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Red Hat announces availability of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0Jan 23, 2012 (Datamonitor via COMTEX) -- Red Hat, Inc, a provider of open source solutions, has announced the availability of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0, with expanded capabilities for both its server and desktop virtualization management tools and its Kernel-based Virtual Machine, or KVM, hypervisor. With Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0, the management system is now a Java application running on JBoss Enterprise Application Platform on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. It provides over 1,000 new features, enhancements and improvements, such as a power user portal for self-service provisioning, RESTful API, local storage and more. "Red Hat is taking a major step into the cloud and virtualization market, and we believe that the BMC/Red Hat joint initiative to bring customers choice and expand their options is complementary to this effort. BMC plans to support Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0 in the near future, enabling our joint customers to leverage the best technology of both companies," said Kia Behnia, BMC's CTO. "Red Hat and BMC give customers the choice they need to make the cloud a reality." "High-performance virtualization solutions give organizations increased flexibility to quickly address changing enterprise requirements," said Doug Oathout, vice president, Strategy and Alliances, Converged Infrastructure at HP. "Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0 on HP BladeSystem and HP ProLiant servers is a secure, automated and high-performance virtualization solution that delivers a responsive IT environment for achieving organizational innovation and competitive advantage." "We welcome the announcement of the release of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0, which will strengthen operability on the virtualization environment," said Kotetsu Omiya, general manager of 1st IT Software Division at NEC Corporation. "NEC is offering Express5800 series with virtualization platform including KVM and will provide a virtualization environment and cloud platform that is well-suited for customer systems." "SGI customers already benefit from the flexible, scalable performance in a virtualized workflow achieved with KVM running on our leading-scale SGI UV platform," said Christian Tanasescu, vice president of Software Engineering at SGI. "SGI believes Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0 is an important step toward making the KVM virtualization solution easier to configure and manage for these users, in addition to supporting the scalability that demanding workloads require." http://www.datamonitor.com Republication or redistribution, including by framing or similar means, is expressly prohibited without prior written consent. Datamonitor shall not be liable for errors or delays in the content, or for any actions taken in reliance thereon |