Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
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Red Hat simplifies platform for Linux supercomputing

News The Linux leader aims to make more of a dent in the high-performance-computing market with a platform it claims can be up and running in under an hour.

Monday, October 06 2008 02:13 AM

Tags: Supercomputing, Linux, Open source, Red Hat Inc., Ubuntu, Novell Inc., data warehouse, software, job, Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Red Hat buys virtualization player Qumranet

News With the US$107 million purchase, Red Hat gains hypervisor and desktop virtualization tools to challenge VMware and Microsoft.

Monday, September 08 2008 04:23 AM

Tags: Operating systems, Virtualization, Acquisitions, Open source, Red Hat Inc., Hypervisor, software, processor, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Linux

Red Hat endorses KVM virtualization

News The company's next Fedora Linux will include the new approach to carving Linux systems into multiple virtual machines.

Thursday, February 15 2007 09:38 AM

Tags: Infrastructure/architecture management, Open source, Linux

Red Hat: The hypervisor will be free

News Setting out the roles of the two hypervisors it is working on, Red Hat has predicted virtualization will be included in all operating systems for free.

Thursday, September 11 2008 05:11 AM

Tags: Virtualization, Business applications, Red Hat Inc., Xen, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, Hypervisor, performance, Hardware, processor, Red Hat Enterprise Linux

RHEL 5.4 beta arrives

News Red Hat releases a beta-test version of Red Hat Enterprise Server 5.4, the first version of the server OS to incorporate virtualization based on Qumranet's KVM.

Friday, July 03 2009 08:50 AM

Tags: Virtualization, Linux, Servers, Desktops, Ethernet, Red Hat Inc., Xen, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, Tool, Beta

Linux exploit gets around security barrier

News A security hole in the Linux kernel, which allows security features in the operating system to be bypassed, affects Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, according to a security researcher.

Tuesday, July 21 2009 10:19 AM

Tags: Linux, Network security, Security Management, Security, Source Code, Exploit, SANS Institute, Training, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, Kernel

Red Hat begins testing virtualization line-up

News Beta tests begin on the new line of virtualization products based on Qumranet's KVM, which put Red Hat into direct competition with the likes of Citrix, Microsoft and VMware.

Thursday, June 18 2009 10:27 AM

Tags: Linux, Virtualization, Red Hat Inc., Hypervisor, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Xen, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, Enterprise Linux, Virtualization, Linux

Red Hat ties virtualization future to KVM

News The enterprise open-source software company is moving away from Xen towards its own KVM technology, as part of its virtualization strategy.

Wednesday, February 25 2009 03:34 PM

Tags: Virtualization, Red Hat Inc., Virtual Machine, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, Hypervisor, Server, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Linux, strategy, desktop

Virtualization set for disaster-recovery growth

News Virtual Iron has released a significant update to its virtualization system, as it looks to focus on specific-use cases such as disaster recovery and high availability.

Wednesday, December 12 2007 11:29 AM

Tags: Linux server OS, App servers, File servers

Red Hat: Microsoft still 'aggressive as hell'

News CEO Matthew Szulik talks about staying relevant in a world where the operating system isn't the talking point it once was.

Friday, June 02 2006 10:57 AM

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Linux, Linux desktop OS, Linux server OS, Strategy

Red Hat announces embedded Linux hypervisor

News The company claims it will continue to support the Xen virtualization project, despite working on an alternative method that is integrated with the Linux kernel.

Friday, June 20 2008 12:52 PM

Tags: Virtualization, Business applications, Software, Linux, Open source, Red Hat Inc., Database, Novell Inc., Hypervisor, operating system

Red Hat and Microsoft support mixed virtualization

News It is now possible to deploy supported virtualization environments that combine Red Hat Linux with Microsoft Windows Server, the two companies have announced.

Thursday, October 08 2009 11:03 AM

Tags: Virtualization, Microsoft Corp., Red Hat Inc., Microsoft Windows Server Hyper-V, Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V, Server, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Microsoft Windows Server, Microsoft Windows, Red Hat Enterprise Linux