Red Hat and Cisco Systems have readied for a joint alliance which shall expand their virtualization network offerings.

Red Hat is known as a leading provider for open source solutions. It seeks to integrate its Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) software with the virtual network link or the VN-Link technology offered by Cisco.

According to the market insiders the two companies mitigates Cisco's Unified Computing System Virtual Interface Card with Red Hat's Kernel-based Virtual Machine hypervisor and at the same time will consider the pairing that proffers customers with greater control over their servers, higher performance, simplified management and superior network visibility at a much lower cost.

This means an integration of open source technology with Cisco's networking infrastructure. Red Hat on the other hand will try and expand its reach towards the global market.

Meanwhile the reports suggest of launching the integrated software later this year, along with Red Hat's Enterprise Linux 6 and Virtualization Hypervisor.