New 14-year life cycle offering extends operational runway, providing continuous support and predictability for mission-critical workloads
Red Hat, the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, announced Red Hat Enterprise Linux Extended Life Cycle, Premium, a new subscription providing a predictable 14-year life cycle for major Red Hat Enterprise Linux releases. The stand-alone subscription consolidates extended support, simplifying the complexity of managing multiple support streams. This helps organizations more effectively maintain their most sensitive, change-averse workloads on a single, hardened foundation for more than a decade.
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As enterprises deploy full-scale production, the underlying infrastructure relies on consistency. Frequent minor release upgrades can introduce operational risk and certification costs that many highly regulated industries — such as financial services, healthcare, and government — cannot afford. According to an IDC Market Presentation1, “stability, security, performance, support, and compatibility are what makes a server operating system valuable. Linux is often better positioned to excel in these areas due to its open-source nature which leads to a higher level of customization.”
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Extended Life Cycle, Premium also delivers six years of extended maintenance for minor releases as a single, streamlined offering. This not only reduces the complexity associated with separate extended support add-ons, but it also enables IT teams to plan long-term deployments with more certainty.
Platform security and trust remain foundational to Red Hat Enterprise Linux, empowering the next generation of developers with hybrid cloud innovation. Along with the durable, AI-powered foundation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10, Red Hat Enterprise Linux Extended Life Cycle, Premium provides mission-critical stability for organizations to deliver enhanced infrastructure security and maintain compliance without forcing potentially disruptive upgrades. This offering builds on the foundation of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Premium subscription and provides significantly longer base lifecycles for both minor and major OS updates in a single, easy-to-use offering. It includes the high-availability tools and security patches needed to protect critical, long-life production systems and workloads.
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