For the past decade, HP and Red Hat have partnered to provide our customers with powerful integrated solutions that deliver technical benefits of a robust UNIX®-like operating system and economic benefits of open source software with the confidence that comes from buying systems, software, and services from HP.

• Robust Platforms: Servers with outstanding performance, reliability, availability, and scalability -- tested and certified with RHEL by HP
• Flexible Virtualization: RHEL 5 AP includes server virtualization (unlimited guests) and storage virtualization (GFS, ClusterSuite) at no additional cost.
• Unified Management: HP ICE-LX suite, which includes iLO Advanced Pack, Power Management, Virtual Machine Management, and version control for firmware and HP Support Pack, integrates with Red Hat Network to deliver unified system management for RHEL on HP servers.
• Military-grade Security: RHEL 5 meets high-security requirements with core features like SELinux and ExecShield, and is certified on HP systems at the highest level of Common Criteria evaluation (EAL4+ LSPP)

• RHEL AP + HP Insight Control for Linux (IC-Linux) Software Bundles now available!
  • For enterprise & mid-market customers who want robust integrated management of their RHEL servers from a Linux-hosted management station, HP offers RHEL AP bundled with IC-Linux plus 9x5 & 24x7 HP support at an attractive promotional discount
• RHEL-for-VMware
• RHEL-for-VMware pricing allows customers to get the same value at a lower cost.
• HP offers RHEL-for-VMware integrated with HP Support, providing a single source of support for the OS, hypervisor and hardware.
• Pay for 1 RHEL-for-VMware subscription and get up to 10 entitlements
• 1RHEL-for-VMware subscription is priced 1.7 x standard RHEL equivalent
• Run up to 10 guests on a physical server
• Pool subscriptions across physical servers for greater flexibility

• One product, One solution – HP offers single part numbers for Linux subscription and support for your ProLiant servers.
• Single point of support accountability – One stop shop support for your combined ProLiant server and Linux operating system solution.
• Software Technical Support Excellence – HP solves ~99% of calls before needing to engage a Linux vendor and has expertise in debugging hardware, software driver issues, as well as Linux OS support; 6500 service professionals.
• Path to proactive support – In addition to installation and start-up services, HP offers HP Proactive Essentials, HP Proactive 24 service, HP Critical Service and Integrated hardware/software support.
• Subscription management – HP offers Co-terminus subscriptions that can be pro-rated to expire at the same time as previously purchased subscriptions.
• Renewal Process – HP offers proactive assistance in ensuring you have up to date subscriptions and support.
• Tailored Purchase Options – HP offers a broad and affordable range of version-less subscription options including subscription only or the ability to add 9x5, 24x7 or incident based support.
• Customization, configuration and integration – HP Factory Express is a robust portfolio of flexible, pre-priced, pre-installed, configured, customized and integrated factory solutions and deployment services-supporting HP ProLiant servers with Linux.
• High Performance computing – HP provides subscriptions specifically tailored for HPC environments, and priced accordingly.
• Financing – HP helps you acquire Linux solutions cost-effectively, and manage that solution throughout its lifecycle.

• Red Hat Network is an easy-to-use systems management platform for your Linux infrastructure. It is built on open standards and uses a web-based graphical interface. Its services are provided through modules that allow you to add enhanced management capabilities.

• Simply stated, when you purchase a subscription from HP, you are entitled to download any version of the Red Hat operating system and any updates that HP supports. This eliminates that need for HP to provide update CD's. We encourage our customers to review our support matrix for versions of Red Hat's operating systems that HP supports - http://www.hp.com/go/rhelcert.
  
• Red Hat Network provides simple tools to efficiently manage the life cycle of systems on your network, including provisioning new systems, managing their updates and configuration changes, monitoring system performance, and eventually re-deploying the systems for a new purpose.

• Your business benefits from increased productivity, reduced system life cycle costs, greater administration consistency, and enhanced security. Red Hat Network lowers deployment, configuration, and management costs and it enhances security via a single centralized tool, secure connection policies for remote administration, and secure content.
  
  Visit the Red Hat Network for more information.

Introducing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4

Are you looking for:

• Reduced server sprawl and lower costs for power and space
• Better scalability to maximize server consolidation
• Ways to migrate legacy applications to newer energy-efficient servers with great performance

In September 2009, Red Hat delivered Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.4, the 4th update in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 release family. One of the new features of RHEL 5.4 is the commercial release of the KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) virtualization technology. KVM virtualization is integrated into the Linux kernel and takes advantage of the standard operating system characteristics such as stability, security, scalability and hardware and software support already available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. Designed to leverage the latest advances in x86 virtualization support from Intel and AMD, KVM technology improves performance by reducing the overall overhead of virtualization.

Combined with the high performance and energy efficiency of the HP ProLiant G6 servers, Red Hat Enterprise Linux KVM virtualization enables customers to significantly cut costs through the consolidation of multiple physical servers onto a single server resulting in savings for power, space, and data center operations.

For more information on the new features of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 visit this website.

HP Installation and Startup for Linux takes the pressure off your people and helps shorten your time-to-benefits. Available in two versions, this HP Care Pack service encompasses all deployment activities necessary to get you up-and-running fast.

• Package 1, a fixed-price, fixed-content service, provides for operating system and TCP/IP network protocol installation and integration; network interface card configuration; printer queue setup; Remote Insight Lights-Out (RILO) or Management Processor board configuration; installation of HP Insight Management Agent software for servers; initiation of a one-time tape backup; and basic usage orientation.
• Package 2, a custom-quoted service, may include any or all Package 1 deliverables - plus more complex activities such as "send mail" configuration, DNS configuration of network applications, hard drive partitioning, and NFS client and server installation.

NOTE: For additional information on these services please visit the following web site: http://www.hp.com/go/linuxservices

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ProLiant, BladeSystem Servers
  http://www.hp.com/go/proliantrhel
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ProLiant, BladeSystem & Integrity Servers - How to Buy
  http://www.hp.com/buy/rhel
• HP's Red Hat Partnership
  http://www.hp.com/go/redhat
• HP & Open Source
  www.hp.com/go/linux

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