Resources for IT professionals
The Global Solutions Acceleration Program can help you quickly reap the benefits of new technologies from Red Hat and Intel as they come to market, including:
- Hardware-assisted virtualization
- Multi-core processors
- Red Hat® Global File System
- Newly certified solution stacks
- Grid computing
Efficient, effective proof-of-concept testing
Solutions Acceleration Program Centers of Excellence enable hands-on interactions with the latest Red Hat solutions running on the newest Intel® platforms. These facilities are stocked with servers, SAN units, networking, and more. Working directly with the latest platforms is proven to be one of the best ways to learn and accelerate timelines.
You can test recently ported RISC and other applications for compatibility with Intel platforms and Red Hat software. With ready access to the latest Intel platforms and Red Hat software, you can tune and optimize configurations before you deploy. Smoother deployments can lower IT costs and shorten the time it takes to receive the value from your work.
Throughout the world, each location offers the same services, but the hubs have the capacity to handle more customers and larger test cases.
Centers of Excellence
| North America | Europe | Asia-Pacific |
| Mountain View, CA Chicago, IL Raleigh, NC New York City, NY Dallas, TX McLean, VA |
Munich, DE Paris, FR Stockholm, SE Farnborough, UK |
Beijing, CN Sydney, AU Singapore, SG Tokyo, JP Mumbai, India |
A virtualization test environment, located in McLean, Virginia, is accessible from all 14 Centers of Excellence and can also be replicated at customer sites. Benchmarks, cookbooks, and performance guidance are available to help you harness the benefits of hardware-assisted server virtualization in Red Hat Enterprise Linux*.
Access to the Centers is simple:
- Remotely access the Centers from your own office
- Visit one of the hubs or satellite locations
Resources
As IT professionals from around the world evaluate Red Hat Enterprise Linux on Intel platforms in our Centers of Excellence, we document their findings so you can gain from their experience. These materials can help you evaluate alternative approaches prior to deploying solutions of your own.
