Market leader

Founded in 1993, Red Hat is the leader in Enterprise Linux products and the most famous open-source brand in the world.  Red Hat provides companies and governments worldwide with technology and services based on a business Open Source model.  As a Red Hat partner, Above IT supports the entire Red Hat product line.

The best approach

In the field of virtualization, Red Hat is part of the OVA, the Open Virtualization Alliance and in that context, Red Hat, together with IBM, HP and INTEL, is one of the 'Governing Members' of this organization.  Above IT fully endorses these principles and is one of more than 200 companies that are members of the OVA.

Professional Open Source products 

The Red Hat product line includes Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization and JBoss Enterprise Middleware.  Also developments in the field of cloud computing.  PaaS - Platform as a Service - in the form of OpenShift and the coming CloudForms are included.  With Red Hat virtualization based on KVM -Kernel Virtual Machine and thin client technology, VDI -Virtual Device Interface- can be used to secure existing investments in old desktop environments and to build them into the future. A wide range of partners such as Above IT is available in the Netherlands around Red Hat technology.  These partners have excellent support from Red Hat in addition to many management tools and services such as advice and 24x7 support. Standardization, collaboration, interchangeability, public access to knowledge and customer demand are paramount in the vision of Red Hat.  For example, the security environment of Red Hat, SELinux, was developed together with the NSA, the National Security Agency of the United States. 

SELinux security

At the Open Source Business Conference 2010 in Amsterdam, Werner Knöblich, Vice President of Red Hat EMEA, emphasized the success factors of Red Hat EnterpriseLinux and Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization. One of them is undoubtedly rapid innovation. Knöblich: "Red Hat Enterprise Linux is a recognized innovative product with enormous added value. That is not only the merit of the many Red Hat engineers but also stems from the open nature in which customers can also make important contributions to the development." 

One of the most successful contributions was undoubtedly from the NSA, the National Security Agency of the United States. The NSA was in great need of an operating system that met their high-security requirements and approached Red Hat to work with. The result of the joint effort was SELinux, the security system of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, which is fully integrated into the operating system and the underlying KVM virtualization.  

Why Red Hat?

Red Hat means value for money . Red Hat technology is delivered via a subscription. So you pay for what is most important to you, service and software that works. And Red Hat keeps this promise every day.

Transparency is the starting point . The Red Hat development process is open. The technology is open. There are no secrets, no surprises, no vendor lock-in, no technology lock-in.

Red Hat can help you do more with less . The Open Source stack of Red Hat includes operating systems, middleware and applications. Technology from data center to desktop. Red Hat helps companies to take full advantage of the possibilities and cost savings of Open Source - do more with the technology they already have.

Open source delivers better software faster . Red Hat's technology is built in collaboration with a fast-growing global community. The number of open source projects has increased from 16,000 in 2001 to 150,000 in 2007. And when it comes to Linux, Red Hat is the largest donor to this Open Source technology.

Red Hat's development model is different.  Red Hat works with the Open Source community on technology that ends up in Fedora and JBoss.org community projects. This technology then finds its way to Red Hat Enterprise Linux -RHEL- and JBoss Enterprise Middleware. And that in a process of quality control at an industrial level. The latest innovations and technology returns to the community.

Red Hat's aim is to keep knowledge openly available . Transparency, cooperation. The free exchange of knowledge and ideas. Open source is more than a development model, it is what Red Hat is.

Red Hat offers complete solutions . Red Hat Enterprise Linux is the basis together with JBoss Enterprise Middleware and the Red Hat virtualization technology. Plus the training and services to manage it all.

The power of a broad ecosystem . Red Hat works closely with partners such as SAP and many others on certified hardware and software that you can trust.

The possibilities of a global supplier . Red Hat has nearly 60 branches in 28 countries. Red Hat's service is there where and when you need it, delivered by open source, Linux and JBoss experts.

Just ask Red Hat's customers . The customers of Red Hat have ranked this company as the number one and most valuable enterprise software supplier for the four years running in the CIO Insight Magazine vendor value survey. Customers like to embrace their own success.