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RALEIGH, NC and SAN JOSE, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 03/16/09 -- Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the
world's leading provider of open source solutions, and Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO)
today announced that they will work together to deliver Red Hat Enterprise Linux software
with the Cisco Unified
Computing System, a ground-breaking solution that helps customers
deploy mission-critical applications in a virtualized, high-performance
data center environment. In addition, Red Hat and Cisco will collaborate
to deliver joint global sales and services as well as customer engagement,
and to develop deployment and enablement tools for customers.
Facts/highlights
- Utilizing collaborative engineering and testing, the companies will
combine the new Cisco Unified Computing System with Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
- Cisco will act as an original equipment manufacturer (OEM) for Red
Hat's Enterprise Linux platform to allow customers to purchase a
complete solution from Cisco along with services and support.
- The Cisco Unified Computing System unites computational, network,
and virtualization resources into a seamless system, simplifying its
setup, helping customers to improve business metrics, and enabling
timely resource provisioning.
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is the trusted platform for running
mission-critical application workloads, offering customers an
easy-to-adopt, open alternative for enterprise computing. It offers a
base operating platform, leading security and high-availability
capabilities, and comprehensive networking capabilities.
- Red Hat's independent software vendor (ISV) ecosystem, including
more than 3,000 certified applications, will enable customers to run
thousands of Red Hat-certified applications on the Cisco Unified
Computing System upon availability. In addition, with Red Hat's
certify-once, deploy-anywhere certification program, its ecosystem of
applications are enabled to run in both virtualized and non-virtualized
environments.
- Red Hat and Cisco are also planning to certify the Red Hat
Enterprise Virtualization suite of technologies following its general
availability. The Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization portfolio will
offer advanced hypervisor technologies built from Kernel-based Virtual
Machine (KVM) and a new suite of management tools.
Red Hat software running on Cisco Unified Computing
- The combination of the Cisco Unified Computing System and Red Hat
software solutions offers customers a platform for deploying computing
infrastructures that takes advantage of both companies' strengths,
including Cisco's unique integrated device management, unified fabric
and expanded memory technology available with the Cisco Unified
Computing System and Red Hat's proven software technology.
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3 is certified to run on the Cisco
Unified Computing System as a stand-alone operating system or as a
guest operating system on VMware virtualization.
Supporting quotes
"Red Hat and Cisco have long collaborated in the open source community and
today bring joint innovation to customers through the combination of our
next-generation enterprise solutions," said Brian Stevens, CTO and vice
president, Engineering at Red Hat. "Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat
Enterprise Virtualization technologies power a wide range of the world's
mission-critical, Internet and high-performance computing workloads, as
well as the majority of the early cloud environments. Cisco's Unified
Computing vision offers customers a long-term platform for deploying
powerful computing infrastructures."
"Red Hat solutions run many of the world's most demanding computing
environments and can take advantage of the high density of Cisco Unified
Computing System," said Soni Jiandani, vice president of the marketing,
server access and virtualization business unit for Cisco. "Cisco's
scalable architecture enables more enterprise-class applications to run on
a lower-cost system with half the physical infrastructure required,
enabling our customers to grow their virtualized environments, improve
business agility, and provide coherent security and network policies for
both virtualized and non-virtualized environments."
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About Red Hat, Inc.
Red Hat, the world's leading open source solutions provider, is
headquartered in Raleigh, NC with over 65 offices spanning the globe. CIOs
ranked Red Hat as one of the top vendors delivering value in Enterprise
Software for five consecutive years in the CIO Insight Magazine Vendor
Value survey. Red Hat provides high-quality, affordable technology with its
operating system platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, together with
applications, management and Services Oriented Architecture (SOA)
solutions, including JBoss Enterprise Middleware. Red Hat also offers
support, training and consulting services to its customers worldwide. Learn
more: http://www.redhat.com.
About Cisco
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