Monday, 17 December 2007

Red Hat announces Integrated Virtualization Inside Virtualization

Red Hat Thursday announced Integrated Virtualization Inside to help enterprises take advantage of virtualization technology without any additional expenditure on software, hardware or operating system. Red Hat’s virtualization capability is integrated in the Red Hat...

Red Hat, Thursday announced Integrated Virtualization Inside to help enterprises take advantage of virtualization technology without any additional expenditure on software, hardware or operating system.

Red Hat’s virtualization capability is integrated in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 operating system and comes at no additional cost to the enterprise.

“At a time when businesses are under pressure to be leaner and more cost efficient, Red Hat’s Integrated Virtualization Inside is the most compelling offer on the market. Virtualization is fully integrated in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. It is inside. It comes at no additional cost. It delivers a high performance platform for an organization to virtualize even the most demanding workload, and being open source, makes it an extremely secured virtualization solution,” said Gery Messer, President of Red Hat Asia Pacific.

Red Hat believes that virtualization will become more mainstream as CIOs look for ways to boost productivity and performance of IT infrastructures and lower costs. Creating virtual infrastructures made up of flexible, shared resource pools of servers, storage and network connections is a key CIO priority.

With Red Hat virtualization, users get an integrated, secured and managed virtualization solution. It enables users to deploy a single platform throughout the enterprise for all of their virtualization requirements: from small servers to mainframe class systems, for Linux and Windows servers and for the most demanding workloads.

The integrated virtualization is said to deliver a flexible yet consistent environment making it easy for enterprises to manage their infrastructures. Applications can be used without modification across any deployment model. This enables companies to choose correct deployment models based on their business needs and apply a consistent set of tools to manage their entire infrastructure.

Red Hat virtualization run on most desktop and servers platforms, including Xeon and Itanium from Intel, Opteron from AMD, and Power from IBM.