Transforming the Data Center
Cisco and Red Hat deliver superior unified data center technologies (1:23 min)

Red Hat, the world's leading provider of open source software, has joined forces with Cisco to offer a comprehensive and versatile enterprise computing solution.
Customers benefit from the powerful allies' combined vision and capabilities for designing and implementing next-generation data centers. Cisco and Red Hat deliver a standards-based, cohesive, unified environment that easily scales to meet the needs of the business while reducing total cost of ownership (TCO).
The partnership of these two companies brings you:
- Scalable human and physical resource efficiency
- Deployment, increased security, and scalability of high-performance enterprise applications to meet business needs
- Support for large, economical memory capacity for the most demanding enterprise applications
- An infrastructure that reduces TCO, speeds application delivery, and improves application availability and performance
Cisco Unified Computing System and Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) software deliver hardware-accelerated virtual I/O.
Your business gets cost-effective high availability and scalability propelled by the momentum of the open source community.
At-A-Glance
- Hardware-Accelerated Open Source Virtualization
Cisco Unified Computing System and Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Software.
Virtualization Solution Overview
Cisco and Red Hat technologies created an on-demand service to deliver peer-to-peer HD video over the Internet. (PDF - 963 KB)
Learn MoreThe combination of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and the Cisco Unified Computing System offers organizations a long-term platform for deploying powerful computing infrastructures.
You'll get significant price and performance benefits from Red Hat Enterprise Linux compared to competing software platforms
At-A-Glance
- Hardware-Accelerated Open Source Virtualization
Cisco Unified Computing System and Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Software. - Red Hat and Cisco Computing Solution
Cisco and Red Hat bring customers next-generation computing-beyond RISC, beyond UNIX, beyond yesterday's solution. (PDF - 201 KB)
Brochures
- Next-Generation Enterprise Computing From Red Hat and Cisco
Red Hat and Cisco combine their unique capabilities to usher in a new model for enterprise computing.
Overview
- Unified Computing System Partner Ecosystem Video-Red Hat
(Video - 3:29 min)
Unified Computing System Partner Ecosystem Video-Red Hat
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The certification of Cisco Unified Computing System on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) provides customers enormous flexibility to deploy applications that run on RHEL and RHEV.