Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
The world's leading open source application platform

• Applications - Thousands of certified ISV applications
• Deployment - Including standalone or virtual servers, cloud computing, or software appliances
• Hardware - Wide range of platforms from the world's leading hardware vendors

This gives IT departments unprecedented levels of operational flexibility. And it gives ISVs unprecedented market reach when delivering applications. Certify once, deploy anywhere. All while providing world-class performance, security, and stability. And unbeatable value.

This is why Red Hat is the platform of choice.

Virtual Training

Key Reason: Customer Satisfaction for all Students

• All class rosters and books are shipped on Friday
• A student enrolled late will not be on the roster and will not receive a book until later in the week (as late as Wednesday)
• With a late enrollment, classes usually start late due to instructor working to get student enrolled which can lead to student dissatisfaction.
• Typically if a late student fails their exam they often blame the late delivery of the book as the root cause for exam failure and want a free re-take.
• A great portion of our uncollected is due to credit cards, provided by last minute enrollments, that are declined or have issues. Once the student has taken the class, collecting bad debt is much more difficult
• We are typically receiving 10-15 of these requests on any given Monday or Friday.
  This presents a challenge for the Red Hat Operations Team and severly delays other work. Aditionally, it becomes expensive due to expidited shipping fees, etc...

Exam Order Deadline: 2 business days prior to the start of the exam

• Key Reason: Customer satisfaction for all exam takers

All open enrollment orders placed within 30 days prior to the start of the class must be placed via Credit Card

• Red Hat finance guideline

Open enrollment check orders (outside 30 days)

• Invoices will be sent by 1Staff Training to the partner within 24 hours after the order is placed (Do not send a check payment without an invoice)
• Invoices must be paid in full by the due date or the order will be cancelled.
• Re-registration for an order canceled for non-payment the due date must be paid for by credit card.

Eliminate barriers to adoption

Eliminate economic constraints

• Lower capital expense and operational expense
• Elimination of vendor lock-in - puts the customer in control.
• Proven superior product quality - better security, higher performance
• Technology leadership - driven by industry-wide collaboration
• Flexibility - deploy what you need, when you need, how you need it

Broadest open source ecosystem

Applications: Certify once-deploy anywhere

Red Hat Enterprise Linux provides a standardized environment for your applications so they can be deployed however your business requires. And Red Hat application partners need only certify their applications once.

With thousands of applications certified to run on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, you can run the application you need, where you need it, today.

Choose your preferred way to deploy

Red Hat Enterprise Linux is the most flexible operating system environment available. Enterprise Linux solutions are ideal for all of these deployment types - using the same applications. Deploy whichever environment best suits your business:

• Standalone or "bare metal" systems
  This is the most common environment for servers today. Red Hat Enterprise Linux scales from desktop and laptop systems, to small servers, to the largest SMP servers and to mainframes. And, of course, it is ideal for blade and rack environments - especially today's popular 4-CPU quad-core systems.
  

• Virtualized
  Virtualized systems, which offer improved resource management and operational flexibility through features such as live migration, dynamic resource allocation, high availability, and clustering. Enterprise Linux provides the industry’s highest performance, complete virtualization capability, for no additional charge.

  Virtualization is the fastest growing method of deployment - up to 15% of all servers are expected to be virtualized in the next five years. Virtualization lets you maximize your resources and increase deployment flexibility and responsiveness.
  

• Software as a Service
  Software-as-a-Service, or cloud computing deployments, allows customers to extend their compute resources outside the walls of the data center - providing an on-demand infrastructure that can scale to up or down to meet business requirements. Red Hat Enterprise Linux is available as a certified and supported platform deployed on Amazon’s Elastic Computing Cloud - EC2.
  

• Appliances
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux-based appliances allow ISVs to distribute applications pre-packaged as complete solutions, including the operating system, simplifying deployment, management, and maintenance. Red Hat's appliance strategy covers a wide range of deployment opportunities, including:

  • Fully featured application stacks available through Red Hat Exchange
  • Lightweight portable media solutions - self-contained, easily provisioned tokens such as USB keys and live CDs providing a portable, low-cost application environment.
    

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 server

Advanced technologies are now available to everyone. Better availability. Flexibility. Improved security and performance.

Advanced Platform eliminates the cost and complexity of enterprise-class virtualization, high availability, and storage management software. These are included in the platform. Fully integrated and supported. Simple and afforable.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux is available in two variants for servers. A base Red Hat Enterprise Linux server is designed for small deployments while Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform is designed for mainstream customers and provides the most cost-effective, flexible, and scalable environment. Both versions are based on common core technology. Both include a comprehensive suite of open source server applications and virtualization capabilities.

A huge ecosystem of hardware and software partners, offering both services and certified solutions, makes Red Hat the industry leader. This powerful combination provides:

• Thousands of certified applications from Independent Software Vendors (ISVs)
• Hundreds of certified hardware systems and peripherals from leading OEM vendors, spanning multiple processor architectures
• A range of partner programs
• Comprehensive service offerings, up to 24x7 support with 1-hour response, available from Red Hat and selected ISV/OEM partners
• Excellent performance, security, scalability, and availability, with audited industry benchmarks
• Open source technologies rigorously tested and matured through the Red Hat sponsored Fedora project
• With each major version, stable application interfaces and 7 years of product support
• A homogeneous client/server product family that enables seamless inter-operation of systems from the laptop to the data-center to the mainframe. Plus, excellent interoperability with existing Unix and Microsoft® Windows® deployments

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Desktop

The cost of keeping proprietary desktops secure is rising. Then there's the cost to deploy. And update. Not to mention administrative costs.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Desktop is an attractive and highly productive alternative for client systems like desktop and laptop computers. An environment that sets the standard for client operating systems in the focused areas of security and management.

Red Hat lowers acquisition and ongoing annual deployment costs, leaving:

• more money for new hardware and software projects to provide new services
• more redeployable personnel to work on high value-added tasks that deliver a competitive advantage to the company

DESKTOP VARIANTS

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop
  A general purpose client solution suitable for desktop and laptop systems, offering a comprehensive suite of personal productivity applications such as OpenOffice, Firefox browser, and Evolution email client. Supports systems with up to 1 socket at 4GB of memory.

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop with Multi-OS option
  Provides virtualization capabilities, with the ability to host multiple guest operating environments.

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop with Workstation option
  Provides support for larger client systems and an extended software stack. Ideal for high end desktop applications, technical workstations in design, engineering, CAD/CAM, or software development, etc. Includes the full Red Hat Enterprise Linux software development stack and the complete set of server applications for client system use-cases like testing, administration, software development, etc.

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop with Workstation and Multi-OS options
  Combines all desktop features and options into a single product.

DESKTOP FEATURES

Security

Linux has a reputation for being a very secure operating system. Red Hat has extended Linux's security advantage by developing a layered defense scheme for keeping desktops secure.

Featuring:

• more secure applications

• protection against commonly exploited security flaws like e.g. buffer overflows integrated in the standard software stack

• highest-grade protection via the SELinux security feature. Protects system services from attacks, full transparency and is easy to extend and adopt.

• smartcard authentication support

Management

Red Hat provides a simple, rapidly-deployable tool that allows a systems administrator to manage a complex, geographically dispersed desktop deployment from a single web-based console.

Red Hat Network allows a system administrator to remotely update, group, deploy, and provision desktop systems. Whether it's 10 or 10,000 desktop systems, the system administration effort is the same. This frees up some of your desktop personnel to be redeployed on other projects.

Interoperability

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Desktop includes the most popular desktop applications for no additional charge. Fully-featured and with intuitive interfaces, these applications make your users productive with little need for retraining.

And all of these applications are interoperable with their Microsoft counterparts. This means you can create, view, and edit Microsoft-formatted documents or email and leverage the investments you have already made.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Desktop was designed to create a user experience where everything "just works". This involves major improvements to everything, from OpenOffice and Firefox to networking, laptop support, peripheral support, graphics, and multimedia. All of this ensures that your users are more productive with minimal need for retraining.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, released in March 2007, contains more than 1200 components with development spanning over a two year period, so there are a huge number of new features covering a broad range of functionality. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 provides CIOs and IT managers with the means to reduce costs while improving operational flexibility throughout their computing infrastructure.

The following list provides a brief summary of the more important enhancements. For additional details, see the server and desktop product sections above.

• Virtualization is provided in all Server products and is optionally available for Client products
• Storage and extended server virtualization are provided with Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform
• Red Hat Network supports virtualized guest operating systems
• virt-manager, libvirt/virsh management tools

Kernel and Performance

• Based on the Linux 2.6.18 kernel
• Support for multi-core processors
• Broad range of new hardware support
• Updated crash dump capability provided by Kexec/Kdump
• Support for Intel Network Accelerator Technology (IOAT)
• Numerous enhancements for large SMP systems
• Enhanced pipe buffering
• IPv4/IPv6 fragmentation offload and buffer management
• Dynamically switchable per-queue I/O schedulers
• Kernel buffer splice capability for improved I/O buffer operations

Packaging

Transition of previous Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS, ES, WS and Red Hat Desktop offerings with simplified server and client products.

Servers:

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform - formerly known as Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux - formerly known as Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES

Desktops:

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop - formerly known as Red Hat Desktop
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop with Workstation option - formerly known as Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Security

• SELinux enhancements include Multi-Level Security and targeted policies for all services
• SEtroubleshooter GUI simplifies SELinux management
• Integrated directory and security capabilities
• IPSEC enhancements improve security and performance
• ExecShield enhancements, such as a call frame Canary word, strengthen hacker defenses
• New Audit features provide powerful new search/reporting and real-time monitoring

Networking & Interoperability

• Network storage enhancements include Autofs, FS-Cache, and iSCSI support
• IPv6 support and conformance enhancements
• Improved Microsoft ® file/print and Active Directory integration

• Desktop enhancements include updated configuration tools, applications, and laptop support
• Foundational Stateless Linux features (X autoconfigure, NetworkManager, etc.)
• Improved ACPI support with features such as suspend to disk
• Smart card login - with PKI/Kerberos authentication
• Integrated multimedia support
• Enhanced plug and play hardware support (cameras, printers, scanners, etc.)
• Network Manager provides automatic wired and wireless network configuration
• Enhanced graphics using AIGLX/Compiz (with fading, transparency, etc.)

• Enhanced application development tools including SystemTap profiler and Frysk debugger
• GCC 4.1 and glibc 2.5 toolchain

• Support for root device multipath IO (MPIO) improves availability
• Single system/guest version of Red Hat Global File System included in the base server product
• Block device data encryption support

• Numerous installer improvements make system configuration simpler
• Yum/Pup-based updater for Red Hat Network
• Conga cluster and storage management (with Advanced Platform)