Powerful and secure application runtimes and development, delivery and troubleshooting tools, integrated into the platform and container-ready.īeyond providing the capabilities to meet emerging IT innovation, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 also addresses today's technology needs.
Cross-realm trust to easily enable secure access for Microsoft Active Directory users across Microsoft Windows and Red Hat Enterprise Linux domains, providing the flexibility for Red Hat Enterprise Linux to co-exist within heterogeneous datacenters.Significant file system improvements, including XFS as the default file system, scaling to 500 TB.Enhanced application development, delivery, portability and isolation through Linux Containers, including Docker, across physical, virtual, and cloud deployments as well as development, test and production environments.Key Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 features to address next-generation IT needs include: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 offers customers the agility and the flexibility to meet these new needs head-on without increasing complexity, from rapidly delivering new applications via secure, lightweight containers to scaling infrastructure to meet big data requirements with new and enhanced file systems. Answering the heterogeneous realities of modern enterprise IT, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 offers a cohesive, unified foundation that enables customers to balance modern demands while reaping the benefits of computing innovation, like Linux Containers and big data, across physical systems, virtual machines and the cloud - the open hybrid cloud.Īddressing Next-Generation IT RequirementsĮnterprise IT does not exist in a static vacuum technology is dynamic, with new innovations emerging almost daily, promising improved operational efficiencies as well as providing the ability to respond to radically-evolving business requirements. More than 90 percent of 2013 Fortune 500 companies, along with organizations in nearly every industry and around the globe, rely on Red Hat Enterprise Linux.īare metal servers, virtual machines, Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) are converging to form a robust, powerful datacenter environment to meet constantly changing business needs. Today, Red Hat Enterprise Linux is a leading force in the enterprise datacenter and in the cloud. Since its introduction more than a decade ago, Red Hat Enterprise Linux has become the world's leading enterprise Linux platform, and it has set industry standards for performance, capacity, and security.
Paul Cormier President, Products and Technologies, Red Hat
This will be essential as applications move from on-premises to the cloud. As the worlds of physical, virtual and cloud systems converge, Red Hat is delivering a true open hybrid cloud platform that gives both ISVs and applications a consistent runtime platform across bare metal systems, virtual machines, and public and private clouds.