Red Hat releases Enterprise MRG beta

 

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By Maggie Holland

Posted on 5 Dec 2007 at 15:37

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

Red Hat says 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.

While some may scoff at such a huge claim, Red Hat says the figure may actually prove to be conservative as the platform improves through beta.

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," says Scott Crenshaw, vice president of the infrastructure business unit at Red Hat.

"It can take any application, deploy it anywhere and at any time based on the needs of the business. 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 performa better. For example, in the financial services industry this enables you to do trades much faster which is a significant competitive advantage," he said.

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.