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| Red Hat Formally Announces 'Integrated Virtualization' Red Hat has formally announced its 'Integrated Virtualization' strategy. During a launch in San Francisco, company executives detailed plans for creating a Red Hat virtualization environment and working with partners such as AMD, Intel, Network Appliance and XenSource to simplify virtualization deployment for customers. Red Hat announced it will support customers and partners with tools, services and technology previews that let customers deploy computing resources at the lowest possible cost while maximizing utilization of each resource over the long term. Red Hat will tightly integrate virtualization capabilities with its operating system and ensure all aspects of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux platform, from management tools and installation to software management, will enable customers to deploy virtualized environments easily and effectively. Consistent with Red Hat's open source model, the company will provide seamless integration and support for the Xen virtualization technology developed by the open source community. Specific details of the integrated virtualization initiative include: * A complete platform to implement server consolidation, reducing costs and improving service levels. * A comprehensive development and QA environment, which allows developers to substantially reduce the time and complexity of writing and testing code on diverse target systems. * Support for hardware abstraction, which allows IT managers to reap the benefits of the latest hardware using existing software stacks, without the expense of extensive qualification and migration processes. This month Red Hat will make Fedora Core 5 available, which will contain a preview of Red Hat Enterprise Linux virtualization technology. In the summer of 2006, Red Hat will make Virtualization Migration and Assessment Services available along with an Enterprise Virtualization beta. Red Hat Enterprise Linux v. 5, scheduled for general availability by the end of 2006, will feature fully integrated virtualization. AMD and Intel are working closely with Red Hat in its development and test labs to ensure their virtualization-enhanced chipsets are tightly integrated with the 'Integrated Virtualization' environment initiative. This tight integration will give Red Hat Enterprise Linux customers maximum software and hardware performance, as well as enabling support for legacy Red Hat Enterprise Linux releases running on upcoming releases of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Network Appliance's participation will ensure seamless integration with their storage solutions. The development relationship between Red Hat and XenSource will ensure Red Hat Enterprise Linux status as being best-in-class, including the enablement of XenSource management tools. Intel Virtualization Technology builds support for virtualization into the processor and chipset, helping accelerate industry innovation, and enhancing manageability, ease of use and security on server and client platforms. write your comments about the article :: © 2006 Networking News :: home page |