We’re proud to announce the availability of a new version of Command Center, Red Hat’s integrated server and application monitoring service. Along with this release, we’ve also launched a new evaluation program that makes it easy to try out Command Center in your environment. Free of charge.

Red Hat Command Center is a Software as a Service offering that monitors the availability and performance of your IT infrastructure around the clock. Because it’s delivered as a service, Command Center is quick to deploy, and you only pay for what you use. Command Center monitors not only Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JBoss, but a wide range of IT infrastructure components spanning from network devices to servers to business applications and web sites. And it complements Red Hat’s other management services, including Red Hat Network Hosted, Red Hat Network Satellite and JBoss Operations Network.
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Just as we have worked closely together to provide best-in-class, end-to-end virtualization capabilities, Red Hat and Intel are excited to bring you the North American Value² seminar tour. The tour consists of half-day interactive seminars where IT decision makers can learn how to transform their enterprise with an open source-based approach to virtualization and service-oriented architecture. Each seminar is led by Red Hat executives including Scott Crenshaw, VP, Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Shaun Connolly, VP, Product Management, JBoss and features customers who have experienced success with Red Hat and JBoss solutions.
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We’re happy to share that for the second time this year, Mike Byrd, Red Hat’s director of government channel sales, has been recognized as a top channel leader. Earlier this year, Mike was named as one of GovernmentVAR Magazine’s 25 Public Sector Channel Leaders. Following suit, earlier this week, Washington Technology honored Mike with its prestigious Channel Leadership award. What makes Mike a leader in the government channel? According to Washington Technology:
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Today we’re excited to announce the availability of new training and consulting services including the first Linux virtualization course of its kind to be offered. Our new training and services will pave a smooth path for our customers to gain cost savings and flexibility.

RH184 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Virtualization is a new two-day training course providing the domain expertise needed to install, configure and manage virtual hosts on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. It’s the first course dedicated to virtualization technology in the Linux training market and will prepare customers to maximize performance, cost savings and operational efficiency enabled by Red Hat Enterprise Linux integrated virtualization capabilities. If you’re a Red Hat certified professional or experienced Linux system administrator planning a move to Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform, this course is a perfect fit for you. Our new course joins Red Hat’s growing list of more than 30 different training courses and will be available to system administrators with a base Unix or Linux knowledge. Like all Red Hat training courses, it’s taught exclusively on live production systems. Prerequisites for the course include a Red Hat Certified Technician (RHCT) certification or equivalent knowledge.
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Today LinuxWorld 2007 kicks off in San Francisco. We’re excited to be present at the conference through the booths of many of our partners as well as through the Fedora booth in the .org pavilion. Our participation this year focuses on solutions, products and technologies delivered by partners like Dell, AMD, IBM, etc. and through our open source community projects like Fedora and JBoss.org.
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