Red Hat Goes To War Against VMware

Red Hat put the full cavalcade of its new cloud widgetry on the market

Wednesday priced at roughly a third what it would cost to use VMware, the

private cloud rival Red Hat is out to unseat.

Red Hat announced the widgetry last month but it wasn’t quite ready for

general availability then so it withheld pricing until now.

First comes the Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform, which

combines Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (good ole RHEL) with the

company’s newfangled Grizzly-based OpenStack distribution in a single

product aimed at advanced cloud users.

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