Red Hat Linux and open source news

New Linux tool helps manage guest virtual machines

2009-06-10T00:00:00Z

With the increasing prevalence of virtualization comes the greater need for management of "guest" operating systems that run as virtual machines on the hypervisor, and the tool called libguestfs is set to provide that on Linux.

Red Hat offers customizable app servers

John Fontana — 2009-06-01T00:00:00Z

Red Hat Monday introduced an open source application server strategy called JBoss Open Choice and a trio of upgraded middleware platforms that adhere to an architecture that is customized using components.

Red Hat connects its distributor SYNNEX with ISVs

2009-04-14T00:00:00Z

Red Hat is helping nine of its open-source ISV partners get broader distribution for their products in North America through a partnership with one of its major distributors, SYNNEX.

Red Hat CEO seeks open source in government

2009-04-06T00:00:00Z

Red Hat's CEO, in a blog post on Monday, is endorsing the Obama Administration's call for openness and participation in government by likening the President's statement to the open source software movement.

Red Hat targets VMware, Microsoft with virtualization line

2009-02-23T00:00:00Z

Red Hat Monday introduced an entire line of virtualization software aimed at disrupting the current market and leader VMware's position by giving customers an open source option for virtualizing their data centers.

Microsoft-Red Hat deal shows need for virtualization support

2009-02-18T00:00:00Z

A virtualization deal struck Monday between Microsoft and Red Hat shows the growing need for vendors to ensure customers can get cross-platform support for applications running in virtualized environments.

New Red Hat project looks to simplify JBoss migrations

2009-02-11T00:00:00Z

Red Hat has launched a new open-source project the company said is aimed at making it easier for enterprises to move from proprietary Java-based middleware like Oracle WebLogic and IBM WebSphere to its JBoss Enterprise Middleware.

Fedora 10 out, packed with improvements

2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

The Red Hat-sponsored Fedora Project on Tuesday released Fedora 10, the latest version of the free Linux-based operating system, with a wide range of improvements in areas such as virtualization management, networking, boot time and security.

Flying high with open source

2008-11-10T00:00:00Z

Sabre Holdings' IT department supports the Travelocity Web site, the Sabre Travel Network and Sabre Airline Solutions, and the company has been using open source tools for some 10 years, according to CTO Robert Wiseman.

AMD, Red Hat Demo VM Migration Between AMD, Intel Servers

2008-11-06T00:00:00Z

Even as virtualization management tools have improved steadily this year, enterprises remain stuck with an unpleasant reality about their ability to move virtual machines between physical servers. If you're doing a live migration of the VM, you can't move a VM from an AMD-based physical server to an Intel-based one, or vice versa. It's a big problem. Virtualization giant VMware has had little power to correct the matter without help from the two chip rivals. And Intel, to date, has not shown much interest in changing the situation. But today, AMD has taken an intriguing step, demonstrating with Red Hat the ability to do a live migration