| Dell, AMD, Red Hat partner on migration |
Aug. 07, 2007
SAN FRANCISCO--At the LinuxWorld trade show here, Dell and Red Hat on Aug. 7 will be delivering a simplified way for customers to use Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JBoss to migrate from costly legacy application infrastructures using open-source software and standards-based hardware.
The solutions combine AMD Opteron-powered PowerEdge servers from Dell with the customer's choice of the JBoss Enterprise Application Platform or the Red Hat Application Stack, which includes RHEL, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform and MySQL. Each solution delivers easy cross-platform interoperability that enables customers to customize solutions.
Together Dell and Red Hat will be offering three software stacks.
- JBoss Enterprise Application Platform—This combines the JBoss Application Server, Hibernate and JBoss Seam with Dell hardware and the customer's choice of Linux or Windows. The platform makes it easy to develop, deploy and manage enterprise Java applications on any operating system, while still remaining flexible and affordable, the companies said.
- Web Application—This offering combines the Red Hat Application Stack, including the JBoss Enterprise Application Platform and Red Hat Enterprise Linux, with Dell hardware. It is ideal for running Java or LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP/Python/Perl) applications and provides a simple, integrated solution for customers already running an open-source operating system with legacy proprietary middleware, or for customers looking to deploy multiple open-source solutions.
- Web Edge—Combining Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Dell hardware, this solution helps customers take advantage of the open-source operating system for activities such as Web serving with Apache.
The companies claim that the availability of Red Hat operating platform and middleware solutions on Dell servers gives customers enhanced interoperability, choice and substantial cost savings in their IT environments.
The open-source solutions are available directly from Dell and allow customers to replace costly legacy application infrastructures with Red Hat's leading open-source middleware. Customers also can choose either a Windows or Linux desktop operating system to best fit their needs. The combined solutions enhance cross-platform interoperability and provide the affordable, flexible benefits of open-source solutions, the companies said.
"Businesses of all types and sizes are increasingly turning to open-source solutions for operating systems, middleware and databases that simplify their IT environments," Kevin Kettler, chief technology officer for Dell, based in Round Rock, Texas, said in a statement. "LinuxWorld provides us with a great forum [in which] to address this growing market. Our unique position [that allows us] to deliver low-cost solutions without compromising quality, combined with a strong industry partnership with Red Hat, offers customers a compelling way to address open-source middleware needs that ultimately improve the bottom line."
In addition to the companies' combined solutions, Dell, Advanced Micro Devices and Red Hat are collaborating to create a Java Solutions Center. The center, in Austin, Texas, will further the development and optimization of open-source Java technologies.
"AMD is pleased to be working with Red Hat and Dell to create a Java Solutions Center, where we will develop and optimize Java-based solutions for our joint customers," said Terri Hall, marketing vice president of commercial systems for AMD, based in Sunnyvale, Calif. "Together, our teams will collaborate to optimize open-source middleware solutions ... running on AMD Opteron processor-based systems from Dell."
"The middleware market represents a $5 billion opportunity, with some customers spending as much as 70 percent of their IT budget maintaining legacy applications," said Mike Evans, vice president of corporate development for Red Hat, based in Raleigh, N.C. "Our partnership with Dell and AMD ensures that customers who have embraced the benefits of an open-source IT environment have the support and technology they need for successful implementation."
—Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
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