rlebherz wrote: Alf,
Interesting article. I think the Cloud services and cloud infrastructure lines are a bit blurred, but I agree with most of what you are saying.
Dont underestimate the SLA's role in accountability. For companies that have dynamic requirements and no down time can be afforded, make sure you have very tight SLAs. For example, OpSource provides a 100% SLA in the cloud and 100%SLA around production application environments. Now 100% is ideally perfect, it comes down to accountability, yo...
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Two Madoff computer programmers who authorities say made the whole decades-long $65 billion Ponzi scheme possible were arrested Friday and brought up on criminal charges of conspiracy, falsifying the books and records of a broker-dealer and falsifying the books and records of an invest...
Sun Microsystems, whose future is dicey at best right now thanks to the European Commission, revved its virtual desktop Sun Ray software Tuesday. Oracle, Sun’s would-be acquirer, by the way, was an early access customer and is evaluating the software for potential use as part of its ow...
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The Linux Foundation (LF), the nonprofit
organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux, today announced
the results of its 2009 Technical Advisory Board (TAB) election, which was
held at the Japan Linux Symposium in Tokyo.
Hitachi has joined Red Hat’s year-old Advanced Mission-Critical Program and offer high-end to mission-critical workloads on Linux to customers in Japan. The program is meant to mimic the kind of workloads, services levels, support and long lifecycles previously thought to be supported ...
Cisco CEO John Chambers, who has turned into something of an economic oracle probably because he is more in command of his catbird seat than most big-time CEOs, said Wednesday when Cisco reported its quarterly results that the economy hit a “clear tipping point” before mid-summer and i...
Canonical’s Ubuntu 9.10 Server Edition, code named Karmic Koala, became generally available for free download Thursday. That’s the stuff that introduces Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud (UEC), a k a Eucalyptus Software’s open source software, as a fully supported technology. The widgetry is bas...
Zend Technologies, the PHP company, has hung Zend Server 5.0, which support IBM i as well as Linux and Windows, out for public beta. A production release should be out by the end of the year. The widgetry is a major new version of the company’s enterprise-ready PHP application server, ...
WinMagic (www.winmagic.com), a full-disk encryption vendor and innovator, today announced that it has joined the Trusted Computing Group (TCG) at the Contributor Level. WinMagic has been working independently with the self-encrypting drive manufacturers for over two years and is unique...
Open Kernel Labs (OK Labs), the leading global provider of embedded virtualization software for mobile phones and broadband Internet devices, today announced that ST-Ericsson, a world leader in wireless platforms and semiconductors, has selected OK Labs as its mobile virtualization par...
LynuxWorks has announced that FFI (the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment) has selected LynxSecure in support of a program in the field of classified information handling and information flow between security domains. FFI selected LynxSecure due to its unique ability to run Windo...
SYS-CON's Virtualization Journal announced today that the voting in its second annual Virtualization Readers' Choice Awards is now open. Voting will end October 23, 2009, and winners will be announced the week of November 2-4, 2009, at the 7th International Virtualization Conference & ...
Parallels, which thinks of itself as a cloud enabler, has joined the bare metal hypervisor business with a little number called Parallels Server 4 Bare Metal that leverages its desktop hypervisor and gussies it up to make it good at stuff like test and development and consolidating mul...
Red Hat said Wednesday that its KVM hypervisor, its pet virtualization scheme, can talk to Microsoft’s Windows Server and that customers can now deploy jointly supported server virtualization environments that combine Windows Server and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). The two companie...
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Bright Computing, a specialist in cluster management software and
services for high-performance computing (HPC), was launched today to offer a
fundamentally new approach to the technical challenges posed by HPC cluster
management. Its innovative software product - Bright Cluster Man...
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This must have been what vaudeville was like when a none-too-successful act opened for the star.
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Windows has a bit of a problem with this instantly gratifying instant-on booting busin...
xkoto, the database virtualization company, has announced the availability of GRIDSCALE 5.1, the latest release of its active-active solution for IBM DB2. GRIDSCALE 5.1 features a new cluster management system that improves the performance of online transaction processing (OLTP) applic...
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POD, Penguin Computing’s Linux-based Penguin on Demand HPC cloud, is going to get high-performance parallel storage from Panasas whose petabytes-supporting ActiveStor line is supposed to ensure against bottlenecks. POD, which doesn’t use machine virtualization, is targeted at researche...
The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver, which overturned the Utah district court’s summary judgment that Novell owns Unix, has given SCO until October 1 to file a retort to Novell’s motion for an en banc rehearing of the case. Apparently that’s standard operating procedure. The od...
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The Linux Foundation (LF), the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux, has announced that DeviceVM has become its newest member. DeviceVM is the creator of the award-winning Splashtop(TM) instant-on platform, which is powered by Linux. Splashtop allows use...
Meshcom Technologies, Inc. today announced its new brand name - EmbedOne
- for its new embedded Linux line of business. At the same time, new publicly
available suite of software and services for the embedded Linux community was
announced.
GoAnywhere Services securely allows trading partners (e.g. customers, employees, vendors, etc.) to connect with your organization for exchanging files. This innovative solution eliminates the need for departmental stand-alone tools and methods that were traditionally required for shari...
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Build Release Management (BRM) is truly the next generation of IT Change Management. With BRM, you can get compliant and implement total process automation while continuing to work with whatever version control tool, testing application or IDE you are currently using. Download this ess...
Novell Tuesday asked the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals to rehear en banc its decision overturning the Utah summary judgment awarding ownership of Unix to Novell and sending SCO’s suit against Novell back to Utah for trial.
En banc would mean all of the God knows how many judges on t...
Novell has released SecureLogin 7, the latest take on its enterprise single sign-on (SSO) solution, said to cut the time required to SSO-enable an organization’s applications from weeks to days. Password proliferation is supposed to cause significant losses in IT and end-user productiv...
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Red Hat has announced the availability of Red Hat Network Satellite 5.3, the latest version of Red Hat's on-premises systems management solution that provides software updates, configuration management, provisioning and monitoring across both physical and virtual Red Hat Enterprise Lin...
Novell, which contrary to public opinion took a serious hit the other day when a federal appeals court threw its ownership of Unix – and its ability to silence SCO – back to a jury to decide, earned five cents a share or $16.7 million on revenues down 12% to $216.1 million in the July ...
The legal claims SCO made against Linux are back. The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals today threw out the Utah district court’s August 2007 summary judgment awarding ownership of Unix and UnixWare copyrights to Novell. The appeals court also overturned Novell’s waiver of SCO’s terminatio...
The open source Mono Project sponsored by Novell has put out a beta release Moonlight 2, the Linux equivalent of Microsoft’s Silverlight 2, which gives users a platform to view and use Silverlight and Windows Media content on Linux. The beta offers improved functionality compared to Mo...
LiMo Foundation has announced the newest round of LiMo-compliant handsets has been released to market. Developed by leading device manufacturers and LiMo members NEC and Panasonic Mobile Communications for LiMo board member NTT DOCOMO, these latest handset models offer an array of next...
