Polycom Chooses Red Hat to Manage Storage Clusters; Company Reduces TCO with Red Hat GFS and Red Hat Enterprise Linux.SAN FRANCISCO San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden -- Red Hat, Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :RHAT RHAT Red Hat (stock symbol) RHAT Rainwater Harvesting Association of Tanzania RHAT Register Hba Attributes ), the world's leading provider of open source solutions to the enterprise, announced today that Polycom has chosen Red Hat Global File System (GFS See Google File System. GFS - Grandfather, Father, Son ) and Red Hat Enterprise Linux Red Hat Enterprise Linux (often abbreviated to RHEL) is a Linux distribution produced by Red Hat and targeted toward the commercial market, including mainframes. Red Hat commits to supporting each version of RHEL for 7 years after its release. to accelerate the software development cycles for two key product lines by as much as 40 times over legacy UNIX systems. Polycom, Inc. is the leading provider of Unified Collaborative Communications, which includes converged voice, video, web, and data solutions for emerging broadband networks  This article or section needs copy editing for grammar, style, cohesion, tone and/or spelling.You can assist by [ editing it] now. . As the marketshare leader, Polycom is at the center of the industry shift to broadband networks. IP networks enable the proliferation and convergence of richer communications, including video, and are fast becoming the foundation for business around the world. Needing to improve the speed of development for voice and video conference product lines, Polycom migrated to Red Hat GFS and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Development builds were taking longer than desired, and the UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). SMP (Symmetric MultiProcessing) A multiprocessing architecture in which multiple CPUs, residing in one cabinet, share the same memory. SMP systems provide scalability. As business increases, additional CPUs can be added to absorb the increased transaction volume. system was not scaling to meet the team's requirements. With the submission of simultaneous builds, the delays were significantly impacting the development timeline. "Reducing build times, processing multiple builds, and having a reliable infrastructure was critical to the video product development group at Polycom. With Red Hat GFS and Red Hat Enterprise Linux, we not only achieved those goals, but also reduced our TCO (1) (Total Cost of Ownership) The cost of using a computer. It includes the cost of the hardware, software and upgrades as well as the cost of the inhouse staff and/or consultants that provide training and technical support. See ROI. and saved tens of thousands of dollars by migrating away from a proprietary Unix environment," said Alan Alford, Senior IT Operations Manager at Polycom. Red Hat GFS is the open source cluster file system designed for high-performance enterprise workloads, such as Oracle RAC, web and application server clusters. GFS makes it possible to manage a cluster of servers and shared storage as if it were a single system, by providing a common cluster-wide filesystem. Having a common file system eliminates conflicts and problems that arise when different servers want to access the same file at the same time. Today Red Hat also announced that Red Hat GFS has received broad industry support from partners Oracle, NetApp and EMC (1) (EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA, www.emc.com) The leading supplier of storage products for midrange computers and mainframes. Founded in 1979 by Richard J. Egan and Roger Marino, EMC has developed advanced storage and retrieval technologies for the world's largest companies. . For more information on Red Hat GFS, visit http://www.redhat.com or call 866-2-REDHAT. About Red Hat, Inc. Red Hat, the world's leading open source and Linux provider, is headquartered in Raleigh, NC with satellite offices spanning the globe. Red Hat is leading Linux and open source solutions into the mainstream by making high quality, low cost technology accessible. Red Hat provides operating system software along with middleware, applications and management solutions. Red Hat also offers support, training and consulting services to its customers worldwide and through top-tier partnerships. Red Hat's open source strategy offers customers a long term plan for building infrastructures that are based on and leverage open source technologies with focus on security and ease of management. 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