Over the last year, Red Hat has sought to reach new potential users.
In a surprise move, Red Hat decided to change its target in the United States, extending its offering to colleges, universities, academic institutions and all the research bodies that struggle every day to survive amid bureaucracy and reduced budgets.
While collaborating with Boston University, Red Hat realised how fundamental academic organisations and research institutes are to the Open Source community, and how actively they help to promote open innovation and to train the next generation of IT leaders.
The company therefore decided to help scientists, researchers, educators and other academic collaborators to bring about a new turning point in various sectors, from healthcare to epidemiology, from climate change to renewable energy.
What is Linux?
Linux is an Open Source operating system that directly manages a system’s hardware and resources, such as CPU, memory and storage.
It is the intermediary between applications and hardware, and it establishes all the necessary connections between the various software components and the physical resources that carry out the operation.
In fact, it can be compared to a car’s engine.
An engine can run on its own, but it only becomes a working car when it is connected to the transmission, the axles and the wheels.
If the engine does not work properly, the same goes for the rest of the car.
What is Red Hat Enterprise Linux?
Red Hat Enterprise Linux is the Linux operating system preferred by large companies, certified for hundreds of clouds and by thousands of vendors.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux offers a consistent foundation for various types of environments and the tools needed to deploy services and workloads faster for any application.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux reduces deployment complexity and costs, accelerating time to value for critical workloads and enabling development and operations teams to focus on innovation initiatives in any environment through collaboration.
Red Hat subscriptions for the academic market brief
“With Red Hat solutions, our end users can tell us what they need, and we have the platforms and technology to deliver exactly the right service”.
Colleges, universities and academic institutions face unique challenges.
Red Hat’s academic offerings were created to help educational institutions build their own IT infrastructure while avoiding vendor lock-in, reducing costs and creating scalable, sustainable IT environments.
Red Hat products and solutions are ready to help higher education institutions:
- Run enterprise applications, such as learning management and student information systems, on an open and secure foundation.
- Rapidly modernise legacy teaching and operational applications with developer toolkits and container platforms.
- Build public, private and hybrid clouds.
- Achieve unified management of traditional and virtualised environments and cloud-based infrastructure.
- Improve interoperability with other technology vendors.
Red Hat provides various software, products and services to educational institutions interested in using commercially supported Open Source technologies.
