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IGEL Supports Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0IGEL customers now able to leverage IGEL’s support of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0 to deploy distributed high-performance, scalable and secure virtual desktop solutions.

Cincinnati, OH, January 21, 2012 –(PR.com)– IGEL Technology, the world’s leading provider of Linux-based thin clients, announced today its support of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0 that will become available this week. IGEL is among the first manufacturers to support Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0, and IGEL Universal Desktop thin clients running IGEL Linux are among the first devices to support Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0.

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0 allows virtualized Windows or Linux desktops to be provisioned in a secure and economical manner and accessed via the high-performance SPICE protocol from different enterprise locations, leading to manageability benefits for large-scale deployments. The powerful remote-display protocol, SPICE, used in Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization has been available in IGEL thin client hardware and software for some time. With Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization support, IGEL’s customers can benefit from the scalability and performance of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization to deploy large-scale VDI systems with higher densities, simplified management, improved costs and a superior end-user experience.

Focused on continuously improving its customers’ experience, IGEL has also adapted its own in-house-developed appliance mode for Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Desktops. This optional setting speeds up the log-on process and minimizes user interaction by bypassing the local thin client user interface. Only a few seconds after the IGEL thin client has been switched on, the log-on screen for the virtual desktop is displayed. When the appliance mode is disabled, IGEL thin clients also allow parallel access to other centralized IT infrastructures such as IBM mainframes, Windows Remote Desktop Services or other cloud services.

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Uttam Energy Tech Builds Highly Secured IT Environment with Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization

A leading Indian manufacturing company reduces hardware costs by 50 percent with Red Hat virtualization technology for both servers and desktops

RALEIGH, N.C. — Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Uttam Energy Tech, a leading design and manufacturing company in India, has implemented Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization to build its virtualized infrastructure for both servers and desktops. Uttam Energy Tech is utilizing both the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 2.2 platform as well as the Red Hat Enterprise 3.0 Beta, with plans to migrate all of its systems to Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0 upon general availability.

An Uttam Group company, Uttam Energy Tech’s state-of-the-art technology and continuous focus on quality have helped the company develop the world’s leading boilers for a variety of industries. Uttam Energy Tech strives to create state-of-the-art engineering, drawing designs of its product, while at the same time, protecting these designs from misuse or theft. “It was critical for us to restrict access to the centralized file server where our custom-made designs are kept, preventing our designers from copying and storing design files locally,” said Balram Adlakha, vice president, business development at Uttam Energy Tech. “In addition, we wanted to build an IT infrastructure that is secure, easier to manage with minimal administrative overhead, scalable to accommodate rapid growth and also cost-effective.”

With security, maintainability, scalability, performance and cost in mind, Uttam Energy Tech’s IT team began evaluating various products in the virtualization space to help resolve its challenges. Red Hat’s partner Taashee Linux Services, a Linux and open source technology solution provider based in India, managed the implementation. The company evaluated the latest product offerings from VMware, but the costs for a combined solution of desktop and server virtualization became prohibitive, leaving Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization as the clear option for the firm. “Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization just made sense, as it provides a combined solution for virtualized desktops and servers, and is 70 percent less expensive than competitors’ desktop virtualization products,” said Adlakha.

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Red Hat’s 3.0 platform deemed a turning point for KVM, cloud aims

Summary: Red Hat took a major step forward today in its goal to establish the open source kernel-based VM hypervisor as a leading virtualization platform for desktops and servers and a core component of its cloud computing strategy — the release of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0.

Red Hat’s much anticipated Enterprise Virtualization 3.0 platform represents a turning point in the maturity of KVM hypervisor and the company’s cloud computing goals, one IDC analyst claims.

RHEV 3.0 — which offers advances in the kernel-based Virtual Machine hypervisor and related server and desktop virtualization management capabilities — was released today with the support from leading partners including Cisco, HP, Intel and NetApp.

Red Hat claims the new platform offers the best performance and scalability in the industry at a fraction of the cost. Version 3.0, for instance, is said to offer the best 2-socket, 4-socket and 8-socket performance and scalability metrics (in terms of VM density and host per cluster) at one third to one fifth of the cost of other leading proprietary platforms.

KVM is integrated within the Linux kernel. Aside from built-in KVM enhancements, RHEV offers a new management system, user portal, support for the RESTful API and local storage and support for Cisco’s Virtual Machine Fabric Extender (VM-FEX) technology for creating an integrated and unified physical and virtual infrastructure.

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Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0 Enters Market with Backing of Strong ISV Ecosystem

Red Hat introduces its Red Hat Market Place for ISV partner collaboration and unveils Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization-Certified product certification

Red Hat, Inc. RHT +0.14% , the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced strong partner support for Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0 from its ISV partner ecosystem. In line with the general availability of the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0 portfolio today, Red Hat introduces its ecosystem of industry-leading vendors that have integrated their applications with the 3.0 product through its APIs.

“We are excited to introduce Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0 to worldwide enterprises today with the backing of our wide-ranging ecosystem of ISV partners that we have worked closely with to certify their solutions to our portfolio,” said Navin Thadani, senior director, Virtualization Business at Red Hat. “We selected leaders in product areas ranging from advanced management to security, backup, disaster recovery, compliance, capacity and performance management and monitoring to augment the reach and capabilities of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0. With these collaborations, we will offer joint support for Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization and our partners’ certified products to our customers.”

Red Hat today also introduced a central hub where all Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization ecosystem partners will showcase information on their products via the Red Hat Market Place. The Market Place, available within Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization or via http://marketplace.redhat.com/rhev , offers a forum for collaboration, partner documentation such as data sheets and solution guides, and trial evaluations of products and applications certified for use with Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization. Evaluations of these certified products from the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization ecosystem are easily available within the Market Place, allowing customers to trial new products alongside Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization within minutes.

Also introduced today is a new certification status, “Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization-Certified,” a product certification for Red Hat partner products that integrate with the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization API. Products and solutions classified under this status are considered to have a high-quality and meaningful integration with Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization. All applications showcased in the Red Hat Market Place are Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization-Certified.

“Acronis has been part of the Red Hat ISV ecosystem since 2006, and we continue to see growing demand for our solutions in the Red Hat environment. By achieving certification on this new platform, we can give enterprise customers the tools and the confidence to migrate their data over to Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0, knowing that it can be well protected,” said Izzy Azeri, senior vice president and general manager, Acronis Americas.

“We are very pleased to announce support for Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0,” said Chuck Tatham, SVP Operations and Business Development at CiRBA. “Now organizations will be able to gain greater control over efficiency and risk in Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization-based infrastructure with CiRBA’s new Control Console. Powered by CiRBA’s analytics, the console reveals waste and inefficiency in infrastructure and the precise changes required to address these issues, ultimately enabling organizations to run leaner data centers with lower risk.”

“We are thrilled to join the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization ecosystem to help Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization customers maximize service performance and user productivity, and thereby deliver on the ROI promise of transformational IT initiatives,” said Srinivas Ramanathan, founder and CEO of eG Innovations. “The eG Enterprise performance management solution provides the industry’s only virtualization-aware service topology mapping and automatic correlation, which allows administrators to monitor Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization server and desktop platforms — not as a silo but as an integral component of the overall business service infrastructure. This unique approach delivers deep, actionable insights into root causes of cross-domain service performance issues and enables administrators to pre-emptively detect, diagnose and fix root-cause issues before end users notice.”

“Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0 provides the features, performance and scalability that enable IT organizations to lower the cost of virtualization and cloud computing. ManageIQ is excited to collaborate with Red Hat to deliver unified monitoring, management and automation solutions that reduce the cost and complexity of enterprise virtual and cloud environments,” said Joseph Fitzgerald, CEO of ManageIQ.

“Radware is pleased to be collaborating with Red Hat in jointly developing the first application delivery controller (ADC) solutions tailored to Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization environments,” said Gilad Zlotkin, vice president, Virtualization and Management Products R&D at Radware. “Through this relationship, Radware will enable more enterprise users to achieve the benefits of a fully virtualized application delivery infrastructure including greater availability, agility and performance of business-critical applications that run on top of the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization infrastructure, as well as savings in capital and operational costs. We’re excited for this strategic collaboration, and for Red Hat customers to now acquire the power of Radware’s virtual ADC solutions through the Red Hat Market Place.”

“As we expect most companies that use Red Hat Enterprise Linux to virtualize using Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, the availability of our Sourcefire Virtual IPS Sensor and Sourcefire Virtual Defense Center(TM) on Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization is critical to companies who want to extend their Next-Generation Network Security in both virtual and physical platforms,” said Matt McCormick, vice president of business development at Sourcefire. “These same companies can benefit from our extended collaboration with Red Hat, which will offer our virtual products and demos through the Red Hat Market Place.”

“Many of our customers are exploring and implementing heterogeneous hypervisor platforms within their virtualized data centers and Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization offers unique hypervisor features that allow us to deliver the capacity management support needed to support these environments,” said Bryan Semple, CMO at VKernel. “VKernel’s vOperations Suite is fully compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0 to provide award-winning capacity management capabilities for data centers using Red Hat to virtualize their environments.”

For more information about Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0, including a full list of new features and capabilities, or to download a free, fully supported 60-day trial of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0, visit www.redhat.com/rhev3 . To visit the Red Hat Market Place, visit http://marketplace.redhat.com/rhev .

To learn more about this announcement and to hear from Red Hat executives, partners and customers about Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0, join us for our virtual launch event keynote and following presentations kicking off at 12 p.m. ET on Wednesday, January 18. The keynote and presentations will also be available on demand following the live event. Join by visiting http://bit.ly/AxCJav .

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