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 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: 4,483 |
 Google has gotten a patent on a seaborne floating data center to be housed on a cargo ship three to seven miles offshore that would be cooled by ocean waters and powered by a Pelamis wave-based electrical generator (little fishies and SpongeBob SquarePants beware).May. 2, 2009 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,950 |
 Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) has been released today bringing highly interesting new features, specially in the Cloud Computing and Virtualization area. The new Ubuntu server distribution includes two complementary cloud tools, OpenNebula and Eucalyptus, so providing the technology r...Apr. 27, 2009 08:00 PM EDT Reads: 7,383 |
 Sun has put its open source GlassFish portfolio and identity management OpenSSO and OpenDS software on Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). Sun said it was the first step in its strategy to offer its portfolio of open source software on a variety of cloud platforms.
Apr. 23, 2009 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,708 |
 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 |
 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 |
 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 |
 FreedomOSS brings an elaborate expertise in Cloud Computing and SOA to your business. As a services organization, Frredom OSS collaborates with customers to design a SOA blueprint coupled with Cloud Computing solution to fit the customer's needs. When you have a SOA problem and a solut...Mar. 29, 2009 02:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,879 |
 Red Hat's earnings dropped 30% to $16 million, eight cents share, in its fourth quarter ended in February. Revenue was up 18% year-over-year but up only 1% sequentially to $166.2 million. The company's 22-cents-a-share non-GAAP income was two cents better than expected thanks to cost c...Mar. 26, 2009 05:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,816 |
 SYS-CON Events announced today that leading Virtualization, SOA, and Cloud Computing technology provider Mosso was named "Silver Sponsor" of SYS-CON's 2nd International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, colocated with 5th International Virtualization Conference & Expo, March 30 - Apri...Mar. 25, 2009 10:00 PM EDT Reads: 3,460 |
 In a completely uncharacteristic and counter-culture move – the recession has slashed a lot of dividends – Oracle is going to pay out its very first dividend. It’s going to pay five cents a share starting in May at the cost of about a billion a year. No, it’s not coming out of Larry’s ...Mar. 25, 2009 10:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,946 |
 Michael Dell claimed Tuesday that simply the talk of a Sun-IBM tie-up is an "enormous opportunity" for Dell servers since it creates an air of uncertainty around the future of Sun's Solaris-based boxes and accelerates the move to x86 Linux machines. According to reports Dell's CEO said...Mar. 24, 2009 09:00 PM EDT Reads: 3,403 |
 There was a flurry of activity in Red Hat stock Monday - up 17% at one point - on what were called "widely published" rumors Oracle might buy it. Remember how Oracle copped Red Hat's Linux for its own six years ago and how it was going to eat Red's lunch? There's been Oracle-Red Hat sp...Mar. 24, 2009 08:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,993 |
 From Apache Hadoop and Google App Engine to Web-Scale Computing and Web Services in action, a round-up of the Cloud Computing themes & topics being discussed March 30-April 1, 2009, in New York City by the world-class speaker faculty at the 2nd International Cloud Computing Conference ...Mar. 17, 2009 10:45 AM EDT Reads: 6,859 |
 Red Hat announced that U21Global migrated to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 with integrated virtualization to implement a solution that could scale with growing business needs. It selected Red Hat Enterprise Linux to leverage its built-in virtualization technology in order to reduce its ha...Mar. 11, 2009 11:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,430 |
 Heidrick & Struggles, the big headhunter, says it's seeing "clients in need of immediate access to top talent who can step into short-term situations and solve problems quickly, or provide operating insights and advise" so it's setting up what it calls a Chief Advisor Network to fill t...Mar. 9, 2009 10:15 AM EDT Reads: 2,467 |
 Red Hat, which is coming from behind and has to mange a change in strategic direction, moving its followers from Xen to KVM virtualization, is putting together a new portfolio of virtualization products that’s supposed to break down the existing barriers to virtualization adoption and ...Feb. 26, 2009 09:30 AM EST Reads: 1,818 |
 Red Hat announced its virtualization agenda and roadmap for 2009, including confirmation that its ecosystem of applications tested and certified to run on Red Hat Enterprise Linux are also certified to run in a Red Hat virtualized platform with no modifications. With this news, Red Hat...Feb. 23, 2009 12:30 PM EST Reads: 1,012 |
 The cloud computing meme continues to billow as Juniper and IBM announce a cloud management partnership rumors swirl about heavy petting between VMware and shareholder/partner Cisco. A few months ago it seemed like every cloud discussion included Google and/or Amazon; now it appears t...Feb. 21, 2009 12:00 AM EST Reads: 4,936 |
 As SOA moves from the project level to the enterprise, SOA architects and practitioners quickly realize the need to consider common services and data management issues. Today we seek the right approaches and the proper enabling technology and standards to provide our enterprises with a...Feb. 20, 2009 10:15 PM EST Reads: 3,270 |
 Steve Albrecht, Associate Dean of the Marriott School of Management at Brigham Young University, has resigned from Red Hat’s board, effective June 30, to go on a three-year Mormon mission to Japan. Albrecht chairs the board’s audit committee and is a member of its compensation committe...Feb. 20, 2009 07:45 PM EST Reads: 902 |
 Red Hat and Microsoft, about as virulent a pair of enemies as has ever existed, threw a leash over their fire-breathing dragons long enough on Monday to announce a cooperative pact forced on them by their mutual users - folks who may be holding back from committing to virtualization ah...Feb. 18, 2009 12:45 AM EST Reads: 2,491 |
 Open source solutions firm, Red Hat's JBoss releases Enterprise Portal Platform 4.3, developed as an integrated and standards-based open source platform for hosting and portal based applications and rich web presences. Craig Muzilla, Vice President of Red Hat's Middleware business rema...Feb. 17, 2009 02:30 PM EST Reads: 994 |
 Red Hat has signed reciprocal agreements with Microsoft Corporation to enable increased interoperability for the companies’ virtualization platforms. Each company will join the other's virtualization validation/certification program and will provide coordinated technical support for th...Feb. 16, 2009 01:45 PM EST Reads: 1,008 |
 Red Hat got JBoss Application Server 5.0 out in December and is now revving its engine. It says to expect three modular, supported point releases of the widgetry this year meant for everything from web serving to a full enterprise-class battery. The componentization comes compliments o...Feb. 16, 2009 10:15 AM EST Reads: 1,041 |
 Red Hat, together with its JBoss Solution Partners, has announced the formation of a new open source community project focused on enterprise-class middleware migrations. The JBoss MASS (migration assistance) community will focus on the creation of migration tools and a migration resour...Feb. 12, 2009 06:00 AM EST Reads: 789 |
 Red Hat has announced the global availability of JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform 4.3, an integrated and standards-based open source platform for hosting, portal-based applications, and rich web presences. JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform 4.3 has improved server performance, high avail...Feb. 12, 2009 05:00 AM EST Reads: 953 |
 Red Hat announced the global availability of JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform 4.3, an integrated and standards-based open source platform for hosting and portal based applications and rich web presences. JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform 4.3 maintains its focus on enterprise needs with ...Feb. 11, 2009 05:00 PM EST Reads: 1,587 |
 Open source software development in Russia is one of the most important directives for Igor Schegolev - the Head of the Ministry of Information Technologies and Communications of the Russian Federation. Schegolev met with Werner Knoblich, Red Hat Vice President for EMEA at the Ministry...Feb. 10, 2009 07:00 PM EST Reads: 1,269 |
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