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October 4, 2011

By Brian Stevens, CTO and VP, Worldwide Engineering, Red Hat

Today we announce the acquisition of Gluster, Inc., and by doing so extend the Red Hat solution portfolio with industry-leading capability for managing the storage of unstructured data. On the cloud, on-premise, or bridged between the two.

 

September 23, 2011

Max McLaren, Managing Director for Red Hat Australia and New Zealand

The Open Technology Foundation (OTF) launches.

 

June 7, 2011

By Red Hat Federal Team

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6 are in evaluation for Common Criteria at Evaluation Assurance Level (EAL) 4+, with the inclusion of the KVM Hypervisor.

 

June 2, 2011

By JBoss Team

Red Hat partner SOA Software recognized for "Best Deployment" by Network Products Guide for their work with the State of California Department of Water Resources.

 

February 9, 2011

by Cloud Computing Team

Red Hat’s Makara team is pleased to announce the availability of the Makara Cloud Application Platform – Developer Preview. Makara is a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) that allows you to deploy, manage, monitor and auto-scale your new or existing Java and PHP applications in the cloud with little or...

 

February 2, 2011

by Cloud Computing Team

Cloud computing needs governance - which is to say that cloud computing needs processes, policies, and procedures. In a way this is no different from IT more broadly. But virtualization, dynamically moving workloads and an increased reliance on third parties for many types of IT functions mean...

 

January 13, 2011

by Red Hat Enterprise Linux Team

In November 2010, Red Hat released a new major version of its operating platform with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. Though Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 is available for customers with extensive new features and enablements, we continue to update our Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 platform through its...

 

December 17, 2010

by Mark Bohannon, Vice President, Corporate Affairs and Global Public Policy

Recognizing the role of open source and open standards in innovation, the European Commission released yesterday its long-awaited “European Interoperability Framework.” This official policy (the “EIF”) for European “public administrations” is the first update to the original 2004 Framework and...

 

October 14, 2010

by Enterprise MRG Team

Red Hat today announced the availability of Red Hat Enterprise MRG 1.3, including updates to the product’s Messaging, Realtime and Grid technologies, which provide a key technology base for Red Hat Cloud Foundations, a solution set that offers a comprehensive set of tools to build and manage a...

 

October 14, 2010

by Fedora Team

Back by popular demand, we’ll again be posting a series of blogs leading up to the Fedora 14 “Laughlin” release, which highlight some of the cool new features planned in the latest Fedora distribution. Up first is a feature that boosts security in Fedora 14: OpenSCAP.Staying true to its motto of...

 

September 30, 2010

by JBoss Team

Last year, we announced our application platform product strategy, JBoss Open Choice, which focuses on helping our customers find the right size application architecture to meet their development and deployment needs. Numerous Red Hat customers, such as NYSE Euronext, continue to benefit from...

 

September 22, 2010

by Craig Muzilla, Vice President & General Manager, Middleware Business Unit, Red Hat, Inc.

The market’s interest in all things cloud has recently exploded and organizations are beginning their early deployments of cloud computing. True cloud concepts, known under many different names, have been in development for well over fifteen years. Only now, cloud computing has become truly...

 

September 22, 2010

by JBoss Team

Earlier this year the European Union’s Commission on Information Society and Media published a report that outlined their view of cloud computing and how it will transform business across the EU. The report made several recommendations, including increased research and development, the...

 

September 2, 2010

by Events Team

The 2010 Red Hat Road Tour, kicks off September 15, 2010 in Atlanta! These free, half-day business seminars will be coming to a city near you this fall including Seattle, Vancouver, Chicago, Toronto, Dallas, and many more! Registration is filling up fast, so be sure to sign up for a seminar well...

 

August 31, 2010

by JBoss Team

Recently Red Hat released an update to JBoss Operations Network (JBoss ON), our integrated management platform for centralized systems management of JBoss Enterprise Middleware. JBoss ON provides JBoss-specific management information that can be used standalone or integrated with existing tools...

 

August 25, 2010

by JBoss Team

Today, as part of a larger announcement around Red Hat Cloud Foundations, we unveiled the first phase of our strategy to address a critical component of any cloud computing deployment—how will an enterprise build, deploy, integrate and manage mission critical business applications in the cloud?...

 

August 25, 2010

by Cloud Computing Team

The interfaces through which we communicate with public clouds haven’t coalesced into a single set of options and perhaps never will, claims of “de facto standards” notwithstanding. That’s partly because large cloud providers have a certain vested interest in making it difficult for users to...

 

August 25, 2010

by Cloud Computing Team

The Deltacloud project came about to fill the hole created by the lack of open, community-driven standards for moving computing and data among private clouds and the wide range of public cloud providers. This hole creates friction, slows down adoption of cloud, and raises the true cost of cloud...

 

August 16, 2010

by Cloud Computing Team

This is part of a series of blog posts and podcasts that discuss Red Hat’s work on and thinking about cloud computing. See also:

 

August 11, 2010

by Red Hat Enterprise Linux Team

We’re excited to announce that Red Hat has entered into an agreement with atsec information security to certify Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 under Common Criteria at Evaluation Assurance Level (EAL) 4+, which will include certifying the KVM hypervisor on both Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and Red Hat...

 

August 5, 2010

by Events Team

August is shaping up to be a busy month for Red Hat events around the world. Here, you will find some of the highlighted events where you can find Red Hat this month. Don’t forget to sign up for more information for the 2010 Red Hat Road Tour, which kicks off in September! The free, half-day...

 

July 26, 2010

by Cloud Computing Team

This is the first of a series of posts in which we’ll take a look at the technologies, thinking and open source projects that are feeding into future products on the Red Hat cloud computing roadmap. Different clouds, both public and private, speak different languages. That this Tower of Babel...

 

July 14, 2010

by Brand Team

This is the second blog in a three-part series highlighting presentations from Open Your World, an online forum presented by opensource.com. The open source ideals of participation, collaboration, community, transparency and meritocracy are increasingly being applied to the areas of government...

 

July 12, 2010

by Consulting Team

Live from the Red Hat Summit in Boston, Red Hat outlined its cloud strategy and roadmap with several new announcements, including the introduction of a new family of offerings known as Cloud Foundations, delivering comprehensive solutions for planning, building and managing...

 

June 30, 2010

by Red Hat Enterprise Linux Team

Customer and partner testing of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Beta is in full swing, and we have been very pleased with the strong positive feedback that we have received from our testing community. We are on track to deliver a final product that we expect will meet customer needs for years to come....

 

June 24, 2010

by Red Hat Enterprise Linux Team

As the 2010 Red Hat Summit takes place this week in Boston, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 will take a center stage at the event. The next generation of Red Hat’s flagship operating platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 entered Beta in April, packed with hundreds of new features for customers,...

 

June 18, 2010

by Brand Team

Opensource.com recently presented Open Your World, an online forum exploring how the open source ideals of participation, collaboration, community, transparency and meritocracy are applied beyond the technology industry. The forum featured ten presentations focused on open source applications...

 

June 15, 2010

by Events Team

The Red Hat Summit and JBoss World team presented a preview into this year’s events during a one-hour Red Hat Summit and JBoss World in a Glimpse webinar offering. Four Red Hat presenters, including Red Hat’s global events strategy manager, JBoss product line director and two product marketing...

 

May 25, 2010

by Red Hat Enterprise Linux Team

With the economy in crisis, IT departments worldwide are striving to reduce budgets and ‘green’ their IT architectures. With Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, and the numerous “Green IT” features being added to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, Red Hat offers a highly power-efficient environment that aims to...

 

April 21, 2010

by Red Hat Enterprise Linux Team

We are excited to share with you news of our first public step toward our next major Red Hat Enterprise Linux platform release with today’s Beta availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. Beginning today, we are inviting our customers, partners and members of the public to install, test and...

 

March 29, 2010

by Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Team

It’s been four months since the November 2009 release of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Servers, our new virtualization product that includes a standalone hypervisor based on Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) technology and comprehensive server virtualization management tools. Since then,...

 

March 19, 2010

by RHEL Team

We’ve long been committed to Common Criteria as a baseline for the industry security and stability standards that our solutions are designed to meet. The Common Criteria Evaluation and Validation Scheme (CCEVS), undertaken by the National Information Assurance Partnership (NIAP), is a...

 

February 15, 2010

by Government Team

Since U.S. President Barack Obama was sworn into office, open government initiatives have gained much-deserved focus in Washington. From the Obama Administration’s transparency memo and Whitehouse.gov’s migration to open source to the DoD’s well-received open source memo and the White House’s...

 

February 11, 2010

by RHEL 5 Team

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 has been in broad use by enterprise customers since it was released in March 2007. The industry, however, doesn’t stand still. Even as Red Hat remains committed to a long, stable lifecycle, which our customers count upon, we continue to add enhancements to the...

 

January 26, 2010

by Jim Whitehurst, President and CEO

I’m kicking off my third year at Red Hat this month and would like to take a step back as we move into 2010 to reflect on the past year. In keeping with the U.S. presidential tradition of delivering a “State of the Union” address each January, I’d like to maintain a similar tradition at Red Hat...

 

January 26, 2010

by Cloud Computing Team

On February 10, Red Hat will present its 2nd Open Source Cloud Computing Forum, a day-long virtual forum hosted by Red Hat CTO Brian Stevens. Similar to our first forum, held in July 2009, the virtual event will feature a dozen half-hour, high-impact technical presentations that cover recent ...

 

December 7, 2009

by Enterprise MRG Team

Red Hat Enterprise MRG was first released in June 2008, debuting Red Hat’s Messaging, Realtime and Grid technology offerings. In February 2009, Enterprise MRG 1.1 offered enhanced performance, clustering, security and tooling improvements, along with full support for the product’s Grid...

 

November 16, 2009

by Services Team

On November 3, Red Hat announced the general availability of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Servers, a product set including the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor and Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager for Servers. Providing the opportunity for enterprises to overcome...

 

November 4, 2009

by The Channel Team

While software spending in the mid-market is poised to return to positive growth , this sector of the market is generally cost conscious and is likely to expect increased ROI and high value for each dollar spent on technology. This is where we believe that server virtualization is particularly...

 

October 20, 2009

by Cloud Computing Team

Red Hat continues to be very active in the cloud computing arena, so it seems like a good time to provide an update on some recent activities. First is Red Hat CTO Brian Stevens’ keynote speech at the recent Red Hat Summit and JBoss World events in Chicago. Brian focused his presentation on cloud...

 

October 8, 2009

by Middleware Team

We are pleased to announce that Red Hat’s Data Services Platform, specifically MetaMatrix 5.5.3, has achieved Common Criteria certification at Evaluation Assurance Level (EAL) 2. This is a significant milestone for Red Hat’s data services solutions and adds another Common Criteria certification...

 

September 29, 2009

by Brian Stevens, CTO and VP, Engineering

This news story is presented in video format. Click the title to watch.

 

September 3, 2009

by Brian Stevens, CTO and VP, Engineering at Red Hat

The initiation of a new open source project within Red Hat is certainly not news. It’s an established expectation within our engineering ranks. It’s how we advance and develop software. Every once in a while, though, a new project breaks through the norm of business as usual. Something special....

 

September 2, 2009

by RHEL5 Team

Today marks the release of the fourth update in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 family. As you would expect, the press release and our technical overview highlight what is new in this update. The advancements in virtualization technology, I/O performance and system tools are worth talking about...

 

July 27, 2009

by Cloud Computing Team

On July 22, 2009 we hosted the inaugural Open Source Cloud Computing Forum to bring together a community interested in learning about the latest developments in the industry’s open source cloud computing technologies. The Forum featured a dozen technically focused presentations that explored...

 

July 22, 2009

by Jim Whitehurst, President and CEO

Red Hat today announced it is a founding member of Open Source for America. Launched today, Open Source for America’s mission is to serve as an effective voice to the U.S. Federal Government on behalf of the open source development community and industry representatives. The Obama Administration...

 

July 15, 2009

by Fedora Team

2009ProductInnovation At the recent Fedora Users and Developers Conference (FUDCon) in Berlin, held alongside the LinuxTag 2009 event, over 150 attendees gathered to teach, learn, and collaborate on subjects ranging from systems management best practices to user interface design. Attendees...

 

July 13, 2009

by Cloud Computing Team

The Open Source Cloud Computing Forum, a day-long virtual forum hosted by Red Hat, will gather together open source cloud computing developers for a day of technical presentations that cover the capabilities and challenges facing the development, management and deployment of open source cloud...

 

July 2, 2009

by RHEL5 Team

Today Red Hat released the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 Beta (kernel-2.6.18-155.el5), with versions for x86, x86/64, Itanium, IBM POWER and System z. The Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 Beta release includes a variety of new features and capabilities, combined with enhancements in virtualization,...

 

June 18, 2009

by Cloud Computing Team

Cloud computing is a hot topic today, and so all sorts of companies, technologies, and industries are trying to align themselves within the framework of cloud computing. Two common terms that people often associate with cloud computing are grid computing and utility computing. But, it’s often...

 

June 16, 2009

by Fedora Team

Advancements and enhancements are being made every day in many key areas of virtualization technologies. The Fedora Project is on the cutting edge and Fedora 11 showcases recent enhancements to virtualization technology that focus in on management, performance and security.Fedora 11 includes many...

 

May 21, 2009

by Red Hat Enterprise Linux Team

2009ProductInnovation Network Products Guide, an industry publication on information technologies and solutions, named the winners of its 2009 Product Innovation Awards this week, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3 achieved top honors in the Operating Systems category.The annual Product Innovation...

 

May 20, 2009

by Cloud Computing Team

Unless you’ve been stuck on a time-traveling island for the past few years, you can’t fail to have noticed that the hype behind such “next-generation” approaches as SOA, Web Services and REST has been simplified under the banner of cloud computing. The danger is that those who have traveled the...

 

April 23, 2009

by Cloud Computing Team

Today, we released a call for suggested presentations for our upcoming Open Source Cloud Computing Forum. With the current buzz surrounding cloud computing, we feel that it’s the right time for the open source vendor, developer and customer community to get together and discuss the future of open...

 

March 30, 2009

by Tim Burke, Senior Director, Red Hat Enterprise Linux Engineering

It’s certainly not news to anyone that Red Hat and Intel have been closely working hand-in-hand for many years to offer high-performance, low-cost alternatives to proprietary IT solutions. Red Hat Enterprise Linux combined with Intel processors and system components have essentially redefined the...

 

March 30, 2009

by Healthcare Team

The United States recently ushered in a new CIO for the federal government. President Obama has directed the CIO to “work to ensure that we are using the spirit of American innovation and the power of technology to improve performance and lower the cost of government operations.” Open source...

 

March 24, 2009

by RHEL5 Team

Red Hat’s flagship open source operating platform Red Hat Enterprise Linux has been recognized by recent industry awards for a variety of attributes, including its integrated virtualization technology, energy efficiency and Linux leadership.

 

February 23, 2009

by Brian Stevens, CTO, VP Engineering

Those of you who know me well know that I like to wax on about a day 15 years ago in the labs at Digital Equipment Corp. It was the day I had my “AHA!” moment, when we were hacking on a Linux/Intel combo and hit performance levels surpassing our flagship UNIX/RISC enterprise product. I knew then...

 

February 18, 2009

by Brian Stevens, CTO, VP Engineering

This news story is presented in video format. Click the title to watch.

 

February 18, 2009

by Alex Pinchev, President of Global Sales, Services and Field Marketing and Inna Kuznetsova, Director, IBM Linux Strategy

Today we are celebrating a momentous occasion. Ten years ago today, Red Hat and IBM began our global collaborative partnership to expand the use of enterprise solutions on Linux. It was a small but important start to announce that IBM would run Red Hat Linux on its industry-standard systems. Back...

 

February 18, 2009

by Channel Team

On Monday we made a significant announcement that we believe will have a positive and lasting impact on our Red Hat partner community. We announced that we will be working together with Microsoft to ensure interoperability of our respective virtualization platforms. Both companies signed...

 

February 16, 2009

by Scott Crenshaw, Vice President, Platform Business Unit

Today we made an announcement that I think is going to generate a lot of interest. Red Hat and Microsoft are working together to ensure virtualization interoperability. This is big news. Companies deploy virtualization to make their infrastructure more efficient. By allowing Windows Server to run...

 

February 9, 2009

by Jim Whitehurst, President and CEO

I wanted to take a quick moment to provide a brief “State of the Union” for Red Hat. I’ve been on the job at Red Hat since December 2007, and have had the opportunity to meet hundreds of Red Hat customers, partners, associates and industry leaders. In keeping with the U.S. presidential State of...

 

October 29, 2008

by RHEL5 Team

We’ve released the Beta of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3 (kernel-2.6.18-120.el5), including versions for x86, x86/64, Itanium, IBM POWER and System z. The Beta runs until January 6, 2009. We’ll highlight a few of the more interesting new features and updates below, but for full details, see the...

 

October 17, 2008

by Healthcare Team

Lately there has been increasing national attention around electronic health records. Most recently, this issue was highlighted in last week’s Presidential debate as one of the solutions our country should consider in our efforts to modernize and streamline the nation’s healthcare system. This...

 

September 8, 2008

by Fedora Team

Colleges and universities across the country are increasingly realizing the value and importance of integrating open source software courses into their computer science curriculum. Red Hat and the Fedora Project are excited to stand behind this effort and outreach to academic communities to aid...

 

August 7, 2008

by Healthcare Team

We’ve met with many healthcare providers who have asked us about our Service Oriented Architecture and middleware solutions, specifically for the healthcare sector. In talking to these customers about the problems they face, we see a recurring theme: healthcare information is complex and...

 

July 18, 2008

by Government Team

Red Hat’s government team today announced its new Government Advisory Board, a panel of public sector technology industry experts who will provide strategic advice to help the government team continue its rapid growth trend. The advisory board, which will meet on a quarterly basis, is comprised...

 

June 19, 2008

by Security Team

We’re excited to announce two major bits of security news from the Red Hat Summit today: * The launch of the Red Hat Enterprise IPA product * The acquisition of open source identity integration provider, Identyx After the completion of a successful beta test program that was launched at the RSA...

 

June 18, 2008

by RHEL5 Team

Today we made a series of exciting announcements around our continuing virtualization strategy. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 was released nearly 18 months ago and delivered a powerful virtualization solution to every Red Hat Enterprise Linux customer. We’ve seen Red Hat’s integrated virtualization...

 

June 18, 2008

by Healthcare Team

Dr. Halamka, CIO of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, gave the visionary keynote on Wednesday at the Red Hat Summit, where over 1,000 Red Hat customers, partners and employees have gathered at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston. Dr. Halamka, an avid Red Hat user in the data center, spoke...

 

May 27, 2008

by Security Team

Today we’re excited to announce another community initiative — the Open Source Software Security community (oss-security). This project is an ongoing effort to manage security information in open source software by building on the collaborative foundation of the open source model. The purpose of...

 

May 20, 2008

by RHEL5 Team

Today we released a set of para-virtualized (PV) drivers for use with fully-virtualized (FV) Red Hat Enterprise Linux guests running on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.1 (or later) host. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 introduced native virtualization support when it was released in March 2007. This...

 

May 19, 2008

by Healthcare Team

Mr. HISTalk was gracious enough to recently spend some time interviewing Dave Nesvisky about Red Hat and healthcare. Dave talks in detail about the growing adoption we’ve seen of open source solutions in the healthcare industry, as well as how we’ve seen success with more than just Red Hat...

 

April 30, 2008

by Healthcare Team

Last week, iHealthBeat posted an 8 minute audio interview discussing the recently announced Open Health Tools consortium. Open source and healthcare has the potential to change the current healthcare IT landscape, enabling healthcare IT vendors to focus on what truly differentiates systems...

 

April 24, 2008

by Government Team

Today, with atsec information security, we announced that JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, v4.3 is currently ‘In Evaluation’ for Common Criteria certification at Evaluation Assurance Level (EAL)2+ (augmented for flaw remediation). This is an important announcement on many levels. It...

 

April 23, 2008

by Healthcare Team

LinuxInsider recently published a case study on Florida Hospital and how they’ve used open source software to address challenges around reliability and cost. For more details, read the Red Hat case study of Florida Hospital or visit us online.

 

April 9, 2008

by Security Team

In the last few weeks, there have been three significant events in the adoption of SELinux and Type Enforcement. They’re all exciting, and each is a testament to the long-term success and viability of the TE approach. Even more exciting, though, is the fact that none of these announcements came...

 

March 26, 2008

by Healthcare Team

Health IT has tremendous potential in addressing the major challenges we face in healthcare: improving patient safety and quality of care and managing costs while improving efficiency.One of the most visible challenges that health IT faces is the question of protecting privacy. If patient privacy...

 

March 19, 2008

by Security Team

Red Hat Certificate System was acquired from AOL three years ago as part of the Netscape technology acquisition. In keeping with our commitment to open source software, today Red Hat has released all of the source code to Red Hat Certificate System. Much of the technology in Red Hat Certificate...

 

March 10, 2008

by Healthcare Team

Florida Hospital is a huge hospital, with 2,300 beds spread across seven facilities. The Hospital is also highly regarded for the quality of care it provides, having secured accolades from publications such as US News and World Report.The Florida Hospital IT team has embraced Red Hat solutions to...

 

February 25, 2008

by Healthcare Team

The Red Hat healthcare team is at HIMSS08 in Orlando this week. We’re excited about our partnership with One Laptop Per Child, which will enable the donation of additional laptops and educational material to children in developing countries. Our partners AMD, DLT and Vivat have been working with...

 

February 21, 2008

by Brian Stevens, CTO, VP Engineering

In the middle of the great discussions and conferences taking place at JBoss World, Orlando, Red Hat quietly leaked out the first cut of what is likely to influence the future of virtualization. Project oVirt. oVirt’s aim is to transform the host virtualization layer into a small stateless image...

 

January 21, 2008

by Healthcare Team

Recently, both ComputerWorld and InformationWeek discussed McKesson’s move from AIX and Unix to Red Hat Enterprise Linux. McKesson has migrated 50 of its 70 applications to Red Hat, and plans to migrate the remainder within the next two years. As Michael Simpson, SVP/GM of Horizon Clinicals, ...

 

January 16, 2008

by Lee Congdon, Chief Information Officer

If you are a CIO, you may already be invested in open source applications at home. Or, like many, you may be a very busy person just using the applications that came with your personal computer, scanner, printer or camera and haven’t really considered the wealth of personal open source...

 

January 14, 2008

by Security Team

Shortly after purchasing the technologies from AOL/Netscape, we opened the source for Red Hat Directory Server in the summer of 2005. Since then, the Fedora Directory Server project has attracted attention and contributions from the community and is now also at the heart of a broader community...

 

December 29, 2007

by Lee Congdon, Chief Information Officer

You may already be heavily invested in the rapidly emerging technology of virtualization. If so, consider some of the ideas below for further exploiting the technology. If not, now is the right time to get started. Virtualization provides a set of tools for increasing flexibility and lowering...

 

December 18, 2007

by Healthcare Team

Mr. HISTalk interviews Laurent Rotival, senior vice president and general manager of the Enterprise Solutions business at GE Healthcare. Laurent discusses the next-generation product line being built in partnership with Intermountain Healthcare, which is being architected on Linux, open source...

 

December 17, 2007

by Lee Congdon, Chief Information Officer

We’ve recently seen a large amount of information in the press regarding information security and what happens when organizations misstep in implementing security procedures and systems. This problem is not going to be solved in the near term. To date, the volume of reports has not diminished...

 

December 13, 2007

by Government Team

At the recent Gartner IT ChannelVision: Government Edition event, Red Hat’s government team picked up two prestigious award nominations. One for best technology provider. And one for best federal channel strategy. The Best of IT ChannelVision: Government Edition Awards are voted on by attending...

 

December 11, 2007

by Security Team

Last week, the National Security Agency (NSA) released security guidance for securely configuring a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 machine. Red Hat’s Security Standards team worked with the NSA on this effort and we are excited about it because it’s the most thorough and clear security guide to date...

 

December 10, 2007

by Government Team

As a follow-up to last year’s panel, Paul Smith, Red Hat’s vice president for Government Sales Operations, will again participate in an open source panel discussion on Federal News Radio’s monthly Federal Executive Forum, discussing 2007 in review. The “Open Source Computing – One Year in Review”...

 

November 26, 2007

by Online Services Team

Today, less than three weeks since the announcement of our collaboration with Amazon Web Services, Red Hat has opened the beta for Red Hat Enterprise Linux on Amazon EC2 to the general public. Customers who wish to participate in the beta can visit here and subscribe to the service using a major...

 

November 12, 2007

by Richard Li, Product Marketing Director, Healthcare

There’s growing interest in open source and healthcare IT. Why are people interested? One, the problem space is hard. Clinical data is complex. There are technical issues — but equally complex legal and business issues. No one company or person has all the answers. A collaborative model lets...

 

November 7, 2007

by Brian Stevens, CTO, VP Engineering

Today Red Hat made some announcements, under an umbrella theme of Linux Automation. At first glance, this would seem surprising. But when you tear it apart, a focus on automation makes extreme sense. Go back 10 years and look what was happening in the processor space. Price/performance of Intel...

 

November 7, 2007

by Online Services Team

Today, Red Hat announced that customers can now purchase Red Hat Enterprise Linux “in the cloud” in conjunction with Amazon Web Services. Wondering what “in the cloud” means? “Cloud”-based web services allow customers to very easily scale up and down their compute power as the demands on a...

 

October 25, 2007

by Government Team

Between common criteria certification (see here, and here), the naming of Hill Air Force Base as the first-ever Red Hat Innovator of the Year 2007 and our government channel success, 2007 has been a banner year for Red Hat’s government team. And next month’s Government Users and Developers...

 

September 27, 2007

by Security Team

Today, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) announced the formation of the MIT Kerberos Consortium to further fund and steer the development of Kerberos beyond what MIT has been able to achieve to date supporting this protocol with its own internal IT staff.This Consortium is a great idea...

 

September 26, 2007

by Government Team

We’re excited to announce that Red Hat, Unisys and the New York State Unified Court System have been selected as a GTC Best Solutions Showcase award winner based on our joint work with the New York State Courts’ Family Case Management System. The awards, presented by Government Technology...

 

September 21, 2007

by RHEL5 Team

Not many people think of virtualization as a way to make applications run faster. In fact, the general assumption is that things are likely to be a little slower, hopefully not too much, but that the other advantages easily outweight the performance drop. OK, so virtualization does cost some...

 

August 27, 2007

by SOA Team

Just as we have worked closely together to provide best-in-class, end-to-end virtualization capabilities, Red Hat and Intel are excited to bring you the North American Value2 seminar tour. The tour consists of half-day interactive seminars where IT decision makers can learn how to transform their...

 

August 23, 2007

by Government Team

We’re happy to share that for the second time this year, Mike Byrd, Red Hat’s director of government channel sales, has been recognized as a top channel leader. Earlier this year, Mike was named as one of GovernmentVAR Magazine’s 25 Public Sector Channel Leaders. Following suit, earlier this week...

 

August 22, 2007

by Training and Certification Team

Today we’re excited to announce the availability of new training and consulting services including the first Linux virtualization course of its kind to be offered. Our new training and services will pave a smooth path for our customers to gain cost savings and flexibility.RH184 Red Hat Enterprise...

 

July 31, 2007

by Emerging Technologies Team

Over the past few years, a lot of IT hype has been expended on virtualization technology. It was ready for prime time, or it wasn’t; everybody was using it already, or they weren’t; it was expensive, or it wasn’t; and so on. Now that Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 has been available for a few months,...

 

July 19, 2007

by Government Team

With all of our news (see here, and there) around Common Criteria in the last few weeks, we thought you might also be interested in checking out the Red Hat Public Sector Podcast Series to hear more information on our work with both IBM and HP in the public sector. Recently, Chris Runge from Red...

 

June 27, 2007

by Security Team

The National Vulnerability Database (NVD) is a US Government repository of vulnerability management data that includes databases of security checklists, security related software flaws and impact metrics. It provides a public severity rating for all the vulnerabilities named by the CVE (Common...

 

June 25, 2007

by JBoss Team

An excerpt from Mark Little’s blog on JBoss.com: The software industry goes through cycles in just the same way as other industries. Back in the early 1980s, we were working on defining distributed systems with work on RPC, stub generators, naming services, transactions, security etc. A lot of...

 

June 21, 2007

by RHEL5 Team

Now that Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 has been available for a few months, it seems like a good time to stand back and take a higher-level look at the new member of the server family – Advanced Platform. In previous releases of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, we had AS and ES server variants. Have you...

 

June 19, 2007

by Telecommunications Team

The convergence of voice, video and data is causing sweeping change in the telco industry. It’s increasing demands on providers too. Red Hat delivers the tools to help telecom carriers deliver next-generation communications: an infrastructure that cuts costs and increases performance, and a true...

 

June 14, 2007

by Government Team

Red Hat has teamed up with August Schell to run and support the U.S. Department of Defense’s (DoD) public key infrastructure (PKI). The DoD PKI is the world’s largest and most advanced PKI installation, supporting all military and civilian personnel throughout the DoD worldwide. Red Hat...

 

May 21, 2007

by Security Team

Today we are pleased to announce the general availability of Red Hat Certificate System 7.3. Containing a highly configurable set of software components and tools for creating, deploying and managing certificates, Red Hat Certificate System is a powerful security framework to guarantee the...

 

May 15, 2007

by Security Team

Identity interoperability across Windows and Linux is one area of focus highlighted by Microsoft and Novell in their November 2006 partnership announcements. Even though there is little detail about what Microsoft and Novell will provide, this aspect of the announcement has generated interest. We...

 

April 24, 2007

by Pierre Fricke

Red Hat continues to work with partners to deliver simple, open, and affordable SOA to help drive the next migration opportunity: moving legacy application infrastructures to JBoss. With Vitria, we jointly announced bringing the strengths of the two companies together to further this SOA vision....

 

April 3, 2007

by Security Team

A critical flaw was announced today that affects the MIT Kerberos telnet daemon, distributed with all versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. With this flaw, an attacker who can access the telnet port of a target machine could log in remotely as root without requiring a password.The Kerberos telnet...

 

March 26, 2007

by Security Team

Another security report was released this week that claims to show the “patch development time” for various distributions. Symantec gives some high level results, but none of the detail required to figure out how exactly it got to its results. Our Red Hat Security Response team is committed to...