency – one solution from desktop to data center means your business can experience reliability and seamless interoperability
Branching into the middleware market — Red Hat offers JBoss Enterprise Middleware to the open source community.
JBoss Enterprise Middleware offers a suite of products in the open source market available to developers today. The middleware covers development tools, to deployment platforms, to integration platforms and administration/monitoring networks.
Benefits to running your Java code through Red Hat’s JBoss Middleware are:
- Industry-leading support – 24x7 through the application lifecycle
- Significantly lower TCO – lower license and support costs than most competitors
- Unparalleled flexibility and control – access to open source code allows developers to be more efficient and productive
The Solution? Even Better Together.
AMD and Red Hat let customers optimize their software and hardware investments. Customers will experience:
- Enterprise-strength virtualization technology
- Smooth 64-bit migration path
- More processing in less space
- Less heat and power
- More performance-per-watt
- Lower total cost-of-ownership
Case Study
Discover why travel booking website wotif.com choose Red Hat Enterprise Linux over Microsoft (PDF 118KB).
Solutions Guide
Experience a stable and innovative Linux environment with AMD and Red Hat. Find out how AMD and Red Hat deliver enterprise-class functionality and stability (PDF 328KB) with AMD64 and Linux technology.
Product Guide
View the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Product Guide (PDF 1MB).
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