Dell gains another open source partner.
Red hat and Dell have announced an alliance that will see the systems giant offer the new midrange Red Hat Application Appliance.
Dell is to begin selling its PE2970 system aimed at midrange companies looking for low cost web and Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) applications. The Opteron-powered system will include JBoss Application Server and Hibernation Framework, have Red hat enterprise preinstalled, along with Apache and MySQL.
“We saw a gap in the market where there was an opportunity to provide more potential customers with the benefits that our middleware solutions can deliver to small and medium-sized businesses,” said Ronan Kirby, EMEA alliance manager at Red Hat.
“Partnering with Dell to ship the first plug-and-play open source Application Appliance has allowed us to offer more opportunities to businesses that previously found it prohibitive to deploy a middleware environment due to resource and budget restraints.”
Red Hat will provide 24/7 support for the new systems.
Dell has been a somewhat hesitant entrant to the Linux market and has partnered in the past with Ubuntu for notebooks and desktops. The new deal with Red Hat is part of a broadening of the companies offering to the increasingly strong enterprise Linux space.
“The Red Hat Application Appliance from Dell was developed with best-of-breed partners to provide a simple, easy-to-install product out of the box for our customers so they don’t waste unnecessary time and resources on maintenance and support,” commented Tara Woodhurst, EMEA marketing manager for Custom Factory Integration at Dell.
“The solution delivers excellent security, manageability and power-performance-per-watt and provides great value for those businesses looking to balance scalability and cost.”