Red Hat has been talking about its new virtualization strategy for much of 2009. Today, the Linux vendor is making good on that talk with the release of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Servers, which includes a standalone hypervisor (RHEF-H) as well as a management platform (RHEV-M).

Linux vendor Red Hat (NYSE:RHT) today announced the beta availability of its next virtualization platform -- Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) 2.2.

This article talks about the author initial reaction on Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) and tries to explain it in an honest and simple way based on his testing and what he heard about the product roadmap. Also explains the controversial inclusion of Microsoft technology inside RHEV

Linux specialist Red Hat has announced the release of the first beta for version 2.2 of its Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization product, adding several new capabilities

Joel Sweatte, director of IT at East Carolina University's College of Technology and Computer Science, recently asked the vendor of an engineering analysis application about its support for VMware's virtualization software. The company told him that it didn't have a virtualization support policy and that he should call back if the application didn't work.

Open source enterprise software company Red Hat has updated its virtualization platform, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (REV), to include support for desktop virtualization, the company announced Monday.

CentOS is based on Red Hat's Enterprise Linux source packages and shares in Red Hat Enterprise Linux's recent virtualization, app dev, security and storage improvements. Many of the enhancements in CentOS 5.3 come in the area of virtualization, targeted largely at scalability on large host machines.

Red Hat execs explain why Linux vendor's Linux virtualization management solution runs only on Microsoft's rival OS. Andy Cathrow, product marketing manager for Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, told InternetNews.com. "We spent a lot of time talking to customers to see what their view was on this and I think with the possible exception of Red Hat, everyone has some Windows in their datacenter."

With Wednesday's beta release of its flagship operating system, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), Red Hat has added a number of new capabilities that should help data centers better support virtualization and cloud computing.