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RED HAT ENTERPRISE LINUX | JUNE 20141

RETHINK YOUR ENTERPRISE OSRED HAT ENTERPRISE LINUX

Lutz LangeSolution Architect, Red Hat24. Juni 2014


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ADVANTAGES AND BENEFITS

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TOP CUSTOMERS CONCERNS

How do I drive efficiency and reduce costs with existing resources?

How can I keep my enterprise secure?

How do I respond rapidly to increasing line-of-business demands?


CAN YOU RESPOND TO THE GROWTH ANDINNOVATION YOUR BUSINESS DEMANDS?

LINES OFBUSINESS

“No need to involve IT”

INFORMATIONTECHNOLOGY

“Not now.”

COMPLEX ENVORONMENT, PROPRIETARY SYSTEMS


CAN YOU RESPOND TO THE GROWTH ANDINNOVATION YOUR BUSINESS DEMANDS?

LINES OFBUSINESS

INFORMATIONTECHNOLOGY

“Yes!”

FLEXIBLE, STABLE, AND SECURE ENVORONMENT

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What if you could simplify your IT environment and put in place the proven, enterprise platform that’s at the heart of today’s most innovative IT organizations?


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RED HAT CONFIDENTIAL | RED HAT ENTERPRISE LINUX7

APPS ARE THE LIFEBLOOD OF BUSINESS


AND THE OS IS THE HEARTBEAT


FOUNDATION FOR OPEN HYBRID CLOUD

PORTABILITY ACROSS PHYSICAL, VIRTUAL, PUBLIC & PRIVATE CLOUDS


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RED HAT ENTERPRISE LINUX 7REDEFINING THE ENTERPRISE OS

STABILITY to efficiently meet current challenges of datacenter virtualization and cloud

FLEXIBILITY to quickly adapt to demands for business agility

CERTAINTYof mission-critical reliability and military-grade security

90% OF FORTUNE 500 COMPANIES TRUST RED HAT ENTERPRISE LINUX FOR THEIR CRITICAL BUSINESS INFRASTRUCTURE.


REDEFINING THE ENTERPRISE OS

PUBLIC CLOUDPRIVATE CLOUDVIRTUALPHYSICAL

LIGHTWEIGHT CONSISTENTLIGHTWEIGHT STANDARDIZED PORTABLE

CONTAINERS

RED HAT ENTERPRISE LINUX 7

LIGHTWEIGHT, SIMPLIFIED APPLICATION DELIVERY AND ISOLATION


LINUX CONTAINERS

Software packaging concept that typically includes an application and all of its runtime dependencies.

● Easy to deploy and portable across host systems

● Isolates applications on a host operating system. In RHEL, this is done through:

● Control Groups (cgroups)● kernel namespaces● SELinux, sVirt

HOST OS

SERVER

CONTAINER

LIBS

APP


BENEFITS OF LINUX CONTAINERS


RED HAT ENTERPRISE LINUX ATOMIC HOST

1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Atomic Host is not generally available. Visit http://www.redhat.com/about/news/press-archive/2014/4/linux-container-innovations for additional information.

http://www.redhat.com/about/news/press-archive/2014/4/linux-container-innovations

http://www.redhat.com/about/news/press-archive/2014/4/linux-container-innovations


PORTABILITY ACROSS THE OPEN HYBRID CLOUD


“Windows Domain interoperability is what I am looking forward to. We have a large Windows domain with 10k Windows workstations and 1300 Windows servers. Being able to authenticate and interact with Active Directory is a very high priority for us.”1

Lynn Dixon, System Administrator, Mohawk Industries

WINDOWS INTEROPERABILITYVIA DIRECT INTEGRATION

1 Source: Research by TechValidate: www.techvalidate.com/product-research/red-hat-enterprise-linux

MICROSOFTACTIVE DIRECTORY

SSSD

RHEL

http://www.techvalidate.com/product-research/red-hat-enterprise-linux


WINDOWS INTEROPERABILITYVIA INDIRECT INTEGRATION

1 Source: Research by TechValidate: www.techvalidate.com/product-research/red-hat-enterprise-linux

MICROSOFTACTIVE DIRECTORY

SSSD

RHEL

IDENTITYMANAGEMENT

ALLOWS FOR EASIER CENTRALIZED NATIVE LINUX MANAGEMENT OF MULTIPLE LINUX CLIENTS

TRUST



CHOICE OF FILE SYSTEMS

RHEL 3 RHEL 4 RHEL 5 RHEL 6 RHEL 70

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ext2/3 ext4 Btrfs GFS2 XFS

“The default XFS filesystem is just great!!”1

IT Specialist,US Federal Government

1 Source: Research by TechValidate: www.techvalidate.com/product-research/red-hat-enterprise-linux TVID: 6D2-C98-90F2 Btrfs is available as a Technology Preview.Chart data source: https://access.redhat.com/site/solutions/1532

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PERFORMANCE ENHANCEMENTS WITHRED HAT ENTERPRISE LINUX 7

BUILT-IN PERFORMANCE PROFILES SIMPLIFY

CONFIGURATION

MONITORING WITH PERFORMANCE CO-PILOT

AND THERMOSTAT

FINE-TUNE PERFORMANCE WITH ENHANCED TOOLING

VIA TUNA AND TUNED


SPEED DEPLOYMENT WITH SERVER PROFILES

IN-PLACE UPGRADES [6.X TO 7]

SAFELY ROLL-BACK DURING INSTALL

EASILY CREATE CUSTOM INSTALL IMAGES

PRIORITIZE CRITICAL SERVICES AT START-UP

DRAMATICALLY SPEED START-UP TIMES

EFFICIENT INSTALLATION AND DEPLOYMENT


CENTRALIZED MANAGEMENT AND FASTER BOOT UP

“Systemd is my favorite feature so far. We deal with lots of init scripts currently; I’m already seeing great improvements by switching most of them to systemd.”1

IT Architect, Medium Enterprise Media & Entertainment Company

1 Source: Research by TechValidate: www.techvalidate.com/product-research/red-hat-enterprise-linux TVID: 6D2-C98-90F

CENTRALLY MANAGE PROCESSES,

SERVICES, SECURITY

PRIORITIZE AND ORDER SERVICES

AT START-UP

COMPATABLE WITH EXISTING SCRIPTS (SYSV AND LSB)

“With systemd we can eliminate so many homegrown in-house monitoring and daemon management tools.”1

Engineer, Small BusinessComputer Software Company

DRAMATICALLY SPEED START-UP

TIMES



RED HAT ENTERPRISE LINUX FAMILY


DEPLOYMENT PLANS

37%

25%

26%

Within 3 months of GA3-6 months after GA6-12 months after GA12-24 months after GA> 2 years after GA

1. www.techvalidate.com/product-research/red-hat-enterprise-linux TVID: BA4-39C-3B7

When do you think you will deploy Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7?

62% of surveyed beta participants will deploy Red Hat Enterprise Linux® 7 within 6 months of the product becoming generally available.1

2%

10%

Survey of 368 Beta Participants



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TestRed Hat Enterprise Linux 7

In your environment


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RED HAT ENTERPRISE LINUX 7...

RETHINK YOUR ENTERPRISE OSRED HAT ENTERPRISE LINUX 7

Delivers a flexible, stable, and secure foundation for your infrastructure from existing deployments to next generation solutions.

Increases the efficiency of IT operations with scalable filesystems, Windows interoperability, and OpenLMI management.

Continues Red Hat Enterprise Linux’s proven track record of delivering superior reliability and security.

Improves IT agility via containers, streamlined deployment, and optimal performance profiles.

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