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hypervisors, containers and traditional
computing infrastructure.
Partner ecosystem expansion
Red Hat Virtualization 4.2 expands on
its robust partner ecosystem, providing
additional IT management and
configuration options for customers,
including new integration capabilities
driven by NVIDIA and Cisco. Red Hat
Virtualization 4.2 offers Cisco ACI
integration, which delivers benefits in
network and segmentation automation. Red
Hat Virtualization 4.2 is now also supported
with NVIDIA virtual GPU (vGPU), enabling
customers to deliver enhanced performance
to remote users while helping to maximize
physical infrastructure utilisation.
Availability
Red Hat Virtualization 4.2 is available as
a standalone offering, as an integrated
offering with Red Hat Enterprise Linux and
as part of Red Hat Cloud Suite or Red Hat
Virtualization Suite. Existing subscribers
www.intelligentcio.com
can upgrade to Red Hat Virtualization
4.2 through the Red Hat Customer Portal.
“The cost and complexity of today’s IT
environment, coupled with the growing
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number of cloud native enterprise
application environments, continues to be a
challenge for many organisations,” said Gary
Chen, Research Manager, Software Defined
Compute, IDC.
“For organisations to find success in this
market, they need a virtualisation solution
that can deliver a robust set of services for
both traditional and new applications while
delivering more operational efficiency.”
Anne Hecht, Senior Director, NVIDIA Virtual
GPU Product Marketing, NVIDIA, added:
“As virtual client computing continues to
grow, forward-thinking customers can now
take advantage of Red Hat Virtualization
with the increased flexibility and efficiency
that GPU-accelerated VDI provides.
“NVIDIA Quadro Virtual Data Center
Software delivers the enhanced
performance for professional engineering
and design applications and NVIDIA GRID
virtual PC enables a native-like experience
for common office workloads, which are
becoming more graphics-intensive.” n
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