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Red Hat further raises the bar for enterprise IT infrastructure -
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 designed to meet both modern datacenter and
next-generation IT requirements for cloud, Linux Containers, and big
data
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Now generally available, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 delivers a
single platform for enterprises to realize the convergence of
computing across the open hybrid cloud, from bare metal and virtual
machines to the cloud
RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE:RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, today announced the general availability of Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 7, the latest major release of the company's flagship
platform. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 not only lays the foundation for
the open hybrid cloud and serves enterprise workloads across converged
infrastructures, but it also pushes the operating system beyond today's
position as a commodity platform. Built to meet modern datacenter
demands along with next-generation IT requirements, Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 7 powers the spectrum of enterprise IT, from application
containers to cloud services.
Since its introduction more than a decade ago, Red Hat Enterprise Linux
has become the world's leading enterprise Linux platform, and it has set
industry standards for performance, capacity, and security. Today, Red
Hat Enterprise Linux is a leading force in the enterprise datacenter and
in the cloud. More than 90 percent of 2013 Fortune 500 companies, along
with organizations in nearly every industry and around the globe, rely
on Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Bare metal servers, virtual machines, Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) are converging to form a robust,
powerful datacenter environment to meet constantly changing business
needs. Answering the heterogeneous realities of modern enterprise IT,
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 offers a cohesive, unified foundation that
enables customers to balance modern demands while reaping the benefits
of computing innovation, like Linux Containers and big data, across
physical systems, virtual machines and the cloud - the open hybrid cloud.
Addressing Next-Generation IT Requirements
Enterprise IT does not exist in a static vacuum; technology is dynamic,
with new innovations emerging almost daily, promising improved
operational efficiencies as well as providing the ability to respond to
radically-evolving business requirements. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
offers customers the agility and the flexibility to meet these new needs
head-on without increasing complexity, from rapidly delivering new
applications via secure, lightweight containers to scaling
infrastructure to meet big data requirements with new and enhanced file
systems. Key Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 features to address
next-generation IT needs include:
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Enhanced application development, delivery, portability and isolation
through Linux Containers, including Docker, across physical,
virtual, and cloud deployments as well as development, test and
production environments.
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Significant file system improvements, including XFS as the default
file system, scaling to 500 TB.
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Cross-realm trust to easily enable secure access for Microsoft
Active Directory users across Microsoft Windows and Red Hat Enterprise
Linux domains, providing the flexibility for Red Hat Enterprise Linux
to co-exist within heterogeneous datacenters.
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Powerful and secure application runtimes and development, delivery
and troubleshooting tools, integrated into the platform and
container-ready.
Managing the Modern Datacenter
Beyond providing the capabilities to meet emerging IT innovation, Red
Hat Enterprise Linux 7 also addresses today's technology needs. With
growing requests for complex systems, on-demand services and robust
security, IT teams need more control, more clarity and more scalability
without having to deploy dozens of specialized tools. Independent of
deployment scale, scope or complexity, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 serves
as not only a catalyst for enterprise innovation, but also delivers the
military-grade security and the mission-critical reliability, as well as
the performance, the features and the ease-of-use to efficiently "keep
the lights on," including:
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Innovative infrastructure components like systemd, a leading
standard for modernizing the management of processes, services,
security and other resources.
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Built-in performance profiles, tuning and instrumentation for
optimized performance and easy scalability.
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Unified management tooling and an industry-standard management
framework with OpenLMI for streamlined administration and system
configuration.
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Enhanced application isolation and security applied via
containerization to protect against both unintentional interference
and malicious attacks.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Ecosystem
As with all of Red Hat's enterprise open source solutions, Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 7 is backed by Red Hat's extensive global ecosystem of
services and support. Read
more about the global technology leaders that are rallying behind
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.
Additionally, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 will be supported by Red Hat's
robust hands-on training and certification program, featuring classroom,
virtual and on-site team courses. More details about the Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 7 training and certification portfolio will be
available soon.
Virtual Event and Press Webcast
Red Hat will host a virtual event - Redefining the Enterprise OS - to
share more about Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 today, beginning at 11 a.m.
EDT. Following keynote remarks from Red Hat's Paul Cormier, president,
Products and Technologies; Tim Yeaton, senior vice president,
Infrastructure Group; and Jim Totton, vice president and general
manager, Platform Business Unit, press and analysts are invited to
participate in a question and answer session.
To join the virtual event or view the replay after the event, visit http://bit.ly/RHELpress.
Supporting Quotes
Paul Cormier, president, Products and Technologies, Red Hat
"Over the course of the last 12 years, Red Hat Enterprise Linux has
helped disrupt and define modern enterprise computing. From the Fortune
500 and global stock exchanges to government agencies, web start-ups,
and many of the world's biggest clouds, Red Hat Enterprise Linux has set
the standard for the enterprise operating system. With Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 7, we're raising the bar again and bringing the
next-generation of IT to customers. As the worlds of physical, virtual
and cloud systems converge, Red Hat is delivering a true open hybrid
cloud platform that gives both ISVs and applications a consistent
runtime platform across bare metal systems, virtual machines, and public
and private clouds. This will be essential as applications move from
on-premises to the cloud."
Jay Lyman, senior analyst, 451 Research
"Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 helps to introduce newer technology, such as
Linux Containers and related Docker software, to large enterprise
environments along with the stability and certifications that
enterprises demand. This is critical given the growing number of
organizations mixing new technology and methodology - such as cloud,
agile and DevOps approaches - with their existing infrastructure,
processes and governance."
Richard Fichera blog post, Red
Hat Releases Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 - Linux Continues its March to the Top
Forrester Research, Inc., June 2014
"Linux has continued to mature nicely as both a foundation for large
scale-out clouds as well as a strong contender for the kind of
enterprise workloads that previously were only comfortable on either
RISC/UNIX systems or large Microsoft Server systems."
Mark Driver, vice president and research director, Gartner1
"By 2015, Gartner believes that at least 95% of all mainstream IT
organizations will leverage some element of OSS - directly or indirectly
- within their mission-critical IT solutions."
Al Gillen, program vice president, Servers and System Software, IDC
"Red Hat has systematically grown the capabilities and value proposition
of Red Hat Enterprise Linux with each new release. Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 7 is no exception, and layers features and support for Linux
Containers on top of an operating system that has seen major
virtualization and cloud enhancements in the past two years. The
addition of cross-realm trust with Active Directory is a pragmatic move,
especially given the widespread use of Active Directory as a primary
identity store."
Laurent Lachal, senior analyst, Ovum
"Owing to its position as the largest and most important open source
technology provider and promoter, Red Hat punches above its weight
against much larger incumbents. Enterprises have now accepted Red Hat
Enterprise Linux as a mainstream enterprise OS. They want to understand
how it will evolve not just on its own but also in a broader virtualized
and cloudified data center context as well as in a public cloud context."
Munjeet Singh, principal, Digital Platform Infrastructure, Booz Allen
Hamilton
"At Booz Allen Hamilton, we view Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 as a
foundational component for modern cloud infrastructure. We are pleased
to see Red Hat positioning Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 for the future of
cloud consumption such as DevOps and PaaS, particularly with the
integration of Docker and Linux container elements in Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 7. Like Red Hat, we look to containerized applications as the
evolution of application delivery."
Vinod Kutty, senior director, Enterprise Server Platforms, CME Group
"We want to get into a faster pace of adopting upstream features, and
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 brings us capabilities that we are very
interested in, like containers and Docker. Additionally, we support both
Linux and Windows, so we are interested in cross-platform support and
interoperability within Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. We've been with Red
Hat for the last 10 years because they have provided value, and we
expect that relationship to continue with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7."
Masahiko Iwata, general manager, NTT Open Source Software Center,
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp.
"Red Hat Enterprise Linux provides the robust platform upon which
a substantial number of NTT Group's services, ranging from our core
communication business to the cloud, and supporting IT infrastructure
have been built. We believe that open source is an engine of innovation
that brings the best minds and companies together to create exciting new
software and services. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 is the crystallization
of four years' worth of such collaborative efforts across all the stack
into an enterprise-class distribution, which we view as a rock-solid
foundation for new services in the cloud era."
Chris Wojdak, senior architect, Symcor
"Because of our position with the financial processing industry, user
and identity control across a wide range of systems is very important to
us and our customers. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 will provide us with a
cost effective and easy to use Corporate Wide Identity management
solution, substantially reducing the time it takes to secure and
administer our Hadoop cluster, SSO platforms, databases and Red Hat
Enterprise Linux logins, among other systems."
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