Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV) Primer

Many IT organizations have embraced virtualization technologies to leverage well known benefits such as server consolidation, reduced costs, scalability, high utilization rates and so on. Although these benefits are great, sometimes they can cause performance issues due to the overwhelming usage of I/O. One method of reducing performance issues is to enable SR-IOV capabilities that allow a PCIe device to appear to be multiple separate physical PCIe devices. The purpose of SR-IOV is to provide isolation of resources that enable the scalability of VMs and to enable a near-bare metal

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Cloud Solutions Made Simple

The recent release of Red Hat Cloud Suite marked a new milestone for Red Hat and our customers.  First, it is the first in what will become a family of suites. Second, it enables enterprise IT to transform their application development and operations toward an agile, innovation center based on hybrid cloud and devops technologies.  Curating a broad set of open source technologies, Red Hat Cloud Suite offers a turnkey Cloud solution with a container-based app-development platform, private-cloud infrastructure, and a common management framework.  Specifically, Red Hat Cloud Suite includes

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Architecting Containers Part 5: Building a Secure and Manageable Container Software Supply Chain

Background

In Architecting Containers Part 4: Workload Characteristics and Candidates for Containerization we investigated the level of effort necessary to containerize different types of workloads. In this article I am going to address several challenges facing organizations that are deploying containers – how to patch containers and how to determine which teams are responsible for the container images. Should they be controlled by development or operations?

In addition, we are going to take a look at

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Put Your ‘Red Hat’ on at SAPPHIRE 2016!

This year’s SAPPHIRE NOW + ASUG Annual Conference in Orlando, Florida, from May 17-19, 2016, is packed with Red Hat events – happening at our booth, the SAP Mini Theater, and the SAP Demo Theater. We’re also presenting around the show at the Intel, Hitachi Data Systems, HP Enterprise, and Lenovo booths.

We look forward to meeting our community, showcasing our solutions, and highlighting the top companies we’ve been working with. We have excellent customers and partners and are eager to tell you their stories. Plus we’re giving away

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Viewing the Horizon from the Cockpit

One of my favorite things about technology is seeing what’s next. I often find myself asking, “…what’s on the horizon?” Or, better yet, “…what’s beyond the horizon?” In the case of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV), specifically the hypervisor, “next generation node” is hovering in the distance. I anticipate this advance to be significant  for both Red Hat partners and customers.

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Virtual Machine Migration Best Practices

Lately, there has been in increase in IT organizations migrating their traditional virtualization workloads to open-source platforms such as Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) . Although there are many reasons for migrating (e.g. cost, features), one key advantage stands out for the open source alternatives. Organizations are now seeing the viability of building on the same platform to integrate open source cloud solutions with traditional applications. No single platform is optimized for each workload type or tier. Not only do organizations get to take advantage of the fast innovation of open source, but they also realize significant cost savings.

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