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Today, less than three weeks since the announcement of our collaboration with Amazon Web Services, Red Hat has opened the beta for Red Hat Enterprise Linux on Amazon EC2 to the general public. Customers who wish to participate in the beta can visit here and subscribe to the service using a major credit card.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux on Amazon EC2 makes the industry standard Red Hat Enterprise Linux platform available on-demand as pre-configured Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) within the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud infrastructure. Initially, we are releasing AMIs for the latest releases of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and will add new AMIs for access by subscribers as they become available.
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Since launching Red Hat Exchange (RHX) at the Red Hat Summit in May 2007, our team has been busy preparing new products for customers that can be deployed on multiple platforms and that can be purchased with a full range of support tiers. Here’s more information on our new offerings:
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There’s growing interest in open source and healthcare IT. Why are people interested? One, the problem space is hard. Clinical data is complex. There are technical issues — but equally complex legal and business issues. No one company or person has all the answers. A collaborative model lets everyone contribute in their area of expertise. We is smarter than me. Second, is cost. Physicians and hospitals always want to improve the quality of care for patients, but significant investments in IT are often beyond their means. Open source software provides dramatic cost savings over the status quo, enabling greater investment in systems that improve patient safety and the quality of care. Finally, healthcare standards are starting to coalesce, creating an opportunity for open source software to implement standards. The Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology just announced an open source EHR testing project. The Health Services Specification Project is making great progress in defining fundamental healthcare services. Other groups such as HL7 and IHE continue to move standards forward.
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Today, Fedora 8 is available for download. The newest release brings with it a developer spin, a games spin and an electronic-lab spin, in addition to the GNOME and KDE desktop spins that were first part of Fedora 7.
Fedora’s development priorities tend to come in cycles. If you think back to the Fedora Core 6 release cycle, you will remember that a significant portion of the engineering goals for that release were driven by the knowledge that Fedora Core 6 would be the upstream for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. Everyone knew going in that Fedora Core 6 would be more “corporate” than “community.” And that was OK, because we also knew that once Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 was released, the Fedora Project would be able to spend its next several releases focused on its community-related priorities.
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Today, Red Hat announced that customers can now purchase Red Hat Enterprise Linux “in the cloud” in conjunction with Amazon Web Services. Wondering what “in the cloud” means? “Cloud”-based web services allow customers to very easily scale up and down their compute power as the demands on a business fluctuate. It’s the use of networked infrastructure software and capacity to provide resources to users in an on-demand environment, offering a set of typically virtualized computers that can grant users the ability to start and stop servers or use compute cycles only when needed, often paying only for the use of those services. Sounds flexible and convenient. And now you can take advantage of it through Red Hat.
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Today Red Hat made some announcements, under an umbrella theme of Linux Automation. At first glance, this would seem surprising. But when you tear it apart, a focus on automation makes extreme sense.
Go back 10 years and look what was happening in the processor space. Price/performance of Intel CPUs was challenging the legacy RISC systems. Microsoft was the largest benefactor of this, while the OEMs clung to their high margin UNIX/RISC systems. Who could blame them.
In 2001 Red Hat squarely focused on the commercial enterprise systems business. The enabler for this was no longer solely price/performance of x86 systems. But the recognition that technically, Linux had matured to the point to not just be an alternative to UNIX/RISC, but actually a market leader. Enterprise Linux was born, along with pioneering a subscription model that would keep us focusing on customer satisfaction and service rather than just the initial sale.
Today, millions of servers around the world are powered by Enterprise Linux. The heroes being the IT departments which made this choice, challenging the legacy before it was mainstream. What now is the obvious choice due to performance and cost.
The last 6 years have been focused on UNIX migration, allowing x86 performance to be realized, and building software subscription capabilities. In the next chapter we believe that Enterprise Linux will continue to take share against Windows solely based on performance, stability, and cost. However, basically due to impatience we wish to accelerate what has already become a behavioral norm for IT.
Linux Automation. The ability to run any application, on any system, at any time. Allowing IT to simplify their IT infrastructure in the process. With the belief that undue complexity and over-architecture will have both short and long term costs.
Any Application.
The RHEL application world, at 3000+ certification strong, is growing at the rate of approximately a new application every day. Application choice is critical for IT. The stability of the RHEL platform, and its release-to-release continuity allows application growth to continue without disruption.
Anywhere.
The move to x86 marked an inflection point for IT from the traditional use of large RISC servers. Today, the footprint which makes up the IT arsenal looks increasingly differentiated, allowing the right server to be matched with the right task. Rack-mount. Blades. 128-way SMP. Mainframes. PowerPC and Itanium. Virtualized servers based on VMWARE and RHEL 5. We want to enable IT choice, not dictate it. And deliver a consistent RHEL platform across each which drives IT simplicity, while allowing ISVs to reach all markets at low cost. Today we announce that the platform choice for RHEL has extended one further. Dedicated and virtual servers are now joined by a 3rd twin, with RHEL being available as an on-demand choice as part of Amazon EC2. With a supported ISV catalog 3000+ strong.
Anytime.
When the first version of Enterprise Linux was released in May of 2002, a physical system and its applications typically had a one to one affinity. The models of moving applications from one system to another was usually only realized at failover time, requiring costly hardware and hard labor to realize. Today the technology is in place to flip this. RHEL5 with integrated virtualization has built application mobility into the OS. Transparent to all applications on the platform. The resources apportioned to an application can be changed on demand. Applications can be live migrated to another system, ending the scheduling of planned outages. High availability delivered to all applications on the platform, at low cost.
To the 1000s of customers to whom Linux, OSS, and Red Hat has earned their trust, we thank you. The journey of the impact of open source software on your businesses has just begun.
Linux Automation. Any application. Anywhere. Anytime.
Red Hat has always supported Sun’s efforts to build an open source community around Java. We helped start the IcedTea project earlier this year, and we’re excited to see its inclusion in Fedora 8, available soon.
Today, we made our support a little more official, by signing Sun’s broad contributor agreement that covers participation in all Sun-sponsored open source projects by all Red Hat engineers. We’re excited, and looks like Sun’s Mark Reinhold, Simon Phipps and Barton George are too.
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Join us at Oracle Openworld at the Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco, CA, November 11-15, 2007 at booth #822 in South Hall, where we will showcase and feature theater presentations highlighting Red Hat Enterprise Linux, MetaMatrix and our online solutions during exhibit hours.
We’ll be at booth #2415 at SuperComputing in Nevada in mid-November. Come see us to speak with Red Hat Solutions Architects and Engineers who can help you learn more about the benefits of open source solutions.
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