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Red Hat, Microsoft agree on interoperability

To enable customers to deploy heterogeneous, virtualized Red Hat and Microsoft solutions

Wednesday, February 18, 2009

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MUMBAI, INDIA: Red Hat, Inc, a provider of open source solutions, today announced that in response to customer demand, it has signed reciprocal agreements with Microsoft Corporation to enable increased interoperability for the companies' virtualization platforms.

The reciprocal validations would allow customers to deploy heterogeneous, virtualized Red Hat and Microsoft solutions, said a press release.

"The world of IT today is a mixture of virtualized and non-virtualized environments. Red Hat is looking to help customers extend more rapidly into virtualized environments, including mixed Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Windows Server environments," said Mike Evans, vice president, Corporate Development at Red Hat.

"Red Hat listened when our customers asked us to provide interoperability between our respective guest and host virtualization solutions. We are excited to announce these agreements today as the result of our collaboration with Microsoft," he added.

The Red Hat and Microsoft customers will have the ability to run Microsoft Windows Server and Red Hat Enterprise Linux virtual servers on either host environment with configurations that will be tested and supported by both virtualization and operating system leaders.

"Customers are rapidly adopting Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V and in doing so are interested in support for running more operating systems on Hyper-V in their virtualized environment, including those from Red Hat," said, Mike Neil, general manager, Virtualization Strategy at Microsoft.

"We welcome Red Hat's participation in our Server Virtualization Validation Program and look forward to ongoing collaboration with them to bring the benefits of coordinated technical support to our customers for their heterogeneous IT environments," he added.

"Most customers run heterogeneous networks and having interoperability between these two major platforms will make virtualizing these environments much easier for enterprise customers," said Gary Chen, research manager, Enterprise Virtualization Software at IDC.

"IDC research shows that Windows and Red Hat Enterprise Linux are two of the main operating environments deployed by enterprises, accounting for 80 per cent of the x86 operating systems running on hypervisors. It is great to see two of the big platform vendors put aside their competitive differences and put the customer first," he added.

The agreement establishes coordinated technical support for Microsoft and Red Hat's mutual customers using server virtualization, and the activities included in these agreements do not require the sharing of IP, the release added.

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