Month: March 2014

The Application Apartment Complex: Red Hat Enterprise Linux & Linux Containers

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Bhavna Sarathy

The advent of any new technology tends to generate a lot of excitement.  Over the course of my career, however, I have never experienced “a buzz” like what we are seeing around Linux containers and application packaging and isolation, containerized applications built in the Docker format.  From my perspective, the ways in which containers may influence our ever evolving technological ecosystem are, quite possibly, limitless…okay, limitless may be strong, and while “game changing technology” may sound cliche, it’s not far from the truth in this case.

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OpenLMI @ Red Hat Summit 2014

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Russell Doty

OpenLMI will be represented at the upcoming Red Hat Summit, which is being held in San Francisco from April 14-17.

Stephen Gallagher and I will be giving a talk on OpenLMI, the new Linux Management Infrastructure, on Tuesday, April 15, at 10:40am. This talk will provide an overview of OpenLMI, cover its functional capabilities, and demonstrate using the LMIShell CLI and Scripts to accomplish common management tasks.

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Red Hat Enterprise Linux: Beyond the World Records

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Yan Fisher

Andrew Bond

In a recent post, we reviewed the 10 world record results set by Red Hat Enterprise Linux on the Intel Xeon processor E7 v2 family.  Besides showcasing the extreme capabilities of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, these performance achievements tell another compelling story – Red Hat Enterprise Linux has become an exceedingly popular choice when it comes to tough workloads.

For example, consider the share of Red Hat Enterprise Linux versus other operating systems used to produce these records. Out of 20 world record benchmark results (22 total submissions, 3 results were tied) posted by eight different OEM partners at the Intel Xeon processor E7 v2 family announcement, Red Hat Enterprise Linux was used in 12. Seventy-five percent of the hardware vendors taking part in this process chose to publish their world record benchmarks on the new family of processors using Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The chart below shows the significance of this adoption.

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