Polycom Chooses Red Hat to Manage Storage Clusters

Polycom Chooses Red Hat to Manage Storage Clusters
Monday September 19, 8:00 am ET
Company Reduces TCO with Red Hat GFS and Red Hat Enterprise Linux

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 19, 2005--Red Hat, Inc. (NASDAQ:RHAT - News), the world's
leading provider of open source solutions to the enterprise, announced today that Polycom has
chosen Red Hat Global File System (GFS) and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 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. 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 SMP 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 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. For more information on Red Hat GFS, visit http://www.redhat.com or call
866-2-REDHAT.

Contact:

     Red Hat
     Leigh Day, 919-754-4369
     lday@redhat.com
     or
     Kathryn Bishop, 919-754-4289
     kbishop@redhat.com

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. Learn more: http://www.redhat.com

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