Red Hat

Red Hat, Inc. (formerly Red Hat Software, Inc.) is an American software company that provides open source software products to enterprises and is a subsidiary of IBM. Founded in 1993, Red Hat has its corporate headquarters in Raleigh, North Carolina, with other offices worldwide.

Red Hat has become associated to a large extent with its enterprise operating system Red Hat Enterprise Linux. With the acquisition of open-source enterprise middleware vendor JBoss, Red Hat also offers Red Hat Virtualization (RHV), an enterprise virtualization product. Red Hat provides storage, operating system platforms, middleware, applications, management products, support, training, and consulting services.

Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) is an open source virtualization technology for Linux® operating systems. With KVM, Linux can function as a hypervisor that runs multiple, isolated virtual machines (VMs). KVM was announced in 2006 and merged into the Linux kernel a year later. Many open source virtualization technologies, including Red Hat’s virtualization portfolio, depend on KVM as a component.

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