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Red Hat Sets Its Virtualization Agenda.

Publication: Business Wire
Publication Date: 23-FEB-09
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
Outlines Broad-Reaching Product Strategy to Drive Virtualization Adoption into New and Existing Markets

RALEIGH, N.C. -- Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced its virtualization strategy for 2009 and beyond, outlining plans to significantly expand and enhance its server, client and management products to enable ubiquitous adoption of virtualization across the enterprise. Red Hat is in a unique position to deliver comprehensive virtualization for customers. Leveraging a strong ecosystem of hardware and software partners, the Company will focus on breaking down barriers to reliable, large-scale virtualization deployment. Virtualization provides a foundational component of Red Hat's broader strategy to deliver flexible cloud computing environments with the ability to deploy any application, anywhere, at anytime.

Red Hat has held a strong position in the virtualization industry since the debut of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 with virtualization technology integrated into the operating system, making it the leading commercial-quality open source virtualization solution. In parallel, Red Hat's September 2008 acquisition of Qumranet, Inc., including KVM, SolidICE/SPICE and management technologies, provided the foundation with which to build the next generation of virtualization offerings.

Today, though the adoption of virtualization technologies is growing rapidly, and delivering high return on investment, industry analyst research indicates that many customers have yet...

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