Red Hat offers advanced enterprise-scale virtualization management

DUBAI, UAE: Red Hat, Inc. today announced the global availability of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.4, bringing enhancements for traditional virtualization infrastructure, guest support for the newly released Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, as well as advanced OpenStack support across compute, storage and networking in tech preview.

This newest release of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization enables organizations to scale their traditional virtualization workloads to an enterprise-scale level, while providing an on-ramp to deploy cloud enabled workloads based on OpenStack.

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization has enabled global enterprise customers to streamline and optimize their traditional virtualization infrastructure while building a foundation for private cloud capabilities. With Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.4, Red Hat is delivering virtualization enterprise features that enable organizations to build highly available and scalable IT infrastructures.

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.4 also includes a broad suite of features to help future-proof a traditional virtual infrastructure, as more advanced virtualization users are adopting cloud-based workloads and exploring OpenStack deployments.

As more enterprises embrace the cloud to bring agility to their environments, they are turning to OpenStack to build open and scalable private clouds with streamlined management capabilities. Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.4 offers advanced tech previews of core OpenStack features, enabling organizations to eliminate silos and facilitate the journey to the private cloud.

For enterprises seeking to optimize their virtualized infrastructure for Linux workloads while reducing cost, Red Hat offers Red Hat Enterprise Linux with Smart Virtualization to further extend the benefits of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization.

This offering combines the performance, scalability and security featuresof Red Hat Enterprise Linux with advanced virtualization management capabilities of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for enterprises looking to get the most out of their deployments.

Radhesh Balakrishnan, general manager, Virtualization and OpenStack, Red Hat said: "This latest release of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization truly enables us to provide broader functionality in traditional virtualization by delivering updates to the enterprise features customers have come to expect. Proven enterprise adoption of Red Hat's virtualization solutions across a variety of markets has enabled us to adapt to growing customer needs for a flexible virtualized infrastructure and provide the necessary tools for OpenStack adoption to help customers position themselves to address future needs."