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IT INNOVATION
IS ROOTED IN
OPEN SOURCE,
WITH LINUX
OFTEN SERVING
AS THE CATALYST
FOR MAJOR
ADVANCEMENTS
IN ENTERPRISE
TECHNOLOGY.
of customers already deploy multi-cloud
environments and 64% of applications in
a typical IT portfolio today are based in a
cloud environment, whether public or private.
Red Hat views the operating system as the
keystone to this IT innovation and more,
especially as Red Hat Enterprise Linux is
poised to impact more than US$10 trillion in
global business revenues in 2019, according
to a Red Hat-sponsored IDC study.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8:
Intelligent Linux for the hybrid cloud
For more than 15 years, Red Hat has helped
enterprises innovate on Linux, first in their
data centres and now across the hybrid
cloud. As data centres grow in scale and
scope, and workload complexity builds,
the skills required to deploy and maintain
Linux-based production systems become
increasingly critical. With the announcement
of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, this
intelligence and expertise is now built in to
Red Hat Enterprise Linux subscriptions by
default with Red Hat Insights, delivering Red
Hat’s Linux expertise as-a-Service.
Managing systems dispersed across a
variety of on-premise and cloud-based
infrastructure can present a significant
challenge to IT organisations. Red Hat
Smart Management, a layered add-on for
Red Hat Enterprise Linux, helps IT teams
gain the benefits of hybrid cloud computing
while minimising its inherent management
complexities. Combining Red Hat Satellite for
on-premise systems management and cloud
management services for distributed Red Hat
Enterprise Linux deployments, Red Hat Smart
Management provides rich capabilities to
manage, patch, configure and provision Red
Hat Enterprise Linux deployments across the
hybrid cloud.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8: Blazing a
faster path to modern applications
To meet evolving business demands, IT
organisations are looking to new workloads,
from Artificial Intelligence (AI) to the
Internet of Things (IoT), to drive competitive
advantages in crowded marketplaces.
Linux provides the innovative muscle to
power these differentiated services, but
only Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 delivers this
innovation along with a hardened code base,
extensive security updates, award-winning
support and a vast ecosystem of tested and
validated supporting technologies.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux has always been
recognised as a stable and secure foundation
for applications. However, in the past it was
hard to get the most up-to-date languages
and frameworks that developers wanted
without compromising that stability. Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 8 introduces Application
Streams – fast-moving languages,
frameworks and developer tools are updated
frequently in this stream without impacting
the core resources that have made Red Hat
Enterprise Linux an enterprise benchmark.
This melds faster developer innovation with
production stability in a single, enterprise-
class operating system.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8:
Introducing a world of opportunity
for everyone
Linux continues to be the number one
operating system for developers building the
next generation of enterprise applications.
As these applications move into production,
stability, enhanced security and testing/
certification on existing hardware and
environments become paramount needs.
This shifts the onus from developers to
operations teams and, paired with the trend
of Linux being looked to as a primary platform
for production applications, makes Linux
administration and management skills critical
for modern data centres. Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 8 is designed to lower the barrier to
entry for Linux, enabling greater accessibility
for Windows administrators, Linux beginners
and new systems administrators without fear
of the command line.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 abstracts
away many of the deep complexities of
granular sysadmin tasks behind the Red Hat
Enterprise Linux web console. The console
provides an intuitive, consistent graphical
interface for managing and monitoring
Red Hat Enterprise Linux system, from the
health of Virtual Machines to overall system
performance. To further improve ease of use,
Red Hat Enterprise Linux supports in-place
upgrades, providing a more streamlined,
efficient and timely path for users to convert
Red Hat Insights helps proactively identify
and remediate IT issues from security
vulnerabilities to stability problems. It uses
predictive analytics based on Red Hat’s vast
knowledge of open technologies to help
administrators avoid problems and unplanned
downtime in production environments.
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