IDC: Reducing Risk and Improving Security of Cloud Deployments: Why Choose Vendor-Supported Linux Over Self-Supported Linux

Linux® has become the operating system (OS) of choice for enterprise customers, due to the associated performance-, security-, flexibility-, and cost-related benefits associated with it, and its ubiquity extends to the public cloud. This IDC whitepaper highlights enterprise IT trends in the public cloud, why customers opt for commercially supported Linux over nonpaid Linux, and in light of the announced CentOS Linux changes, what makes Red Hat® Enterprise Linux the ideal commercial alternative.