Red Hat Teams Up With Amazon To Broaden Deployment Of Linux Apps
Red Hat announced a partnership with Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN).com Wednesday to offer its latest Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.1 as a beta service through Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud. The online Amazon service supplies an expandable, on-call computer resources to users who seek to scale up their applications without building out their data center.
Red Hat's partnership with Amazon was just one aspect of a multi-pronged initiative, dubbed Linux Automation.
By making it easier to deploy Linux applications, Red Hat anticipates it will have Enterprise Linux "powering over one-half of the world's [new] servers by 2015" and doubling its current market share, said Scott Crenshaw, Red Hat's VP of Enterprise Linux business, during a teleconference Wednesday.