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The US Defense Department has created forge.mil, its own Red Hat-based security-defended knockoff of Sourceforge accessible only with smartcards for those who would edit or contribute open source code and a DOD, CAC or ECA certificate. It’s reportedly only got information on three proj...
Red Hat announced that Bank of New Zealand, a subsidiary of the National Australia Bank Group, has deployed Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 on IBM System z mainframes to solve environment, space and cost issues related to its datacenter. With Red Hat and IBM solutions, Bank of New Zealand h...
Eight months after version 1.0 was originally released, Red Hat has released Red Hat Enterprise MRG 1.1, its Linux platform for time-critical applications. The Grid capabilities in the 1.0 release were still experimental. However, Red Hat says that they are now fit for use in productio...
Acxiom Corporation has selected Red Hat Enterprise Linux as the standard operating system for its grid processing environment. Acxiom’s grid infrastructure is designed to improve efficiency, maintain consistency across its systems and logically partition resources to meet its clients’ ...
Over the last 5 years, the open community has turned its attention to virtualization. In this session from Virtualization Conference & Expo 2009 West, Brian Stevens discussed what has been achieved and what is under development, and most important why open source is critical when build...
Red Hat announced that CQUniversity, an Australian university with ten campuses and more than 21,00 students and staff, has migrated its critical IT systems to Red Hat solutions. CQUniversity offers a wide range of undergraduate and postgraduate courses on-campus and through distance e...
Ingres Corporation and Red Hat are teaming up in a joint keynote presentation at the upcoming “Open Source Meets Business” congress for CIOs, CTOs, and IT decision makers. The event is scheduled for January 27 – 29 in the CongressCenter Nuremberg. Tom Berquist, CFO at Ingres, will co-h...
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3 is out. It adds 150 updates and enhancements, including enhanced virtualization scalability, increased scalability of virtualized x86-64 environments, support for Intel’s quad-core 45nm Core i7 Nehalem processors, OpenJDK, the open source implementation of ...
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform provides dramatic capabilities beyond basic Enterprise Linux 5. Integrated server and storage virtualization technologies in a single, easily managed product, with a complete and highly functional environment. Included in Red Hat Enterprise Li...
Red Hat raided Intel for a guy to run its North American sales and came back with Greg Symon, who had been running the global software relations organization within Intel’s Software Solutions Group. Symon started the unit. Red Hat expects him to expand its enterprise customer base and ...
Red Hat offshoot rPath has named Tim Buckley, once the COO of Red Hat and lately the principal of Buckley Investments, to its board as executive chairman. He’s supposed to help rPath accelerate its push into the enterprise market with solutions for reducing the cost and complexity of d...
rPath today announced that Tim Buckley, principal of Buckley Investments and former chief operating officer of Red Hat, has joined the rPath board of directors as the executive chairman. From his newly created post, Buckley will help rPath accelerate its push into the enterprise market...
Red Hat has named Greg Symon as vice president and general manager of North American sales. With more than 25 years of business and sales experience, Symon will play a key leadership role in the development and execution of Red Hat's North American sales strategy and growth. Prior to R...
AMD has released code on the ATI R600 series concerning 3D acceleration so that the open-source Linux drivers can begin to support the newer ATI graphics processors. This Linux code is needed to begin fostering the development of an open-source R600 3D driver. The microcode for the new...
Red Hat is on its way to supporting Google Web Toolkit (GWT) as part of its JBoss Enterprise Application Platform subscription. GWT is the open source project that helps Java developers build AJAX web applications for any browser, something traditional UI technologies for Java EE can't...
"The days of Cloud 1.0 are here," stated Red Hat CTO Brian Stevens in his session this morning at SYS-CON’s Virtualization Conference & Expo, in San Jose. He discussed the evolution of the cloud, and how to build a cloud. Over the last five years, the open source community has turned i...
Virtualization carries the promises of flexibility, lower costs, ease of deployment and simplified server management. However, when condensing the physical resources of your enterprise, are you considering how to make applications easily accessible to the growing number of remote users...
AMD, in collaboration with Red Hat, have demonstrated the “live migration” of a virtual machine across vendor platforms. Live migration enables the movement of running virtual machines from one physical server to another without disrupting service to the end user, something that, till ...
By the end of the month Red Hat will release JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform 4.3 and JBoss Operations Network 2.1, which are supposed give it more skin in the enterprise SOA game. The company said the new revs feature cooperative support and allow for remote monitoring and management of ...
Red Hat is a trusted open source provider. Red Hat offers enterprise customers a long-term plan for building infrastructures on the quality and innovation of open source. Combining open source operating system platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, together with applications, management, ...
Red Hat says Scalent Systems is supporting Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 standalone and with Xen, extending virtualization and data center automation beyond hypervisors to bare metal servers, network and storage connectivity. Scalent V/OE provisions virtual or bare metal servers and assoc...
Open Source. Open Standards. Open Collaboration. For the past 15 years, Linux has served as the benchmark of a successful global open source project. The impact has been far reaching: today it powers the Internet, a significant portion of the datacenter, is the emerging market choice f...
Hector Ruiz, the ex-AMD CEO who sheparded the so-called "asset lite" strategy into being, will be chairman and give up the chair at AMD. ATIC and AMD will split the board at the joint venture. The deal is expected to close by the end of the year. It covers AMD's two fabs in Germany, pl...
Red Hat Thursday delivered what it called the industry’s first integrated Linux-based High Performance Computing (HPC) platform, otherwise known as the Red Hat HPC Solution, an all-in-one HPC cluster stack that Red Hat and Platform Computing put together over the last year. The deliver...
While the American economy dangles by a thread over a lake of molten lava, the American corporation keeps chugging along. Red Hat says it has no material exposure to the debacle and that September has been no different than the beginning of any other quarter. Its pipeline is reportedly...
MindTree announced that it has entered into a global strategic alliance with iTKO LISA. MindTree will develop a ready-to-use testing framework and deliver solutions for the Travel, BFSI, Media and Retail industries using the iTKO tool set that will be made available to MindTree's custo...
Red Hat never did like Xen. It liked it even less after Citrix bought XenSource a year ago and Microsoft cuddled up with Citrix, Virtual Iron and Novell, Xen’s first Linux promoter. Among other things, it didn’t have control of the technology.
Not only enterprise portals integrators are using AJAX at the portal level but now they can also use it for the development of more user-friendly JSR-168 portlets. With the arrival of new standards, AJAXified JSF Components like IceFaces ot RichFaces became a reality that can be portab...
Brian Stevens, the Chief Technology Officer and Vice President of Engineering of Red Hat, delivered his Virtualization Keynote 'The Future of the Virtual Enterprise' at SYS-CON's Virtualization Conference & Expo 2007 West in San Francisco. 'Virtualization is the hottest subject today,...
Microsoft has finally explained what its subscription-based Albany gambit is and it's like what we said it would be. Microsoft officially calls it Microsoft Equipt and it's meant to push out Office Home and Office Student 2007 as kinda, sorta, almost, but not quite SaaS widgetry to get...
HP may lose the head of its Personal Systems Group (PSG), Todd Bradley, to Motorola. He's on Moto's list of two candidates to run its cell phone operation, according to the Wall Street Journal. Everybody's still in denial because negotiations are at the sensitive stage, the paper said....
Ceedo recently announced Ceedo Enterprise -- a complete virtualization product that allows IT administrators to easily create, deploy and remotely manage desktop workspace environments enabling a number of cost-effective scenarios including: application portability, remote management, ...
Citrix announced the availability of Citrix XenServer software factory integrated on Dell PowerEdge servers. Citrix and Dell have partnered to make integrated server virtualization technology a reality for customers of all sizes. The initial products now available to Dell customers wor...
VMware has cozied up with ASUS, Gigabyte, Inventec and Tyan to get more customers for its brand of virtualization by certifying the ODMs one-, two- and four-socket servers as well as their blade servers. It's already got a deal with Supermicro. The vendors are certifying their systems ...
For a 22% interest, Intel, Google, Comcast, Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks are putting $3.2 billion into a new company that Craig McCaw's Clearwire and Sprint Nextel, two of the walking wounded, are forming that combines their WiMax wireless broadband businesses. Trilogy E...
Questions, it is said, focus our thinking. Some go so far as to say that it is 'better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.' And good questions, it is generally agreed, outrank easy answers. Here then is a round-up of some of the 'good questions' asked recently at SYS...
Curl announced the results from a recent performance benchmark test of the Curl Rich Internet Application (RIA) platform, Version 6.0, and Adobe Flex 3. The test aimed to compare the performance of these two RIA platforms and found the Curl language to outperform ActionScript 3, the pr...
Red Hat is a trusted open source provider. Red Hat offers enterprise customers a long-term plan for building infrastructures on the quality and innovation of open source. Combining open source operating system platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, together with applications, management...
International Virtualization Conference & Expo faculty alumni include such notable speakers as: Brian Stevens, CTO of Red Hat; Stephen Herrod, CTO of VMware; Vern Brownell, founder and CEO of Egenera; Simon Crosby, founder and CTO of Citrix XenSource; Hubert Yoshida, vice president and...
Red Hat has made Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2 available, saying it enhances virtualization, desktop, security, clustering, networking and hardware support. Virtualization of very large systems, with up to 64 CPUs and 512GB of memory, is now possible and there's virtualization support f...