Open-source analytics firm Jaspersoft teamed-up with Linux distributor Red Hat to integrate JasperReports Server into Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0. The fused product launched into general availability today, and offers companies better insight into their Red Hat-virtualized environments. Jaspersoft’s software skims through historical user activity data and system utilization and identifies trends that customers can leverage to lower the overheads associated with their IT infrastructure.

“We’ve designed Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0 to be a game-changing virtualization offering that delivers compelling performance, scalability and cost benefits,” said Navin Thadani, senior director, Virtualization Business at Red Hat. “It’s great to be working with Jaspersoft in helping our customers to optimize their virtualized environments with Jaspersoft’s embedded BI and analytic capabilities in Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization.”

This initiative follows another one between the two companies announced earlier this month – a jointly developed BI PaaS.

Red Hat is reinforcing its virtualization software amidst a big push into storage; a strategy in which the recently acquired Gluster plays an instrumental role. Red Hat hasn’t been sitting around idley and has already begun to integrate the storage firm’s portfolio into its own, a point on which Alex Williams expanded in a recent post. There are at least a couple Gluster-powered products that will be released this year, capitalizing on GlusterFS’s growing popularity. John Kreisa, director of storage marketing at Red Hat told Williams in an interview what he believes to be the main reason behind the platform’s rapid adoption in the storage space: simplicity, mainly when it comes to data migration.

Gluster opened up a big expansion opportunity for Red Hat based on what we’ve seen lately, an opportunity the company has to make the most of. It reported higher net earnings on lower revenues for Q3, and will have some catching up to do.