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 Data centers today are stretched to the limits with fast-paced business demands. On top of that, integrating and managing IT infrastructures can pose major challenges. Organizations need a new solution that consolidates servers and workloads without breaking the bank—and Linux, togethe...May. 16, 2012 04:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,191 |
 VMware hypervisors of the ESX family (3.x, 4.x and 5.0) are fully, out-of-the box supported by the latest versions of OpenNebula(3.0+). If you have a server farm based on any of the ESX versions, then you can make use of OpenNebula to better manage your physical (and virtual) resources...May. 15, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 765 |
 Red Hat, Inc. and IBM on Wednesday announced that Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 with the KVM hypervisor on IBM Systems has been awarded Common Criteria Certification at Evaluation Assurance Level 4+ (EAL4+). The Common Criteria is an internationally recognized set of standards used by the...May. 9, 2012 08:01 AM EDT Reads: 818 |
 In a world of ever-increasing demand for performance vs cost, the importance of optimizing infrastructure utilization is critical. With today’s easy access to extremely high-performance hardware and the overabundance of management software, it is easy to “over subscribe” either acciden...May. 9, 2012 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,856 |
 Developers behind the open source massively scalable distributed storage system known as Ceph have started a company called Inktank to commercialize the stuff.
It’s supposed to be the first company to offer enterprise-level support and services for Ceph.
They claim Ceph is the “fut...May. 7, 2012 08:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,282 |
 Informatica, which already counts its Cloud processing upwards of a billion cloud integration transactions a day, has upgraded the stuff. It reckons its new Cloud Spring 2012 release will deliver the industry’s most comprehensive cloud integration platform-as-a-service (iPaaS).
The b...May. 7, 2012 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,329 |
 The most enjoyable part of my job at AppDynamics is to witness and evangelize customer success. What’s slightly strange is that for this to happen, an application has to slow down or crash. It’s a bittersweet feeling when End Users, Operations, Developers and many Businesse...May. 6, 2012 11:15 AM EDT Reads: 889 |
 Piston Cloud Computing, the start-up peddling an OpenStack distribution for enterprise private clouds, is co-operating with VMware of all people to develop a Cloud Provider Interface (CPI) that integrates OpenStack cloud infrastructure with Cloud Foundry, VMware’s open source Platform-...May. 2, 2012 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,401 |
 Rackspace, which wants to be the “Linux of the cloud” mimicking the now billion-dollar-a-year Red Hat, said Monday that it’s “drawing a line in the sand against cloud providers.”
Everyone agrees it has Amazon, particularly, and VMware, to a certain extent, in mind. However, what’ll p...Apr. 23, 2012 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,983 |
 Microsoft – for reasons that haven’t been plumbed enough to satisfy skeptics – has set up a wholly owned open source subsidiary. Given history that’s an unusual step.
It’s called Microsoft Open Technologies and it’ll be run by Jean Paoli, an XML standards expert whose interoperabilit...Apr. 22, 2012 08:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,684 |
 Open-Xchange, the supplier of business-class email and collaboration software for cloud providers, announced an agreement with NetArt -- a provider of domain name registration and web hosting in Poland -- to bring cloud-based communication and collaboration to more than 500,000 users.
...Apr. 6, 2012 04:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,221 |
 The open source landscape has evolved into a complex maze of licenses and business models. To make matters more confusing, any simple meaning of the phrase “open source” has become lost amid a sea of ambiguous and arcane terminology. As a result, many software developers fail to recogn...Apr. 4, 2012 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,195 |
 For the second day in a row Dell Tuesday bought a company and left everybody to wonder what it paid.
This time it said it bought Chicago-based Clerity Solutions. It’s kinda amusing for a PC maker to be buying a mainframe company.
To IBM’s irritation, Clerity, which has been around ...Apr. 4, 2012 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,337 |
 Morphlabs has launched what it reckons is the first all solid-state drive (SSD) cloud platform.
Yes, Amazon’s DynamoDB database uses SSDs, and CloudSigma added SSDs to its public cloud last November but not end-to-end.
The Morphlabs entry is based on Dell hardware that’ll be pre-in...Apr. 2, 2012 08:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,698 |
 Alexander Podelko, a performance expert working with Oracle, recently wrote a blog post in which he takes a look at the current state of the APM market and what he thinks needs to change in order for companies to get … Continue reading →Mar. 9, 2012 03:00 AM EST Reads: 1,816 |
 I met Peter Griess last night and heard him talk about his career. Even though he still has plenty of years ahead of him, he has already worked for NetApp, Yahoo, and now Facebook. He was part of a nine-person … Continue reading →Mar. 6, 2012 07:00 AM EST Reads: 2,454 |
 Swisscom, the Swiss telecom, is going into the cloud business.
Its subsidiary Swisscom IT Services AG has signed up with Red Hat as a Certified Cloud Provider and launched a public cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud targeting enterprise-class customers primarily in the Sw...Feb. 17, 2012 07:15 AM EST Reads: 1,736 |
 CloudLinux, Inc., on Thursday released CafeFS 3, a virtualized file system for shared hosters that cages each customer within its own virtualized file system.
CageFS becomes part of CloudLinux OS at no additional charge. CloudLinux OS, the only commercially-supported Linux OS made sp...Feb. 16, 2012 08:12 AM EST Reads: 1,198 |
 "We are pleased to be able to pass the improvements that Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0 offers in centralized provisioning of virtual desktops directly on to our customers," states Florian Spatz, Product Marketing Manager at IGEL Technology, who also points out that, "this partn...Jan. 19, 2012 09:08 PM EST Reads: 2,195 |
 CloudLinux, Inc., developers of the only commercially-supported Linux server operating system made specifically for shared hosting, today announced that CloudLinux OS is now fully compatible with the Atomia software automation platform.
"Now, Atomia customers can easily upgrade their ...Jan. 19, 2012 07:30 AM EST Reads: 1,966 |
 Convirture, which makes management software for Linux virtualization, had an excellent 2011.
Convirture announced its fifth consecutive quarter-over-quarter growth, including increasing its customer base ten-fold for its commercial product, ConVirt Enterprise. The company now has cust...Jan. 18, 2012 05:00 AM EST Reads: 1,393 |
 The more things change, the more they stay the same. That is certainly true of anti-open source virtualization FUD (fear, uncertainty and doubt). Linux virtualization is robust and enterprise-worthy, and is evolving rapidly. It is a threat to the established giants of virtualization.
...Jan. 3, 2012 05:15 AM EST Reads: 2,836 |
 MapR Technologies Tuesday released version 1.2 of its MapR Distribution for Apache Hadoop. The widgetry is imbued with more features to leverage MapReduce 2.0, when it gets here, a move meant to push the start-up way ahead of its Hadoop rivals.
Out now in an early alpha cut called Ya...Dec. 7, 2011 08:15 AM EST Reads: 2,483 |
 Cloud Computing Journal asks a variety of members of the ecosystem, from CIOs to independent consultants to marketeers, about where the i-Technology industry is headed next...here are their views on what's in store in 2012, starting with Nigel Dunn, Principal at Calx Europe – a Europea...Dec. 6, 2011 06:00 AM EST Reads: 5,044 |
 Goosed by Oracle – which has refused to port any more of its software to the Itanium chip signally used by HP – HP announced an oddly named Odyssey Project that’s supposed to unify Unix and x86 server architectures.
Oracle claims Itanium has reached the end of its life – although Int...Nov. 29, 2011 10:00 AM EST Reads: 2,821 |
 CloudLinux, Inc., developers of a commercially supported Linux server operating system made specifically for shared hosting, has announced its Preferred Partner Program with VPS.net the first to join.
VPS.net, based in Salt Lake City, Utah, with operations and data centers all over th...Nov. 25, 2011 04:00 PM EST Reads: 2,373 |
 Amazon Web Services wants to move further up-market and service more of the HPC crowd so it’s publicly beta testing a Cluster Compute Eight Extra Large (CC2), its biggest, most powerful cloud service to date.
The thing has 16 Xeon cores (a pair of eights with Hyper-Threading enabled)...Nov. 21, 2011 07:15 AM EST Reads: 2,856 |
 Boundary, a real-time network monitoring-as-a-service (MaaS) start-up that’s been pretty sub rosa since it got organized last year, surfaced Tuesday sporting a Big Data analytics platform as well that’s supposed to do what Hadoop and Cassandra do but a thousand to tens of thousands tim...Nov. 21, 2011 06:45 AM EST Reads: 2,762 |
 cVidya’s MoneyMap® Version 6.5 has achieved Oracle Exadata Ready status through Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN). This will significantly assist clients with the extreme performance available only with Oracle Exadata Database Machine.
This announcement demonstrates that cVidya has fully te...Nov. 10, 2011 11:37 AM EST Reads: 1,611 |
 Azul Systems is going with the herd, which is congregated down around Linux, commodity x86 hardware, Big Data, the cloud and the cloud’s little friends PaaS and SaaS because that’s where the business is.
The latest spin of Azul’s Zing JVM is just for Linux.
The company’s not go...Nov. 8, 2011 08:00 AM EST Reads: 1,795 |
 China says it’s developed a Linux-running supercomputer using a natively developed 16-core 64-bit RISC chip called the ShenWei SW1600.
It’s unclear if the Chinese started from scratch with a brand new architecture or based the processor on existing American designs. Reports suggest i...Nov. 7, 2011 07:00 AM EST Reads: 2,653 |
 CFEngine AS, the Norwegian outfit with the popular eponymous open source configuration and compliance management widgetry for automating distributed infrastructure, has moved its sales operation to Palo Alto in hopes of turning its freeloading Fortune 1000 accounts into paying customer...Oct. 31, 2011 04:15 AM EDT Reads: 2,524 |
 CloudLinux, Inc., developers of the commercially supported Linux server operating system made specifically for shared hosting, has announced a partnership with Parallels, the hosting and cloud services enablement leader. CloudLinux OS, which will now be accessible directly from Paralle...Oct. 27, 2011 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,292 |
 The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux, has announced that five Europe-based companies are joining the organization: AboveIT, Comarch, CSR, Symbio and Tieto.
These companies are joining The Linux Foundation to collaborate on adva...Oct. 26, 2011 02:01 AM EDT Reads: 2,847 |
 Convirture has released ConVirt Enterprise Cloud - software that manages virtualized datacenters and cloud deployments built on KVM and Xen virtual machines.
ConVirt Enterprise Cloud provides a set of sophisticated tools capable of managing an entire virtual and cloud infrastructure f...Oct. 14, 2011 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,545 |
 A sea change is about to occur in the storage industry - from block based storage to file based for applications and virtualization - and believe it or not it all stems from changes coming to the SMB protocol. Yes, that's right, a protocol.
The performance of back-end storage has been...Oct. 7, 2011 06:45 AM EDT Reads: 2,419 |
 Are you tired of managing your database client libraries?
Imagine one driver supporting all major UNIX/Linux platforms for all major databases...
Imagine no more, Progress DataDirect Connect for ODBC does all that – and more. In addition to using wire protocol technology to eliminate...Sep. 28, 2011 10:30 AM EDT Reads: 3,009 |
 CloudLinux, Inc., has released CloudLinux OS version 6.1, which is based on kernel version 2.6.32 that adds enhanced security, stability and compatibility to the company's flagship product.
As the only commercially-supported Linux OS made specifically for shared hosting, CloudLinux OS...Sep. 15, 2011 09:15 AM EDT Reads: 2,988 |
 Red Hat is building a policy-based cloud manager meant to spin up, deploy and, well, manage multiple Linux and Windows virtual images, their applications and their necessaries across clouds.
It’s called Aeolus presumably after the Greek ruler of the winds.
It’s advertised as “freei...Sep. 6, 2011 06:30 AM EDT Reads: 3,676 |
 Microsoft turned up Monday in Beijing with a cloud pact with leading Chinese Linux provider China Standard Software Co Ltd (CS2C).
They’re supposed to co-develop, co-market and sell “mixed-source” solutions to the Chinese public and private cloud market.
The widgetry will be built ...Aug. 29, 2011 07:45 AM EDT Reads: 3,405 |
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