From rhelv6-announce at redhat.com Wed Jan 24 16:01:20 2018 From: rhelv6-announce at redhat.com (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (Santiago) announcement mailing-list) Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2018 11:01:20 -0500 Subject: [rhelv6-announce] Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 Beta Now Available Message-ID: Today, we?re pleased to announce the latest update to the world?s leading enterprise Linux platform with the beta availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5. Powering business applications with control, confidence, and freedom, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 Beta provides a consistent foundation across the hybrid cloud and offers key new and enhanced features around security and compliance, platform efficiency, and manageability. Additionally, the latest version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 continues to support alternative architectures, with variants available for IBM Power, IBM System z, and Arm deployments as well as x86. Security and compliance Red Hat Enterprise Linux delivers controls for enhanced security and compliance built into the operating system, with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 Beta bolstering organizational-wide IT security efforts with: * Security improvements and usability enhancements for cloud and remotely hosted systems that can more securely unlock Network Bound Disk Encrypted devices at boot-time, designed to eliminate the need for manual intervention in an often inconveniently-timed boot process. * The integration of Red Hat Ansible Automation with OpenSCAP, which enhances the ease of automating the remediation of compliance issues and enables administrators to more efficiently scale policies across their environment. * Compliance improvements for accurate timestamping and synchronization needs with the addition of failover with bonding interfaces for Precision Time Protocol (PTP) and Network Time Protocol (NTP). Performance and efficiency Modern enterprise applications can require extensive amounts of bandwidth and resources to handle the increasing quantities of data produced by organizations, a problem that is compounded as businesses drive towards digital transformation. Much of this data is the same, which can limit efficiency and increase resource costs for IT. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 Beta introduces virtual data optimizer (VDO), a technology derived from Red Hat?s acquisition of Permabit[1] assets and designed to reduce data redundancy through inline deduplication and compression. In a primary storage environment delivered on top of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, VDO can increase effective capacity by up to 6x, helping to free up existing storage and reduce the costs associated with offsite data replication. These savings, extended to block storage in the public cloud, can reduce storage footprints by up to 83 percent, helping to reduce the hourly cost for active storage and the monthly costs of storing snapshots. This enhances the ability of organizations to get the most out of their existing storage configurations across a common, open standards-based platform in Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Platform manageability As part of a digital transformation strategy, enterprises should emphasize delivering new, innovative services and products while limiting the amount of time their IT teams spend manually managing underlying infrastructure components, including the operating system. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 Beta enhances usability for Linux administrators, Windows administrators new to the platform, and developers seeking self-service capabilities alike with: * An easier to use cockpit administrator console, which is designed to simplify the interface for managing storage, networking, containers, services, and more for individual systems. * The automated creation of a ?known-good? bootable snapshot to help speed recovery and rollback after patching, helping IT teams feel more confident that their systems are in working order. To review a full list of new features and capabilities as included with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 Beta, please visit: https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/ RED HAT ENTERPRISE LINUX 7.5 BETA AVAILABILITY Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 Beta is now available in the Red Hat Customer Portal to all customers with active Red Hat Enterprise Linux subscriptions. To access and download Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 Beta, please visit: https://access.redhat.com/downloads/ ADDITIONAL RESOURCES To access documentation for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, visit: https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/ For the latest information on Red Hat's IT infrastructure products, offerings, and solutions - including greater insight into the beta release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 - visit and subscribe to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Blog at http://rhelblog.redhat.com/. Sincerely, The Red Hat Enterprise Linux Team [1] https://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/red-hat-acquires-permabit-assets-eases-barriers-cloud-portability-data-deduplication-technology