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Red Hat strengthens hybrid
cloud’s backbone with Linux
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to Red Hat internal research. VDO reduces
data redundancy and improves effective
storage capacity through de-duplication and
compression of data before it lands on a disk.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 can help reduce
the overall learning curve for new Linux
systems administrators, troubleshooters
and developers by making complex tasks
like systems management easier through
enhancements to the cockpit administrator
console. Provided as a simplified web
interface, these enhancements are designed
to eliminate many of the complexities
involved with managing Linux-based systems,
including network and storage set-ups.
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ed Hat, the world’s leading provider of
open source solutions, has announced
its Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5, the
latest version of the world’s leading enterprise
Linux platform. Serving as a consistent
foundation for hybrid cloud environments,
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 provides
enhanced security and compliance controls,
tools to reduce storage costs and improved
usability, as well as further integration with
Microsoft Windows infrastructure both on-
premise and in Microsoft Azure.
As enterprise IT footprints expand to
encompass a spectrum of environments,
from bare metal to private and public clouds,
organisations are frequently seeking to
pair existing infrastructure and application
investments with emerging digital
technologies. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5
can help enterprises address this challenge
by reducing infrastructure complexity
and associated costs while easing the
management of hybrid IT environments.
Hybrid IT environments provide significant
new capabilities for enterprises but can also
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present unique security challenges as IT
teams must now tackle security challenges
across multiple deployment footprints.
To better meet the varied security needs
of hybrid computing, Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 7.5 provides enhanced software
security controls to mitigate risk while also
complementing IT operations.
A major component of these controls is
security automation through the integration
of OpenSCAP with Red Hat Ansible
Automation. This is designed to enable the
creation of Ansible Playbooks directly from
OpenSCAP scans which can then be used to
implement remediations more rapidly and
consistently across a hybrid IT environment.
As enterprises seek to extend existing IT
investments to both support hybrid cloud
deployments and reduce overhead costs,
storage optimisation frequently becomes
an important piece of the strategy. Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 7.5 can help with the inclusion
of virtual data optimiser (VDO), designed
to reduce data storage costs in the cloud
and on-premise by up to 83% according
Additionally, new functionality and
integration with Windows-based
infrastructure is offered in Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 7, including improved management
and communication with Windows Server
implementations, more secure data transfers
with Microsoft Azure and performance
improvements for complex Microsoft
Active Directory architectures. Overall, this
can help to provide a smoother transition
for organisations seeking to bridge the
scalability and flexibility of Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 7.5 implementations with
existing Windows-based IT investments.
Denise Dumas, Vice President, Platform
Engineering, Red Hat, commented: “The
future of enterprise IT doesn’t exist solely
in the data centre or in the public cloud, but
rather as a fusion of environments spread
across IT’s four footprints: physical, virtual,
private cloud and public cloud. Red Hat
Enterprise Linux serves as a scalable, flexible
and robust bridge across these footprints.
The platform provides even more capabilities
from security at scale, to increased storage
efficiency, to drive hybrid cloud forward in
the enterprise.” n
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