RED HAT ASIA PACIFIC NEWS | VOLUME 15
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
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First Open Source Appliance Development Stack Builder Now Available in
Fedora 7
The Fedora Project, a Red Hat sponsored and community-supported
open source collaboration, announced that the latest version of its
distribution, Fedora 7, is now available. This latest version offers a
completely open source build process that greatly simplifies the
creation of appliances that can be targeted to meet individual needs.
Find out more about Fedora 7:
--> http://www.apac.redhat.com/news/article/559.html
Red Hat Asia Pacific RHCE of the Year 2007
The winner of the RHCE of the Year 2007 award goes to Thandava Krishnan
Saidapet Padmanabhan. A Senior Research Officer from the Institute for
Infocomm Research in Singapore, Krishnan volunteers at the Singapore
Red Cross. He puts his RHCE knowledge to good use by leading the
donorweb.org project, a non-profit website and online central
depository of the Singapore Red Cross Blood Donor Recruitment Programme.
Read about S.P.T. Krishnan's experience at Donorweb.
--> http://www.apac.redhat.com./training/rhceyear2007/
New Red Hat Global Services Center in India
Red Hat launched its new Global Services Center in Mumbai, India,
substantiating the company's vision of realizing collaboration across
geographic and cultural boundaries. This Global Services Center will
build and implement open source enterprise solutions and services for
Red Hat customers across the globe.
Read more.
--> http://www.in.redhat.com/news/article/89.html
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SOLUTIONS AND SERVICES
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Red Hat Initiates Long-term Plan for Customer Value
Red Hat is yet again redefining what "value" means in the IT industry
with the announcement of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Advanced Platform.
Customers can now greatly reduce the cost and complexity of purchasing,
integrating and managing separate virtualization, storage management
and high availability software; allowing them to shift their investment
away from costly infrastructure, and back into their business.
Find out more about Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.
--> http://www.apac.redhat.com/news/article/537.html
Red Hat Defines Next Significant Open Source Migration Opportunity
-- Middleware Meets Low Cost High Value
Red Hat is presenting another high value migration opportunity that will
deliver cost savings to enterprises by rolling out of its middleware
strategy to drive the migration of legacy applications to an Open Source
Architecture. This includes the announcement of an agreement to acquire
MetaMatrix, a leader in data management and integration software, and
the introduction of JBoss® Enterprise Middleware®.
Read about JBoss Enterprise Middleware.
--> http://www.apac.redhat.com/news/article/544.html
Red Hat to Build Virtual Appliance OS for Managing Intel vPro-based
Desktops
Red Hat and Intel announced a joint program to deliver a Red Hat-branded
software platform that supports desktop PCs with Intel vPro(TM) Processor
technology. This collaboration will bring the power of hardware-assisted
virtualization to business desktop computing. Benefits include reduced
management costs, improved operational efficiency, and dramatically
reduced exposure to security threats - regardless of the client operating
system.
Check out more about this program.
--> http://www.apac.redhat.com/news/article/547.html
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CUSTOMER'S CHOICE
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Donorweb Draws On Red Hat to Promote Blood Donation and Retain Blood
Donors in Singapore
Donorweb, the non-profit website and online central depository of the
Singapore Red Cross Blood Donor Recruitment Programme (BDRP), has selected
Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® to run its mission-critical applications and
SMS messaging gateway critical to recruiting and retaining regular blood
donors in Singapore, and also important in meeting the national blood
requirements.
Read about how Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 plays an instrumental role in
this life-saving cause.
--> http://www.apac.redhat.com/news/article/558.html
Yatra.com Achieves 100 Percent Uptime After Deploying Red Hat
Enterprise Linux
Businesses and consumers in India rely on Yatra for travel-related
services like travel information, pricing, availability and reservations
for airlines, hotels, railway, buses and car rentals across 5000 large
cities and small rural areas. These services are delivered via
www.yatra.com or Yatra's call center, which has achieved 100 percent
uptime since deploying Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Learn more.
--> http://www.in.redhat.com/pdf/casestudies/Yatra_Case_Study_Brochure.pdf
AIS Records Millions of Dollars in Savings With An Increase in
Reliability Using Red Hat Solutions
Thailand's mobile communications market leader, Advanced Info Service
Public Company Limited (AIS), has chosen Red Hat for its reliable,
high-performing and cost-effective solutions. With Red Hat solutions,
AIS was able to save millions of dollars for a telecommunications
upgrade system, drastically reducing both hardware and software costs.
The company has also enjoyed great flexibility in modifying its own
solution and avoiding vendor lock-in. Since the full implementation of
Red Hat solutions in June 2003, AIS has experienced 100 percent uptime
without a single system outage.
Read more.
--> http://www.apac.redhat.com/news/article/542.html
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EVENT HIGHLIGHTS
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China Gears Up for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Roadshow Across 10 Cities
Red Hat China kicked off the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Roadshow from
Chengdu on May 16, 2007, followed by a series of roadshows in Wuhan,
Nanjing, Shenzhen, Shenyang, Dalian, Guangzhou, Jinan, Guangzhou and
Shanghai. This event will address the future of IT and Open Source, and
Enterprise Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) on Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Join us at this roadshow in China.
--> http://hk.adv-m.com/adv_china/rh07roadshow/index.htm
HK Professionals and Academics Join OSS Keynote and Forum
Late April, Red Hat and the Hong Kong Productivity Council (HKPC)
jointly organized a keynote speech and open source software forum held
in Hong Kong. Michael Tiemann, President of the Open Systems Institute
and VP of Open Source Affairs for Red Hat, participated in the panel
discussion on the future of open source in Hong Kong.
Read the Computerworld news coverage.
--> http://www.cw.com.hk/computerworldhk/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=422392
Upcoming Events...
May 16 - June 27, 2007
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Roadshow
May 16: Chengdu, China
May 17: Wuhan, China
May 22: Nanjing, China
May 24: Shenzhen, China
May 29: Shenyang, China
May 31: Dalian, China
Jun 16: Guangzhou, China
Jun 21: Jinan, China
Jun 26: Guangzhou, China
Jun 27: Shanghai, China
--> http://hk.adv-m.com/adv_china/rh07roadshow/index.htm
June 21, 2007
Server Virtualization Introductory Seminar
Tokyo, Japan
--> https://www.wiseknot.co.jp/seminar/
July 10-13, 2007
QuestNET
Cairns, Australia
--> http://www.questnet.net.au/questnet2007
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--> http://www.apac.redhat.com/rhel/details/assurance/
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--> http://www.jp.redhat.com/training/specials/rhel5up.html
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