Red Hat Rolls Out Virtualization Platform for Heterogeneous Servers and Clouds

Available Today, the Virtualization Platform Features Comprehensive Management
Tools for Server Deployments, from Small Business to the Cloud
RALEIGH, N.C.--(Business Wire)--
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world`s leading provider of open source
solutions, today announced the general availability of Red Hat Enterprise
Virtualization for Servers, the newest product set in the Red Hat Enterprise
Virtualization portfolio. Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Servers is
designed to enable pervasive adoption of virtualization, with a comprehensive
end-to-end solution combining a standalone hypervisor and powerful
virtualization management.

In February 2009, Red Hat announced plans to deliver the Red Hat Enterprise
Virtualization portfolio, building on its leading Red Hat Enterprise Linux
operating system platform, offering the proven security, performance,
scalability and cost advantages of open source virtualization technology. Red
Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Servers entered a worldwide beta in June 2009.
Extensive collaboration with large enterprise beta customers, such as Comviva,
Host Europe, NTT Communications, Qualcomm and Swisscom, resulted in enhanced
product capabilities designed to meet enterprise requirements for deploying and
managing heterogeneous virtualization and cloud environments.

"As a participant in the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization beta program, we
recognized expanded performance, security and scalability benefits for our
systems. We look forward to continuing our technology collaboration with Red Hat
and plan to deploy new virtualized workloads on Red Hat Enterprise
Virtualization going forward," said Amarendra Kumar Singh, vice president, CAG,
DPM, ISS and IT at Comviva.

"As an active participant in the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization beta program,
we recognized expanded performance and scalability benefits for our thousands of
virtualized systems," said Patrick Pulvermüller, managing director at Host
Europe. "After comparing the industry's leading virtualization solutions, we are
planning to use Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization as the foundation for our
cloud servers to leverage the powerful combination of Red Hat's next-generation
KVM virtualization technology and Red Hat's new server virtualization management
tools. We look forward to continuing our long-time technology collaboration with
Red Hat through joint work on our cloud and virtualization deployments."

"With our participation in the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization beta program,
we have experienced the impressive agility, scalability and performance benefits
of Red Hat's virtualization solutions," said Masato Minamisawa, Executive
Manager of IP Technology Department, Business Network Services Division at NTT
Communications. "We recognize the unique technological advantages of KVM at the
heart of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization and look forward to continued
collaboration around virtualization and cloud computing with Red Hat."

"Since Qualcomm implemented the 5.0 release, Red Hat Enterprise Linux has
provided us with cost savings and efficiencies in Linux virtualization," said
Dave Costakos, IT Architect at Qualcomm. "With the Red Hat Enterprise
Virtualization Manager, Qualcomm can leverage enterprise-class virtualization
management features with low-cost open source virtualization."

As an advanced virtualization user, Swisscom IT Services has leveraged a variety
of virtualization offerings on the market, including Red Hat Enterprise Linux
with integrated virtualization. With the introduction of Red Hat Enterprise
Virtualization, Swisscom IT Services gains an expanded Red Hat virtualization
solution that breaks down the company's virtualization barriers and challenges.

"Building on our long-term use of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform, we
have been an active participant in the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization beta
program," said Heinz Többen, head of division transformation, architectures and
projects of Swisscom IT Services. "With the high levels of performance, security
and scalability that we've achieved with Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, Red
Hat's virtualization technology is a strategic addition to our IT infrastructure
and excellent value of money."

In September 2009, Red Hat delivered the foundation of Red Hat Enterprise
Virtualization with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4, which offers next-generation
Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) virtualization technology.

Today, Red Hat delivers the next phase of the portfolio with the availability of
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Servers, which includes the following
components:

* Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor:

A standalone, lightweight, high-performance hypervisor designed to host Linux
and Microsoft Windows virtual servers and desktops. It provides a solid
virtualization foundation for cloud deployments and other highly dynamic IT
environments. Using KVM technology, the hypervisor provides high performance and
security coupled with memory sharing technology, which permits more efficient
guest consolidation, and enterprise features such as live migration.

* Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager for Servers:

A platform for configuring, provisioning, managing and organizing virtualized
Linux and Microsoft Windows servers. It is designed for customers who seek to
reduce the cost, complexity and time required to manage large-scale
virtualization deployments. With a rich set of management capabilities and
powerful search and grouping features, Virtualization Manager equips customers
with the ability to efficiently control a virtualized infrastructure.

"Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization is truly differentiated from other
virtualization solutions as it inherits the powerful functionality, hardware
support and certification of Red Hat Enterprise Linux," said Paul Cormier,
executive vice president and president, Products and Technologies at Red Hat.
"Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization provides ISVs, IHVs and customers with the
opportunity to seamlessly move applications and hardware platforms from bare
metal computing to virtualized computing to cloud computing while maintaining
certifications. We believe that Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, especially
the management components, will allow customers to use virtualization
pervasively across their entire computing infrastructure."

"Red Hat's open approach to virtualization is recognized in the market place by
our mutual customers that are deploying Red Hat on Cisco Unified Computing
System," said Soni Jiandani, vice president of marketing, Server Access
Virtualization Business Group at Cisco. "We are working closely with Red Hat to
optimize the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization platform for the Unified
Computing System in order to offer high-performance and reliable combined
technology based on open standards to enterprises worldwide."

"Enterprises are looking to increase flexibility and reduce complexity by
deploying a converged infrastructure along with end-to-end heterogeneous
datacenter management capability," said Scott Farrand, vice president of
Infrastructure Software and Blades at HP. "HP is working closely with Red Hat in
an effort to provide best-in-class hardware and software infrastructure and
management solutions for Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization."

"IBM has been working with Red Hat in the open source community to provide open
source virtualization technology to the market," said Daniel Frye, vice
president, IBM Open Systems Development. "We believe this technology will be a
significant force in the market and Red Hat`s leadership in establishing the
KVM-based Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization ecosystem will play an important
role in meeting market demand."

"Management is rapidly becoming an important focus area for the virtualization
market as customers evolve from basic consolidation to advanced use cases and
the problems of virtual server sprawl. Against this backdrop, KVM is a major
development in the open source and Linux virtualization market. Red Hat is
actively investing in making the technology enterprise ready with its Red Hat
Enterprise Virtualization for Servers and the management component is arriving
at an opportune time," said Gary Chen, Research Manager, Enterprise
Virtualization Software at IDC.

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Desktops remains in private beta today and
is expected to be made generally available in early 2010.

To learn more about this announcement, join Red Hat`s virtualization webcast,
which will be broadcast live at 11 a.m. ET on November 3, 2009. The webcast will
also be available for replay. To join, visit
http://www-waa-akam.thomson-webcast.net/us/dispatching/?event_id=770cd2217a5d63c162e5cf4aefdcf07d&portal_id=af9b227bf07c733390c2738ee0330646.

To learn more about the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization portfolio or to
purchase Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Servers, visit
www.redhat.com/virtualization/rhev/server.

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Quote Sheet

"Red Hat and AMD are long-time technology partners that have worked closely
together to deliver leading platform combinations to our joint customers," said
Margaret Lewis, director, Commercial Software and Solutions, AMD. "With the
delivery of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Servers, Red Hat and AMD
strengthen our value proposition to customers by offering the next-generation of
virtualization technology in combination with AMD Opteron processors."

"The availability of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Servers delivers new
choice to the virtualization market and gives our joint customers a powerful,
open platform to tackle their complex and unique IT challenges. Together Red Hat
Enterprise Virtualization and BMC's Business Service Management (BSM) for
Virtualization enable organizations to remain agile in the face of change and
respond quickly to events that deliver the greatest business impact," said Paul
Avenant, vice president of ESM products at BMC Software.

"CA has offered broad support for Red Hat's OS platforms for many years," said
Roger Pilc, corporate senior vice president and general manager of CA's
Infrastructure Management and Automation business unit. "Red Hat's
virtualization platform aligns with CA's virtualization and automation strategy
and our goal to provide wide-ranging support for heterogeneous virtualization
technologies."

"Built upon the trusted Red Hat Enterprise Linux platform, Red Hat Enterprise
Virtualization features next-generation KVM technology that helps customers
break down today's barriers to virtualization adoption," said Judy Chavis,
Director of Business Development, Enterprise Product Group at Dell. "Dell and
Red Hat continue to work closely together around optimizing our platforms in an
effort to benefit customers with more choice, flexibility and reliability when
it comes to virtualization."

"Customers are now deploying more business critical applications with open
source than ever before and we view Red Hat's ABI commitment as an excellent way
to offer enterprise capable products in a virtualized environment," said Deb
Woods, vice president of product management, Ingres. "Ingres is pleased to be
part of the Red Hat partner network and we fully support and see the tremendous
value in this. Customers demand ease of deployment when rolling out new
applications and Red Hat's ABI offers this with Red Hat Enterprise
Linux-certified applications running with Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization."

"We believe the launch of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization will mean the best
of all worlds for Linux users: the flexibility of a first-class virtualization
environment, the robust capabilities offered by Red Hat Enterprise Linux and
SAS, and confidence in knowing that their environment is fully supported by both
companies," said Craig Rubendall, SAS Director of Research & Development.

"Symantec continues to extend our commitment and partnership with Red Hat and we
look forward to offering Veritas Storage Foundation and Veritas Cluster Server
with Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization," said Josh Kahn, Vice President of
Product Management, Storage and Availability Management Group, Symantec. "This
will give organizations an opportunity to utilize the industry leading storage
management and high availability solutions across physical and virtual Linux
environments."

"Our goal is to provide customers with choice and flexibility. VMLogix offers
the only virtual lab automation solution that works with all leading
virtualization platforms," said Sameer Dholakia, CEO of VMLogix. "By supporting
KVM and Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, we intend to provide companies who
adopt our solutions the freedom to integrate whatever virtualization
infrastructure works best for them."

About Red Hat, Inc.

Red Hat, the world's leading open source solutions provider, is headquartered in
Raleigh, NC with over 65 offices spanning the globe. CIOs ranked Red Hat as one
of the top vendors delivering value in Enterprise Software for five consecutive
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high-quality, affordable technology with its operating system platform, Red Hat
Enterprise Linux, together with applications, management and Services Oriented
Architecture (SOA) solutions, including JBoss Enterprise Middleware. Red Hat
also offers support, training and consulting services to its customers
worldwide. Learn more: http://www.redhat.com.

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