OPEN-SOURCE solutions provider Red Hat recently announced its Integrated Virtualisation Inside campaign that aims to encourage the use of virtualisation technology among open-source software users.
The company said virtualisation will become more mainstream as enterprises look for ways to boost productivity and performance of its IT infrastructures.
“The problem with most applications is that they run on specific operating systems and are hardcoded into the hardware making it difficult to deploy,” said Red Hat Asia Pacific Pte Ltd general manager for Asean, Teong Eng Guan.
“Virtualisation will allow enterprises to run their applications on multiple operating systems while enabling them to run on virtual servers.
“So instead of running one application per server, enterprises can save on electricity and real estate by running them on one server,” he said.
Red Hat’s virtualisation capability is integrated into its Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 operating system.
Red Hat virtualisation will run on most desktop and server platforms including Intel Xeon and Itanium, AMD Opteron and IBM Power systems, Teong said
Source: The Star (Malaysia)
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