RALEIGH, N.C.--BUSINESS WIRE--Red Hat, Inc. NYSE: RHT, a leading provider of open source solutions,
today announced an expanded offering on Amazon Web Services LLC in an
effort to provide enterprises with a more efficient way to reduce costs,
drive innovation and improve business agility with cloud computing.
Amazon Web Services is the first Red Hat Premier Certified Cloud
Provider that enables customers to extend their Red Hat Enterprise Linux
subscriptions into the cloud simply and easily with Red Hat Cloud Access.
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With Red Hat Cloud Access, customers can move their Red Hat Enterprise
Linux subscriptions between traditional on-premise servers and Amazon
Web Services. With this feature, customers can select appropriate
computing resources for their needs, without the need for new business
or support models.
Red Hat is also introducing new features designed to continue allowing
enterprises to leverage the benefits of Amazon Web Services:
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The latest versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux will be available on
Amazon EC2 at the same time as the release for traditional on-premise
deployments, in an effort to provide consistency between on and
off-premise usage. This includes the features in the recently released
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5.
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Standardized, secure 32-bit and 64-bit Red Hat Enterprise Linux
images, which include cloud-specific content like creating images from
a specific manifest and certificates, are secured using SELinux and
firewall protections.
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Continuous delivery of updates to Red Hat Enterprise Linux within
Amazon Web Services, offering delivery of security errata and feature
enhancements.
“Enterprises using Amazon Web Services are looking for a combination of
leading technology, deployment flexibility and ease of scalability,”
said Terry Wise, director of Business Development at Amazon Web
Services. “Red Hat is enabling even greater ease of access to Red Hat
Enterprise Linux, offering an opportunity for our joint customers to
benefit by further reducing costs and improving performance for their
enterprise cloud deployments.”
“Red Hat brings enterprise-class software, subscriptions and support
capabilities all built into a business model that was designed
specifically for the cloud,” said Scott Crenshaw, vice president and
general manager, Cloud Business Unit at Red Hat. “With Red Hat Cloud
Access, our enterprise customers can run their applications on the type
of server capacity that best suits their needs: physical, virtual
on-premise or in Amazon Web Services. Red Hat is continuing its efforts
to help more enterprises move to the cloud.”
The Red Hat Cloud Access subscription feature is available for Amazon
EC2 today. To learn more about Cloud Access, visit http://www.redhat.com/solutions/cloud/access/.
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component of the S&P 500, is headquartered in Raleigh, NC, with over 65
offices spanning the globe. CIOs ranked Red Hat as one of the top
vendors delivering value in Enterprise Software for six consecutive
years in the CIO Insight Magazine Vendor Value survey. Red Hat provides
high-quality, affordable technology with its operating system platform,
Red Hat Enterprise Linux, together with virtualization, applications,
management and Services Oriented Architecture SOA solutions, including
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization and JBoss Enterprise Middleware. Red
Hat also offers support, training and consulting services to its
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