• Scalability and performance on the latest hardware and hypervisors
• Efficiency and resource management designed to minimize and manage your datacenter power requirements
• Consistency across physical, virtual, and cloud to make your applications flexible

As we all know Red Hat Enterprise Linux has been available for almost a decade and provides an alternative to proprietary operating systems.

Today customers all over the world rely on Red Hat Enterprise Linux for their most mission-critical workloads.

“For nearly eight years, Red Hat Enterprise Linux has delivered outstanding value and performance for our enterprise IT infrastructure,” said Gordon Penfold, chief technology officer at British Airways. “We plan to migrate our mission-critical systems to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and anticipate that it will provide us with the flexibility to deploy our applications to fit our specific business needs, crossing bare metal, virtualized and cloud deployments.”

“Building on our strategic use of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, scaling from physical to virtual and cloud environments, we have been an active participant in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 beta program,” said Motti Finkelstein, Managing Director at Citi. “The core capabilities of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, including improvements in security, performance and power management, will better enable us to scale to the largest systems on the market today while providing continued flexibility and great efficiency.”

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 is designed to be as “future proof” as possible, using capabilities of system hardware from partners such as AMD, Cisco, Dell, Fujitsu, Hitachi, Intel and NEC. Linux 6 is also designed to be able have tomorrow’s technologies incorporated into the system as they develop.

AMD has revealed details of two of its next generation x86 processor cores, codenamed Bulldozer and Bobcat.

The newly revealed two core designs are meant for high end PCs and servers, and low power notebooks and small form factor PCs respectively, and have been created from the ground up, according to AMD, to meet the requirements of specific form factors and usage models.

The Bulldozer core is  built on 32nm technology, which includes advanced power management features, and has been designed to balance dedicated and shared compute resources, for highly compact, high core count processor designs, along with new x86 instruction support (SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, and XOP including 4-operand FMAC).

The newly revealed Bobcat core is designed specifically for small mobile devices, and is capable of providing 90% of the performance of mainstream PC performance in half the area of silicon, according to AMD. The core power gating and microarchitecture are optimized for low power, enabling sub-one watt operation, along with out-of-order instruction execution for higher performance.

“In my opinion, Bulldozer and Bobcat are not only two of the greatest technical achievements in AMD’s rich history, but two of the most important for the industry as well,” said Chekib Akrout, senior vice president and general manager, AMD Technology Development