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IBM System x and BladeCenter with Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Providing an open environment that is flexible and cost effective

  

Highlights

  • Improve data protection and security capabilities with Security-Enhanced Linux®.
  • Built-in open source hypervisors provide your server with integrated virtualization without additional software, operating system subscriptions or hardware.
  • Realize innovation with robust, industry-standard servers that are open, easy and green
  • Purchase Red Hat Enterprise Linux when configuring your System x® and BladeCenter® blade server
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Featured topic
  IBM offers Red Hat Enterprise Linux with KVM for System x and BladeCenter servers
The newly released Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 is the first product to deliver commercial quality open source virtualization featuring Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) hypervisor technology. Easily purchase Red Hat Enterprise Linux with KVM as you configure your IBM server and experience the power of virtualized computing today.

Red Hat offerings from IBM

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform
Designed to support servers of any size with unlimited virtual guests and storage virtualization.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Designed for small deployments - supports servers with up to 2-processor sockets and 4 virtual guests.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for HPC Compute Nodes (2 and 4 processor socket variants available)
Designed for volume deployments in high performance computing applications.


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Note:
With IBM having the worldwide presence and commitment to Linux technology, IBM is the ideal supplier to provide dependable service and support at a competitive price. All Red Hat Enterprise Linux subscriptions include the ability to upgrade to new versions at no additional cost and include a subscription to the Red Hat Network Update Module. For more information regarding the Red Hat Network, visit https://www.redhat.com/rhn/


 
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