Red Hat's portfolio of software products and solutions focuses on five primary technology areas: cloud, middleware, the Linux operating system, storage, and virtualization.
A variety of services, such as consulting and training, are available to support these technology areas.
Fig 1.1 Red Hat Products and Solutions
Core technologies
Our core technology products provide the capabilities needed to deploy a complete, high performing IT infrastructure that is flexible, scalable, and secure. The products interoperate seamlessly and are designed for mission-critical business environments. They represent the best technology available today.
Red Hat® Enterprise Linux®
The world’s leading open source operating system provides a feature-rich, stable, secure, high-performance platform with an extensive certification ecosystem. Deploy Red Hat Enterprise Linux in physical and virtual environments, in public, private, and hybrid clouds, from SMB to big data – for all enterprise computing environments.
Red Hat JBoss® Middleware
A comprehensive portfolio of middleware solutions that help customers optimize their business processes. Includes application server, SOA, BRMS, ESB, portal, application integration, and messaging.
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization
A suite of virtualization solutions, including a standalone hypervisor and virtualization management tools for both servers and desktops.
Red Hat Systems Management
Fully featured, integrated, easy-to-use tools that allow IT organizations to manage deployments of any size, whether they are physical or virtual, or in public, private, or hybrid clouds.
Red Hat Storage
Provides a highly-scalable, software-based file system for distributed storage subsystems. Exceptionally well-suited to big data and hybrid cloud environments, it provides the capacity to handle the explosive growth of unstructured data.
Cloud technologies
The explosive growth and success of cloud computing is driven in large part by its commitment to open standards, independent communities, free-to-use APIs, and the prevention of vendor lock-in. Using our core products as a foundation, Red Hat’s open hybrid cloud vision drives the capabilities of our cloud products. They provide the ability to increase productivity, optimize assets, and manage applications and their associated data across a heterogeneous infrastructure, wherever that infrastructure lives.
Red Hat OpenStack
OpenStack is an Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) solution that manages one or more hypervisors and provides self-service cloud capabilities to users. Red Hat OpenStack is based on the open source cloud community project of the same name, and allows organizations to build and deploy infrastructure similar to that provided by public cloud providers.
Red Hat CloudForms
CloudForms provides open, hybrid cloud management on top of your heterogeneous infrastructure, whether that infrastructure uses on-premise or public clouds (or both). CloudForms helps customers build and manage hybrid clouds through self-service, policy control, and application life cycle management.
OpenShift by Red Hat
Available as both the hosted OpenShift Online service and the on-premise OpenShift Enterprise, Red Hat's Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) solutions provide exceptionally easy-to-use and flexible
environments for application developers using their choices of programming languages and frameworks.
Service offerings
Our award-winning service offerings help customers fully utilize the value of their subscriptions, equipping them with the knowledge, professional support, and hands-on skills to ensure success with every Red Hat solutions.
Red Hat Training and Certification
Hands-on, lab-intensive courses and highly respected certification programs. Red Hat Training includes traditional classroom instruction, as well as on-site, online, and virtual training.
Red Hat Consulting
Red Hat Consulting offers an expansive array of professional services to help organizations solve technology challenges, maximize product performance, and increase infrastructure efficiency.
Global Support Services (GSS)
Red Hat provides enterprise-level production support as part of every Red Hat software subscription. GSS also provides additional premium services such as Technical Account Managers (TAMs), senior technical resources with in-depth knowledge of the customer’s unique environment, and developer support packages.
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