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RED HAT ENHANCES
FOUNDATION FOR DIGITAL
TRANSFORMATION
Red Hat, the world’s leading provider of open-
source solutions, has announced the general
availability of Red Hat Virtualization 4.2, the
newest release of its Kernel-based Virtual
Machine (KVM)-powered virtualization platform.
B
uilt on the enterprise-grade backbone
of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat
Virtualization 4.2 offers significant
product updates from a simplified user
interface to new capabilities around virtual
networking, pairing new capabilities with
Red Hat’s enterprise-grade reliability and
support to lay a more stable foundation for
IT innovation.
Introduced in tandem with the new version is
Red Hat Virtualization Suite, comprised of Red
Hat Virtualization and Red Hat CloudForms,
Red Hat’s hybrid infrastructure management
platform, offering a pre-integrated,
simplified access point to open virtualization
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technologies combined with management.
Rather than layering open innovation on
top of proprietary infrastructure, Red Hat
Virtualization provides an alternative,
offering an open software-defined
infrastructure and centralised management
platform for virtualised Linux and Windows
workloads. This is designed to enable
customers to modernise traditional
applications for greater efficiency, while also
creating a launchpad for cloud-native and
container-based application innovation.
“Red Hat Virtualization allows our customers
to access the economics, performance
and agility they need from their virtualised
“
NEW DISASTER
RECOVERY
CAPABILITIES
WITHIN RED HAT
VIRTUALIZATION
4.2 DELIVER A
NATIVE SITE-TO-
SITE FAILOVER
CAPABILITY.
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