14 DAY TRIAL // The approaching Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 5.1 will increase integrated Xen virtualization capabilities in systems based on Itanium 2 processors, as announced by the Itanium Solutions Alliance.
The Intel Itanium processor allows users to deploy industry-standard software virtualization that enhances the ability to consolidate multiple applications on Itanium-based systems.
Scott Crenshaw, Vice President of Product Marketing at Red Hat stated: "Itanium Solutions Alliance founding sponsors worked with Red Hat to test, validate and optimize this fully integrated virtualization solution. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.1 provides customers with the maximum choice among enterprise systems when deploying open source applications on Itanium. Also, Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform 5.1 provides additional high availability and storage virtualization technologies, and scales to support any number of processors and guest environments - making it the perfect solution for today's large, high-performance Itanium systems."
Yoichi Murakami, from Fujitsu Limited and Chairman of the Itanium Solutions Alliance Enabling Committee added: "The Itanium Solutions Alliance is pleased to have the opportunity to coordinate efforts with Red Hat to expand software solutions for Itanium-based systems and contribute to the growth of the Independent Software Vendor ecosystem."
The Alliance was formed two years ago and it has at the moment more than 200 companies as members. It is a global community of hardware, operating system and software vendors aiming to accelerate the adoption and ongoing development of solutions based on the Itanium 2 processor. The membership is open to any company or technical software supplier that's looking to fine-tune applications for Itanium-based mediums. Also it's available for inter-communication between enterprises and technical computing providers who want to link with other members of the Alliance to deliver leading computing solutions.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.1 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform 5.1 for Itanium systems will be launched at the end of this year, in December.