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EMC's Atmos Smooths the Path to Cloud-Based Storage as a Service December 06, 2011 
New enhancements to EMC's Atmos Cloud Delivery Platform are designed to ease the way enterprises and service providers implement and access public and private cloud storage. VMware vApp packaging should simplify installation, and improved visibility and reporting tools provide the means to expand cloud metering services and improve administrative reporting and controls
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Big Data, Big Open Source Tools February 25, 2011 
Enterprises are grappling with the skyrocketing amount of data they have to handle as that data proliferates into the terabyte and petabyte stage. Datasets that large are known as "big data" to IT practitioners. Relational databases and desktop statistics or visualization packages can't handle big data; instead, massively parallel software running on up to thousands of servers is needed to do the job.
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US Intelligence Agency: Linux Help Wanted February 08, 2011 
In a quick-response "Sources Sought" notice issued Jan. 28, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency said it was "researching the market availability of firms that can potentially provide services and products that could be seamlessly incorporated" into the agency's Linux-based information system.
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Amazon's Beanstalk Eases Climb to the Cloud January 19, 2011 
Amazon wants to make your cloud computing simple. The company announced Elastic Beanstalk on Wednesday. The application makes it easier to use Amazon's cloud computing platform, Amazon Web Services. The new application lets developers quickly deploy and manage Web services such as storage, computing clusters, application health monitoring, load balancing and auto-scaling.
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Version Vexations: Keeping Big Linux Operations on the Same Page January 04, 2011 
Modern data centers with large number of Linux servers and heavy use of virtualization often don't have the tools they need to handle system version control and modeling. "Twenty years ago, most companies had tens of servers to manage," said Erik Troan, founder and chief technology officer of rPath. "When Intel took over the data center, that grew to hundreds or maybe thousands.
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The Open Cloud: There's a Right Way December 07, 2010 
There is a great deal of commotion about the cloud, and rightfully so, but the noise can be overwhelming. The market is crowded with different products and platforms from the smallest of startups to industry behemoths, a condition that is not helped by cloudwashing and other tactics designed to take advantage of the cloud's lucrative popularity.
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Leveraging Linux for Supercomputing November 30, 2010 
High-performance computing applications such as numerical simulation -- whether for forecasting, mechanical and structure simulation, or computational chemistry -- require a large number of CPUs for processing. To meet these needs, customers must buy a large-scale system that enables parallel processing so that the simulation can be completed in the shortest possible time.
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The Enterprise's Open Storage Quandary November 12, 2010 
Enterprises' need for storage is increasing exponentially as businesses use more and more rich media such as audio and video both within their networks and on customer-facing websites. That demand is going to continue growing, driven both by customer demand and demand from new hires who grew up with the Internet and want the same ease of use and features they already have at home.
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The Corporate Hoax on Linux Revisited, or I Said It Once... November 02, 2010 
The very same corporations that are making small fortunes with Linux servers give short shrift to Linux Desktop, I argued in a recent article, setting off a spirited discussion. Many of you responded with counterarguments, siding -- surprisingly -- with businesses. Perhaps not surprisingly, I continue to maintain that my original centention is valid.
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Lighting the Fuse for an Enterprise FOSS Explosion October 30, 2010 
The Fuse family of software is now under the FuseSource name and has gained new autonomy from Progress Software with its own corporate identity. Part of the IONA Technologies acquisition by Progress Software in 2008, FuseSource has now become its own company, owned by Progress, but now more independent, to aggressively pursue its open source business model and to leverage the community development process strengths.
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Linux's Brilliant Business Career October 18, 2010 
Fans of FOSS already know that Linux is one of the best technologies out there for business servers, but it's always nice to see that point of view validated by good, hard data. Thanks to a recent survey by the Linux Foundation, that's just what we got last week. A new report from the group found, in fact, that large businesses have very big plans for our favorite operating system.
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Penguins Old, Penguins New, Penguins Battered and Penguins Blue October 04, 2010
The Russians just unveiled a monument to Linux featuring none other than Tux, our favorite penguin of all. In what appears to be an eerie coincidence -- Linux Girl is not making this up -- scientists just uncovered evidence of a never-before-discovered Giant Prehistoric Penguin! Now *that's* news!
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Oracle's New Kernel: Custom Tuning or Proprietary Lock-In? September 30, 2010 
Ever since the recent OpenSolaris and Java lawsuit incidents, Oracle has not been high on most FOSS aficionados' lists of favorite companies. So when the company announced earlier this month that it was abandoning RHEL in favor of its own, homemade Linux kernel -- the "Unbreakable" Linux Kernel -- it wasn't surprising that the skepticism was palpable.
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Open Source Databases Have Come of Age September 28, 2010 
When the Internet and World Wide Web finally went mainstream in the mid-1990s, new Unix-like operating systems running on PCs went mainstream too. Developers working on these systems had access to a wide range of development tools, but these platforms didn't initially offer anything like the mature, SQL-based and 4GL-based database frameworks common on traditional platforms of the time.
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Much Seen but Little Hurd at Oracle's OpenWorld September 20, 2010 
As spectators crowded in to see keynote speeches Monday at Oracle's OpenWorld 2010, the question on everyone's lips was: What's Mark Hurd going to say? The recently ousted HP CEO was hired by Oracle CEO Larry Ellison shortly after Hurd left HP amid a scandal involving a female contractor and fudged expense reports. Hurd's now a president at the database giant, and his name appeared on the list of Monday's speakers.
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VMware: Get Ready for the New Infrastructure September 01, 2010 
The number of businesses moving toward virtualization is growing constantly, and together they will lead to an important change in the face of IT, according to to VMware President and CEO Paul Maritz. Speaking at his company's VMworld expo on Tuesday, Maritz told his audience that the focus will change from hardware efficiency to operational efficiency.
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