Media & Entertainment

Media & Entertainment

For media and entertainment companies, performance is paramount, and it's no different when it comes to the software that drives the industry.

Animation studios and publishers are partnering with Red Hat to:

  • Push their technology to the bleeding edge
  • Create spectacular special effects
  • Showcase their technical abilities
  • Captivate viewers

Open Source Technology

Red Hat works on your behalf within the Linux kernel, stretching the technology and driving the functionality studios need most.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop—Workstation option

Stable. Extensible. The fully supported, open source operating system for desktops and laptops in a studio IT environment. Includes the full set of standard productivity applications for a general IT workplace, plus an extended software stack.

Red Hat Enterprise MRG

The next-generation IT infrastructure that incorporates Messaging, Realtime, and Grid functionality.

MRG Grid is scalable and ready to power render farms for animation. Built on Condor, MRG Grid has advanced features like pull-based scheduling. Schedule an audio-processing job to your local data center, a rendering project to a virtual machine, or spin up capacity for persistent services at Amazon EC2.

MRG Messaging provides a powerful platform for building event and notification services for complex pipelines. Distribute media reliable—and 100 times faster than the alternatives.

MRG Realtime provides deterministic performance and other capabilities like high resolution timers for time-sensitive workloads (audio sync, etc.).

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The Value of Open Source

We are experts at solving shared problems and sharing the benefits. Thanks to Red Hat's customer-driven, community-supported development model, our solutions cost less and perform better than their incumbent rivals.

The development process is open. The technology is open. There are no secrets, no surprises, no lock-in. Red Hat simply shares the cost-effective, rapid innovation of open source with our customers.

We deliver this value via a renewable, yearly subscription. Customers pay only for what's most important to them. Service. Security. And updated, stable software that just works.