Premier Partner Spotlight

Overview

What are Red Hat and IBM up to these days?

Actually, it's what aren't we up to these days. We have celebrated our strong partnership for more than eleven years now and continue to bring cost effective, stable, highly secure, reliable and great performing solutions to market. Not only do we have a great story to tell (and gaining market share!) around Why Red Hat Enterprise Linux on the System z mainframe, but we've built ground for a highly efficient and unbelievably low total-cost-of-ownership virtualization solution when running Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization on the IBM System x platforms. And Red Hat Enterprise Linux has become increasingly more popular for deployment on IBM's Power Systems. And did you hear that IBM's cloud environment is based on Red Hat technology? Not only are we great partners, but we deploy each others solutions in house as well. Needless to say, it's been an incredible year thus far.

What's new - Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Red Hat has set the standard for the next generation of operating systems with the delivery of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. This latest release delivers dramatic improvements in reliability, performance, scalability, and infrastructure flexibility and provides unprecedented control throughout the IT environment. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 is designed to support today's flexible and varied enterprise architectures and most mission-critical environments.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux:

  • Delivers high performance, reliability, and security
  • Is certified by the leading hardware and software vendors
  • Scales from workstations, to servers, to mainframes
  • Provides a consistent application environment across physical, virtual, and cloud deployments

Why Red Hat and IBM? It's simple.

We give customers the confidence and ability to deploy a resilient infrastructure throughout the enterprise by providing the advantages of Linux, comprehensive services, solid platforms, and technology leadership. The entire IBM Systems product line is enabled for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, making it easy for your business to take advantage of the power of open standards. And don't just take our word for it, check out what our customers are saying.

Providing the advantages of Linux, comprehensive services, technology leadership, solid platforms, and global reach, IBM and Red Hat give customers the confidence and ability to deploy a resilient infrastructure throughout the enterprise.

Our solutions - from migrating away from Sun/Solaris to the mainframe

It's time to migrate and experience undeniable performance, reliability, security and low TCO! We're partnering together to bring Sun / Solaris customers a more cost effective, less risky migration solution. Together we've migrated many top-name customers to Red Hat Enterprise Linux on IBM based platforms and the customers are very pleased with their migration decision. Check out our customer stories.

Don't be hesitant on implementing a mainframe solution! Red Hat and IBM are well aware that deploying IBM System z mainframe systems can be overwhelming and costly. We're here to help. We've partnered together to bring the Solution Edition for Enterprise Linux for System z. Red Hat is offering a significant discount on any z10 BC and EC platforms that will bring you solid performance, security and efficiency. Find out more!

Ready to virtualize on a solid platform for even less? Why pay subscription AND support fees, not to mention the other hidden costs! Implementing a virtualized environment within your data center is easy. IBM and Red Hat offer KVM based virtualized platforms - the way to virtualize today and for your future. See how we can help - cost effectively!

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