Red Hat and Symantec to deliver bundled solution

DQC News Bureau

Bangalore: Red Hat has announced the availability of secure server bundles, in partnership with Symantec, targeted at helping small and medium-sized businesses secure server hosts. The solutions deliver a certified and tested package that offers customers the choice of Red Hat Enterprise Linux or the Red Hat Application Stack bundled with Symantec Critical System Protection. These solutions enable customers to implement a secure server with the Linux and middleware platform from Red Hat for both pre-configured and custom configured behavior-based host protection, against application threats running on the server.

The bundled solutions are designed to lower overall implementation time, avoid costly hardware upgrades and be standards-based.

Two Bundled Offerings

Red Hat and Symantec will offer two secure server solutions to customers. The Secure Server Host and Secure Server Host for Application solution which brings together Symantec's host intrusion protection and detection technologies with open source Linux platform for enterprise computing for servers with up to two processor sockets. This solution is designed to ensure host integrity and system compliance, as well as reduce the cost and complexity of data center environments.

The Secure Server Host for Applications solution brings together the same security technologies mentioned above with the Red Hat Application Stack, an open source suite needed by enterprises to run standard web and enterprise applications based on Java, LAMP or Linux. Designed for enterprise computing needs for servers with up to two processor sockets ensuring host integrity and system compliance, the solution also reduces the cost and complexity of data center environments.

Red Hat and Symantec will leverage the "Red Hat on Intel" channel distribution model for delivery of the solutions starting in June 2007. The distribution for these bundled solutions will include existing Red Hat and Symantec channel partners who may not be part of the Red Hat-on-Intel channel. Both Red Hat and Symantec will independently offer associated updates, support and services.