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Red Hat Overview

Autonomic Resources provides products and services surrounding - Red Hat the leading open source and Linux provider. Red Hat provides operating system software along with middleware, applications and management solutions. In addition to offering support, training and consulting services to its customers worldwide, their Open Source strategy offers customers a long term plan for building infrastructures that are based on and leverage open source technologies with focus on security and ease of management.

  • On one certified platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux offers your choice of:
  • Applications - Thousands of certified ISV applications
  • Deployment - Including standalone or virtual servers, cloud computing, or software appliances
  • Hardware - Wide range of platforms from the world's leading hardware vendors

This gives IT departments’ unprecedented levels of operational flexibility. And it gives ISVs unprecedented market reach when delivering applications. Certify once, deploy anywhere. All while providing world-class performance, security, and stability, and unbeatable value.

Autonomic Resources Provides Services for:

Linux Automation

Red Hat Enterprise Linux is a central component of Red Hat's Linux Automation strategy, which covers all facets of the IT environment necessary to enable any application to be run anywhere, at any time. The strategy creates an infrastructure which is built for automation, including virtualization, identity management, high availability, and performance capabilities.

Middleware Development

Red Hat Enterprise Linux solutions, in combination with other Red Hat technologies-such as JBoss middleware solutions - provide the easy, no-risk path to open source cost savings. Use commodity hardware. Interoperate easily with existing UNIX and Windows infrastructure. Deploy applications you know and trust. Reduce system administration costs through high server/admin ratios and desktop-to-mainframe consistency.

Consulting Services

Basing your solution on open source technologies wherever practical - from the virtualization hypervisor to the SOA middleware to the end user application - guarantees you'll make the most of your IT budget. Despite what vendors of single solutions tell you about their product's cost - it's the overall total cost that matters. And open source solutions offer lower total costs:

  • Lower capital expense and operational expense
  • Elimination of vendor lock-in - puts the customer in control.
  • Proven superior product quality - better security, higher performance
  • Technology leadership - driven by industry-wide collaboration
  • Flexibility - deploy what you need, when you need, how you need it

Deployment Services

Red Hat Enterprise Linux is the most flexible operating system environment available. Enterprise Linux solutions are ideal for all of these deployment types - using the same applications. Deploy whichever environment best suits your business:

  • Standalone or "bare metal" systems - This is the most common environment for servers today. Red Hat Enterprise Linux scales from desktop and laptop systems, to small servers, to the largest SMP servers and to mainframes. And, of course, it is ideal for blade and rack environments - especially today's popular 4-CPU quad-core systems.
  • Virtualized - Virtualized systems, which offer improved resource management and operational flexibility through features such as live migration, dynamic resource allocation, high availability, and clustering. Enterprise Linux provides the industry's highest performance, complete virtualization capability, for no additional charge. Virtualization is the fastest growing method of deployment - up to 15% of all servers are expected to be virtualized in the next five years. Virtualization lets you maximize your resources and increase deployment flexibility and responsiveness.
  • Software as a Service - Software-as-a-Service, or cloud computing deployments, allows customers to extend their compute resources outside the walls of the data center - providing an on-demand infrastructure that can scale to up or down to meet business requirements. Red Hat Enterprise Linux is available as a certified and supported platform deployed on Amazon's Elastic Computing Cloud - EC2.
  • Appliances  - Red Hat Enterprise Linux-based appliances allow ISVs to distribute applications pre-packaged as complete solutions, including the operating system, simplifying deployment, management, and maintenance. Red Hat's appliance strategy covers a wide range of deployment opportunities, including:
    • Fully featured application stacks available through Red Hat Exchange
    • Lightweight portable media solutions - self-contained, easily provisioned tokens such as USB keys and live CDs providing a portable, low-cost application environment.

 

Red Hat Systems Management

Automating your Enterprise Linux and JBoss environments

As technology demands on your organization grow and budgets shrink, look to Red Hat for effective Systems Management solutions. Whether you need to automate your linux environment or deploy your applications anywhere, anytime; the right management tools can maximize the performance of your IT systems and staff. Red Hat's systems management tools were designed from the ground up to work with Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JBoss Middleware.

  • Automate repetitive administrative tasks
  • Improve the performance of your applications
  • Scale your IT resources as your organization grows
  • Standardize your deployment process for efficiency and consistency
  • Make your technology more responsive to business needs

Manage Your Middleware With JBoss Operations Network

An integrated management platform that simplifies the development, testing, deployment and monitoring of your JBoss Middleware. JBoss Operations Network (JBoss ON) offers features such as:

  • Auto-discover application resources: Operating systems, applications and services
  • Assign roles for users to enable fine-grained access control to JBoss ON services
  • From one console, store, edit and set application configurations
  • Start. stop or schedule an action on an application resource
  • Monitor and collect metric data for a particular platform, server or service
  • Alert support personnel based upon application alert conditions

Red Hat JBoss Enterprise

JBoss Enterprise Middleware enables you to do more. Start, and finish, more projects. Deploy more applications, and manage them more cost-effectively. Update more business processes, faster. And integrate more services and data. 


Customers like Priceline.com, Continental Airlines, and McKesson have placed their trust in JBoss Enterprise Middleware because of our broad portfolio, enterprise-class performance and stability, ease of management, greater flexibility and control, industry-leading 24x7 support, no vendor lock-in, and significantly lower total cost of ownership.

The following JBoss Enterprise Middleware Development Tools and Deployment Platforms and Management Environment are available via subscription that deliver industry leading SLA-based production and development support, patches and updates, multi-year maintenance policies and software assurance from Red Hat, the leader in open source solutions.


Enterprise Platforms:

  • JBoss Enterprise Application Platform: Everything you need to deploy, and host enterprise Java applications and services.
  • JBoss Enterprise Web Platform: A standards-based solution for light and rich Java web applications.
  • JBoss Enterprise Web Server: a single enterprise open source solution for large scale websites and lightweight web applications.
  • JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform: Platform for building and deploying portals for personalized user interaction with your enterprise applications and automated business processes.
  • JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform: A flexible, standards-based platform to integrate applications, SOA services, and business events as well as to automate business processes.
  • JBoss Enterprise BRMS: An open source business rules management system that enables easy business policy and rules development, access, and change management.
  • JBoss Enterprise Data Services Platform: Bridge the gap between diverse existing enterprise data sources and the new forms of data required by new projects, applications, and architectures.

Development Tools & Frameworks

  • JBoss Developer Studio - PE (Portfolio Edition): Everything you need to develop, test and deploy rich web applications, enterprise applications and SOA services.
  • JBoss Hibernate Framework: Industry-leading object/relational mapping and persistence.
  • JBoss Seam Framework: Powerful application framework for building next generation Web 2.0 applications.
  • JBoss Web Framework Kit: A combination of popular open source web frameworks for building light and rich Java applications.

Management:

  • JBoss Operations Network: An advanced management platform for inventorying, administering, monitoring, and updating your JBoss Enterprise Platform deployments.

Red Hat Identity Directory

Red Hat Application Stack

Red Hat Application Stack is the first fully integrated open source stack. Simplified, delivered, and supported by the open source leader. It includes everything you need to run standards-based Web and enterprise applications. All bundled and sold as a per-server subscription, delivered through Red Hat Network, and offered with up to 24x7 premium support.

Red Hat Global File System

  • The first native 64-bit cluster file system on Linux for enterprise workloads - support for x86, AMD64/EM64T, and Itanium
  • The most scalable enterprise cluster file system on Linux - supporting over 100 nodes
  • Tightly integrated with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (tracks kernel releases and is supported for the full lifetime)
  • The first open source (GPL) cluster file system for enterprise workloads
  • Fully POSIX-compliant, meaning applications don't have to be rewritten to use GFS

Red Hat Cluster Suite

Red Hat Cluster Suite and Global File System are still available as layered offerings for Red Hat Enterprise Linux versions 3 and 4.

 

Red Hat Identity

Enterprise Class Security, Open Source Value

Red Hat delivers some of the most secure platforms in the industry, but we don't stop there. Identity and security management should be part of your technology infrastructure at every layer. Red Hat's products provide an enterprise-ready alternative to expensive, proprietary solutions. Tools that are easy to install, do what you need, and are backed by Red Hat's world-class support services.

Introducing Red Hat's Security Response Team

IT security doesn't just happen once, it is an continuous cycle of improving your IT security posture. A key component of your Red Hat subscription is access to errata and updates for your Enterprise Linux and JBoss middleware software. The Security Response team is responsible for ensuring that security issues found in Red Hat products and services are addressed with timely updates.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux

The world's leading open source application platform

On one certified platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux offers your choice of:

  • Applications - Thousands of certified ISV applications
  • Deployment - Including standalone or virtual servers, cloud computing, or software appliances
  • Hardware - Wide range of platforms from the world's leading hardware vendors

This gives IT departments unprecedented levels of operational flexibility. And it gives ISVs unprecedented market reach when delivering applications. Certify once, deploy anywhere. All while providing world-class performance, security, and stability. And unbeatable value.

This is why Red Hat is the platform of choice.

Eliminate barriers to adoption

Red Hat Enterprise Linux solutions, in combination with other Red Hat technologies-such as JBoss middleware solutions - provide the easy, no-risk path to open source cost savings. Use commodity hardware. Interoperate easily with existing UNIX and Windows infrastructure. Deploy applications you know and trust. Reduce system administration costs through high server/admin ratios and desktop-to-mainframe consistency.

Eliminate economic constraints

Basing your solution on open source technologies wherever practical - from the virtualization hypervisor to the SOA middleware to the end user application - guarantees you'll make the most of your IT budget. Despite what vendors of single solutions tell you about their product’s cost - it’s the overall total cost that matters. And open source solutions offer lower total costs:

  • Lower capital expense and operational expense
  • Elimination of vendor lock-in - puts the customer in control.
  • Proven superior product quality - better security, higher performance
  • Technology leadership - driven by industry-wide collaboration
  • Flexibility - deploy what you need, when you need, how you need it

Broadest open source ecosystem

Customers using new deployment paradigms, including virtualization, need the confidence they can deploy on the widest range of hardware and applications - now and in the future. Red Hat’s open source development brings you the world's largest open source ecosystem of certified hardware and software.

Applications: Certify once-deploy anywhere

Red Hat Enterprise Linux provides a standardized environment for your applications so they can be deployed however your business requires. And Red Hat application partners need only certify their applications once.

With thousands of applications certified to run on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, you can run the application you need, where you need it, today.

Choose your preferred way to deploy

Red Hat Enterprise Linux is the most flexible operating system environment available. Enterprise Linux solutions are ideal for all of these deployment types - using the same applications. Deploy whichever environment best suits your business:

  •  Standalone or "bare metal" systems
    This is the most common environment for servers today. Red Hat Enterprise Linux scales from desktop and laptop systems, to small servers, to the largest SMP servers and to mainframes. And, of course, it is ideal for blade and rack environments - especially today's popular 4-CPU quad-core systems.
  • Virtualized
    Virtualized systems, which offer improved resource management and operational flexibility through features such as live migration, dynamic resource allocation, high availability, and clustering. Enterprise Linux provides the industry’s highest performance, complete virtualization capability, for no additional charge. Virtualization is the fastest growing method of deployment - up to 15% of all servers are expected to be virtualized in the next five years. Virtualization lets you maximize your resources and increase deployment flexibility and responsiveness.
  • Software as a Service
    Software-as-a-Service, or cloud computing deployments, allows customers to extend their compute resources outside the walls of the data center - providing an on-demand infrastructure that can scale to up or down to meet business requirements. Red Hat Enterprise Linux is available as a certified and supported platform deployed on Amazon’s Elastic Computing Cloud - EC2. Appliances Red Hat Enterprise Linux-based appliances allow ISVs to distribute applications pre-packaged as complete solutions, including the operating system, simplifying deployment, management, and maintenance. Red Hat's appliance strategy covers a wide range of deployment opportunities, including:
    • Fully featured application stacks available through Red Hat Exchange
    • Lightweight portable media solutions - self-contained, easily provisioned tokens such as USB keys and live CDs providing a portable, low-cost application environment.

 

Red Hat Consulting

In the current economic climate, it's critical to make the most of your technology deployments and look for opportunities to carve out costs. Red Hat consultants offer deep subject matter expertise combined with years of industry experience. If you're looking to cut costs, a consultant can provide value by first identifying areas where you can save by migrating to Red Hat or JBoss, and then ensuring a safe, stable migration. So you can effectively carve out costs, without sacrificing quality or reliability.

Red Hat Consulting can help you:

  • Make smart architectural decisions from the start
  • Reduce risk
  • Accelerate project completion and time to value
  • Integrate open and closed source software components
  • Reduce support requirements
  • Maximize product performance
  • Deliver knowledge transfer and best practices to your in-house team

Choose from services designed to help you wherever you are in your Red Hat or JBoss deployment cycle. Still weighing the risks and rewards? Invest in a professional assessment, and know exactly what you stand to gain by migrating. Or if you're ready to implement and migrate, find solutions that promise successful transitions whether you're migrating your operating system, middleware, or applications.

Already started a project in-house? Add elite engineers and architects to your team and have dedicated open source expertise under your roof, for the duration of a project or longer-term.

Red Hat Enterprise MRG

Red Hat Enterprise MRG is a next-generation IT infrastructure incorporating Messaging, Realtime, and Grid functionality. It offers increased performance, reliability, interoperability, and faster computing for enterprise customers.


Red Hat Enterprise MRG benefits include:

  • Messaging that is up to 100-fold faster than alternatives
  • Increased interoperability through implementation of AMQP, the first open messaging standard
  • Guaranteed, fast response times
  • Scheduling to local grids, remote grids, virtual machines, and rented cloud infrastructure
  • Harvesting of spare capacity from idle PCs to make full use of resources


Red Hat Enterprise MRG supports the full spectrum of distributed tasks, including:

  • High-speed, reliable, or large-file messaging
  • Parallel and cycle-harvesting scheduling
  • High Performance Computing (HPC) and High Throughput Computing (HTC)
  • Distributed workload management

Red Hat Enterprise MRG can run across multiple platforms, but also takes deep advantage of Red Hat Enterprise Linux capabilities like clustering, IO, and virtualization for optimal performance and qualities of service.

Learn more about Red Hat Enterprise MRG's revolutionary capabilities:

  • High-speed, reliable, interoperable Messaging
  • Realtime performance
  • High Throughput Computing (HTC) Grid technology