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Calxeda, the ARM-making low-power microserver hopeful, has gotten
some traction with Fedora, Red Hat’s open source Linux sandbox where
technologies pregnant with possibility are developed and tested ostensibly
by an army of community volunteers.May. 15, 2013 04:00 AM EDT Reads: 647 |
 What's the difference between "DBaaS" and "DRaaS"? What's the current status of Hadoop? What's the US Government doing right now in the Cloud? How about the financial industry? Why is the Cloud so important to the Big Data boom?
Which cloud model is right for your company? How can y...Apr. 26, 2013 01:00 AM EDT Reads: 4,332 |
 The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Department of Commerce, intents to sponsor a Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) to facilitate public-private collaboration for accelerating the widespread adoption of integrated cybersecurity tools and tec...Apr. 25, 2013 07:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,783 |
 We’re pleased to announce a new Python instrumentation version — Oboeware 1.1!
We’ve added a few new libraries recently, but we’re really excited about the new customization API we’ve introduced in this version. More than just a Python bump, this is the first package we’re releasing w...Apr. 18, 2013 12:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,378 |
 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: 1,476 |
 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: 1,479 |
 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: 2,040 |
 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: 1,775 |
 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: 2,028 |
 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: 1,235 |
 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: 2,615 |
 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: 2,179 |
 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: 1,736 |
 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: 1,592 |
 Concerns are raised every once in a while in the broader free and open source software community about freeloaders. The attitude expressed is that if you're getting the benefit of FOSS, you should contribute. Building a business on a FOSS project you don't own, whether you're providi...Mar. 18, 2013 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,939 |
 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: 1,480 |
 A brand new Red Hat spin-off wants to support servers whether they’re physical or virtual, on-premise or in the cloud.
It’s called AnsibleWorks and the open source automation software it’s promoting is called Ansible.
The Ansible open source project was run up last year by one of t...Mar. 7, 2013 09:00 AM EST Reads: 2,997 |
 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: 2,027 |
 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: 3,641 |
 Improving application program performance will require parallelizing the program execution at ever finer granularity now that the processor clock rates are no longer increasing. However, even in a per-application dedicated computing environment, the parallelization overhead is known to...Feb. 18, 2013 08:00 AM EST Reads: 3,398 |
 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: 3,190 |
 Do we need programming languages? You may think that the answer is no. But, if you go by the recent trend you may need to change your mind. Why is Google working two (GO, DART) new programming languages? Why has IBM (X10), Cray (Chapel) and Red Hat (Ceylon) working on creating a new pr...Oct. 3, 2012 10:45 AM EDT Reads: 35,898 Replies: 1 |
 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: 2,743 |
 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: 10,936 |
 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: 3,197 |
 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: 3,077 |
 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: 4,009 |
 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: 3,121 |
 The industrial revolution continues - starting with the steam engines of the 18th century, continuing with large-scale steel production, oil exploitation, electrical and photographic innovations of the 19th century, and moving on to the transportation, communications, computation and e...Jan. 14, 2013 07:00 AM EST Reads: 4,751 |
 Data is going up and data is going down. Its endless upward spiral to the cloud is being lauded as the platform and paradigm that we must now adhere to for future IT efficiency. At the same time, data is going down. It is being processed and (crucially here) it is being ‘analyzed’ at a...Jan. 7, 2013 08:30 AM EST Reads: 3,118 |
 I've recently been involved in several discussions that are variations on, "Which open source or free software license should I choose for my project?" Here is my way of looking at the large and growing collection of licenses in the wild. First let's make sure we all understand that I ...Jan. 4, 2013 10:30 AM EST Reads: 3,968 |
 I recently blogged about making open source software, and the high level steps for how to think about the process. We started with the need for software to seed the discussion, the need for clear motivation as to why to publish as open source software, and then the structural requirem...Dec. 28, 2012 01:30 PM EST Reads: 2,639 |
 Wrapping up a year of impressive growth and product innovation, Gazzang, the Linux data security company, today made its 2013 predictions covering emerging trends in big data, the cloud and open source technology adoption.
“Buoyed by increasing adoption of and trust in cloud technolog...Dec. 28, 2012 12:45 PM EST Reads: 4,008 |
 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: 5,796 |
 “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: 5,411 |
 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: 4,543 |
 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: 3,296 |
 Software is surprisingly dynamic. All software evolves. Bugs are found and fixed. Enhancements added. New requirements are discovered in using the software. New uses are found for it and it is shaped to those new uses. Software solutions that are useful and used must by their ver...Dec. 12, 2012 10:15 AM EST Reads: 2,429 |
 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: 2,482 |
 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: 3,259 |
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