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Cloud Computing & SOA: Getting the Links Straight Between Them

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 02:45:00 EDT

Want to know what gets my blood pressure up? It’s when there’s both a huge shift in thinking around how we should do computing, namely cloud computing, and at the same time, there’s a bunch of information out there that causes confusion. As cloud computing hype spikes to a frenzy, so does the number of less-than-intelligent things that I hear about it and its relationship to SOA.

Red Hat Announces Premier Cloud Provider Certification and Partner Program

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 05:30:00 EDT

Red Hat, Inc., has announced the Premier Cloud Provider Certification and Partner Program, designed to simplify and expand the adoption of cloud computing by enterprise customers. The program enables industry leaders in cloud computing to become certified to offer Red Hat technology solutions. Premier Cloud Provider Partners will collaborate with Red Hat on technical support, security updates, hardware certification, sales and marketing and business models.

Red Hat Numbers Up in Crummy Economy

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 08:00:00 EDT

Red Hat’s revenues were up 11.4% to $174.4 million in its first fiscal quarter ended May 31. Subscription revenue was $148.8 million, up 14% year-over-year. It earned $18.5 million, or 10 cents a share, up 7%. Its non-GAAP income for the quarter was $28.7 million, or 15 cents a share, a penny better than expected.

Government IT Expo: eGov and Open Standards

Fri, 19 Jun 2009 14:00:00 EDT

When President Obama appointed his new federal CIO, Vivek Kundra, last week, Kundra announced ambitious plans to "democratize" federal government data by making it accessible in open formats and in data feeds. His plan calls for the creation of a single point of access to all public federal information. The idea is to enable the data to be accessed by developers whose applications will open up federal data to the sunlight of millions of citizens by encouraging them to scrutinize how the Recovery Act’s dollars will be spent.

Red Hat’s KVM Widgetry Goes to Beta

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 21:00:00 EDT

Red Hat sent its newfangled Xen-replacing KVM-based virtualization portfolio to beta Tuesday, with an eye to delivering it later this year. It says the beta program is oversubscribed. It includes a new standalone hypervisor (turning the Linux kernel into a bare-metal hypervisor, something that could have a lot of implications for devices), a server, virtual infrastructure management and desktop virtualization management across both Windows and Linux.

Red Hat Collaborates with HP on SOA Solutions

Wed, 17 Jun 2009 16:45:00 EDT

Red Hat has announced an optimized solution developed with HP around service-oriented architecture (SOA) Governance. The JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform has been optimized to be governed by HP SOA Systinet software. With the addition of HP SOA Systinet, customers have an opportunity to drive revenue, remove costly errors and respond to market changes when they automate business processes through a deployment on JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform.

Government IT Expo: CIA Buys into Lucene Start-up

Wed, 17 Jun 2009 13:15:00 EDT

The CIA and its black ops buddies have bought into Lucid Imagination, the start-up commercializing the Apache Lucene and Solr search technologies. Lucid says search is big right now in spy circles, particularly a full-text search engine they can tinker with like Lucene. Nobody’s saying how much In-Q-Tel (IQT), the unique, independent and publicly funded, not-for-profit investment arm of the U.S. intelligence community, tucked into Lucid but there’s a support contract that goes along with the investment, an arrangement IQT apparently calls a “work program.”

Data Domain Accepts Upped NetApp Bid; EMC Proceeds with Tender

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 09:30:00 EDT

Wednesday morning NetApp raised its offer for Data Domain to $30 a share to match EMC’s bid. However, it can’t match EMC’s deeper pockets. It’s still offering a mix of cash and stock but claims its new bid is really worth $1.9 billion net of Data Domain’s cash.

Red Hat Drives Future Use of Java for the Enterprise

Tue, 02 Jun 2009 22:00:00 EDT

Red Hat has announced the JBoss Open Choice application platform strategy which aims to provide a single environment for deploying a variety of programming models with a common platform, making it easier to develop and deploy applications. The JBoss Open Choice strategy represents Red Hat's response to the expanding and rapidly changing landscape of Java for the enterprise, which is marked by more variety and more choice of programming and deployment models than ever before.

SYS-CON White Paper: Velociti Partners Customer Survey

Mon, 01 Jun 2009 18:45:00 EDT

JBoss' expert technical support services are clearly acknowledged by its client base as well as the comprehensive nature by which their service is unsurpassed. Every category that was evaluated resulted in JBoss rating higher than the competition. More important, JBoss' performance has yielded unprecedented customer loyalty as evidenced by its favorable quantitative loyalty rating.

Red Hat Sues Swiss Government Agency over Microsoft Deal

Wed, 27 May 2009 12:00:00 EDT

Red Hat and 17 other companies last week sued the Swiss Federal Bureau for Building and Logistics (BBL), a government agency, in the Swiss Federal Administration Court seeking to overturn the award of a $36 million three-year contract to Microsoft for workstation widgetry, including applications, maintenance and support.

Red Hat CEO to Present at Government IT Forum

Tue, 05 May 2009 14:30:00 EDT

“Considering today’s economic challenges, it’s time to unlock the innovative potential of information technology in Federal government,” said Peter Tseronis, MeriTalk Federal IT on a Budget Forum Co-Chair and Deputy Associate Chief Information Officer at the Department of Energy. “Our program brings government and industry experts together to discuss best practices for meeting these challenges and making the vision of Government 2.0 a reality.”

Google Gets Floating Data Center Patent

Sat, 02 May 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Google has gotten a patent on a seaborne floating data center to be housed on a cargo ship three to seven miles offshore that would be cooled by ocean waters and powered by a Pelamis wave-based electrical generator (little fishies and SpongeBob SquarePants beware).

Red Hat To Present Virtual Cloud Computing Forum

Thu, 23 Apr 2009 08:45:00 EDT

Red Hat announced a call for presentations for its Open Source Cloud Computing Forum, a virtual event scheduled to take place July 22, 2009. The Forum will focus on how open source software and standards will advance the development and value of cloud computing environments.

Sun’s GlassFish & Friends To Swim in Amazon’s EC2

Thu, 23 Apr 2009 08:45:00 EDT

Sun has put its open source GlassFish portfolio and identity management OpenSSO and OpenDS software on Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). Sun said it was the first step in its strategy to offer its portfolio of open source software on a variety of cloud platforms.

Red Hat Launches Teiid

Tue, 14 Apr 2009 22:00:00 EDT

Red Hat Thursday sent its Teiid data virtualization system project out to the JBoss.org community. Teiid is called the first open source community project that aims to deliver Enterprise Information Integration (EII) with both relational and XML data virtualization. Red Hat has sponsored other open source virtualization projects, such as the oVirt.org project.

Red Hat Profits Slip on Strong Sales

Thu, 26 Mar 2009 17:00:00 EDT

Red Hat's earnings dropped 30% to $16 million, eight cents share, in its fourth quarter ended in February. Revenue was up 18% year-over-year but up only 1% sequentially to $166.2 million. The company's 22-cents-a-share non-GAAP income was two cents better than expected thanks to cost cutting and stock buybacks that lowered the number of shares outstanding and so boosted EPS. Wall Street thought it would clear $167 on the revenue side.

An A to Z of Cloud Computing in New York City

Tue, 17 Mar 2009 10:45:00 EDT

From Apache Hadoop and Google App Engine to Web-Scale Computing and Web Services in action, a round-up of the Cloud Computing themes & topics being discussed March 30-April 1, 2009, in New York City by the world-class speaker faculty at the 2nd International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo being held in The Roosevelt Hotel, in midtown Manhattan.

Red Hat Announces ISV Applications Now Virtualization-Ready

Mon, 23 Feb 2009 12:30:00 EST

Red Hat announced its virtualization agenda and roadmap for 2009, including confirmation that its ecosystem of applications tested and certified to run on Red Hat Enterprise Linux are also certified to run in a Red Hat virtualized platform with no modifications. With this news, Red Hat ISV partners are ensured through an Application Binary Interface (ABI) guarantee that their certified applications are capable of running under Red Hat virtualization technology as a result of Red Hat’s ability to couple the open source operating system Red Hat Enterprise Linux and hypervisor layers.

Red Hat & Microsoft Temporarily Cage Their Fire-Breathing Dragons

Wed, 18 Feb 2009 00:45:00 EST

Red Hat and Microsoft, about as virulent a pair of enemies as has ever existed, threw a leash over their fire-breathing dragons long enough on Monday to announce a cooperative pact forced on them by their mutual users - folks who may be holding back from committing to virtualization ahead of a truce. The companies say they're going to support each other's operating systems as guests on each other's current virtualization schemes. Windows Server will be supported on Red Hat's transient Xen virtualization and Red Hat 5 will be supported on Microsoft's Hyper V widgetry.

Red Hat Announces It's Kinda Interoperable, Sort Of, Maybe?

Tue, 17 Feb 2009 20:00:00 EST

In a rather lackluster announcement today Red Hat has indicated they have signed a reciprocal agreement with Microsoft to enable increased "interoperability" for the companies’ virtualization platforms. Both companies said that they would offer a joint virtualization validation/certification program that will provide coordinated technical support for their mutual server virtualization customers.

Red Hat Extends JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform 4.3

Tue, 17 Feb 2009 14:30:00 EST

Open source solutions firm, Red Hat's JBoss releases Enterprise Portal Platform 4.3, developed as an integrated and standards-based open source platform for hosting and portal based applications and rich web presences. Craig Muzilla, Vice President of Red Hat's Middleware business remarked, "As a critical component of the Web 2.0 landscape, portals remain a low-cost gateway for facilitating collaboration, information sharing and interoperable processes. JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform 4.3 includes an enterprise-class set of features required to support a wide range of portal use cases."

Red Hat Expands Server Virtualization Interoperability with Microsoft

Mon, 16 Feb 2009 13:45:00 EST

Red Hat has signed reciprocal agreements with Microsoft Corporation to enable increased interoperability for the companies’ virtualization platforms. Each company will join the other's virtualization validation/certification program and will provide coordinated technical support for their mutual server virtualization customers. The reciprocal validations will allow customers to deploy heterogeneous, virtualized Red Hat and Microsoft solutions with confidence.

Red Hat Fans the JBoss Flame

Mon, 16 Feb 2009 10:15:00 EST

Red Hat got JBoss Application Server 5.0 out in December and is now revving its engine. It says to expect three modular, supported point releases of the widgetry this year meant for everything from web serving to a full enterprise-class battery. The componentization comes compliments of 5.0’s new compliance with OSGi.The additions are expected to add support for stuff like Hibernate, Struts, Spring, REST, Flex and Google’s WebToolkit (GWT). Meanwhile, Red Hat is also pushing the migration button to get customers to switch from proprietary middleware to JBoss Enterprise Middleware.

Red Hat Announces Open Source Project for JBoss Migrations

Thu, 12 Feb 2009 06:00:00 EST

Red Hat, together with its JBoss Solution Partners, has announced the formation of a new open source community project focused on enterprise-class middleware migrations. The JBoss MASS (migration assistance) community will focus on the creation of migration tools and a migration resource center to accelerate the adoption of JBoss Enterprise Middleware. Numerous JBoss solution providers make up the founding Red Hat partners, including: Amentra, a Red Hat company; CityTech, Consilium1, Exadel, Freedom OSS, RivetLogic, Unisys, and Vizuri.

Red Hat Releases JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform 4.3

Thu, 12 Feb 2009 05:00:00 EST

Red Hat has announced the global availability of JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform 4.3, an integrated and standards-based open source platform for hosting, portal-based applications, and rich web presences. JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform 4.3 has improved server performance, high availability and clustering and simple, straightforward installation and configuration. New features in JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform 4.3 include:

Red Hat Introduces JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform 4.3

Wed, 11 Feb 2009 17:00:00 EST

Red Hat announced the global availability of JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform 4.3, an integrated and standards-based open source platform for hosting and portal based applications and rich web presences. JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform 4.3 maintains its focus on enterprise needs with improved server performance, high availability, clustering, installation and configuration.

Russian Federation Commits to Red Hat Open Source

Tue, 10 Feb 2009 19:00:00 EST

Open source software development in Russia is one of the most important directives for Igor Schegolev - the Head of the Ministry of Information Technologies and Communications of the Russian Federation. Schegolev met with Werner Knoblich, Red Hat Vice President for EMEA at the Ministry of Information Technologies and Communications of the Russian Federation, and other industry leaders on February 5 to discuss the software.

DOD Creates its Own Sourceforge

Fri, 06 Feb 2009 11:48:00 EST

The US Defense Department has created forge.mil, its own Red Hat-based security-defended knockoff of Sourceforge accessible only with smartcards for those who would edit or contribute open source code and a DOD, CAC or ECA certificate. It’s reportedly only got information on three projects and no code on it so far. They include a Bastille server configuration automation project, an RFP project and one to automate the secure configuration of Solaris systems. The agency has also developed its own cloud.

Smaller Carbon Footprint with Red Hat Mainframe

Thu, 05 Feb 2009 17:00:00 EST

Red Hat announced that Bank of New Zealand, a subsidiary of the National Australia Bank Group, has deployed Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 on IBM System z mainframes to solve environment, space and cost issues related to its datacenter. With Red Hat and IBM solutions, Bank of New Zealand has significantly reduced its hardware footprint, power consumption, heat and carbon emissions and costs, including an expected 20 percent cost reduction over the life of the platform.

Red Hat Enterprise MRG 1.1 Released

Thu, 05 Feb 2009 14:55:00 EST

Eight months after version 1.0 was originally released, Red Hat has released Red Hat Enterprise MRG 1.1, its Linux platform for time-critical applications. The Grid capabilities in the 1.0 release were still experimental. However, Red Hat says that they are now fit for use in production environments. MRG stands for Messaging, Realtime, and Grid. Red Hat Enterprise MRG 1.1 promises improvements in the following areas: Native OFED Infiniband Support and RDMA (Remote Direct Memory Access) help to provide for better Messaging latency ratios and Active-Active clustering is also new in the release.

Acxiom Standardizes its Grid Computing Environment on Red Hat Solutions

Fri, 30 Jan 2009 14:00:00 EST

Acxiom Corporation has selected Red Hat Enterprise Linux as the standard operating system for its grid processing environment. Acxiom’s grid infrastructure is designed to improve efficiency, maintain consistency across its systems and logically partition resources to meet its clients’ increasing demands. With a broad ecosystem of certified hardware and software solutions, Red Hat Enterprise Linux enabled Acxiom to make hardware choices independent of the operating system.

CQUniversity Chooses Red Hat Solutions to Run Distance Education Tech

Mon, 26 Jan 2009 18:00:00 EST

Red Hat announced that CQUniversity, an Australian university with ten campuses and more than 21,00 students and staff, has migrated its critical IT systems to Red Hat solutions. CQUniversity offers a wide range of undergraduate and postgraduate courses on-campus and through distance education, relying heavily on the reliability and stability of its IT environment on a daily basis. In late 2006, CQUniversity’s IT team decided that from both a hardware and software perspective, Red Hat Enterprise Linux would become its operating system of choice.

RHEL 5.3 Adds Enhanced Virtualization Scalibility

Fri, 23 Jan 2009 07:00:00 EST

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3 is out. It adds 150 updates and enhancements, including enhanced virtualization scalability, increased scalability of virtualized x86-64 environments, support for Intel’s quad-core 45nm Core i7 Nehalem processors, OpenJDK, the open source implementation of Java SE 6, Systemtap functionality and power management updates. It can support virtual servers with up to 32 virtual CPUs and 80GB of memory. Physical server limits have been expanded to 126 CPUs and 1TB main memory. Support for Hugepage memory and Intel Extended Page Tables (EPT) is supposed to improve the performance of virtual servers.

Ingres and Red Hat Team Up for Joint Keynote at Open Source Event

Fri, 23 Jan 2009 07:00:00 EST

Ingres Corporation and Red Hat are teaming up in a joint keynote presentation at the upcoming “Open Source Meets Business” congress for CIOs, CTOs, and IT decision makers. The event is scheduled for January 27 – 29 in the CongressCenter Nuremberg. Tom Berquist, CFO at Ingres, will co-host a keynote with Sacha Labourey, CTO of Red Hat’s JBoss Division entitled “Open Source Stack - a Prudent Choice - Not Only - when the Economy Gets Tough.” The presentation will compare a closed stack platform approach with a business open source-based platform stack approach. Flexibility, transparency, predictability alongside with direct cost implications (upfront and running) will be discussed with practical examples. Berquist and Labourey will outline the benefits for end-user customers, as well as ISVs and system integrators, can achieve from a reliable and scalable open source stack combining operating system, middleware and database and mission critical 24/7 support capabilities. This presentation comes at a crucial time – when the market has dropped to a level the world hasn’t seen for some ten years.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform for Virtualization

Thu, 22 Jan 2009 07:00:00 EST

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform provides dramatic capabilities beyond basic Enterprise Linux 5. Integrated server and storage virtualization technologies in a single, easily managed product, with a complete and highly functional environment. Included in Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform: Critical technologies in a single solution. Fully integrated; Unlimited virtualized guests. Multiple operating systems, multiple versions, multiple performance and security settings, all running on the same server using Red Hat's virtualization technology. Storage virtualization. Multiple guests, running on the same or different servers, access and share logical storage volumes and file systems. Reap the full benefits of server virtualization with shared

rPath Goes Back to the Well

Sat, 17 Jan 2009 07:00:00 EST

Red Hat offshoot rPath has named Tim Buckley, once the COO of Red Hat and lately the principal of Buckley Investments, to its board as executive chairman. He’s supposed to help rPath accelerate its push into the enterprise market with solutions for reducing the cost and complexity of delivering applications to traditional, virtualized and cloud-based environments. rPath treasures him for his sales and go-to-market experience in the enterprise sector, credited with pushing Red Hat into the open source fast lane.

Red Hat Raids Intel

Sat, 17 Jan 2009 07:00:00 EST

Red Hat raided Intel for a guy to run its North American sales and came back with Greg Symon, who had been running the global software relations organization within Intel’s Software Solutions Group. Symon started the unit. Red Hat expects him to expand its enterprise customer base and develop its presence in the North American market. Red Hat said that earlier in his 22-year Intel career, Symon was one of the primary architects and founder of both the influencer evangelist and worldwide business development organizations. He was also worldwide director of Intel’s customer solutions group influencer sales team, Americas director of the architecture management organization, manager of the business development organization and director of its strategic relations managers group. Symon replaces Ed Boyajian, who went to EnterpriseDB as CEO last June.

Greg Symon Joins Red Hat as VP and GM of North American Sales

Tue, 13 Jan 2009 11:36:00 EST

Red Hat has named Greg Symon as vice president and general manager of North American sales. With more than 25 years of business and sales experience, Symon will play a key leadership role in the development and execution of Red Hat's North American sales strategy and growth. Prior to Red Hat, Symon held various senior sales management and business development positions during a 22-year tenure with Intel Corporation. He most recently served as senior managing director and founder of Intel's Global Software Relations organization within the company's Software Solutions Group. In this role, Symon led the creation and development of the software influencer organization focused on developing and maintaining global relationships with partners, Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) and Operating System Vendors (OSVs) to ensure success with the ecosystem and end-user account engagements.

JBoss to Support Google Web Toolkit

Wed, 17 Dec 2008 08:45:00 EST

Red Hat is on its way to supporting Google Web Toolkit (GWT) as part of its JBoss Enterprise Application Platform subscription. GWT is the open source project that helps Java developers build AJAX web applications for any browser, something traditional UI technologies for Java EE can't do. Anyway, Red Hat has signed a Google Contributor Agreement and has already done some preliminary integration between GWT and the JBoss Seam Framework.

Red Hat's Brian Stevens Explores the Evolution of the Cloud at 1st International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo

Fri, 28 Nov 2008 07:00:00 EST

"The days of Cloud 1.0 are here," stated Red Hat CTO Brian Stevens in his session this morning at SYS-CON’s Virtualization Conference & Expo, in San Jose. He discussed the evolution of the cloud, and how to build a cloud. Over the last five years, the open source community has turned its attention to virtualization, and Stevens discussed what has been achieved so far, and what is under development.

Certeon to Present at SYS-CON's Virtualization Conference & Expo, November 19-21, San Jose, CA

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 22:00:00 EST

Virtualization carries the promises of flexibility, lower costs, ease of deployment and simplified server management. However, when condensing the physical resources of your enterprise, are you considering how to make applications easily accessible to the growing number of remote users within your enterprise?

AMD and Red Hat Demonstrate Live Migration of Virtual Machines

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 08:15:00 EST

AMD, in collaboration with Red Hat, have demonstrated the “live migration” of a virtual machine across vendor platforms. Live migration enables the movement of running virtual machines from one physical server to another without disrupting service to the end user, something that, till now, has only been demonstrated across systems based on one vendor’s platforms. The live migration demonstration moves a live VM from an dual socket Intel Xeon DP Quad Core E5420-based system to a system based on the forthcoming 45nm Quad-Core AMD Opteron processor, utilizing Red Hat’s high-performance open source virtualization software.

Red Hat Tickles Open Source SOA

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 08:00:00 EST

By the end of the month Red Hat will release JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform 4.3 and JBoss Operations Network 2.1, which are supposed give it more skin in the enterprise SOA game. The company said the new revs feature cooperative support and allow for remote monitoring and management of open source SOA deployments. Red Hat’s SOA strategy is centered on driving down cost and complexity.

Red Hat Named "Platinum Sponsor" of SYS-CON's Virtualization and Cloud Computing Conference & Expo

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 18:00:00 EDT

Red Hat is a trusted open source provider. Red Hat offers enterprise customers a long-term plan for building infrastructures on the quality and innovation of open source. Combining open source operating system platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, together with applications, management, and Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) solutions, including the JBoss Enterprise Middleware Suite.

Scalent Supports Red Hat with Virtualization

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 07:00:00 EDT

Red Hat says Scalent Systems is supporting Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 standalone and with Xen, extending virtualization and data center automation beyond hypervisors to bare metal servers, network and storage connectivity. Scalent V/OE provisions virtual or bare metal servers and associated storage and network topologies, reportedly yielding higher asset utilization and lower costs. It lets data centers react in real-time to changing business needs by shifting workloads and connectivity.

Red Hat and the Opening of Virtualization on SYS-CON.TV

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 19:00:00 EDT

Open Source. Open Standards. Open Collaboration. For the past 15 years, Linux has served as the benchmark of a successful global open source project. The impact has been far reaching: today it powers the Internet, a significant portion of the datacenter, is the emerging market choice for the desktop, and soon will likely be on your phone. Over the last 5 years, this open community has turned its attention to virtualization.

Red Hat and Tresys Partner to Deliver Enhanced Linux Security Services

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:00:00 EDT

Tresys Technology, a provider of technology and services for customers with high security requirements, and Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE:RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced an agreement to work together to deliver government and enterprise security services to customers. Under the terms of the agreement, Red Hat and Tresys will offer services that include security engineering, secure application development, virtualization security and compliance certification and accreditation support on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux platform.

AMD Spins Off Manufacturing into a Joint Venture with Abu Dhabi

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 23:15:00 EDT

Hector Ruiz, the ex-AMD CEO who sheparded the so-called "asset lite" strategy into being, will be chairman and give up the chair at AMD. ATIC and AMD will split the board at the joint venture. The deal is expected to close by the end of the year. It covers AMD's two fabs in Germany, plus related assets and IP, and 3,000 people. There is a separate 12-month deal between ATIC and Mubadala that will have Mubadala project-managing ATIC's interests in the Foundry.

Red Hat Delivers Integrated Linux-based HPC Platform

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 22:00:00 EDT

Red Hat Thursday delivered what it called the industry’s first integrated Linux-based High Performance Computing (HPC) platform, otherwise known as the Red Hat HPC Solution, an all-in-one HPC cluster stack that Red Hat and Platform Computing put together over the last year. The delivery is timely since Microsoft is just pushing out the final code of its Windows HPC Server 2008. Both Microsoft and Red Hat have in mind to broaden HPC’s commercial appeal and get SMBs as well as large accounts to sign on.