Red Hat Delivers Standardized Platform for SAPⓇ Software Environments with Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP Solutions
Optimized Linux operating system enhances value and support for
heterogeneous SAP software environments with high availability,
predictive system analytics and more
RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, today announced the launch of Red Hat Enterprise Linux for
SAP Solutions, an enterprise Linux platform optimized for running SAP
software deployments. Building upon Red Hat’s experience in delivering
operating systems tailored for SAP software implementations, Red Hat
Enterprise Linux for SAP Solutions provides a smoother path for
organizations seeking to integrate or merge their heterogeneous SAP
software environments, offering a single, proven and standardized
platform for big data analysis and management projects.
The SAP portfolio of business applications and data analysis
technologies, including SAP NetWeaver and SAP HANA, helps enterprises to
make smarter, faster decisions while accelerating their business
processes. Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP Solutions offers an
additional open choice for enterprises seeking to deploy these
technologies via a single offering, making it easier for IT
organizations to pursue datacenter standardization without sacrificing
their varied big data initiatives.
Built on the flexible, scalable and fully-open Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 operating system, Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP Solutions builds on
Red Hat’s existing relationship with SAP and brings forth new
capabilities to get the most out SAP’s powerful analytics and data
management portfolio. This includes the addition of Red Hat Insights,
Red Hat’s proactive analytics and real-time intelligence offering, which
can help users better understand, assess and optimize their SAP software
landscape supported by Ansible automation and Red Hat’s extensive open
source expertise.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP Solutions combines Red Hat’s existing
operating system offerings focused on SAP software, Red Hat Enterprise
Linux for SAP Applications and Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP HANA,
into a single, consolidated platform. In addition to the features and
support of the existing offerings, Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP
Solutions includes:
-
The High Availability Add-On which addresses the need for
reliability of critical SAP applications.
-
The Smart Management Add-On for more easily managing and
updating large deployments of Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP
Solutions.
- Update Services for SAP Solutions, a four-year Extended Update
Support (EUS) service which provides backports of Critical-impact
security updates and urgent-priority bug fixes for minor releases of
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP Solutions.
- Red Hat Insights to help IT organizations proactively detect
problems with their SAP software deployments and to best optimize the
operating environment to support their business transactions and big
data initiatives.
Availability
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP Solutions is available now via the Red
Hat Customer Portal.
Supporting Quotes
Jim Totton, vice president and general manager, Platforms Business
Unit, Red Hat
“There is no single technology stack to solve
every enterprise IT challenge, and big data analytics is no different;
increasingly, we are seeing IT organizations use multiple SAP solutions
to tackle the complex challenges of their evolving markets. With Red Hat
Enterprise Linux for SAP Solutions, we’re now able to provide a single,
supported and open platform upon which enterprises can standardize their
SAP deployments, all backed by Red Hat’s vast expertise in delivering
enterprise-grade operating systems.”
Mark Dendinger, CEO, 3V Solutions
“Big data is fueling many
innovations for our joint customers but large enterprises typically want
to deploy multiple or layered technologies to address their specific
data analysis and management needs. Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP
Solutions provides a flexible, scalable platform to deploy these
technologies while streamlining large SAP deployments, thanks to a
single, standardized and open operating system.”
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