Open Source: The future of virtualisation

Friday, 3 September 2010

Technology

24 June 2009

CIOs know that virtualisation can deliver greater operational flexibility, tighter server consolidation and lower deployment and operational costs. Yet, many are still undecided about virtualising their data centres. The issue: how can virtualisation be implemented ubiquitously throughout the organisation without the need for expensive investments in proprietary hardware and technology.

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RED HAT ELIMINATES VIRTUALISATION BARRIERS
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Customer references
“Our experience with Red Hat Enterprise Linux virtualisaton and the Red Hat Network management platform has been good. Red Hat has met U21Global’s need for cost-effective and reliable technology. We will be looking to adopt more open source technologies to power our business. In particular, the new Red Hat Enterprise Virtualisation solution that is based on KVM technology and promises advanced virtualisation management capabilities.” U21Global, Singapore

“Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform (RHEL AP) came with built-in virtualisation solution, reducing our deployment cost significantly and eliminating the need to source for other vendors,” said Nikolas Lam, UNIX System Administrator, “RHEL AP Virtualisation is also able to support our current data load of about 15 gigabytes. As the University continues to grow and incorporate new video and other rich data formats, we are confident that our virtualised environment will scale up to several terabytes of data without any configuration change.” University of Sydney, Australia