Transitive
Corporation, a provider of cross-platform virtualisation software
has made its QuickTransit enterprise product line available for
purchase from the Red Hat Exchange (RHX) online service.
Working in
collaboration with partners such as Transitive, applications
available via RHX are validated to run on Red Hat Enterprise Linux,
delivered through Red Hat Network, and backed by Red Hat as the
single point of contact for support.
The virtualisation
supplier says that
the global drive for
increased IT efficiency and has led most enterprise IT managers
to define a proactive datacentre consolidation strategy that
requires decommissioning of outdated hardware (such as older
SPARC-based servers) and the migration of legacy workloads to more
energy-efficient, industry-standard platforms.
Transitive claims
its QuickTransit enterprise product line makes such transitions
faster and easier, by providing support for the most common
workload migration paths selected by enterprise customers, and many
of those customers plan to consolidate their IT infrastructure on
industry-standard servers running the RHEL 5 operating system.
To reflect what it
feels are the most common customer deployment scenarios, Transitive
offers three configurations of its QuickTransit enterprise product
line: QuickTransit Workstation is intended for use on desktop and
laptop PCs; QuickTransit Server is primarily used for large-scale
datacentre consolidation projects; and QuickTransit Legacy is a
specialised version intended for application re-hosting from
extremely old legacy hardware running operating system versions
that are no longer supported.