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 Over the weekend Barron’s put out a piece touting AMD’s chances of taking share in the mainstream server market that belongs to Intel with its SeaMicro microserver acquisition, a development that would tickle its tiny stock price, if it ever happened. But even the thought of it, althou...Jun. 19, 2013 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 817 |
 NetApp, which is under pressure from activist shareholder Elliott Management to shape up and return value, said Tuesday that it’s going to can 900 people to spiff up its financials, 400 less that the 1,300 that Piper Jaffray estimated last week. May. 22, 2013 04:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,390 |
 VMware and Linux house Canonical are collaborating so users can deploy VMware widgetry such as vSphere and Nicira Network Virtualization Platform (NVP) with Canonical’s OpenStack distribution.
The Canonical distribution is called the Ubuntu Cloud Infrastructure and it’s supposed to be...Apr. 18, 2013 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,870 |
 Red Hat Monday announced an Early Adopter Program for its enterprise Red Hat OpenStack widgetry and the availability of what it calls RDO, a freely available community-supported distribution of OpenStack that runs on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Fedora and their derivatives.
It also ann...Apr. 16, 2013 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,969 |
 SugarCRM is launching a turnkey Private Cloud, a dedicated SugarCRM-managed private instance of its Customer Relationship Management (CRM) applications using Amazon for its cloud.
It claims “exceptional” service levels of between 99.5% and 99.95%.
It’ll be available in the US, Irela...Apr. 10, 2013 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,601 |
 A few weeks ago Cisco, the king of networking, figured out a way out to control the current move to this newfangled software-defined networking (SDN) business. So it put in train an effort to create an open standards SDN consortium code-named Daylight. The non-disclosure agreement it i...Apr. 10, 2013 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,134 |
 Hewlett-Packard Monday distracted the press and the market from its executive suite dramas by putting out its promised Project Moonshot, the energy-sipping Atom-based microserver it expects to change its flagging server fortunes and be altogether disruptive.
The widgetry, cast as a n...Apr. 9, 2013 09:30 AM EDT Reads: 2,561 |
 NETWAYS GmbH has just announced its partnership with C12G Labs to provide services, consulting, and private- and hybrid-cloud-services based on OpenNebula. NETWAYS has been an active promoter of OpenNebula and a collaborator of C12G Labs since 2011 when they organized the first OpenNeb...Apr. 9, 2013 07:09 AM EDT Reads: 1,536 |
 Red Hat has hired Radhesh Balakrishnan out of Microsoft’s Asia-Pac region where he was responsible for the Windows Azure cloud platform business, to lead its virtualization technologies and solutions worldwide, which includes Red Hat OpenStack and Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Tech...Apr. 3, 2013 09:15 AM EDT Reads: 3,350 |
 Rackspace and Red Hat were patting each other on the back Thursday morning after they got a patent suit against Linux thrown out on its ear by the usually plaintiff-friendly federal court in the Eastern District of Texas.
Uniloc USA, a so-called non-practicing entity (NPE) or patent ...Mar. 29, 2013 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,470 |
 Red Hat, the largest Linux seller, came up shy of revenue expectations Wednesday when it posted its fiscal fourth quarter ended February 28.
Its shares dropped roughly 14% after-hours then stabilized around minus 4% or $49.19. Before the Thursday open it was down 5.4%.
In the quarte...Mar. 29, 2013 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,016 |
 Red Hat, Inc. and Rackspace Hosting, Inc. announced on Friday that they have won a federal court decision granting early dismissal of all claims in a lawsuit brought by the patent assertion entity Uniloc USA, Inc.
Plaintiff Uniloc USA, Inc. is a frequent litigator, having brought pate...Mar. 28, 2013 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,851 |
 Every year for the past six years, a consortium of software companies has collaborated to conduct a survey on attitudes and adoption of open-source software in business. The 2013 Future of Open Source survey is now open and taking responses until March 28. Open source analyst group 451...Mar. 8, 2013 01:45 AM EST Reads: 1,737 |
 Hortonworks said Tuesday that it’s put Apache Hadoop on Windows with its new enterprise-grade, production-tested Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) for Windows.
The 100% open source widgetry is the first and only Apache Hadoop distribution for both Windows and Linux. There’s an identica...Feb. 28, 2013 09:00 AM EST Reads: 2,321 |
 Red Hat on Wednesday announced its Big Data direction and solutions to satisfy enterprise requirements for highly reliable, scalable, and manageable solutions to effectively run their Big Data analytics workloads. In addition, Red Hat announced that the company will contribute its Red ...Feb. 20, 2013 03:45 PM EST Reads: 4,100 |
 Univa, which can claim sprawling infrastructures, has ported its Grid Engine software to the Calxeda widgetry in support of its fancy high-brow dynamic workloads.
The stuff is in beta but Univa CEO Gary Tyreman says his customers are already testing it and that although the ARM chip ...Feb. 18, 2013 07:45 AM EST Reads: 3,505 |
 Tech Crunch got it from Extreme Tech which got it from Phoronix which got it from a source at the big FOSDEM open source conference in Brussels that Microsoft – which is reportedly planning to release Office for Android, a Linux distribution, this year – is taking a “meaningful look” a...Feb. 10, 2013 04:00 PM EST Reads: 3,040 |
 10gen, the outfit behind the open source MongoDB database, which has been downloaded 3.8 million times, has named its president Max Schireson CEO.
Former CEO Dwight Merriman becomes chairman.
Schireson has been at 10gen since 2011. He was once chief applications architect and VP fo...Feb. 4, 2013 06:00 AM EST Reads: 12,432 |
 Hard drives are dying and Flash is coming into its own.
So, sensing an inflection point, STEC, which has a long history in Flash, figures to take advantage of the opportunity provided by the fashionably huge volumes of data of late that have to go somewhere, the increasing availabili...Feb. 4, 2013 05:00 AM EST Reads: 3,577 |
 Red Hat closed its acquisition of ManageIQ in December shortly after it agreed to buy the joint for $104 million and on Tuesday morning it said in a webcast that it’s going to integrate ManageIQ’s cloud management and automation widgetry with its CloudForms Infrastructure-as-a-Service ...Jan. 23, 2013 04:27 PM EST Reads: 3,344 |
 Avnet Embedded, an Avnet unit by way of Avnet Electronics Marketing Americas, has launched Open Compute Project (OCP) Innovation Labs as both technology showcases and development labs for users, developers and partners to design, deliver and integrate cost-effective, power-efficient co...Jan. 21, 2013 08:30 AM EST Reads: 4,323 |
 AMD is within two months or so or productizing Roadrunner, a system conceived on a turkey sandwich napkin over lunch in New York City to suit the needs of giant financial services companies like Fidelity and Goldman Sachs, which are working with AMD to spec it out and are currently eva...Jan. 21, 2013 08:15 AM EST Reads: 3,527 |
 SYS-CON Events announced today that SUSE, a pioneer in open source software, has been named “Bronze Sponsor” of SYS-CON's 12th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 10–13, 2013, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York.
SUSE®, a pioneer in open source software...Dec. 20, 2012 10:00 AM EST Reads: 6,141 |
 “Open is what Red Hat’s DNA is going back to the early days of Linux, and we feel that open is even more fundamental with cloud,” stated Gordon Haff, Cloud Evangelist at Red Hat, in this SYS-CON.tv interview with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan at the 11th International Cloud...Dec. 15, 2012 02:00 PM EST Reads: 5,909 |
 They’re dropping like flies to OpenStack’s siren song.
The open source cloud platform’s latest conquest is EMC, whose VMware subsidiary already did a seemingly unthinkable thing a few months ago and joined the rival band as a gold member.
EMC is only joining as a corporate-level sp...Dec. 14, 2012 08:15 AM EST Reads: 5,044 |
 IDC Analyst Simon Piff answers questions on behalf of IT Executives regarding the benefits and challenges of using one or a combination of clouds with an enterprise IT architecture, to include private, an on-premise, privately owned architecture; public, an off-premise, shared utility;...Dec. 12, 2012 04:00 PM EST Reads: 3,469 |
 Kodak might finally get to unload its 1,100 digital imaging patents.
It’s been struggling for months to get somebody to take them off its hand
so it can get out of bankruptcy jail. But it will have to settle for less than the
$2.6 billion it hoped for after Nortel got that astrono...Dec. 10, 2012 08:00 AM EST Reads: 2,757 |
 C12G Labs, the company behind the OpenNebula project, has just announced the availability of the OpenNebula Sandbox for Amazon EC2. OpenNebula is a widely-deployed open-source management solution for enterprise data center virtualization and private cloud computing that implements the ...Dec. 8, 2012 07:00 AM EST Reads: 3,564 |
 Red Hat Tuesday pushed out a beta of Enterprise Linux 6.4 equipped with features to interoperate with Microsoft including integration with Redmond’s Active Directory to make identity management easier in environments with both RHEL and Windows. RHEL is also supposed to be a better beha...Dec. 7, 2012 03:10 PM EST Reads: 3,429 |
 Red Hat CloudForms is an open hybrid cloud-management product ideal for enterprises looking to move their Red Hat Enterprise Linux workloads to the cloud. It delivers the flexibility and agility that businesses want with the control and governance that IT needs. This lets your organiza...Dec. 7, 2012 11:15 AM EST Reads: 3,454 |
 At the Amazon Web Services Re:Invent conference Tuesday Red Hat rolled out OpenShift Enterprise, the Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) designed to be installed on-premise in customer data centers or on private, public or hybrid clouds that it announced in May.
Since it launched the thing ...Nov. 29, 2012 10:00 AM EST Reads: 3,693 |
 10gen, the open source document-oriented MongoDB creator, says Intel Capital and Red Hat have made strategic investments in it.
It means to use the undisclosed amount of money for product development and support of its rapidly growing worldwide community and user base. It has visions...Nov. 29, 2012 07:00 AM EST Reads: 2,721 |
 C12G Labs has just announced a new release of OpenNebulaPro, the enterprise edition of its widely-deployed open-source management solution for enterprise data center virtualization and private cloud computing. OpenNebulaPro integrates the most recent stable version of OpenNebula (3.8) ...Nov. 15, 2012 05:00 AM EST Reads: 3,236 |
 AMD Tuesday denied a Reuters report saying the semiconductor shop hired JP Morgan to “explore options,” citing three unnamed sources “familiar with the situation.”
The news wire said the financially flagging company might sell its patents and that the “outright sale” of the company w...Nov. 14, 2012 12:38 PM EST Reads: 2,509 |
 Asigra, the Toronto-based cloud Backup, Recovery and Restore (BURR) software provider, just unveiled Asigra Cloud Backup v12, a secure, single end-to-end data protection software suite that protects data across physical, virtualized and cloud operating environments.
It claims the widg...Nov. 13, 2012 08:45 AM EST Reads: 4,173 |
 AMD has hinted for months that it was going to adopt the ARM architecture and last week in the middle of a blackout that turned New York and the stock market dark it disclosed its plans to make ARM’s smartphone and tablet widgetry into a server platform for use in the cloud and mighty ...Nov. 13, 2012 07:00 AM EST Reads: 3,155 |
 At the OpenStack Design Summit & Conference this week in California, Nimbula, the cloud operating system company, signed up to be part of the OpenStack community to improve the OpenStack code base.
It will also incorporate OpenStack services in future Nimbula Director releases.
Nim...Oct. 22, 2012 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,957 |
 Cloud computing is one of the most strategic initiatives that enterprises will adopt over the next several years. Only an open hybrid cloud can help you unlock the full benefits of cloud economics and gain agility across your entire infrastructure – physical, virtual and public cloud r...Oct. 22, 2012 02:00 AM EDT Reads: 4,387 |
 Intel, which warned of declining sales last month, didn’t do quite as badly in
Q3 as expected given its guidance, which was below Wall Street estimates,
despite the popularity of iPads and smartphones, which IDC and Gartner say
have created an 8%-9% contraction in the PC market.Oct. 17, 2012 01:30 PM EDT Reads: 2,054 |
 IronKey, the seven-year-old Internet security and privacy house, has changed its name to Marble Cloud in celebration of the introduction its new cloud security service.
Marble is meant to protect employee-owned iOS, Android, Windows and Linux mobile devices and desktop/laptop platform...Oct. 16, 2012 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 3,877 |
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