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Arrow Quick Hit: Why Red Enterprise Linux (RHEL) matters

September 30, 2026 | Darin Kojis

From mission-critical applications to hybrid cloud and modern workloads, customers need an operating environment they can rely on as their infrastructure evolves. 

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) provides a stable, scalable foundation designed to support enterprise workloads across data centers, cloud and beyond, with security, consistency and an extensive certified ecosystem built in. 

Why RHEL?

Enterprise-grade stability: Support business-critical workloads with predictable release cycles, long-term support and extensive hardware and software certification. 

Security built into the platform: Help customers strengthen security and compliance with capabilities including SELinux, system-wide cryptographic policies and ongoing security updates. 

Consistency across hybrid cloud: Give customers a consistent operating environment across on-premises infrastructure, private cloud, public cloud and edge deployments, helping simplify management as environments expand. 

Support for Microsoft workloads: RHEL supports Microsoft Azure and SQL Server on Linux, giving customers a proven platform for modernization and migration initiatives. 

A broad certified ecosystem: Help reduce integration risk with an extensive ecosystem spanning certified software, hardware, cloud platforms, containers and enterprise applications. 

Simplified operations: Standardization, lifecycle management and automation can help reduce administrative complexity and give IT teams more time to focus on business priorities.

Ready for containers and Kubernetes: Build on an operating system that provides a foundation for Red Hat OpenShift and modern cloud-native applications. 

A foundation for AI innovation: Support AI, machine learning and data workloads across cloud and on-premises environments without creating separate infrastructure silos. 

Long-term enterprise support: RHEL major releases have a 10-year lifecycle, with extended support options available for many deployments. 

Greater operational efficiency: Reliability, automation and standardization can help customers reduce administrative overhead and simplify support across their environments. 

 

Start with the customer challenge

 

When customers need to... Lead with...
Strengthen security Built-in security and compliance capabilities
Simplify hybrid environments Consistent operations across cloud and data center
Modernize applications Container and OpenShift readiness
Reduce operational complexity Standardization and automation
Support critical workloads Enterprise stability and long-term support
Prepare for AI A consistent platform for modern workloads

 

Make RHEL the foundation for the next customer conversation

Explore how Red Hat Enterprise Linux can support security, modernization, hybrid cloud and emerging workloads across your customer's environments. 

Ready to grow your RHEL business?

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Darin Kojis

Darin Kojis

Presales Solutions Architect

Darin Kojis is an experienced Arrow solutions architect with the extraordinary ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical people. Darin has been very successful at matching virtualization products to customers’ business requirements. Darin has additionally picked up cloud technology and Red Hat as a specialty and is adept at Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization solutions. Darin is a trusted advisor who constantly looks over his customers, helping them to safeguard their IT environments now and into the future.
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