Welcome
Over the past decade, Red Hat has helped tens of thousands of customers with critical endeavors around infrastructure modernization. Specifically, this has meant migrating from proprietary, closed infrastructure based on RISC/UNIX to industry standard open systems based on the x86 architecture. As Gartner notes in their April 2012 report "While steady, the [Unix to Linux] migrations have been phased by degree of complexity, total cost of ownership (TCO) savings, modernization priority and degree of internal skills (or transfer of UNIX to Linux skills)."
Factors that have driven the acceleration of UNIX to Linux migration over the past few years include:
- Improvements to the Linux kernel resulting in greater logical and physical scalability approaching that of the UNIX operating system
- Technological advancements of the Intel Xeon-EX processor family around scalability, reliability, and performance
- Advancements to hypervisors and virtualization tools driving greater efficiency in the utilization of x86 servers
- Broader ISV support for Linux as a mainstream, target operating system
In this newsletter, we'll share with you our perspective about how you can strategically plan your UNIX migration strategy to effectively position your datacenter for maximum agility, performance and scale. Getting this right is critical, because how you modernize your infrastructure could prepare you well for future solutions like cloud and big data, or could completely lock you out of these new areas. Finally, you'll also learn how Red Hat, as the global leader in enterprise Linux, is uniquely positioned to help you realize those benefits.
Paul Cormier
Red Hat Executive Vice President& President, Products and Technologies, Red HatSource: Red Hat
