Downtime, whether unexpected or planned, comes at a high price and can hurt your business adversely – costing your business a loss in revenue loss or customer confidence. Ensuring near 100 percent uptime and a speedy recovery from a possible interruption has become a key goal of every CIO, who simply cannot afford any business downtime.

The key to lowering the recovery time of an unplanned failure is the clever use of software on your existing hardware. With virtualization, multiple applications can be consolidated onto a single machine while maintaining the desired software isolation.

Traditional virtualization offerings have failed to provide a complete solution and realize the realization of a fully virtualized IT infrastructure. Some provide only server virtualization, while others only enable storage virtualization. Integration capabilities on these are minimal, often resulting in complexity and poor performance.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform is the first complete open source solution that provides fully integrated, ready-to-go, commercial-strength, server and storage virtualization – everything you need to achieve the virtual enterprise in a single package.

Besides virtualization, Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform takes a step further in diminishing downtime with High Availability Clustering. So if one of the machines in a cluster fails, the virtual machines with the associated embedded applications are automatically restarted on another running machine in the same cluster, with a recovery time of under one minute.

Designed for the mainstream market, Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform provides the industry's most complete and effective virtualized environment.