Red Hat Solutions

Founded in 1993, Red Hat is the leader in enterprise Linux and is the most recognized open source brand in the world. Red Hat Enterprise Linux is a high-performing operating system that has delivered outstanding value to IT environments for many years now. As the world’s most trusted IT platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux has been deployed in mission-critical applications at global stock exchanges, financial institutions, leading telcos, and animation studios.

ZEBRA Consultants is the only Red Hat Advanced Business Partner in Cyprus enabling customers in the region benefit from the open source solutions offered by Red Hat in both the Infrastructure and Middleware layers.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, the latest release of Red Hat’s trusted datacenter platform, delivers advances in application performance, scalability and security. With Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, someone can deploy physical, virtual, and cloud computing within the datacenter, reducing complexity, increasing efficiency, and minimizing administration overhead while leveraging technical skills and operational know-how. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 is an ideal platform to translate current and future technology innovations into the best value and scale for IT solutions.

More details on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and add-ons can be found in the RHEL6 Dataseheet.

Apart from Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat has a comprehensive product portfolio satisfying both the Infrastructure and Middleware Layers:

 Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Red Hat Enterprise Linux is the operating system trusted by thousands of enterprises around the world to power their most mission-critical applications. Red Hat Enterprise Linux delivers performance, reliability, scalability, and security for its customers. Certified by the leading hardware and software vendors, it is suitable for, and has been deployed on, desktops, servers, and mainframes.

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Servers

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Servers is an end-to-end virtualization solution that is designed to enable pervasive datacenter virtualization, and significantly enhance capital and operational efficiency. It is the ideal platform on which to build an internal or private cloud of Red Hat Enterprise Linux or Windows virtual machines.

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Servers consists of the following components:

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager for Servers: A feature-rich server virtualization management system that provides advanced capabilities for hosts and guests, including high availability, live migration, storage management, system scheduler, and more.

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor: A modern hypervisor based on Kernel-Based Virtual Machine (KVM) virtualization technology, which can be deployed either as the standalone bare metal hypervisor (included), or as Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 and later (purchased separately) installed as a hypervisor host and managed through Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager for Servers.

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Desktops

With Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Desktops, complete desktop environments are hosted as virtual desktops on servers located in a centralized datacenter. Users connect to these virtual desktops using either inexpensive thin clients or repurposed PCs.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for HPC

Red Hat offers packages specifically for the scientific user who needs to deploy clusters of systems that work together to take on the most challenging of missions.

A HPC (High Performance Computing) Compute Node is designed for deployment as a member of an HPC cluster. Primary goals in this deployment model are a slim component set, excellent hardware detection and monitoring capabilities, centralized authentication and logging services, and fast IO.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for HPC Head Node is a full-featured platform to be deployed as the interactive system in an HPC cluster. Each Red Hat Enterprise Linux for HPC Compute Node subscription inherits the support level of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux for HPC Head Node that is deployed in the cluster.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP Applications

The SAP/Red Hat global alliance brings together two industry leaders in a partnership that delivers extraordinary business value to customers. Red Hat and SAP have a decade-long technology and engineering collaboration program through the SAP Linux Lab, resulting in comprehensive product support for SAP business applications on Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop

Designed for task workers. Typically requires a limited set of applications. End user has limited administrative control over the system. System administrators need to be able to pre-configure and remotely manage consistent images across a large number of systems. Primary applications in use are productivity applications like Firefox, Evolution/Thunderbird, OpenOffice, Planner/TaskJuggler. Primary services in use would be network file systems like SMB/CIFS, NFS, printing services, IM.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation

Workstations are designed for advanced Linux users. In addition to the tools provided in the Desktop variant, the Workstation variant supports a stand-alone development environment. End users are expected to have local super-user privileges or select super-user privileges.

JBoss Enterprise Application Platform

JBoss Enterprise Application Platform is the market leading platform for innovative and scalable Java applications. Integrated, simplified, and delivered by the leader in enterprise open source software, it includes leading open source technologies for building, deploying, and hosting enterprise Java applications and services.

JBoss Enterprise Application Platform balances innovation with enterprise class stability by integrating the most popular clustered Java EE application server with next generation application frameworks. Built on open standards, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform integrates JBoss Application Server, with JBoss Hibernate, JBoss Seam, and other leading open source Java technologies from JBoss.org into a complete, simple enterprise solution for Java applications.

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