Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1 brings manageability, security and
performance enhancements to the world's leading enterprise Linux
operating system in addition to expanded deployment options
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 7.1, the first minor release of Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 7, which launched in June 2014. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1
delivers key enhancements to Red Hat's next-generation flagship
platform, furthering the company's mission to redefine the enterprise
operating system.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1 offers improved development and deployment
tools, enhanced interoperability and manageability, and additional
security and performance features. As with all releases of Red Hat
Enterprise Linux, these enhancements are delivered over a stable,
secure, 10-year lifecycle backed by Red Hat's award-winning global
support.
Manageability and Interoperability
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1 delivers significant functionality
improvements for heterogeneous operating system environments,
particularly for infrastructure that uses Active Directory. By
integrating the Common Internet File System (CIFS) with SSSD, users can
now gain native access to Microsoft Windows file and print services
without having to rely on winbind. Logical Volume Management (LVM) now
includes additional OpenLMI-based hooks to manage volume groups and
thinly provisioned volumes. This release also includes integrated
client-side functionality to communicate with Ceph block storage.
Security and Access Management
Improvements to Identity Management (IdM) now provide the ability to
implement strong one-time password (OTP) authentication through LDAP and
Kerberos using software tokens (e.g. FreeOTP) and hardware tokens from
leading third-party vendors. Additionally, the IdM access control
framework has been enhanced for better control over read/write
permissions and a new Certificate Authority (CA) management tool
streamlines changes to CA certificates and trust chains.
Development, Deployment and Performance
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1 delivers new developer tools, including
several related to Linux containers. The latest docker package is now
included along with orchestration tooling through Kubernetes; also
available are Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
base images, which provide certified, stable foundations upon which to
build enterprise-grade containerized applications. Beyond containers,
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1 also includes OpenJDK 8, the latest version
of the open source Java SE 8 platform.
From a performance perspective, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1 supports
higher processor and memory limits, as well as additional features to
improve the performance of applications and virtual machines, especially
those running memory-intensive workloads. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1
further enhances performance through the inclusion of an MCS locking
mechanism to improve processor efficiency for large systems with sizable
non-uniform memory access (NUMA) nodes.
Additional Red Hat Enterprise Linux Offerings
Red Hat understands the needs of enterprise IT, from delivering
applications faster through containerization to running time-sensitive
workloads to gaining efficiency by standardizing across architectures.
To better meet these requirements, the general availability of Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 7.1 coincides with the launch of three specialized Red
Hat Enterprise Linux offerings designed to address industry use cases or
specific architectures. These are:
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Atomic Host is also generally
available today, using the tools and frameworks as delivered by
Project Atomic. Created specifically with container-based workloads in
mind, Red Hat Enterprise Linux Atomic Host offers a minimal-footprint,
streamlined platform perfect for running Linux containers in an
enterprise environment.
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Real Time is Red Hat's real-time
computing platform for deadline-oriented and time-sensitive
applications. Using a specialized version of the Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 7 kernel that has been tuned to deliver consistent low-latency
response times, Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Real Time retains the
reliability, scalability, and performance of the world's leading
enterprise Linux platform.
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian brings Red
Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1 to enterprises using the IBM Power Systems
platform with support for POWER8 on IBM Power Systems based on little
endian. Running on POWER8 offers higher performance especially for big
data applications through multi-threading, more cache and greater data
bandwidth, while little endian mode removes an application portability
barrier and allows datacenters running Power Systems to leverage Red
Hat's vast ecosystem of certified applications originally developed
for x86 architecture. This also means that these certified
applications can be more easily migrated between x86-based and POWER
processor-based systems, giving customers the advantages of both
architectures.
Supporting Quotes
Jim Totton, vice president and general manager, Platforms Business
Unit, Red Hat
"With Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, Red Hat redefined the operating system
into a platform designed to facilitate innovation. The enhancements to
the world's leading enterprise Linux platform offered by Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 7.1, as well as the new offerings based on the update,
deliver a flexible, reliable, secure and performant platform that works
across nearly every industry use case, from container adoption and rapid
application development to time-sensitive trading applications and
systems based on IBM Power Systems architecture."
Doug Balog, general manager, IBM Power Systems
"Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1 for Power Systems in little endian mode is
a huge opportunity for developers and users, providing access to a
larger ecosystem of Linux applications and allowing for easier porting
and migration. As organizations adapt to manage compute and
data-intensive workloads from Big Data to cloud, mobile and even social,
infrastructure must also meet the challenge by providing higher
performance and new workload optimization."
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