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Latest news, articles, and posts published in LinuxWorld Magazine. Red Hat, Inc., has announced the Premier Cloud Provider Certification and Partner Program, designed to simplify and expand the adoption of cloud computing by enterprise customers. The program enables industry leaders in cloud computing to become certified to offer Red Hat technology so...Jul. 1, 2009 05:30 AM EDT Reads: 747 |
 Novell Friday told the SEC it wasn’t thinking of shopping itself after JP Morgan analyst John DiFucci said that Novell’s CFO Dana Russell “entertained the possibility of breaking out some parts or of selling the entire company to maximize shareholder value given the current depressed v...Jun. 29, 2009 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 864 |
 Red Hat’s revenues were up 11.4% to $174.4 million in its first fiscal quarter ended May 31. Subscription revenue was $148.8 million, up 14% year-over-year. It earned $18.5 million, or 10 cents a share, up 7%. Its non-GAAP income for the quarter was $28.7 million, or 15 cents a share, ...Jun. 29, 2009 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,010 |
 RNA networks, which virtualizes memory, has moved into cache, claiming it can remove the data center bottlenecks caused by contention for application memory, the data center’s scarcest resource. When processor speed outstrips memory capacity, bottlenecks are created that slow applicati...Jun. 26, 2009 01:15 PM EDT Reads: 784 |
 Sugar, the novel Linux-based interface developed by One Laptop Per Child (OLTP), has been freed from the cute little “$100” green-and-white XO Ur-netbook invented to run it. It can now be downloaded to a $5 1GB USB drive and run on any PC, netbook, or Mac, even some “antiques.” It runs...Jun. 25, 2009 04:00 PM EDT Reads: 810 |
 Global supercomputer leader Cray Inc. has announced that customers who purchase a Cray CX1(TM) deskside supercomputer can now personalize their systems with new storage features. Available immediately, Cray CX1 customers now have two more options in configuring their deskside supercomp...Jun. 24, 2009 03:10 AM EDT Reads: 252 |
 Citrix’ free XenServer 5.5 is available for unlimited production deployment.
Since Citrix set XenServer free two-and-a-half months ago, it says there have been 100,000 downloads. The update includes centralized multi-node management, built-in storage, full live motion, consolidated b...Jun. 19, 2009 06:00 PM EDT Reads: 605 |
 ParaScale, the startup developing cloud storage solutions, and Alfresco Software, the open source ECM house, announced a cloud-based integrated ECM solution co-locating Alfresco Content Management and ParaScale Cloud Storage software on the same hardware. It’s supposed to save manageme...Jun. 19, 2009 05:45 PM EDT Reads: 521 |
 Centrify, the place where Linux meets Active Directory, is pushing into – what else? – virtualization with the release Tuesday of Centrify Suite update 3. It supports heterogeneous virtualized data centers. And Centrify ain’t kidding when it says heterogeneous. The widgetry reportedly ...Jun. 19, 2009 05:30 PM EDT Reads: 597 |
 Days after tying up with Haier Computer Group, the second-largest PC maker in China, so they can chase big government and educational contracts worldwide together, LG, the big Korean electronics chaebol, said it will put NComputing’s virtual desktop technology directly into its new net...Jun. 19, 2009 04:45 PM EDT Reads: 695 |
 Imagine a data center chock full of heterogeneous equipment and running hot. That should be an easy exercise since they all are. But now it’s important to stop the waste and reduce energy consumption. Where do you start? Well, it might be nice to whittle the problem down to size and fi...Jun. 19, 2009 04:15 PM EDT Reads: 760 |
 Microsoft and Novell decided to revisit their eyebrow-raising pact the other day, the one that was signed in November of 2006 to the outrage of the FOSS mob, and let it be known – na-na-na-na-na – that it produced upwards of 100 new customers in the past six months, double the rate of ...Jun. 15, 2009 11:00 PM EDT Reads: 954 |
 The latest version of Red Hat’s free open source operating system, Fedora 11, is out. It’s supposed to include substantial improvements in virtualization, such as an upgraded interactive console, a redesigned virtual machine guest creation wizard and better security with SELinux suppor...Jun. 12, 2009 04:15 PM EDT Reads: 978 |
 In this white paper from Univa UD, find out how Pathwork Diagnostics leveraged UniCloud to meet peak processing needs – saving on CAPEX and OPEX while increasing the capacity to innovate.Jun. 9, 2009 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 731 |
 Penguin Computing has built a Scyld Integrated Management Framework (IMF) that’s supposed to make it easier to monitor and manage what are usually quite elaborate HPC Beowolf clusters. It aggregates functionality in a single web interface and is extensible so users can add custom funct...Jun. 5, 2009 06:45 PM EDT Reads: 708 |
 This white paper from Univa UD discusses how distributed computing delivers dramatic cost savings, as well as Green IT benefits, by leveraging existing resources and curbing data center growth.Jun. 2, 2009 03:15 PM EDT Reads: 513 |
 In this white paper from Univa UD, find out how a leading Pharma switched from their legacy scheduler to Univa UD’s UniCluster environment – and saved 80% on cluster costs.Jun. 1, 2009 12:15 PM EDT Reads: 544 |
 FastScale Technology has announced the introduction of FastScale Stack Manager Workgroup Edition, a new product that enables enterprise IT and engineering teams to easily create, optimize and manage logical servers for deployment in physical, virtual or cloud environments. Logical serv...Jun. 1, 2009 09:39 AM EDT Reads: 545 |
 By dint of 12% lower operating expenses, Novell managed to more than double its fiscal second-quarter earnings from $5.9 million or two cents a share this time last year to $15.6 million or five cents a share. Revenues however dropped 9% to $215.6 million. Revenue from its Linux Platfo...May. 29, 2009 03:30 PM EDT Reads: 803 |
 This white paper sheds light on the various architectural components of UniPortal. It is an application portal that provides an SOI-compliant command-line interface (CLI) or web services interface (WS-I), facilitating application-oriented job submission, monitoring and control to multi...May. 27, 2009 06:15 PM EDT Reads: 626 |
 Nearly half of all IT decision makers, developers, and architects report that they use Microsoft .NET as their application technology platform on which to run their applications. Until now the .NET Framework has only been available on Windows. The ability to run ASP.NET and other .NET ...May. 26, 2009 06:30 PM EDT Reads: 713 |
 IBM is waving around a study that it commissioned from Freeform Dynamics showing that Linux desktops go down better if the right group of users is targeted for deployment such as those who have moderate and predictable use of e-mail and office tools like transaction workers and general...May. 22, 2009 04:30 PM EDT Reads: 914 |
 Landscape 1.3, the upgraded semi-proprietary Ubuntu systems management and monitoring service just released by Canonical, Ubuntu’s commercializer, lets users start, stop and manage Ubuntu Server instances on Amazon EC2. The widgetry, previously reserved for managing multiple physical P...May. 22, 2009 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,059 |
 Intel has been talking up its next Atom processor, code named Pineview, and due out in Q4. Intel says it’s shrunk the number of chips it takes to make an Atom netbook or nettop from three to two. Throw in the Tiger Point I/O hub and – poof! – the Pine Trail platform. By putting the mem...May. 22, 2009 12:45 PM EDT Reads: 823 |
 Cisco has finally bowed to the demands of the Free Software Foundation (FSF) and resolved that suit for copyright infringement that FSF filed in December over Cisco playing fast and loose with its GPL- and LGPL-protected code. Cisco will pay FSF an unspecified amount for its sins and F...May. 22, 2009 12:15 PM EDT Reads: 846 |
 IBM put out a study datelined one minute past midnight this Thursday morning commenting on the fact that outside of netbooks, the recession has largely put the kibosh on PC growth...May. 21, 2009 04:19 AM EDT Reads: 477 |
 IBM has announced Gruppo Amadori, a wholesale distributor of quality food products in Italy, is rolling out Linux-based desktops running IBM email, word processing, spreadsheet and presentation software to select employees.May. 21, 2009 03:00 AM EDT Reads: 524 |
 IBM has started selling a turnkey SMB appliance integrated with Intuit’s QuickBooks software called the Smart Cube. It starts at $7,745 and includes e-mail, calendaring and Big Blue support. There’s also access to remote services such as managed security and hosted data backup and reco...May. 20, 2009 02:15 PM EDT Reads: 739 |
 Canonical, the Ubuntu creator looking to make a deflationary buck and apparently thinking of Microsoft’s Live Mesh, is going into the cloud storage business using Amazon’s S3. It’s got some internally developed, Dropbox-reminiscent proprietary code called Ubuntu One that it just releas...May. 20, 2009 11:15 AM EDT Reads: 886 |
 WinMagic has announced that Mount Sinai Hospital, an internationally recognized health care centre affiliated with the University of Toronto, has selected WinMagic’s SecureDoc full-disk encryption software to protect hospital data. SecureDoc is being installed on more than 200 laptops ...May. 20, 2009 06:15 AM EDT Reads: 474 |
 Qt Software has completed its plans to release the Qt source code repositories to the developer community. This news opens the door to software engineers who want to help guide and shape the future development of Qt with code contributions, translations, examples, and other offerings.May. 19, 2009 12:45 PM EDT Reads: 884 |
 TeamDrive enables users to work across the Internet, securely and easily. Whether you’re working as a team, mobile or between your home work station and your company: while guaranteeing your privacy, every single file and document, always up-to-date and even offline, is readily availab...May. 19, 2009 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 373 |
 IBM and Novell have piled on the bankruptcy trustee’s move last week to put SCO into liquidation, a move made the day before the 10th Circuit heard SCO’s appeal asking for the summary judgment awarding ownership of Unix to Novell to be overturned. Timing is everything but it’s unclear ...May. 15, 2009 11:08 AM EDT Reads: 945 Replies: 1 |
 The Linux Foundation (LF), the nonprofit
organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux, today announced
the formal launch of Linux.com. The
Foundation took over stewardship of the site in March, at which time it
began soliciting input from the community to help define ...May. 13, 2009 07:01 AM EDT Reads: 687 |
 MontaVista Software has announced that its new MontaVista Linux 6 is optimized for OMAP35x processors from Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI). MontaVista Linux 6 is a revolutionary new approach to embedded Linux development that is comprised of Market Specific Distributions (MSD), the...May. 12, 2009 08:34 AM EDT Reads: 522 |
 Larry Augustin, who hasn’t had a honest job since VA Linux hit the wall and he took his IPO winnings and turned venture capitalist, is now interim CEO of SugarCRM, the commercial open source CRM ISV. The founding CEO John Roberts resigned the post and his board seat to chase other oppo...May. 11, 2009 09:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,133 Replies: 1 |
 Bowing to recession-induced exigencies, IGEL Technology, the third-largest thin client vendor by revenue last year according to IDC, has introduced a virtualized version of its new Linux-based Universal Desktop firmware to give people a no-cost way to evaluate the look-and-feel of the ...May. 7, 2009 04:45 PM EDT Reads: 847 |
 Intel and Novell said Thursday that they're going to work together on getting OEMs and ODMs to adopt Moblin, the Intel-created open source Linux operating system built specifically for Atom-based netbooks and MIDs.May. 7, 2009 02:45 PM EDT Reads: 470 |
 This guide from thawte will help you understand SSL certificates, how they operate and their application. By making use of an SSL certificate on your web server, you can securely collect sensitive information online, and increase business by giving your customers confidence that their ...Apr. 29, 2009 05:45 PM EDT Reads: 649 |
 This guide from thawte will introduce you to our Starter PKI Program – it explains how it works as well as the benefits it offers. This guide will also point you to a dummy company on our website where you can “test drive” the Program. Apr. 29, 2009 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 594 |
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