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Solaris to Red Hat Enterprise Linux Strategic Migration Planning Guide

Wednesday, November 10th, 2010

Solaris to Red Hat Enterprise Linux Strategic Migration Planning Guide

Is your IT ecosystem in danger of becoming too dependent on a single vendor? If so, you are at a huge disadvantage, making you increasingly vulnerable to cost increases and limiting your options to do what is best for your business environment.

Migrating from proprietary technologies to those based on free, industry-wide standards will not only help you carve out IT costs, but also help scale your IT ecosystem. And strategic migration planning from Red Hat provides you with the road map to execute that migration safely and efficiently.

Developed by Red Hat’s global team of architects and enterprise consultants, our migration planning provides the tools, insights, and proven processes needed to proactively plan a Sun Solaris to Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® migration based on risk and readiness. The result? You achieve maximum cost-savings and knowledge transfer with minimal disruption to your business.

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Musical tips (red) hat to life after 50

Saturday, October 18th, 2008

Musical tips (red) hat to life after 50

Milestone birthdays can be unsettling-and 50 is a biggie. MaryAnne puts on the brakes as she approaches that mark, declaring herself to be a 49.999-year-old, in “Hats! The Musical,” being presented by The Kirk Players weekends at Cuneo Museum and Gardens, through Nov. 16.

Beverly Johnson of Mundelein, who plays MaryAnne, can relate to that situation. She will be 50 in February.

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MaryAnne learns that there’s lots of life after 50 from her mother and her mother’s friends who belong to the Red Hat Society. That’s the international organization which promotes fun for 50-plus women. You may have seen them — they wear purple clothes and red chapeaux.

“They tell the stories of their lives and how they have come to embrace getting older,” Johnson said.

These tales have a profound affect on MaryAnne. She shifts from “wanting to forget about the whole thing and not acknowledge the existence of this birthday to embracing all of the wonderful new changes and the fact that it doesn’t mean that there’s an end to any of your life.
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Red Hat Unveils Integrated Linux-Based HPC Platform

Sunday, October 12th, 2008

Red Hat Unveils Integrated Linux-Based HPC Platform

Red Hat, a provider of open source solutions, has announced the delivery of an integrated Linux-based High Performance Computing (HPC) platform with the global availability of the Red Hat HPC Solution, an all-in-one stack that customers can leverage to deploy, run and manage their HPC clusters.

Historically, according to the company, building and managing HPC clusters has provided cost and expertise challenges for IT departments faced with lengthy deployment timelines and tedious integration work requiring extensive training, planning and upkeep.

“With our HPC Solution, we’re enabling our customers to focus on their business goals and competitive advantage without needing to worry about the challenges of deploying and managing their HPC cluster – we’re taking care of this for them,” said Scott Crenshaw, vice president, Platform Business Unit at Red Hat. “We’re delivering the first Linux-based solution that allows our customers to deploy a fully integrated high-performance computing environment in minutes rather than in weeks or months. No one else in the industry has yet been able to deliver this type of compelling Linux solution for HPC clusters.”
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Mandriva Linux 2009.0 is out – but do you care?

Sunday, October 12th, 2008

Mandriva Linux 2009.0 is out – but do you care?

The first time I ever saw Mandrake Linux (Now Mandriva) was on a retail store shelf. That was probably 9 years ago and to be honest in the last few years I personally haven’t seen Mandriva running much (as I shoulder surf desktops at conferences) – though it’s hard to tell.

Mandriva Linux 2009.0 is now out and it might help to improve the adoption numbers, especially for those who prefer the KDE Linux desktop.

Mandriva 2009.0 includes KDE 4.1 (a whole lot more stable than KDE 4), a new GUI installer and improved boot times according to the release notes. Mandriva also claims that its installer is now capable of detecting low-resource systems or netbooks, and installing an appropriate environment.

Linux bloat is a real problem for low resource systems. In my own experience I tend to spend the first hour (or more) of any new release installation turning off services that are installed by default that I’m likely to never need or use. Having an installer that can detect a low-resource system is a positive step forward overall in helping to make for faster and more efficient systems.

Mandriva at this stage in its maturity faces more than just technical challenges – there are significant marketing challenges too. Traditional competitors like Red Hat, SUSE and Debian are still there and the popular Ubuntu Linux distribution is also grabbing a lot of mind and market share.

It’s not just good enough anymore (if it ever really was) to just be better than Windows – for Mandriva to make a dent it need to be better and somehow differentiated than other Linux distros as well.

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Latin America becomes the fastest growing region for Red Hat in fiscal 2Q09

Thursday, October 2nd, 2008

Latin America becomes the fastest growing region for Red Hat in fiscal 2Q09

Latin America was the fastest growing region for US Linux operating systems integrator Red Hat (NYSE: RHT) during the second quarter of fiscal year 2009, ending August 31, Red Hat’s Latin American marketing manager Martín D’Elia told BNamericas.

According to the executive, one of the reasons why Latin America recorded the fastest growth was the good level of IT adoption and the faster decision cycles, compared to more mature regions and the fact that open source has a higher penetration than in other regions.

“The cost factor is also an issue [in boosting the adoption of open source technologies] in Latin America, particularly in countries that are mostly affected by the fluctuation of the dollar… We have also seen many migrations at the data center level to Linux, complemented with virtualization,” he added.

D’Elia was not able to provide hard revenue of growth figures for the region. Globally, however, Red Hat posted total revenues of US$164mn for 2Q09, a 29% year-over-year increase.

Regarding growth in Latin America, D’Elia made special mention of Brazil, particularly because of sales of middleware solutions, as well as Chile and its retail segment. In the private sector, the telecoms and banking industries were key areas of growth.

Furthermore, the government will be one of the main sectors of focus for Red Hat during the rest of this fiscal year, as according to D’Elia, “our business model, plus the quality of the software and the possibility to participate in the open source community, is very important for them. There we expect very aggressive growth rates.”
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