Red Hat Reports Updates to Enterprise Linux Management Solutions

Red Hat announced the availability of Red Hat Network Satellite 5.3, the latest version of Red Hat's on-premises systems management solution that provides software updates, configuration management, provisioning and monitoring across both physical and virtual Red Hat Enterprise Linux servers.

Red Hat Network Satellite 5.3 is globally available immediately and is automatically delivered to customers with a Red Hat Network Satellite subscription. The availability of Red Hat Network Satellite 5.3 marks the first release based off of the open source project Spacewalk, announced in June 2008.

"The growing enterprise role for Linux-based servers and applications brings an increasingly requirement for Linux system management. Linux is increasingly subject to the same system management requirements as other operating environments," said Tim Grieser, program VP, Enterprise System Management Software at IDC. "Red Hat Network Satellite customers we spoke with indicate that use of the product saves time for managing Red Hat Enterprise Linux environments, reduces downtime and allows more servers to be managed with existing staff."

Virtualization is a requirement in many IT environments, and Red Hat said with its Network Satellite, a systems administrator only needs one console to update, provision and monitor both their physical and virtual Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems. Red Hat Network Satellite includes virtual platform management capabilities that allow customers to create and entitle Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems with the ability to install the same systems profiles physically and virtually in a repeatable, centrally managed way. Red Hat Network Satellite 5.3 supports both KVM and Xen virtualization technologies.

"Red Hat is committed to meeting the needs of our customers. With Satellite's ability to further enable expanded productivity and cost reduction for customers managing Red Hat Enterprise Linux environments, we continue to deliver the technologies and corresponding benefits that our customers have demanded," said Katrinka McCallum, VP, Management Solutions at Red Hat. "We will now be able to deliver even greater systems management value to Red Hat customers with the ability to incorporate open source management technologies in this release of our product."

Red Hat is an open source solutions provider.

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