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Report: Virtualization Still Just Chatter or Catching Hold
Early December, Quest Software released information following a survey that labeled cost savings, user demand and expectations and managing a mobile workforce as driving forces behind moving to virtual servers.
To Quest, the findings solidified the idea that server and desktop virtualization were moving into production instead of just being a concept. This conclusion is not…
RedHatGov Symposium Highlights Roadmap to the 25 Point Plan, Open Source
Published on 22 Nov, 2011 at 14:07 in GovCon Industry | Viewed 61 times | No Comments
About this time last week, FedScoop and Red Hat were wrapping up the 2011 Red Hat Government Symposium at the Newseum in Washington, D.C. Red Hat provided continual updates during the event on its Twitter account, RedHatGov, highlighting key speakers and remarks.
FedScoop, the event sponsor, reported some 300 government and industry leaders to be in attendance. The…
Red Hat’s Fedora Makes New Open Source Offering Available
Published on 9 Nov, 2011 at 14:37 in Industry News | Viewed 11 times | No Comments
The Red Hat sponsored, open source collaboration, the Fedora Project, recently introduced its Fedora 16. The project aims to release free operating systems approximately every six months.
The company said its most recent open source offering includes enhancements in cloud computing, virtualization and the management of online services accounts.
“The open source community sets a new bar for technical…
Red Hat, SAIC Collaborating to Make Open Source More Accessible; Paul Smith Comments
Red Hat and SAIC have agreed to collaborate to create solutions that will try to maximize open source cloud computing technologies that are scalable, secure, interoperable and portable.
The companies’ goal is to reduce infrastructure costs and ease the Defense Department‘s adoption of cloud computing.
Through the collaboration, Red Hat solutions will help progress…
Red Hat Plays on Open Compute Team to Develop Efficient Datacenters
Published on 28 Oct, 2011 at 10:46 in Industry News | Viewed 13 times | No Comments
Red Hat has joined the Open Compute Project, a Facebook established project that aims to construct efficient computing infrastructures at the lowest cost. As part of the project, Red Hat and Open Computer Project members will collaborate to develop technologies, design and develop next-generation datacenters.
Red Hat has played a role in the project by coordinating several large customers to…
Red Hat, HP Top Virtualization Benchmarks
Red Hat in collaboration with HP hit a new record setting SPECvirt_sc2010 virtualization performance benchmark, with the power of Kernel-based Virtual Machine hypervisor and HP ProLiant systems. The SPECvirt benchmark measures how well a system hosts virtual machines running on specific server applications, but modeled to resemble a customer’s real environment.
Red Hat’s Enterprise Linux 6.1 along with its…
Red Hat’s Cloud Ecosystem Grows with New Virtustream Partnership
Virtustream is now a part of Red Hat’s cloud ecosystem as a premier certified cloud provider. Virtustream now features support for Red Hat enterprise virtualization to its xStream cloud platform and also offers Red Hat enterprise Linux to customers.
This partnership results in the availability of a more scalable and flexible cloud infrastructure within a unified private enterprise…
Red Hat Partnership Delivers Data Virtualization-Powered Dashboard
Published on 18 Oct, 2011 at 11:10 in Industry News | Viewed 51 times | No Comments
Red Hat and Japersoft are expanding their partnership to deliver an open source solution that enables fast data-to-dashboards.
The joint offering combines data virtualization technology from Red Hat’s JBoss Enterprise Data Services Platform with the reporting, analysis and dashboard capabilities of Jaspersoft’s BI Suite.
“The combination of JBoss Enterprise Data Services Platform and Jaspersoft’s flexible and modern BI suite provides…
Red Hat Intros Enhancements to its Enterprise Connections
Published on 12 Oct, 2011 at 17:12 in Cyber | Viewed 16 times | No Comments
Red Hat has announced enhancements to its JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform, JBoss Enterprise Data Services Platform and JBoss Enterprise Business Rules Management System product lines. The updates are designed to create a more intelligent, integrated enterprise by connecting applications and complex event processing services across the enterprise.
“In response to competitive pressure, organizations are updating their IT infrastructure to…
Red Hat Pays $136M for Gluster and Big Data Storage
Published on 4 Oct, 2011 at 12:00 in Industry News | Viewed 20 times | No Comments
Red Hat signed a definitive agreement to acquire Gluster, Inc., lead provider of scale-out, open source storage solutions in managing unstructured data, for $136 million in cash. The acquisition allows Red Hat to change how enterprise IT manages explosion of big data whether it be deployed on-premise or through public cloud offerings.
“The explosion of big data and the…
