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DAILY NEWS AND INFORMATION
FOR THE GLOBAL GRID COMMUNITY /
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Systems/Enterprise:
IBM TO DELIVER ENTERPRISE LINUX
v.3 ACROSS eSERVER SYSTEMS
IBM and Red Hat announced that Red Hat Enterprise Linux v.3, Red Hat's
newest
offering, is now available across the entire IBM eServer product line.
The two companies are also announcing that Red Hat Enterprise Linux is now
packaged with sales of IBM's xSeries and BladeCenter servers in Japan, North
America and eventually around the world. The packaging will include Red Hat
Enterprise Linux AS, ES and WS, and in the future the recently released Red
Hat Enterprise Linux v.3.
The announcement represents an expansion of the existing multi-year
agreement
that commenced last year. The agreement calls for the two companies to work
together to provide broad Linux support, including servers, software and
implementation services, to customers worldwide.
Server, Workstation and Storage Support Support for Red Hat Enterprise
Linux
v.3 will span all IBM eServer platforms with a single Linux architecture --
iSeries, pSeries, xSeries, zSeries, BladeCenter (including the BladeCenter
JS20 based on POWER technology), Clusters 1350 and 1650, e325, IntelliStation
and TotalStorage. IBM will work closely with Red Hat to ensure optimum
performance across all IBM eServer products. Unique advantages of Linux on IBM
eServer platforms include:
- iSeries -- Linux deployments on iSeries are rising dramatically as
customers can consolidate infrastructure workloads and integrate applications
on a single server with shared processor partitioning, dynamic resource
movement, and resource virtualization. With Capacity on Demand, processors can
be dynamically activated and moved into running Linux and OS/400 partitions to
give immediate power to changing workload demands.
- pSeries -- Linux on IBM's pSeries brings flexibility and customer
choice
to
an already highly scalable and reliable POWER platform that customers are
using today. Through the robustness and openness of POWER technology,
customers can run Linux without compromise -- from the entry level 1-2 way
POWER4 systems to the high-end 32-way POWER4 systems alone or with AIX through
Logical Partitioning -- all at very affordable pricing.
- xSeries -- A reliable foundation for Linux solutions, xSeries servers
leverage IBM Enterprise X-Architecture state-of-the-art, industry-leading
technologies to deliver enterprise class power, scalability and availability
at very attractive prices.
- eServer BladeCenter -- BladeCenter running Linux provides a new way to
achieve the critical goal of doing more with less (pay as you grow) with easy
modular scalability. Last month, IBM introduced the industry's first blade
server based on POWER technology -- the IBM eServer BladeCenter JS20 --
extending blade technology to 64-bit computing through a Linux-based blade
solution.
- zSeries -- IBM eServer zSeries benefits -- performance, scalability,
security and reliability -- are combined with the flexibility and open
standards of Linux. Allows consolidation from tens to hundreds of independent
Linux servers onto a single server, deployable in minutes.
Services and Support IBM Global Services will provide support for Red Hat
Enterprise Linux v.3, building off of its support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2.1 and Red Hat Network managed software services. Red Hat and IBM Global
Services will provide comprehensive end-to-end service to customers with Linux
technical knowledge and engineering resources, as well as collaborate and
package each other's consulting and service offerings to provide one-stop
support for customers' Linux requirements. Red Hat and IBM Global Services
continue to offer customers migration services to Red Hat Enterprise
Linux.
Software Support IBM will also deliver support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3
across its key software portfolio, spanning WebSphere, DB2, Lotus, Tivoli and
Rational. IBM is currently the largest provider of software that runs on Red
Hat Enterprise Linux, with more than 200 software products that support the
distribution. With expanded Red Hat support across IBM's server offerings, IBM
will also be the only company to deliver a broad array of software for
xSeries, iSeries, pSeries and zSeries running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
"IBM and Red Hat are deepening their alliance to provide the advantages of
Linux to customers everywhere," said Scott Handy, vice president of Linux
strategy and market development at IBM. "The two companies create a compelling
value proposition, combining forces to enable a business to deploy a resilient
infrastructure throughout the enterprise built on Linux."
"Red Hat Linux v.3 will enable IBM's customers to leverage the power and
value
of open source across several hardware architectures within a compute
infrastructure," said Mike Evans, vice president of Channel Sales and
Development at Red Hat. "The common code base will promote security, stability
and ease of manageability. The availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux v.3 on
all of IBM eServer Systems signals the deep commitment our companies have to
jointly deliver enterprise Linux solutions to the enterprise."
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