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On the leading edge of both technological innovation and business-friendly deployment and support models, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 anticipates shifts in the IT landscape that blurs the lines between physical, virtual, and cloud computing. Optimized for the modern datacenter environment with ubiquitous networking, pervasive virtualization, comprehensive security, and advances in multi-core hardware, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 will help organizations flexibly make a seamless transition to their next-generation datacenter models.

Full detailed list of the features and benefits

Server Features and Benefits

Features Benefits
Application & infrastructure efficiency, scalability, and reliability

Optimized on highly scalable, multi-core systems, Red Hat Enterprise Linux manages the underlying system complexity and reduces data bottlenecks so applications can perform their best.

Red Hat works closely with our hardware partners and industry standard groups to enable the latest hardware functionality as it becomes available. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 provides operating system control for platforms to have enhanced system power management, and end-to-end data integrity.
Unprecedented resource management

Administrators and application developers can set policies by process, applications, and even guests to match network, memory, and cpu usage to business needs and service-level agreements.
Integral security

Red Hat Enterprise Linux provides a complete security stack from network firewall control to secure containers for application isolation that has made Red Hat Enterprise Linux one of the most certified operating systems available.

As a host, a guest, or in the cloud, applications can be secured with a common and comprehensive suite of technologies and policies - backed by Red Hat's global Security Response Team.

Stable application development and production platform

Develop and deploy with confidence knowing that all the packages shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux are supported and maintained. In addition to the LAMP stack, the application development portfolio includes scripting languages such as PHP, the TurboGears2 framework, the Eclipse IDE, and debugging/tuning tools. Not only is deployment easy, but architects can use advanced caching technologies to scale as needed without additional complexity.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux provides comprehensive application support across cloud services, middleware, web applications, and enterprise applications.
Integrated virtualization

Red Hat Enterprise Linux is designed to be both a superior virtualization host and guest on any of the major hypervisors. With virtualization incorporated into the kernel, the complete breadth of system management, security tools, and certifications are available for your administrators to use.

Enterprise manageability

Red Hat provides two categories of control for datacenter operations. Our Smart Management Add-On and Red Hat Network Satellite servers centralize and automate common management functions so datacenters can scale systems without burdening staff.

Red Hat also packages the platform in system administer-friendly packages that allow the tailoring of installations to application needs.