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View "Virtualization Power Panel" Live on SYS-CON.TV

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 15:00:00 EDT

Red Hat CTO Brian Stevens, Citrix CTO Simon Crosby, Egenera CTO Pete Manca, Allen Stewart, Group Manager, Windows Virtualization at Microsoft, and Brian Duckering, Sr. Director of Products and Alliances at Symantec were the top industry executives who joined Jeremy Geelan in the 4th Floor Reuters Studio overlooking Times Square for a special SYS-CON.TV 'Virtualization Power Panel' recorded on June 22, 2008, the day before the opening of SYS-CON's 3rd International Virtualization Conference & Expo - which was held 23-24 June 2008 in New York City.

IBM Introduces New Products and Initiatives to Enable Next-Generation Linux

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 16:30:00 EDT

IBM introduced a series of new products, services and initiatives that further expand IBM's commitment to Linux and open source by enabling the next generation of Linux. As the company marks ten years of support for Linux, IBM announced a number of cross-company initiatives to drive the next generation of Linux.

Top Keynotes at SYS-CON's World-Beating RIA Conference & Expo: AJAX World

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 10:45:00 EDT

Two of the biggest launches in Rich Internet Application history took place in 2007/2008 when Adobe launched AIR 1.0 in February '08 and Microsoft launched Silverlight (September '07). At the 6th International AJAXWorld RIA Conference & Expo in October SYS-CON Events is delighted to be presenting major industry keynotes from the two industry executives with overall responsibility for both of those massive richer-web initiatives: Adobe's CTO Kevin Lynch and Scott Guthrie, Corporate Vice President of Microsoft's .NET Developer Platform.

IBM and Linux Distros Gang Up on the Microsoft Desktop

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 08:00:00 EDT

IBM, Canonical, Novell, Red Hat and the distributions’ hardware partners are ganging up on Microsoft, intending to push a Microsoft-free desktop alternative involving Linux, Lotus Notes and Lotus Symphony. They think they see an auspicious constellation of stars in the sky – like PC margins – paving the way to making Linux-on-the-desktop mainstream – well, more mainstream anyway.

Open Source - What is the Total Cost of Ownership?

Mon, 28 Jul 2008 09:15:00 EDT

In 2005, Scott McNealy of Sun Microsystems quipped that open source software was 'free like a puppy is free.' Just as you can pick out a puppy from the pound without paying expensive breeder fees, you can download and use open source software without buying a single license. But puppies become dogs, and dogs need food, toys, training and lots and lots of love. Even with all this attention, there?s no guarantee your cuddly puppy won?t develop a vicious streak. Will you need endless obedience classes and a chain and muzzle to control it? The same goes for open source software. As soon as you introduce open source into your organization, the real costs, commitments and risks become clear.

Extended Validation SSL Certificates

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:30:00 EDT

Extended Validation (EV) is a new standard in SSL certificates. This guide explains the needs which drove the development of this standard and how it addresses contemporary security challenges. It also delves into the integration of EV certificates into new high security browsers such as Microsoft's IE7.

Cloud Computing - IBM Creates Cloud Box

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 10:45:00 EDT

IBM claims to have created new species of custom-built, industry-standard, Linux-based rack server for Web 2.0 and Cloud Computing companies with massive data centers and tens of thousands of servers, like online gaming, social networks, search and Internet firms. A relatively limited marketplace of maybe a thousand companies with fat wallets capable of shelling out tens of millions for such system. IBM means to replace the white boxes they use now or build themselves like Google does.

Guilty of Arrogance Too

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 11:15:00 EDT

You have perhaps heard that while we were on vacation Linux file system ace and convicted wife killer Hans Reiser took the cops to where he had buried her body. Two days later when Reiser was supposed to be sentenced to 25 years to life for first decree murder the judge disclosed that Reiser could have pled guilty to voluntary manslaughter in exchange for three years in jail and - given the time served while awaiting trial - could have been out next spring, which would have saved his little boy from testifying.

SCO - Linux' Worst Nightmare Is Back

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 20:15:00 EDT

The court also said Novell couldn't run interference for Linux and stop SCO from seeking royalty payments for alleged UnixWare and OpenServer infringement by Linux users under its infamous SCOsource licensing program. , it's merely a matter of time before SCO starts seeking those payments.

Virtualization Conference Keynote Webcast Live on SYS-CON.TV

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 17:45:00 EDT

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,' said Stevens, an industry luminary, who is credited with having pioneered new technologies that contributed to the rise of Linux as an industry-standard operating platform.

Red Hat Delivers on Linux Automation

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 15:00:00 EDT

Red Hat announced advancements that extend the Company's Linux Automation strategy by providing expanded capabilities and incorporating broadened community involvement for secure management of both users and systems across virtual and physical enterprise infrastructures.

Linspire Collapses into Xandros

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 13:15:00 EDT

Xandros acquired Linspire's Linux assets after Linspire changed its name to Digital Cornerstone. With the acquisition Xandros CEO Andy Typaldos has been telling the press, 'Xandros is already the third-largest Linux company in the world, and ... we may already be the largest private Linux company in the world.'

Invitrogen Standardizes on SUSE Linux Enterprise From Novell

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 08:45:00 EDT

Novell announced Invitrogen has selected SUSE Linux Enterprise as the core operating platform to standardize and virtualize the company's servers. A global provider of essential life science technologies for research, production and diagnostics, Invitrogen conducts business in more than 70 countries and offers 35,000 products and services. With the flexibility of SUSE Linux Enterprise from Novell, the company will reduce server licensing costs, virtualize with support on the VMware platform and simplify migration from Windows and UNIX servers to Linux.

Reiser's Lawyer Says He's Nuts

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 08:30:00 EDT

On Monday, nine days ahead of his sentencing on July 9 for the murder of his wife, William DuBois, the lawyer for ace Linux programmer Hans Reiser, filed a brief with the court saying - for the very first time since this case began - that under penalty of perjury that he think Reiser 'may be mentally incompetent as a result of mental disorder or developmental disability' - not simply socially inept or perhaps mildly autistic, as he's suggested before - and that Reiser can't - and these are supposed to be magic words to a court - 'understand the nature of the criminal proceedings or assist counsel in the conduct of the defense in a rational manner.'

Kernel Developers Want Linux Purity

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 13:45:00 EDT

Not that long ago Linux barely had two drivers to rub together. Now it claims to support 'more hardware devices than any other operating system in the history of the world' and, figuring it's time to push IHVs to open their code, 150 Linux kernel developers, including Alan Cox, signed a 'Position Statement' decrying the use of any closed source kernel module or drivers in Linux.

Was GPLv3 Worth the Effort?

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 11:00:00 EDT

GPLv3, the great General Public License rewrite, is now a year-old and used by 2,345 open source projects including Ubuntu, SugarCRM and Samba. Adoption has reportedly been growing at about 20% a month over the past six months. According to some figures sent around by Black Duck, approximately 58% of all open source projects today are covered by GPLv2 and 11% by LGPLv2.

Novell Delivers Optimized SUSE Linux Enterprise Performance for VMware Virtualization Environments

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 14:30:00 EDT

Novell announced it is collaborating with VMware to improve Linux performance in VMware environments by incorporating support for the VMware Virtual Machine Interface (VMI) into the SUSE Linux Enterprise kernel. Demonstrating their commitment to provide open interoperability and optimization for virtualized environments, the companies have worked together to optimize SUSE Linux Enterprise for the VMware platform.

Blacknight Solutions Deploys Parallels Virtualization Software to Launch Virtual Private Servers

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 11:15:00 EDT

Parallels virtualization and automation software is powering new virtual private server (VPS) offerings from Blacknight Internet Solutions. Blacknight, a Parallels Gold Partner, is offering four VPS service plans for the Linux and Windows platforms. Each level - Starter, Basic, Standard and Enterprise - is managed through Parallels System Automation and Parallels Virtuozzo Containers

Parascale Hires CEO Out of NetApp

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 10:45:00 EDT

Parascale, the four-year-old firm with the Cloud Storage system software layered on the Linux XFS file system, the Linux operating system and the Internet Protocol networking protocol stack, has hired Sajai Krishnan out of NetApp to be its CEO. He ran NetApp's mid-market StoreVault business focused on network storage appliances and used to be a Booz Allen VP and a partner in its Communication, Media Technology practice.

Xandros Management Tool Facilitates Red Hat Server Administration

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 09:00:00 EDT

Xandros announced the release of the all new Xandros BridgeWays Management Console for Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The BridgeWays Management Console, available as a free download from the Xandros web site, brings powerful graphical management of Red Hat servers to system administrators who may have Windows Server skill sets, but no prior Linux experience. Linux administrators will also find that this all-in-one remote management console relieves them from resorting to command line options or using multiple tools to administer their Red Hat servers. Multiple servers and services are integrated into a single 'Managed Community' that can be remotely administered from either a Red Hat server, or from any Windows XP or Vista desktop.

Desktop Virtualization Market To Be Worth at Least $1.8b by 2012 Up From Nothing

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 17:15:00 EDT

Pushing back against VMware, its chief rival, Tuesday, Citrix released its ballyhooed, on-demand XenDesktop, the widgetry that delivers custom, managed virtual Windows desktops from a data center server to a user over the network, and priced the stuff. Theres a free Express Edition for up to 10 users; an entry-level Standard Edition for $75 per concurrent user; an Advanced Edition for $195 per concurrent user; an Enterprise Edition for $295 per concurrent user; and a Platinum Edition for $395 per concurrent user.

SYS-CON's Virtualization Conference & Expo: Themes & Topics

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 20:30:00 EDT

From Application Virtualization to Xen, a round-up of the virtualization themes & topics being discussed in NYC June 23-24, 2008 by the world-class speaker faculty at the 3rd International Virtualization Conference & Expo being held by SYS-CON Events in The Roosevelt Hotel, in midtown Manhattan.

Reiser May Take Authorities To Murdered Wife's Body: Wired

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 16:45:00 EDT

Right now Reiser faces a sentence to 25 years to life for first-degree murder, a conviction based on circumstantial evidence. If he cooperates it could mean he's looking at second-decree murder, a mandatory sentence of 15 years to life and the possibility of parole unless an autopsy proves the killing was premeditated like 'two bullet holes to the back of the head,' Wired said.

Wind River Plans Linux Platform for MIDs

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 15:45:00 EDT

Wind River says it's collaborating with Intel and will develop an open, extensible Moblin-based Linux platform for Atom-bearing MIDs. Both open source and commercial versions should be available next year. The commercial Wind River Linux Platform for Mobile Internet Devices is supposed to be a full-featured, commercial-grade Linux platform that includes a Linux distribution, middleware and mobile applications that deliver rich Internet and media experiences.

Virtualization, Silverlight and Verizon

Sun, 08 Jun 2008 16:00:00 EDT

Zmanda, the open source backup and recovery folks, says it's integrated NetApp's Snapshot technology with its own Recovery Manager for MySQL. It's supposed to translate into continuous data protection for mission-critical MySQL databases. With Snapshot, administrators can create point-in-time copies of file systems for granular recovery.

SourceLabs Brings Self-Support to Eclipse Open Source Development Community

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 08:30:00 EDT

SourceLabs announced that its Self-Support Suite now supports the open source Eclipse development environment. SourceLabs' automated tools and support services for Java and Linux developers, corporate IT professionals, and solution providers are an effective, on demand new way to more effectively support open source software development and operations. SourceLabs Self-Support tools dramatically reduce the complexity of enterprise Java and Linux application development and maintenance by bringing together in one bundle all the components developers need to create and deploy web applications using the Eclipse Foundation's open source development framework.

AJAX World - Google Prices App Engine

Fri, 30 May 2008 08:15:00 EDT

Google is opening up App Engine to one and all. The cloud-sharing gambit meant to entice developers to build their web applications on the same infrastructure that powers Google's own applications - and in the process lock them into Google instead of Microsoft - has been in beta for the last six weeks and limited to 10,000 developers. Google says that another 150,000 developers are on the waiting list and so on Wednesday, the first day of Google I/O, the company's two-day developer event in San Francisco, will take down the barricade. Google also disclosed what it's going to charge for App Engine starting later this year.

Red Hat Named "Platinum Sponsor" of Virtualization Conference & Expo

Thu, 29 May 2008 14:30:00 EDT

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, and Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) solutions, including the JBoss Enterprise Middleware Suite.

Eliminating the 'Software Tax' by Using ODF

Wed, 28 May 2008 16:00:00 EDT

Just as we have become dependent on oil as an energy resource, we have also become dependent on a single vendor solution for saving our digital history - in the form of our word processing, presentation, and spreadsheet documents. Last year, it was estimated that more than 90 percent of the office productivity suite market was controlled by one vendor, and, historically, because of this dominance, consumers, businesses small and large, and governments have been left with few viable options.

Use Linux Apps On Windows with Ulteo Virtual Desktop

Wed, 28 May 2008 14:45:00 EDT

Ulteo is pleased to announce a new Ulteo product called 'Ulteo Virtual Desktop' (Beta) which allows you to use Linux applications on the Windows operating system. Ulteo Virtual Desktop is a full Ulteo system that runs on Windows and offers a large choice of Linux applications, including the Firefox Web browser, Thunderbird email client, OpenOffice.org office suite, multi-IM software such as Kopete and many others.

Novell Delivers SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 Enhancements in Service Pack 2

Wed, 28 May 2008 12:15:00 EDT

Novell announced the availability of SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 Service Pack 2 (SP2), containing enhancements in virtualization, management, hardware enablement and interoperability. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP2 is a Xen-based virtualization solution with full support from Microsoft for Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2003 guests and live migration of those guests across physical machines. Several improvements specific to SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 and SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 10 are also included in SP2. Novell further unveiled the Subscription Management Tool for SUSE Linux Enterprise, designed to help customers better manage their SUSE Linux Enterprise software updates.

Steve Jobs Loses His Mind - Sues "The Big Apple"

Tue, 27 May 2008 21:15:00 EDT

Friday morning the local Fox television station in New York City broke the news - Apple was suing New York City. Six out of 100 of their viewers thought Apple had the right to sue the City, but 94 out of 100 viewers are now calling for New Yorkers to drop Apple and its products, including the iPhone and Macs. New Yorkers are pissed off! New York City, universally known as The Big Apple, is facing a lawsuit from Steve Jobs' Apple Computer Inc. for, of all things, copyright infringement.

Where is 64-bit Linux support for Flash Player?

Tue, 27 May 2008 14:00:00 EDT

I run 32-bit Linux but there is a very vocal group of people who really want 64-bit Linux support for Flash Player. Today there is a decent workaround for running the 32-bit Flash Player on a 64-bit Linux system using the nspluginwrapper. From what I've heard it works fairly well on most distros but I haven't heard yet how well it works with the new Flash Player 10 beta.

P2P Explained: What Exactly is a Peer Network?

Fri, 23 May 2008 15:15:00 EDT

Peer networks are really just logical graphs of computers, or, in many cases, logical graphs of connected applications. The physical topology of the peer network, means of communication, and weighting of the edges are all implementation-specific details that differ from P2P network to P2P network, but all of them can be reduced down at some point to a drawing containing nodes and edges.

Linux - Concurrent Pushes into Automotive

Fri, 23 May 2008 14:30:00 EDT

Before we're all reduced to shank's mare, Concurrent is wading into the automotive industry, observing that with the amount of electronics in cars constantly on the uptick, it's a good place for an embedded Linux-based networking system. So it's announced FlexRay communication support for its SIMulation Workbench, which provides a complete framework to develop and execute real-time hardware-in-the-loop and man-in-the-loop simulations.

Linux, Wind and the Atom

Fri, 23 May 2008 13:15:00 EDT

Wind River and Intel are putting their heads together to create an extensible open source Linux platform for the automotive industry - an infotainment (gad, that horrid word) platform for Intel's newfangled Atom chip. It's part of a major new product strategy for Wind River, which is going to open source the specification and code from the platform at Moblin.org in hopes of creating Open Infotainment Platforms that everybody uses and that attract a vibrant ecosystem.

Red Hat Offers Enhanced Value to Customers with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2

Fri, 23 May 2008 11:15:00 EDT

Red Hat announced the availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2. With this latest update, subscribers can achieve greater return on their IT investment with new hardware support capabilities, selected new software technologies and numerous quality improvements. And, the certified application environment provided by every Red Hat Enterprise Linux version means that subscribers enjoy the new capabilities provided in release updates without the need to recertify their applications.

Red Hat Enhances Virtualization

Fri, 23 May 2008 11:00:00 EDT

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 for NUMA-based architectures.

Deploying an ASP.NET AJAX RSS Reader on Linux

Thu, 22 May 2008 07:30:00 EDT

Have you ever wished you could run ASP.NET applications on Linux, without having to rewrite your code or leave the Visual Studio development environment? In this article, I show you how to port Steve Clements' AJAX ASP.NET RSS Reader to native Java and deploy it to Apache Tomcat on Linux. I also show you how to add an AnimationExtender and a HoverMenu from the AJAX Control Toolkit in Visual Studio, while targeting Java.

Parallels Virtualization, Google, Vista and Murder

Wed, 21 May 2008 13:45:00 EDT

Parallels said Wednesday that its Desktop virtualization widgetry for the Mac, which lets Intel-based Apples run Windows or Linux along with Mac OS X, has sold more than a million copies, a nice chunk of the Macs out there. It is the largest-selling Mac utility and gives Mac users access to all those Windows programs it?s starved for.