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Red Hat Enhances Foundation for Digital Transformation with Latest Version of Red Hat VirtualizationRed Hat (News - Alert), Inc. (NYSE:RHT), the world's leading provider of open-source solutions, today announced the general availability of Red Hat Virtualization 4.2, the newest release of its Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM)-powered virtualization platform. Built on the enterprise-grade backbone of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Virtualization 4.2 offers significant product updates from a simplified user interface to new capabilities around virtual networking, pairing new capabilities with Red Hat's enterprise-grade reliability and support to lay a more stable foundation for IT innovation. Introduced in tandem with the new version is Red Hat Virtualization Suite, comprised of Red Hat Virtualization and Red Hat CloudForms, Red Hat's hybrid infrastructure management platform, offering a pre-integrated, simplified access point to open virtualization technologies combined with management. Rather than layering open innovation on top of proprietary infrastructure, Red Hat Virtualization provides an alternative, offering an open software-defined infrastructure and centralized management platform for virtualized Linux and Windows workloads. This is designed to enable customers to modernize traditional applications for greater efficiency, while also creating a launchpad for cloud-native and container-based application innovation. The latest version of Red Hat Virtualization builds on Red Hat's recognized leadership for high performing, highly-available, and more easily scalable virtual machine (VM) workloads. Specifically, Red Hat Virtualization 4.2 introduces new and enhanced capabilities around:
Cross-portfolio integration and Red Hat Virtualization Suite Open integration is a key tenet of Red Hat Virtualization. he latest release delivers deeper integration across the Red Hat portfolio, including Red Hat Ansible Automation, Red Hat Gluster Storage, Red Hat CloudForms, Red Hat OpenStack Platform, and Red Hat Satellite. Additionally, Red Hat Virtualization 4.2 introduces Red Hat Virtualization Suite. Comprised of Red Hat Virtualization and Red Hat CloudForms, the suite manages heterogeneous environments across multiple clouds, hypervisors, containers and traditional computing infrastructure. Partner ecosystem expansion Red Hat Virtualization 4.2 expands on its robust partner ecosystem, providing additional IT management and configuration options for customers, including new integration capabilities driven by NVIDIA and Cisco (News - Alert). Red Hat Virtualization 4.2 offers Cisco ACI integration, which delivers benefits in network and segmentation automation. Red Hat Virtualization 4.2 is now also supported with NVIDIA (News - Alert) virtual GPU (vGPU), enabling customers to deliver enhanced performance to remote users while helping to maximize physical infrastructure utilization. Availability Red Hat Virtualization 4.2 is available as a standalone offering, as an integrated offering with Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and as part of Red Hat Cloud Suite or Red Hat Virtualization Suite. Existing subscribers can upgrade to Red Hat Virtualization 4.2 through the Red Hat Customer Portal. Supporting Quotes
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