Red Hat moves deep on Enterprise virtualisation

MUMBAI, INDIA: Red Hat, Inc. has announced the next step in the integration of its enterprise-grade server and desktop virtualization portfolio with the general availability of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 2.2. 

In addition to providing the first release of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Desktops, the 2.2 update includes new scalability capabilities, migration tools and features to expand the performance and security of the solution, the company shares.

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 2.1, which introduced Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Servers, was released in November 2009.  "Designed as an ideal foundation for the virtualization of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Microsoft Windows, with Microsoft SVVP certification, as well as for cloud computing environments, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization has gained momentum with customers, including Fujitsu, IBM and NTT Communications, for their cloud deployments.  Companies around the world, have been deploying Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization as a high-performance, scalable, reliable alternative to other products on the market." it states.

“Partnering with Red Hat has allowed us to respond faster to infrastructure change demand of our customers," said AG Rao, chief technology officer & president, Enterprise Business at Tata Teleservices Limited. “Our team worked extensively with the Red Hat team to evaluate the capabilities of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Servers to support large datacenters that we operate for Valued Added Services.

Due to Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization features, like Provisioning new virtual machines, monitoring and optimizing utilization that are all made simple by using the GUI-based console, we were confident that Red Hat was the right virtualization partner for Tata Teleservices.”

“Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization not only reduced our operational costs, but more importantly made our business more agile to rapidly respond to ever-changing business needs,” said Ashish Mehta, director, IT and Infrastructure for Asia Pacific and Middle East at Euronet.  “It also helped us to build an ideal infrastructure platform for the future.”

“As enterprises look to move beyond initial server consolidation to a more pervasive datacenter-wide virtualization strategy, they are looking to Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization to provide leading scalability and economics,” said Navin Thadani, senior director, Virtualization Business at Red Hat. 

“Already experiencing traction with server and cloud deployments, the solution expands its reach today with the delivery of our desktop virtualization management capabilities to help more customers to break down the barriers to virtualization adoption.”

"Clients are trying to simplify their datacenter infrastructure by pooling virtualized assets that can be shared and managed across the organization," said Jeff Carlat, director of Infrastructure Software and Blades Marketing at HP. "HP's server, storage and networking portfolio along with Red Hat's new software capabilities offer clients some of the industry’s best hardware, management and virtualization solutions to simplify their infrastructures."

"This release of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization is a major milestone toward establishing KVM as a world-class open source hypervisor," said Bob Sutor, vice-president of Linux and Open Source at IBM. "The ability to combine Red Hat Enterprise Linux and virtualization technologies with IBM Lotus software creates a compelling way to build enterprise collaboration environments."