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KernelCare Enterprise Live
Patches All Popular Enterprise
Linux Distros, Including

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Minimize Your Risk While Maintaining
100% Uptime of Your Systems

Eliminate Maintenance Windows

Leave the chaos of coordinating patching-related maintenance windows behind and regain control over your schedule

Streamline Security Compliance

Ensure continuous compliance with tightening regulatory requirements and various cybersecurity standards

Minimize Vulnerability Risk

Apply kernel security updates as soon as they become available and win the race against vulnerability exploits

Cut Operational Costs

Achieve major cost savings by eliminating downtime and removing the hassle of managing system reboots

Why KernelCare Enterprise Over Ksplice?

Support for Mixed
Linux Environments

Using more than one enterprise Linux distro? KernelCare delivers rebootless patches to all of them.

An Affordable
Standalone Solution

KernelCare is an independent rebootless patching tool that doesn’t come as part of a costly premium support membership.

Patching Beyond
the Kernel

Put patching on autopilot for shared libraries (glibc, OpenSSL), IoT devices, and QEMU virtualization systems, so you never need to reboot.

Patch All 

Vulnerabilities

Ksplice only delivers rebootless patches for High & Critical Vulnerabilities. KernelCare covers all vulnerabilities and offers custom patches as well.

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or if it’s compatible with your
environment?

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KernelCare Enterprise
Supported distributions Oracle Linux, Red Hat and Ubuntu* Oracle Linux, Ubuntu, Red Hat, Debian, AlmaLinux and many others
All vulnerabilities patched
Only High & Critical
Support for x86-64 and arm64
architectures
Coverage for Linux kernel & critical userspace
Practically unlimited kernel patching lifetime
QEMU Patching
(KVM & Xen)
Single patchset distribution for all patches
Available APIs
Rebootless roll-back functionality
Free Trial
Persistent Patching
24/7 Support
Online and telephone 24/7
Online, 24/7/365
New Client Availability Only for Oracle Linux Premier Support clients
(more than 60 distro versions supported)
Add-ons – Custom patches, QEMU, IoT Devices, Shared Libraries
Custom Patches
Cost Oracle Linux Premier Subscription – $2299 ($1399) per system per year $49.50 per year per system, different add-ons can be included in the subscription, bulk pricing is available

1  Must be an Oracle Linux Premier Support customer. If the system is running RHEL, customers must switch to an Oracle-provided Red Hat
Compatible Kernel (RHCK) and reboot the system before they can apply Ksplice patches.

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