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Winners of The 2012 Virtualization Product of the year

"Red Hat has reminded CIOs and service providers that there is a technically accomplished and ultra-competitive alternative to proprietary virtualization products." -Mike Simons, editor of Techworld

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Record-breaking performance

Red Hat® Enterprise Virtualization performs as well as or better than bare metal. It builds on the highly tuned Red Hat Enterprise Linux® base, delivering industry-leading performance for Linux and Microsoft Windows workloads.

Independently confirmed by SPECvirt

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization has dominated the independent, industry-standard benchmark for virtualization—called SPECvirt_sc2010®—since it was released in 2010 by the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC).

As of this December 5, 2012, Red Hat can claim:*

13 of the 21 published results.
The 6 highest overall scores.
The 5 highest consolidation ratios.
That the top Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization-based performance for SPECvirt represents 552 performant virtual machines running on a single x86 server.

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*The Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor is the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) stripped down for further performance and security, and for a reduced footprint. So these results reflect the performance customers see with Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization.

*SPEC®, SPECvirt™, and SPECvirt_sc® are trademarks or registered trademarks of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corp. (SPEC). SPEC®, SPECvirt™, and SPECvirt_sc® are trademarks or registered trademarks of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corp. (SPEC). Competitive numbers reflect results published on www.spec.org as of December 5, 2012. For the latest SPECvirt_sc2010 results visit www.spec.org/osg/virt_sc2010.