Red Hat Expands Virtualisation Collaboration With SAP

Red Hat, Inc., the global open source solutions provider, has announced the certification of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.1 for SAP business applications running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. This is a continuation of the companies’ joint work on virtualisation and an expansion of SAP’s certification of the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0 platform release. The certification marks the latest milestone in a 15-year alliance formed to help simplify deployments of SAP applications on physical Red Hat servers, in virtualised environments or in the cloud, bringing new choice to enterprises worldwide.

Enterprise customers such as TCC Technology Co. Ltd., one of Thailand’s providers of commercial managed hosting and datacentre services, are turning to Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization to achieve business continuity, agility and cost efficiency for their deployments of SAP applications.

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Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization is the only mission-critical end-to-end, open source virtualisation infrastructure designed for enterprises that is available today. Providing an open virtualisation hypervisor with Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) and robust management tools based on the open source oVirt project, the portfolio delivers leading performance, scalability, flexibility and cost benefits. Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.1, available globally today, delivers new features and integrations spanning scalability, networking, storage and more.

Paul Cormier, President, Products and Technologies, Red Hat, said, “Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization delivers industry-leading performance and scalability. The advancements made in our 3.1 release today are designed to especially benefit customers running large mission-critical workloads like SAP applications. The scalability and performance gains create an even stronger price/performance advantage, and new features like storage live migration and dynamic resource allocation offer a better user experience.”

Tom Collett, Global Vice President, Global Technology Partners, SAP said, “This marks another important milestone in the 15-year collaboration between SAP and Red Hat. We continue to drive stronger performance and compelling cost efficiencies that resonate with enterprise customers. We look forward to continuing to evolve our collaboration to meet the needs of our joint customers as they tackle virtualisation and cloud computing deploy.”