Red Hat rolls out virtualization platform

MUMBAI, INDIA: Red Hat announced the general availability of Red Hat enterprise virtualization for servers, the newest product set in the Red Hat enterprise virtualization portfolio. It is designed to enable pervasive adoption of virtualization, with an end-to-end solution combining a standalone hypervisor and virtualization management.

In February 2009, Red Hat announced plans to deliver the Red Hat enterprise virtualization portfolio, building on its Enterprise Linux operating system platform. Red Hat enterprise virtualization for servers entered a worldwide beta in June 2009.

Extensive collaboration with large enterprise beta customers, such as Comviva, Host Europe, NTT Communications, Qualcomm and Swisscom, resulted in enhanced product capabilities designed to meet enterprise requirements for deploying and managing heterogeneous virtualization and cloud environments.

As an advanced virtualization user, Swisscom IT Services has leveraged a variety of virtualization offerings on the market, including Red Hat Enterprise Linux with integrated virtualization.

In September 2009, Red Hat delivered the foundation of Red Hat enterprise virtualization with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4, which offers Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) virtualization technology.

Red Hat enterprise virtualization for desktops remains in private beta today, and is expected to be made generally available in early 2010.