Red Hat gears towards virtualization

MUMBAI, INDIA: Red Hat announced its virtualization strategy for 2009 and beyond, outlining plans to expand and enhance its server, client and management products to enable ubiquitous adoption of virtualization across the enterprise.

Leveraging a strong ecosystem of hardware and software partners, the company will focus on breaking down barriers to reliable, large-scale virtualization deployment.Virtualization provides a foundational component of Red Hat's broader strategy to deliver flexible cloud computing environments with the ability to deploy any application, anywhere, at anytime.

As part of Red Hat’s strategy to offer customers a complete set of virtualization solutions that allows the entire spectrum of enterprise workloads to run on one common infrastructure, it announced the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization portfolio of products, including four primary components:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager for servers, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager for desktops and Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor.

The vendor plans for the new virtualization products in Red Hat’s Enterprise Virtualization suite to be delivered sequentially over the next three to 18 months, with delivery dates beginning in the middle of 2009.