Red Hat ENTERPRISE LINUX - Path to Cloud and Architecture Library; Road to the Cloud; Reference Architecture Library; Red Hat Enterprise Linux Benefits and Management

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RED HAT ENTERPRISE LINUX BENEFITS
With Red Hat Enterprise Linux, you receive:
The applications you need •
Thousands of certied applications from ISVs (Independent Software
Vendors). redhat.com/partners/isv/
Your choice of hardware platform •
Hundreds of certied hardware systems and peripherals from leading
OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) vendors, spanning multiple
processor architectures. redhat.com/partners/hardwarepartners/
Comprehensive service offerings •
Up to 24x7 support with one-hour response, available from Red Hat
and selected ISV and OEM partners. redhat.com/support/
The leading operating system •
Excellent performance, security, scalability, and availability,
with audited industry benchmarks. spec.org, tpc.org
(redhat.com/rhel/details/benchmarks/)
Robust and quality technology •
Red Hat is the world's leading open source developer, enabling
it to deliver the highest-quality enterprise deployments.
A stable future •
Every major version provides stable application interfaces and seven
years of product support.
Interoperability •
A product family that enables seamless interoperation of systems from
the laptop, to the datacenter, to the mainframe. Plus, excellent interoper-
ability with existing UNIX and Microsoft
®
Windows
®
deployments.
RED HAT ENTERPRISE LINUX POWERS MANY OF THE
WORLD'S MOST DEMANDING FINANCIAL INSTITUTES
"Our ability to add incremental capacity to the thousands
of servers we maintain daily with the reliability to deal
with the great demands of day-to-day trading is only
capable because of Linux and our work with Red Hat."
 -JoePanl
Managing Director of Enterprise
Technology Services, CME Group
ROAD TO THE CLOUD
Choosing Red Hat as the standard
for applications is the rst step in
moving toward a service-oriented
IT model that includes cloud capa-
bilities. As a host or a guest, Red Hat
Enterprise Linux delivers the core
technologies to deploy both private
and public clouds. The application
management, tuning, and security
environment is consistent whether
the workload is deployed on a physi-
cal system, as a virtual guest on any
of the leading hypervisors, or with a
public cloud provider.
In shared and virtualized environ-
ments, the features and capabilities
of Red Hat Enterprise Linux make it
the ideal host and guest operating
system.
REFERENCE ARCHITECTURE
LIBRARY
The Red Hat Enterprise Linux refer-
ence architecture library includes
comprehensive solutions that help
customers get the most out of their
Red Hat Enterprise Linux-based envi-
ronment. These reference architec-
tures will explain the capabilities of a
given solution and provide a how-
to for implementing best practices.
Provisioning, management, congura-
tion, and performance tuning are also
covered, along with information about
interoperability with other products.
Find the solution that best suits your
environment by visiting:
redhat.com/rhel/resource_center/
reference_architecture.html