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White Papers
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Achieving PCI Compliance with Red Hat Enterprise Linux
The payment card industry data security standard (PCI DSS) provides best practice security standards that protect systems that handle credit and debit card data. This white paper explains how Red Hat technologies can meet or exceed the various requirements of PCI Compliance.
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An Analysis of Two Strategies for Enterprise Operating Systems
This paper by the Robert Frances Group outlines the important differences between a Solaris and Linux operating system. It covers the differences in vendor community strategies, market position and direction, and technical features that IT executives should consider when comparing a Linux and Unix Enterprise operating system.
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Cloud 101
In a remarkably short time, cloud computing has emerged as a hugely important evolution in the way that businesses and individuals consume and operate computing. This white paper explores the basics of cloud computing - how dynamic, flexibly deployed resources make IT infrastructure (and your business) more dynamic, modular, and easy-to-consume.
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Cloud Computing, Portability and Interoperability
Cloud computing has become a major discussion thread in the IT world. This IDC report discusses the clear benefits of cloud computing - and how to best obtain next-generation performance, flexibility, and savings with key technology and process considerations.
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JBoss Operations Network: Measuring Business Impact and ROI
IDC conducted a series of in-depth interviews with staff members of IT organizations that have deployed JBoss Operations Network to manage their JBoss Enterprise Middleware environments, including applications and underlying operating systems and hardware infrastructure. Download this white paper to learn more.
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Podcasts
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Red Hat PaaS: Interview with Craig Muzilla, VP Red Hat Middleware Business Unit
In this podcast, Craig Muzilla, Vice President, Middleware Business Unit at Red Hat, describes Red Hat's offering and strategy for Platform-as-a-Service solutions.
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Webcasts
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Cloudy with a Chance of BMWs
Are you interested in all things JBoss and Cloud, then this is your opportunity to learn more. Bob McWhirter (BMW) is lead JBoss Cloud Architect and will cover projects like BoxGrinder, Steam Cannon and CirrAS. Now is your opportunity to see the next generation of IT infrastructure and Platform as a Service using JBoss technologies.
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Migrating Oracle Database from UNIX to Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Many organizations are migrating their IT data centers, and enterprise databases from proprietary UNIX to Red Hat Enterprise Linux. In this webinar, Red Hat presents the case for considering database migrations, including a comparison of UNIX to Red Hat Enterprise Linux as a database platform, including cost, performance, reliability and scalability
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Platform as a Service: Beyond the Hype, Towards Practical Solutions for the Cloud
In this webinar, Featured Guest, Randy Heffner, Vice President, Principal Analyst at Forrester Research, Inc., and author of "Top Priority For Cloud Planning: Integrate Cloud Computing Into Existing Architecture Strategies" will cut through the hype surrounding Cloud computing with practical advice on how to achieve cost savings and greater business flexibility when leveraging Cloud and platform as a service paradigms.
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Practical Guidelines for Moving Business Critical Application from UNIX to Linux
Many businesses are considering migrating from proprietary technologies to those based on free, industry-wide standards. To better understand the customer migration experience, the Harvard Research Group (HRG) interviewed IT professionals, hardware vendors, software vendors and the Red Hat customers who performed migrations from previous-generation platforms to Linux. In this webinar, The Harvard Research Group presents their findings and best practices for migrations to Linux.
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The Solaris vs. Linux Choice: A Comparison of Ecosystems, Longevity and Corporate Dependability
With changes in the market and the growth in adoption of Linux, many IT teams are understandably concerned about the future of their Sun Solaris investments. In this webinar, Red Hat solutions architects Greg Pryzby and Dave Egts will share why they believe Red Hat Enterprise Linux is a superior alternative to Solaris.
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Product Literature
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AIX to Red Hat Enterprise Linux: Strategic Migration Planning Guide
Migrating from proprietary technologies to those based on free, industry-wide standards will not only help you carve out IT costs, but also help scale your IT. Red Hat has developed migration planning guides to provide the tools, insight, and proven processes needed to plan an AIX to Red Hat Enterprise Linux migration. The result? You achieve maximum savings and knowledge transfer with minimal disruption to your business.
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HP-UX to Red Hat Enterprise Linux: Strategic Migration Planning Guide
Migrating from proprietary technologies to those based on free, industry-wide standards will not only help you carve out IT costs, but also help scale your IT. Red Hat has developed migration planning guides to provide the tools, insight, and proven processes needed to plan an HP-UX to Red Hat Enterprise Linux migration. The result? You achieve maximum savings and knowledge transfer with minimal disruption to your business.
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Moving from Solaris to Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Learn the differences between Solaris and Red Hat Enterprise Linux to help application developers port code. This paper will cover differences in the shell environment, using the RPM package manager, and using the GNU development tools. It’s meant to get Solaris developers working on Red Hat Enterprise Linux quickly.
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Solaris to Red Hat Enterprise Linux: Strategic Migration Planning Guide
Migrating from proprietary technologies to those based on free, industry-wide standards will not only help you carve out IT costs, but also help scale your IT. Red Hat has developed migration planning guides to provide the tools, insight, and proven processes needed to plan a Sun Solaris to Red Hat Enterprise Linux migration. The result? You achieve maximum savings and knowledge transfer with minimal disruption to your business.
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eWeek Podcasts
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Red Hat CEO Szulik Looks Forward
Matthew Szulik talks with Eric Lundquist about Red Hat`s purchase of JBoss, the future of open source and Szulik`s interest in reviving the U.S. education system.
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Red Hat Moving Forward
In this eWEEK podcast, Tim Yeaton, senior vice president and general manager of Red Hat`s products division, talks with Senior Editor Peter Galli about the impact of Oracle`s recent Linux announcement.
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Research Reports
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Total Economic Impact of Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
JBoss Enterprise Application Platform includes open source technologies for building, deploying, and hosting enterprise Java applications and services. This study illustrates the financial impact of implementing JBoss Enterprise Application Platform for mission-critical applications by an organization that provides integrated voice and data communications. Forrester found that the organization reduced its operating costs by cutting spending on annual maintenance and support for its Java platform and improved its IT productivity, resulting in shorter product-introduction times and increased revenue.
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Business Value of JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
As companies continue to develop custom applications to manage their business, the issues of high costs and inefficiency become paramount. IDC studied the business value of adopting the JBoss Enterprise Application Platform on behalf of Red Hat by interviewing six large United States–based companies that used JBoss to develop custom applications and have been running the applications for at least 12 months.
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JBoss Enterprise Middleware, by Red Hat: Technical Support Services Leader
The economic climate has led many public and private organizations to increasingly consider open source software to reduce their IT portfolio TCO. While many open source solutions offer an initial allure, long-term support and maintainability are often unknown variables.
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Reviews
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Fedora 7 Advances on Rivals
Linux Distro impresses with variety of customization options. (eWEEK Review)
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Fedora Core 3 Caps Linux Distribution
Fedora Core 3, the latest release of Red Hat Inc.`s free, unsupported, bleeding-edge Linux distribution, is stacked with changes that include the
way it partitions disks by default and the appearance of the window managers that ship with it. (eWEEK Review)
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Fedora Core 5: Shape Shifter
Fast-moving distro works well in server, developer and desktop roles. (eWEEK Review)
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Fedora Core 6: Innovations Continue
In its first five releases, Red Hat’s Fedora Core has represented the Linux technology vanguard. And so it is with Fedora Core 6. (eWEEK Review)
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Red Hat Directory Server Scales Up
Red Hat Inc.`s Red Hat Directory Server is an open-source, LDAP-based directory server descended from the popular and mature Netscape/iPlanet code base that Red Hat purchased from America Online Inc. last year. (eWEEK Review)
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Technology Briefs
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JBoss Enterprise Middleware Active Cloud Services
Deploying JBoss Enterprise Middleware in the cloud provides a cost-effective solution for organizations developing applications, and seamlessly integrates them with existing heterogeneous environments and deploys them to a cloud infrastructure. To help organizations optimally deploy a JBoss Enterprise Middleware solution in the cloud, Red Hat Consulting offers its JBoss Enterprise Middleware Cloud Services.
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Migration TCO and ROI Service
If you are looking for ways to shed the costs and performance limitations of your existing UNIX installation, you are not alone. Download this tech brief to learn how organizations are solving these problems by migrating to Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
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Red Hat Cloud Quickstart
This datasheet details what to expect with a Red Hat Cloud Quickstart consulting engagement - a services offering for those ready to develop proof points on cloud viability, or stand up a first private cloud for testing.
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Product Demos
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JBoss SteamCannon Community Project Demonstration
SteamCannon is the cloud-aware PaaS broker that sits between you and a stack of IaaS resources, such as Amazon EC2. SteamCannon helps stand up individual PaaS environments to match your own needs and workflows. With a few simple clicks, you can configure a new Java or Ruby platform, and deploy your applications to it. Download to see a quick demonstration.
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See What You Can Do with Red Hat PaaS
This video demonstration describes Red Hat PaaS and provides examples of the problems you can solve leveraging Red Hat's JBoss Enterprise Middleware software and services in the cloud.
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eWeek Slide Shows
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eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Red Hat’s long-awaited Xen virtualization implementation is fundamentally solid, but eWEEK Labs found it a bit rough around the edges.
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eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Beta 1
This slideshows offers a look at Red Hat’s Enterprise Linux 5 Beta 1’s new features.
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Articles
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True PaaS: What Users Need to Succeed in the Cloud
True PaaS supports current programming models and applications, enables cloud portability, and provides the abstraction and management capabilities necessary to simplify application development and deployment. Most importantly, True PaaS systems have flexibility and portability designed into the architecture to prevent technology lock-in.
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