Everything RHEL: News, guidance and support

TABLE OF CONTENTS

I. RHEL for real-time and mission-critical computing
Over the past year, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) has made serious strides in real-time computing. Now, with new offerings like Red Hat MRG, which offers 100-fold increases in computing speed while also providing greater reliability and system stability, RHEL is poised to become the standard-bearer in terms of real-time performance computing. This section explores RHEL's advances in real-time computing.

I. RHEL for real-time and mission-critical computing

Real-time computing gets a jolt with Red Hat MRG
At Red Hat's annual Red Hat Summit the company announced its latest offering for real-time conputing: Red Hat MRG, comprising separate subscriptions that add advanced messaging, real-time computing and grid computing to RHEL 5.

RHEL 5.1 breaks transaction speed record
With its advances in performance and transaction speed -- RHEL recently surpassed all other operating systems in transaction speed and accuracy -- RHEL has made serious inroads in the financial services sector. This interview discusses why Red Hat Linux has the greatest potential for high-volume, real-time and mission-critical industries like financial services.

RHEL gains traction at Chicago Mercantile Exchange
The Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) needed an operating system resilient enough to keep up with the volume of email, trades and other data associated with stock trading. CME took a gamble and migrated from Sun Solaris to Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). Now, five years later, the migration has paid off in terms of reduced cost and transaction time. But the migration was hardly free of roadblocks.

Firm dumps MySQL on Red Hat for Oracle Database on Oracle Linux
As its industry shifts toward fee-for-service business models, one pharmaceutical technology consulting firm chose to migrate from MySQL on RHEL to Oracle Database on Oracle Enterprise Linux to accommodate a Software as a Service offering.

II. The experts on RHEL

ipcrm in RHEL 4
Bernard Golden identifies and addresses the potential problem when the ipcrm command acts dysfunctionally.

III. RHEL and security

RHEL 5 trots out new security offerings
At Red Hat Summit 2008, the company announced Red Hat Enterprise Identity, Policy and Audit (IPA), designed to manage identity, policy and auditing of physical and virtual machines, and to meet compliance regulations and reduce security risks.