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 Red Hat announced the award-winning finalists in its third annual Red Hat and JBoss Innovation Awards. The awards are designed to recognize the outstanding use, innovation and extension of Red Hat and JBoss solutions by Red Hat customers, partners and the open source community. From th...Aug. 5, 2009 03:15 PM EDT Reads: 933 |
 Fedora and Red Hat are committed to helping future talent in the technology and computer science field gain hands-on experience with open source software. The Fedora Scholarship serves as a way to enable up-and-coming contributors to work within free and open source software communitie...Aug. 5, 2009 08:04 AM EDT Reads: 725 |
 Singapore Telecommunications Ltd, a k a SingTel, Singapore's largest phone company and a major local player in broadband Internet services, is going into the cloud business, intending to establish Singapore as a regional cloud computing hub.
It's launched Singapore's first integrate...Jul. 19, 2009 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 3,744 |
 Such projections have long since ceased to be news but Oracle, which will take Sun over before another quarter closes unless the regulators make some objection, rushed out a statement saying it's seen the preliminary estimates and still expects the Sun acquisition to be accretive to it...Jul. 14, 2009 02:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,990 |
 Amazon Web Services (AWS) has become Red Hat’s very first Premier Cloud Provider Partner. Fair enough. Red Hat was the first supported operating system and JBoss the first supported middleware on AWS. Anyway, Red Hat has thought up this shiny new program to certify “industry leaders in...Jul. 10, 2009 01:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,892 |
 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: 3,856 |
 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: 2,590 |
 “We are pleased to report better than expected revenue and EPS results in Q1,” stated Jim Whitehurst, President and Chief Executive Officer of Red Hat. “Red Hat’s growth is driven in part by our ability to help enterprise customers save money in a challenging IT spending environment. O...Jun. 24, 2009 04:04 PM EDT Reads: 1,293 |
 Jitterbit, the open source house that has taken on large-scale enterprise-grade data and application integration – problems like connecting on-premise and cloud applications and data – is pushing on to Jitterbit 3.0, a major release of its solution. The new version, when it gets here –...Jun. 19, 2009 06:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,673 |
 Red Hat sent its newfangled Xen-replacing KVM-based virtualization portfolio to beta Tuesday, with an eye to delivering it later this year. It says the beta program is oversubscribed. It includes a new standalone hypervisor (turning the Linux kernel into a bare-metal hypervisor, someth...Jun. 18, 2009 09:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,507 |
 Boulder, CO. Managed Methods Inc. (www.managedmethods.com ) the leader in SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) visibility and SOA runtime governance today announced the availability of their SOA management and runtime governance product JaxView 5.0. While providing full support for SO...Jun. 17, 2009 10:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,288 |
 Red Hat has announced an optimized solution developed with HP around service-oriented architecture (SOA) Governance. The JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform has been optimized to be governed by HP SOA Systinet software. With the addition of HP SOA Systinet, customers have an opportunity to d...Jun. 17, 2009 04:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,711 |
 Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT) announced that the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization portfolio of products has transitioned to Beta and is on track for final delivery later this year. These products are part of the company's outlined strategy to offer solutions that expand the scope and mark...Jun. 16, 2009 06:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,639 |
 If your business relies on the speedy resolution of an issue from your cloud provider, then test them before you try. Send them that email out-of-hours to see how quickly and how useful the reply actually is. Try and reach someone on the phone. Look around the forums to see how many qu...Jun. 16, 2009 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 5,676 |
 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: 1,786 |
 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: 2,006 |
 As open source development expands and deepens its innovative capabilities, JBoss Enterprise Middleware, by Red Hat, continues to deliver enterprise-class alternatives to expensive, cumbersome proprietary solutions at additional levels of the software stack. These go beyond the applica...Jun. 12, 2009 01:15 PM EDT Reads: 1,495 |
 The Fedora Project, a Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT) sponsored and community-supported open source collaboration project, announced the availability of Fedora 11, the latest version of its free open source operating system. The community's eleventh release includes the broadest feature set ...Jun. 10, 2009 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,251 |
 Red Hat announced that its leading operating platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, is driving further enterprise adoption of cloud computing. Building on the strong, long-term technology collaboration between Red Hat and Verizon Business, today Red Hat Enterprise Linux is offered as one ...Jun. 3, 2009 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,306 |
 After weeks of slow-moving negotiations and due diligence, CA has bought what it describes as “certain data center automation and policy-based optimization expertise and assets from Cassatt,” the failed Bill Coleman start-up that sucked up $100 million in venture money on its way to th...Jun. 2, 2009 10:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,992 |
 Red Hat has announced the JBoss Open Choice application platform strategy which aims to provide a single environment for deploying a variety of programming models with a common platform, making it easier to develop and deploy applications. The JBoss Open Choice strategy represents Red ...Jun. 2, 2009 10:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,624 |
 Red Hat and 17 other companies last week sued the Swiss Federal Bureau for Building and Logistics (BBL), a government agency, in the Swiss Federal Administration Court seeking to overturn the award of a $36 million three-year contract to Microsoft for workstation widgetry, including ap...May. 27, 2009 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,583 |
 Sun had a suitor other than IBM and Oracle. It says so in its proxy statement where it tells of its blow-by-blow adventures since November 6 when Sam Palmisano, the CEO of IBM, thinly disguised in the account as Party A, approached Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz about a takeover. Sometime b...May. 15, 2009 11:45 AM EDT Reads: 4,482 |
 Red Hat announced a call for presentations for its Open Source Cloud Computing Forum, a virtual event scheduled to take place July 22, 2009. The Forum will focus on how open source software and standards will advance the development and value of cloud computing environments. Apr. 23, 2009 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,066 |
 VMware said Wednesday that it earned $69.9 million, 18 cents a share in Q1, up 64% on revenues up 7% to $470 million. On a non-GAAP basis before charges, the virtualization leader earned 25 cents a share, up 14%. Its non-GAAP operating income was also up 14% to $121 million.Apr. 22, 2009 07:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,511 |
 In case you missed it Oracle announced this morning that it will be acquiring Sun Microsystems. The transaction is valued at approximately $7.4 billion. This news means the technology landscape is about to radically change and quite possibly, Sun hardware is now dead. The software aspe...Apr. 20, 2009 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,562 |
 Well now the fat is in the fire. A ticked-off HP is coming out against Cisco with both guns blazing. It claims it's been working for years on the kind of all-in-one compute-storage-network-fabric-power-and-cooling convergence that Cisco says it has. HP says it's had such a thing in min...Apr. 20, 2009 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,196 |
 While server virtualization appears to have gone mainstream, the case for desktop virtualization is often less clear. However, the potential opportunity is significant with the number of client devices far exceeding the number of servers. Primary reasons why organizations will embrace ...Apr. 15, 2009 07:30 PM EDT Reads: 3,610 |
 Deploying cloud resources requires a different legal analysis than using, or selling, traditional Internet infrastructure services. This session will focus on the interconnected nature, but nationless state, of cloud computing. Delegates will come away with: Five legal theories that wi...Apr. 15, 2009 04:45 PM EDT Reads: 2,162 |
 Red Hat Thursday sent its Teiid data virtualization system project out to the JBoss.org community. Teiid is called the first open source community project that aims to deliver Enterprise Information Integration (EII) with both relational and XML data virtualization. Red Hat has sponsor...Apr. 14, 2009 10:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,676 |
 Salesforce.com wannabe NetSuite, Larry Ellison's other company, has bundled up a bunch of widgetry much like Salesforce's Force.com platform-as-a-service and dubbed it the SuiteCloud Ecosystem.Apr. 13, 2009 10:45 PM EDT Reads: 2,955 |
 The racks and racks and racks of commodity servers that make the Web 2.0 world and now the cloud possible are really lousy at it. They're slow, underutilized, don't scale worth a hoot, eat power and space, and now they're multi-core. They need extensive data partitioning, application-l...Apr. 13, 2009 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 2,534 |
 Cloudera, the start-up that going to commercialize Hadoop, the Google-inspired, Apache-fostered open source software that powers the data processing engines behind some of the biggest and most popular web sites - sites like Yahoo, Facebook, Amazon and Google itself - even Microsoft - p...Apr. 13, 2009 05:45 AM EDT Reads: 4,555 |
 Salesforce.com's cloud computing model provides many benefits to enterprises globally requiring only moderate operating expense and offering a pay-as-you-go, elastic model that can scale with a business' changing needs. Based on salesforce.com's real-time, multi-tenant architecture, Sa...Apr. 8, 2009 11:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,906 |
 Sun's board rejected a formal IBM offer for the company Saturday as too low, according to the Wall Street Journal. Apparently the price IBM offered was $9.40 a share or less, down from a reported $9.55 late last week. IBM pulled its roughly $7 billion offer off the table on Sunday, acc...Apr. 5, 2009 11:45 PM EDT Reads: 2,653 |
 Microsoft and IBM, estranged over IBM’s high-handedness in dictating a seemingly innocuous Cloud Manifesto that’s read as Big Blue’s attempt to stamp itself the ultimate leader of the cloud movement met Monday and parlayed at the Cloud Computing Expo in New York.
Apr. 5, 2009 01:30 PM EDT Reads: 4,204 |
 Satyam, the corrupt Indian outsourcer whose founder lied about its revenues for years, has changed the rules of the redemptive sale of a majority 51% stake in the company. It was supposed to be a sealed bid auction, winner take all. Now it says – evidently trying to wring every dime ou...Apr. 3, 2009 05:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,968 |
 The Wall Street Journal, flourishing its unidentified sources, said Thursday afternoon that the price IBM is willing to pay for Sun had drop from between $10 and $11 a share to between $9 and $10 and that Sun is willing to accept the cut - yeah, like it wouldn't - provided IBM gives it...Apr. 3, 2009 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,570 |
 In the end, it’s all about money – how much do you spend for just maintaining the status quo, and how much on supporting truly differentiating business initiatives. This drives an imperative for dynamic infrastructures, increasing resource utilization and reducing labor costs, and for ...Mar. 31, 2009 10:01 AM EDT Reads: 2,340 |
 HP has come up with widgetry such as its so-called Sea of Sensors, 32 observations posts that track thermal activity and adjust fans, memory and I/O for cooling and efficiency. Users can also pick from four power supplies to match their workload, a technique that promises 92% or better...Mar. 30, 2009 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,201 |
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