Red Hat launches Enterprise MRG beta

Red Hat this week released the beta version of its Enterprise MRG (messaging, real time, grid) platform.

Red Hat said the new platform will help businesses realise the cost and performance benefits they crave, while enabling applications to communicate up to 100 times faster than proprietary software allows.

A final version of the solution, which forms part of the Linux automation strategy announced by Red Hat last month, will be made generally available in the first half of next year.

"Linux automation enables [organisations] to get more efficiency out of their IT and extends the open source platform to drive the next wave of cost savings. It can take any application, deploy it anywhere and at any time based on the needs of the business," said Scott Crenshaw, vice president of the infrastructure business unit at Red Hat.

"A core part of the IT infrastructure is the ability for applications to communicate with one another. By enabling this to happen faster you enable the infrastructure to performance better. For example, in the financial services industry this enables you to do trades much faster which is a significant competitive advantage," he said.

"Every chief information officer (CIO) is being asked to deliver an infrastructure that meets service level agreements (SLAs) and reduce costs by not over-buying based on hypothetical demand and, at the core, the only way to do this is to have predictable response times... So that was the genesis of the real time component of Red Hat MRG."

Enterprise MRG makes use of the Advanced Messaging Queuing Protocol (AMQP) standard and low transaction latency to aid predictability, in addition to offering users grid-like capabilities thanks to a deal with the University of Wisconsin's high throughput computing (HTC) Condor project.

"This is a great example of open source innovation. A lot of the time, people look at open source as a follower - sometimes a fast follower - of proprietary software but here we have an innovative model between Red Hat, customers and academia," concluded Crenshaw.

Pricing has yet to be confirmed but is likely to be on a per server basis.

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