Open source solutions firm Red Hat, Inc. announced the general availability of the Red Hat enterprise virtualization for servers, designed to enable pervasive adoption of virtualization, with end-to-end solution combining a standalone hypervisor and virtualization management.
The virtualization platform is the newest product set in the Red Hat enterprise virtualization portfolio built on its leading Red Hat enterprise Linux operating system platform, which offers the proven security, performance, scalability and cost advantages of open source virtualization technology.
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Red Hat said the enterprise virtualization for servers entered a worldwide beta in June 2009, collaborating with large enterprise beta customers, such as Comviva, Host Europe, NTT Communications, Qualcomm and Swisscom. This resulted in enhanced product capabilities designed to meet enterprise requirements for deploying and managing heterogeneous virtualization and cloud environments.
"As a participant in the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization beta program, we recognized expanded performance, security and scalability benefits for our systems," said Amarendra Kumar Singh, vice president, CAG, DPM, ISS and IT at Comviva.
Sing said they look forward to continuing their technology collaboration with Red Hat and plans to deploy new virtualized workloads on Red Hat enterprise virtualization going forward.
Yet Patrick Pulvermuller, managing director at Host Europe, said they recognized expanded performance and scalability benefits for their thousands of virtualized systems.
"After comparing the industry's leading virtualization solutions, we are planning to use Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization as the foundation for our cloud servers to leverage the powerful combination of Red Hat's next-generation KVM virtualization technology and Red Hat's new server virtualization management tools. We look forward to continuing our long-time technology collaboration with Red Hat through joint work on our cloud and virtualization deployments," Pulvermuller said.
Similarly, Masato Minamisawa, executive manager of IP technology department, business network services division at NTT Communications, claimed they have experienced the impressive agility, scalability and performance benefits of Red Hat's virtualization solutions.
However, Red Hat said its enterprise virtualization for desktops remains in private beta today and is expected to be made generally available in early 2010.
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