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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...

 

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 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...

 

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 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...

 

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...

 

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 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 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...

 

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 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...

 

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...

 

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...

 

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...

 

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...

 

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 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...

 

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 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,...

 

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...