Red Hat Expands Collaboration With SAP On Virtualisation Projects

Red Hat, Inc. the provider of open source solutions, has announced new steps in its collaboration with SAP AG focused on virtualisation. Red Hat is working with SAP to provide customers with easier deployments of SAP applications on physical Red Hat servers, in virtualised environments or in the cloud. The news comes as Irfan Khan, Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Sybase, a SAP company, delivers a keynote address at the Red Hat Summit event.

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualisation offers a comprehensive virtualisation management solution for server and desktop virtualisation. With version 3.0, delivered in January 2012, Red Hat delivered the first enterprise-ready, fully open source virtualisation platform. Red Hat Enterprise Virtualisation is certified for running SAP business applications on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. With this, customers gain a virtualisation platform with the ability to scale to support growing numbers of workloads and users as well as compatibility between Red Hat Enterprise Virtualisation and the SAP ecosystem, all based on open source virtualisation technology.

Paul Cormier, President, Products and Technologies, Red Hat, said “Red Hat Enterprise Virtualisation is providing an open virtualisation alternative to enterprises around the world, and the latest technology delivered through the 3.0 platform earlier this year provides exceptional performance, scalability, security, manageability and cost benefits. With Red Hat Enterprise Virtualisation available for production for use with SAP solutions, we’re now able to offer these benefits to joint Red Hat and SAP customers worldwide.”

Tom Collett, Global Vice President, Technology Partners, SAP, said, “Today SAP solutions running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Enterprise Virtualisation help enterprises to address their challenges of flexibility and price/performance. This is an excellent step forward with Red Hat to provide enterprises access to optimised technology from both companies for customers’ virtualisation infrastructures.”