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Enterprise Virtualisation Powers Cost-Effective Growth

8 January 2010

There are encouraging signs that the worst of the recession is behind us: in the stock markets, in better corporate results, in manufacturing activity. The time is now for businesses to lay the ground for growth.

The post recession period will be characterised by reform and new ways of doing business. The days of the fat budget are long gone and replaced by the smart budget: of wise spending, savings, value and innovation.

Many data centres continue to use less than 20 per cent of their actual server capacity. Virtualisation technology can improve utilisation up to 80 per cent. A lot of unrealised savings wait to be made.

Red Hat, the world leading provider of open source solutions, recently released Red Hat Enterprise Virtualisation (RHEV) that gives businesses unprecedented technology prowess to unlock capital and enhance operational efficiency. RHEV is built on open source and comes at a much lower cost than proprietary virtualisation products.

RHEV is the first open source virtualisation solution that features Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) hypervisor, the software that allows multiple virtual operating systems to run on a host machine or system.

Kernel-based Virtual Machine
KVM is the only hypervisor technology that is fully incorporated into the Linux kernel. Compared with a hypervisor built outside the Linux kernel, KVM requires less code, less integration and less testing to ensure continuous functioning as the kernel moves from one release to the next, over time.

Growth and Cost Savings
RHEV for Servers is designed for pervasive data centre virtualisation. It is key to unlocking unprecedented IT capital and operational efficiency.

RHEV can consolidate more functional enterprise workloads on a single physical server than any competitive solution. RHEV‘s record currently stands at more than 600 virtual machines with enterprise workloads on a single physical server.

Runs thousands of applications
As many as 3,000 applications are ready to be deployed in Red Hat virtualisation environments.

RHEV hypervisor is supported on all hardware currently certified for RHEL version 5 on x86_64 platforms. The list spans the best in technology: Cisco, Dell, Fujitsu, HP, Hitachi, IBM, Intel, Lenovo, NEC, SGI, Sun Microsystems, Unisys and many more.

Similarly, RHEV is also supported on all storage hardware as well as network hardware and interfaces that are certified for RHEL 5. Customers want solutions that are easy to deploy and manage. As the world’s leading provider of open source solutions Red Hat is in a unique position to leverage its ecosystem of software and hardware partners to deliver virtualisation that you can trust without hassle.

To find out how you can enjoy the benefits of virtualisation, visit: www.isthereachoice.com

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