Announcing Up To 4 Years Of Extended Life Cycle Support (ELS) For Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Red Hat News, Wednesday, April 24th, 2024
A lot has changed since Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (RHEL 7) was released in 2014. At that time, less than 10% of American employees worked remotely, even one day per week. Now, nearly a decade later, remote work is standard for people across many industries.
For example, 58% of job holders in the United States are able to work remotely at least once per week.
With its rather sudden onset, this shift to remote work presented a large number of new and immediate challenges for IT organizations. A continually expanding selection of collaboration tools-including instant messaging, video conferencing, file sharing and enterprise social networks-required constant support and maintenance. Remote endpoints located outside of enterprise firewalls needed new, automated technologies to protect sensitive data and minimize the risk of security breaches.