Financial Services

Enterprise Linux built to hold production stable.

RLC Pro gives your enterprise a stable OS, a vendor who responds to every ticket, and support from people who know the kernel.

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Use cases

We respond to every ticket.

Every ticket reaches a real person and every ticket gets a response. You get answers from people who know the software and receive the same consideration for ten nodes or ten thousand.

Direct engineering accessNo tiered support queueReal response SLAs

A release lifecycle your team controls.

Revalidating your entire stack every six months takes time your best engineers should spend on optimization. RLC Pro holds a supported LTS release for up to eight years so your team validates once and moves on.

Extended LTS up to 8 yearsFIPS 140-3IP indemnification

One kernel version. Held for years.

Hold the version your team validated, or access select capabilities ahead of upstream when your hardware demands it. Your roadmap sets the release schedule.

Stable long-term releasesSecure Boot signed kernelsSelect capabilities ahead of upstream

Containers without the overhead.

Apptainer runs containers with no daemon on the execution path. Your latency budget stays intact. It provides a deterministic, portable runtime that runs alongside your existing container environment.

Rootless container runtimePortable across environmentsNo daemon overhead

"We have a highly customized stack. Every point release meant rebuilding everything on top of it. Getting two years on a single release instead of six months changed what our kernel engineers could actually focus on."
Platform engineering lead, global quantitative trading firm

Products

RLC Pro

Enterprise Linux that holds a supported LTS release and patches it on your timeline. Up to eight years of support on a single validated release. Newer kernel capabilities available ahead of the upstream cycle. Direct support from people who know the kernel.

Apptainer

Open source container runtime for workloads where execution-path isolation matters. No daemon overhead. Runs alongside existing runtimes.

RLC Pro Hardened

FIPS 140-3 validated cryptography, secure boot, and kernel integrity ship pre-applied with up to 95% DISA-STIG compliance at first boot. A hardened baseline from day one.

The kernel version your team tested. The lifecycle your firm controls.

Financial services and high-frequency trading teams get the validated kernel version, the pinned release, CVE response on that pinned version, and bare-metal recovery in hours.

FAQ

Can CIQ patch without a release move?

Yes. CVE patches backport to your pinned RLC Pro version. No release move required.

Can we access newer kernel capabilities without moving to a new release?

For select capabilities included in the RLC Pro roadmap, yes. Contact CIQ to discuss your environment's specific requirements.

How does RLC Pro reduce re-validation overhead?

By holding the version your team tested for up to eight years. Four upstream cycles become one validation per point release.

Does Apptainer displace our container runtime?

No. It runs alongside existing runtimes, workload-by-workload.

What is the commercial model for large fleets?

Contact CIQ for a proposal based on your fleet size and configuration.