I knew that Red Hat makes a pretty good operating system. We use several machines that run Red Hat Linux Enterprise Edition 5.2 at work. But I had no idea what other products they had. Recently, I came across an article describing how Red Hat has partnered with Cisco to develop a product that helps to build and manage a private network. Cisco, as you probably already know, is the world leading manufacturing of network gear used to connect computers so that can communicate with each other.
The Forbes article I found by Dan Woods describes how the way that technology is used could offer the largest gains to businesses, instead of technology just being new. This new piece of software being offered by Red Hat in partnership with Cisco can provide computing resources based upon business need, not based upon physicality. So when a business need drives the demand for more computing resources in a particular business area, these resources can be easily allocated in a virtual network or “cloud”. The ease and flexibility to re-allocate these resources could very well be the new way to conduct business. As Dan Woods puts it “the immediate business value of all of this flexibility is usually gained through savings in costs and time” (2010).
References:
Woods, D. (2010, June 29). Unlocking the Value of the Cloud. Retrieved July 1, 2010, from http://www.forbes.com/2010/06/29/cisco-intel-ibm-technology-cio-network-cloud-computing.html
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Very interesting article and possibly a window to the future of business networking. I have some experience in some business networks and what Red Hat and Cisco are offering here really could be the new standard for how at least small businesses manage their technology. On a side note, I'm interested to see what this partnership of Red Hat and Cisco/Linksys will bring in the ways of consumer technology.
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