From rhelv6-announce at redhat.com Thu Mar 5 18:28:18 2015 From: rhelv6-announce at redhat.com (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (Santiago) announcement mailing-list) Date: Thu, 05 Mar 2015 13:28:18 -0500 Subject: [rhelv6-announce] The First Minor Release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Now Available Message-ID: <54F8A042.9090805@redhat.com> The Red Hat Enterprise Linux team is pleased to announce the general availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1, the first minor release of our Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 platform. With Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, Red Hat redefined the operating system into a platform designed to facilitate innovation. The enhancements to the world?s leading enterprise Linux platform offered by Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1, as well as the new offerings based on the update, deliver a flexible, reliable, secure and performant platform that works across nearly every industry use case. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1 offers improved development and deployment tools, enhanced interoperability and manageability, and additional security and performance features. As with all releases of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, these enhancements are delivered over a stable, secure, 10-year lifecycle backed by Red Hat?s award-winning global support. In addition, the general availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1 coincides with the launch of three specialized Red Hat Enterprise Linux offerings. These include: - Red Hat Enterprise Linux Atomic Host is also generally available today, using the tools and frameworks as delivered by Project Atomic. Created specifically with container-based workloads in mind, Red Hat Enterprise Linux Atomic Host offers a minimal-footprint, streamlined platform perfect for running Linux containers in an enterprise environment. - Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Real Time is Red Hat?s real-time computing platform for deadline-oriented and time-sensitive applications. Using a specialized version of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 kernel that has been tuned to deliver consistent low-latency response times, Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Real Time retains the reliability, scalability, and performance of the world?s leading enterprise Linux platform. - Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian brings Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1 to enterprises using the IBM Power Systems platform with support for POWER8 on IBM Power Systems based on little endian. Running on POWER8 offers higher performance especially for big data applications through multi-threading, more cache and greater data bandwidth, while little endian mode removes an application portability barrier and allows datacenters running Power Systems to leverage Red Hat?s vast ecosystem of certified applications originally developed for x86 architecture. This also means that these certified applications can be more easily migrated between x86-based and POWER processor-based systems, giving customers the advantages of both architectures. RED HAT ENTERPRISE LINUX 7.1 AVAILABILITY Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1 is now available in the Red Hat Customer Portal to all customers with an active Red Hat Enterprise Linux subscription. To access and download Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1, please visit: https://access.redhat.com/products/red-hat-enterprise-linux ADDITIONAL RESOURCES To access documentation for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, visit: https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/ To read the press release, visit: http://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/red-hat-continues-platform-innovation-general-availability-first-minor-release-red-hat-enterprise-linux To get the latest news via the Red Hat Enterprise Linux blog, visit: http://rhelblog.redhat.com/ Sincerely, The Red Hat Enterprise Linux Team From rhelv6-announce at redhat.com Thu Mar 5 18:46:14 2015 From: rhelv6-announce at redhat.com (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (Santiago) announcement mailing-list) Date: Thu, 05 Mar 2015 13:46:14 -0500 Subject: [rhelv6-announce] Red Hat Advances Linux Containers in the Enterprise with Red Hat Enterprise Linux Atomic Host Message-ID: <54F8A476.2080105@redhat.com> Today marks an exciting milestone for Red Hat as we share news of the general availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Atomic Host, an operating system optimized for running the next generation of applications with Linux containers. Based on the world?s leading enterprise Linux platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux Atomic Host enables enterprises to embrace a container-based architecture to take advantage of the benefits of development and deployment flexibility and simplified maintenance, without sacrificing performance, stability, security, or the value of Red Hat?s vast certified ecosystem. An application architecture based on Linux containers requires not only the tools to build and run containers, but also an underlying foundation that is secure, reliable, enterprise-grade, with an established lifecycle designed to meet the ongoing requirements of the enterprise over the long term. This includes mitigation of security concerns, ongoing product enhancements, proactive diagnostics, and access to support. Red Hat is committed to offering enterprises a complete and integrated container-based infrastructure solution, combining container-based application packaging with robust, optimized infrastructure to enable easy movement of Red Hat Enterprise Linux-certified applications across bare metal systems, virtual machines and private and public clouds - all of this with the product and security lifecycle that enterprise customers require. The release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Atomic Host supports Red Hat's commitment to make Linux containers a stable and reliable component of enterprise IT across the open hybrid cloud. For building and maintaining container infrastructure, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Atomic Host provides many benefits, including: - Atomic updating and rollback through an image-like update mechanism. - Container images in docker format can be deployed and run as application containers. - Certification and support, along with a chain of trust for containers built using platform images provided by Red Hat. - Container orchestration at scale through Kubernetes, creating large-scale business applications from discrete services deployed in containers across clusters of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Atomic Host. - Stronger security by default through SELinux, cgroups and kernel namespaces, isolating each container in a multi-container environment. Support for super-privileged containers enables host management applications to access the host and other containers in a secure manner. Application portability across the open hybrid cloud by leveraging Red Hat?s vast certified ecosystem, enabling secure, stable container deployments on physical hardware, on certified hypervisors including Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, VMware and Microsoft Hyper-V, and on certified public cloud services like Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud Platform. LEARN MORE ABOUT RED HAT ENTERPRISE LINUX ATOMIC HOST - Attend the Virtual Event and Webcast or view the replay after the event: At 11 a.m. EDT on March 12, 2015, Red Hat will host ?Transform Application Delivery with Containers,? a virtual event that drills into the real world use cases and value of Linux containers.For more information and to register, please visit http://bit.ly/1GSQRgM. - Read the press release: http://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/red-hat-launches-red-hat-enterprise-linux-7-atomic-host-advances-linux-containers-enterprise - Learn more about Red Hat Enterprise Linux Atomic Host: http://www.redhat.com/en/technologies/linux-platforms/enterprise-linux - Learn more about Linux containers: http://www.redhat.com/en/insights/containers - Download Red Hat Enterprise Linux Atomic Host (requires login): For information on how to access Red Hat Enterprise Linux Atomic Host, visit https://access.redhat.com/solutions/1360923. - Get the latest news via the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Blog: http://rhelblog.redhat.com Sincerely, The Red Hat Enterprise Linux Team