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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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-...

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...

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...

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. ...

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 ...

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...

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...

"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...

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 ...

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...

CloudLinux, Inc., developers of a commercially supported Linux server operating system made specifically for shared hosting, has announced integration with managed online backup software StoreGrid Hosting Provider Edition from Vembu Technologies -- delivering a solid, easy path to mana...

Typemock, a provider and pioneer of unit testing solutions, has announced it has been selected to participate in Red Hat Innovate, a new initiative launched by Red Hat in Israel. The initiative is designed to assist software development start-up companies based in Israel to leverage t...

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...

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...

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...

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)...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

CloudLinux Inc. makers of CloudLinux OS, on Tuesday announced that it is now being run on more than 5,000 production servers worldwide, a 100 percent increase in just six months. CloudLinux isolates each user account within its own Lightweight Virtual Environment (LVE) allowing system...

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...

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...

Apache and MySQL make up the backbone of many Linux based web servers. According to the August 2011 Web Server Survey by Netcraft, Apache currently runs on 65.18% (or 301,771,518!) of web servers. Similarly, MySQL is the most popular open source database and holds a significant portio...

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 ...

The Samba Team has released Samba 3.6, a major new release of the Free Software file, print and authentication server suite for Microsoft Windows clients. The widgetry includes the first Samba implementation of Microsoft's new SMB2 file-serving protocol. Samba’s new SMB2 server has b...

Searchlight Solutions Ltd. on Tuesday announced its subsidiary, Linux Labs International, Inc., has recently completed a key upgrade of its proprietary NimbusOS for use as the Operating System for its High Performance Cloud Computing ("HPC2") service. Linux Labs NimbusOS was developed ...

Remember that hated no-sue deal between Microsoft and Novell? Well, it’s been renewed with SUSE, the now Novell-replacing Attachmate-owned business unit returned to Germany where SUSE came from. The deal, as loathed as it was by the open source crowed, was the salvation of SUSE and...

Oracle has bought Ksplice for its little-heard-from Linux operation. Price was not disclosed. The Cambridge, Massachusetts start-up offers zero downtime updating, which is supposed to increase the security, reliability, availability and general likeability of Oracle Linux by letting c...

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Likewise, the open source company that made its bones connecting Linux, Mac OS X and Unix systems to Microsoft Active Directory, has sold off its Active Directory Bridge business unit, including its Likewise Open and Likewise Enterprise software, to Beyond Trust so it can concentrate o...