Red Hat, Inc. announced the release of Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2.1 with new features and functionality. Red Hat Enterprise MRG is a next-generation IT infrastructure incorporating Messaging, Realtime and Grid functionality that offers increased performance, reliability, interoperability and faster computing for enterprise customers. In June 2011, Red Hat announced the release of Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2.0, which featured advances in performance, scalability and management. The 2.0 update added support for the latest version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 available at release with 6.1 and also extended the Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2.1 gains new functionality including: New kernel technology: Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2.1 ships with the newest Linux kernel 3.0, bringing the latest advances in the 3.0 kernel to the platform. Event-based data sampling for performance measurement: Providing realtime performance data while reducing the uncertainty inherent in the act of measurement, offering a less intrusive method of performance measurement than incumbent methods. Messaging extended integration capabilities: Support for JBoss Enterprise SOA and Application Platforms, IPv6 and Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 enabling AMQP-based integration across a wider range of applications and services. Messaging broker advances: The broker provides the ability to maintain sequential order of messages across distributed receivers. Integration of inventory management: With configuration management tagging into the Grid management console. SSL security mechanism: For the platform's Grid Aviary API. High Availability for the Grid Scheduler: Through Red Hat Cluster Suite technology. Support for Grid Execute Node: On Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Compute Node variant. Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2.1 Realtime and Grid components are generally available from January 25, 2012. The Enterprise MRG 2.1 Messaging component will be generally available in the coming months.