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Red Hat Rolls Out Enterprise Linux 5.4 at Summit By Jennifer LeClaire September 3, 2009 10:33AM     Red Hat released its Enterprise Linux 5.4 platform at the Red Hat Summit. Scott Crenshaw of Red Hat said Enterprise Linux 5.4 plays a significant role in Red Hat's virtualization strategy and raises the bar. The OS is focused on performance and reliability and optimizes the Intel Xeon 5500 Series and AMD Istanbul processors.   Related Topics Red Hat Linux Virtualization Intel Xeon AMD Istanbul Latest News Google Buzz Connects Gmail Users Intel Launches Itanium 9300 Series iPhone OS, Android Gain in Q4 Nvidia Auto-Switches Notebook GPU Macworld Focuses on Mobile Apps Red Hat rolled out its Enterprise Linux 5.4 platform, the foundation of its enterprise virtualization portfolio, at the Red Hat Summit this week. Red Hat is calling it the next generation of virtualization technology, and analysts are calling it an opportunity to surpass the Windows -vs-Linux story with stronger value. Scott Crenshaw, vice president of Red Hat's Platform Business Unit, said Red Hat Enterprise Linux plays a significant role in the company's virtualization strategy. The latest release offers virtualization enhancements that aim to drive I/O throughput improvements, network advances, and hardware platform optimization . "The release also features advances in performance, security and storage that span virtual and physical environments," Crenshaw said. "With this update release, Red Hat Enterprise Linux aims to raise the bar once again, offering compelling software technologies with impressive quality and reliability." A Hardware Focus Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 is heavily focused on hardware platform enhancements that focus on performance and scalability. At the processor chipset level, the latest iteration includes optimizations for Intel Xeon Processor 5500 Series platforms and AMD Istanbul platforms. Network advancements include Generic Receive Offload (GRO) to leverage new processing components in advanced network adapters by off-loading portions of the receive stack. Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) performance enhancements and hardware support are also included in the latest release, along with device-driver enhancements ranging from disk, network and graphics to OFED InfiniBand drivers. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 focuses on the needs of application developers and system administrators. The Systemtap performance monitoring toolset, for example, offers support for profiling and monitoring C++ applications and includes static kernel tracepoints to simplify performance observation for the highest-profile kernel subsystems. Market Conditions Favor Red Hat According to Dana Gardner, principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions, there's more to this story than Windows vs Linux. The uncertainly around the Oracle-Sun tie-up, the down economy, and the emergence of cloud computing are driving new opportunities for Red Hat. (continued...) 1  |  2  |  Next Page >   Tell Us What You Think Your Comment: Also Visit: iPad Info Center Billions of Bytes Mobile Device Now Apple Info Center TopTechWire.com Advertisement  Linux/Open Source 1.   Symbian 3 Is Now Fully Open Source 2.   Mobile Firefox Runs on Nokia N900 3.   Wal-Mart Prepares To Sell Nexus One 4.   Internet Limits Worry Mozilla Leader 5.   New Chrome 4 Browser Released

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